January 2012
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Press Release for Starz's (sp?) MARCO POLO
“Marco Polo” is Fusco’s fantastical martial arts epic, chronicling the famous adventurer’s early years in the court of Kublai Khan. Acting as the ruler’s spy, ambassador and explorer, Marco treks across the Far East and returns with tales of his journeys. In a court filled with political betrayal and forbidden relationships, Marco must use his martial arts...
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Dear neighbor of the apartment I'm staying in this...
I’m trying real hard to get less repulsed by and/or indifferent to sexy time and like, butts and weiners and stuff, and listening to you watch bad porn and masturbate furiously through the very thin walls is not helping me out.
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2 important dreams
I’m at Harry Potter’s Wizarding World on a rainy day. I find a cave and duck into it for shelter. I walk down a long tunnel until I get to what can only be the Chamber of Secrets. There is a snack stand there with an old man in one of those old-timey stripey barbershop hats. The soda fountain has something called “Dr. Tanaka” instead of Dr. Pepper.
I’m at a craft...
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WatchMade this last night. Wish I could claim writing credit.
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December 2011
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Like falling off a blog.
It would be nice to compulsively write anymore; but I guess over time even our most primary instincts eventually get weighed down with pessimism and contextual baggage, making them too heavy and toxic to be primary anymore. In 2010 I wrote all the time and furiously, because I had spent so long thinking nobody heard me, and even the twinkling of a promise that somebody did was enough to wake me...
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That Obscure MacBook of Desire.
My mom bought a brand-new MacBook Pro today for $800 through a few shifty tricks and credit card bonuses. We just watched some more Game Of Thrones and now she’s sitting here watching some 2011 photo slideshows that her friends made that she hadn’t been able to access before because her computer was too old, and I’m having to admit what a beautiful fucking machine this is. I...
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TV Club Advent Calendar: "The Snowman" →
Part of what I love about The Snowman is that so much of seems to fly, as if the winter cold had electrified the night air, allowing us to travel through it in unnatural ways. I love when James first looks out his window at the snowy morning. We pull back from his face pressed against the window, across the long stretch of the lawn as birds play in the flurry, in five seconds capturing all the...
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The Atlantic: Observations from 20 Years of Iowa... →
I figured out what this article is like. This is like an college entry essay by high student who has been asked to write about what difficulties he has overcome to achieve his goals and go to college. Having been brought up in the most average environments, the student proceeds to describe the mundane details of his life, but stretch the truth and write about them with such horror as to make it...
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We Need To Talk About Nicole Scherzinger.
Okay. So we’ve established that a pop star judge is generally brought onto a show for their 1) familiarity, 2) authority as a successful performer, and 3) likeability. By all three of those counts, then, Nicole Scherzinger, at least in the United States, is not a pop star. Nicole Scherzinger is not a household name. Nicole Scherzinger is best known for singing in a pop ensemble that...
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November 2011
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“Sue invites Mick to New York City on the pretext of continuing the feature...”
– Thank you, Crocodile Dundee wikipedia entry
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MY FIRST HEFEWEIZEN
This one’s been on my mind for the last couple weeks so lets see if I can retell it before my ride gets here. It’s occured to me that a lot of what may be contributing to my general amnesia about anything between 2003-2010 is because I never tell my stories, blogularly or otherwise. So here ya go.
I was 18, I think. My friend was dating a famous television actor and we were going to...
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Oh No! Yoko - Hatshepsut (Aardvark Robinson Rmx)
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One other thing real quick before I get ready for this Lisa Vanderpump book signing because that is the kind of thing I like to do: Sofia’s latest opus Somewhere has come up in conversation two or three times in the last week, reminding me that though it’s been about a year and a half since it was released, I still haven’t seen it. As someone who has dedicated a lot of time to...
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I’m not sure what I’m supposed to write on this thing anymore, a feeling which I’m sure will subside at some point but right now seems pretty locked in. PS this isn’t an angst post!
I’ve actually had a more interesting and fun last couple of weeks than any two I can remember having for a long time. I’ve been writing a good deal, seeing lots of old friends and...
realfreedoms-deactivated2011112 asked: Who's Emily Yoshida?
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WHAT HAPPENED TONIGHT
I got to the apartment and there were dead goldfish. Like tons of dead goldfish, in glasses and tumblers. Some were still alive, and were fighting through the mass of corpses and bob-bob-bobbing at the surface of the water. I couldn’t look at them so I stepped over a mass of empty beer cans and spilled Himalayan pink salt and grabbed a couple of Tecates and drank them on the front steps as...
October 2011
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THE MOST INTERESTING PLACE IN THE WORLD
During my first year in Los Angeles, I would often gaze out the window of my dorm room at Loyola Marymount, perched on a bluff overlooking the hissing sprawl of the city, and feel the deep, sick sense that I was missing out on something. Somewhere out there, somewhere before my eyes even, in a shadowy basement, or in a glass house on the hillside opposite me (my imagination was a little limited,...
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disco naïveté: stream: M83 - Hurry Up, We're... →
disconaivete:
Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, NIN, The Mars Volta, Goldfrapp) and including contributions from Brad Laner (from 90’s band Medicine) on guitar, Saturdays=Youth vocalist Morgan Kibby, and guest vocalist Zola Jesus, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is a double-album journey that takes us…
Oh hai, soundtrack for the next three months.
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Watch
When I was growing up I had the extreme luxury of being able to express myself through drawing, acting, and later writing, more or less to my own satisfaction. It’s only in hindsight that I realize what an extreme luxury this was; If I wanted to draw the most beautiful ballgown ever, I could sit down, get to work, and eventually have a product that pretty much fulfilled my own...
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'SALAD DAYS' DAYS
The great SALAD DAYS tour starts this week. Heading to Honolulu this Thursday for HIFF, then going to San Diego for the SD Asian Film Fest, with a little stop in LA in between. I don’t know if anyone who reads this thing is in either of those places, but if you are, do stop by and say hello!