Do you ever wonder why it sometimes feels like all the real targets have disappeared and all that is left is a room filled with people with guns, trying to figure out how they ended up in the real-life version of the climax of a Quentin Tarantino movie?
I didn
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Take me to the ski slopes!
LOL.
Calgon, take me away!
Be glad you have a tail! Anatomically speaking, if you tried that and DIDN’T have one, you’d wind up with your head up your butt!
THEN you’d be like everybody else…
What? You don’t a enjoy a good stalemated rehashing of the same talking points?
Seriously, I feel you…
I feel your ennui, Poland.
After I looked it up on dictionary.com of course.
And imagine how low you would feel if you didn’t have this blog to air out your thoughts.
Oh no. Another reference to BBM with the being stuck in the QT movie thing. I just know you’re referring to the Ving Rhames/ Gimp scene. There it goes again. Oh no.
Wag that tail.
Should be a real good slate this year a Sundance. Beats the slate of movies being released now til March. Painful.
David, you have the greatest job in the world and lots of fans. Don’t let the shit get you down and have a good weekend.
I’d watch some movies for a few weeks in hangout on the ski trails. I think I could do it. Anyone else??
I prefer taking the Europe trips over Utah. Little more to do.
I’ve never gone skiing. Black guys weren’t made for that. I’ll be stereotypical and stick to the courts.
Poor ole Dave, I wonder if it’s partly just a case of the post-holiday blues (this particular message seemed a companion piece with your lash-out against the Rolling Stone Wachowski article). Remember that you are a valuable and (mostly?) well-liked voice in the work you’ve chosen, and while others in any field can be constantly exasperating, you’re doing good work and there are many of us (including lots, I’m sure, who don’t bother to say so) who are as sure of as much.
Pearls in the silt, buddy. Takes a while to filter, but they’re there.
“I’ve never gone skiing. Black guys weren’t made for that. I’ll be stereotypical and stick to the courts.”
Criminal or civil courts?
(I’m black too so I get to make that joke)
we’re all black when we’re in print