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
Just a test.
That explains why activity seemed so slow yesterday.
I thought you banned me due to my aggressive posting style and obnoxious username!!!
Gracias. I was wondering about that myself. I posted twice early yesterday, and they still hadn’t shown up at midnight. (They are there now, though).
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Is this the reason a conspiracy guy claimed his posts were banned by you? And if so, is this the cover-up story for the conspiracy to ban that guy?
LOL
I got a spam e-mail today from “Controverting H. Interloper.” The fake names are almost as hilarious as the fake goods.
Oh, good. Because I had posted here once before, then decided to change my moniker, and my longish rant went to a moderation box and then never appeared. I thought you hated me.
Just another test to see if this post works.
Well, these are going to the junk file again. I hate it when blogs go all SKYNET on people.
They seem to be going onestep higher on the food chain now… bear with me… we’ll fix the problem as quickly as possible
Weird thing is, it was doing this to more than one authenticated, trusted commenters.
Well, I am glad someone brought it to your attention. Because I thought you went and got all CUBS BLOG on us. Then I realized that you have made it a point to not moderate, and not like there have been any bad flame-ups in quite some time. So, yeah, Skynet, and thanks for taking care of the problem.
great it works!!
thanks
i instantly thought dave had given me the ol heave-ho. and have been away for sometime. Let me just make sure…
‘Fijian Wrestler”…
yep all good.
i instantly thought dave had given me the ol heave-ho. and have been away for sometime. Let me just make sure…
‘Fijian Wrestler”…
yep all good.
I think mine’s still busted.
Thanks, DP. I was even kinda worried when my comments weren’t posted…as dumb as they probably were.
Another test.
I am still being filtered.
I guess both of my messages telling Dave that he should not have Damon listed as the star of “The Good German” in his Oscar column got junked.
Maybe this one will get through. Matt Damon is in “The Good Shepherd,” not “The Good German” with Clooney and Blanchett.
Checking again
Fijian Wrestler
One more try.
Nicol D–you’re showing up here. What are the topics where you’re being rejected?
Hey Blackcloud,
What has been happening to some of us is that when we post our comments we get a message saying that we are being screened/filtered. It is due to a glitch in the system.
The problem is it makes it harder to communicate if you do not know when your comment will show up…ie not immediately.
That’s why I have not posted on any of the topics recently…although I did defend Lindsay Lohan.
Wired answers what Mr. Poland has hinted at:
An Israeli antispam company said Thursday that a junk e-mailer’s vendetta is behind attacks this week that took down its site, five hosting providers and one of the internet’s largest blog networks.
One of those blog networks was indeed TypePad.
You can get full details and plenty of links from Wired News.