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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
eiou, hairy armpit. Voted, the ballots were a bitch, but this really helped me understand them.
http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=671
This was the easiest New York ballot ever…and I guess few of the residents of Chinatown realized there was an election cause I was in and out in less than ten minutes.
I voted!
And they say us lazy Gen-X’rs don’t care. That’s all I saw when I went to vote in Beverly Hills.
You could hear and feel all the nice elderly seniors running the polls how surprised they were that us twenty and thirty somethings were showing up in force for a mid-term election.
I voted absentee. In fact, I’m on the permanent absentee list. It’s great. I recommend everyone do it.
I voted absentee, too, so I didn’t get a sticker. I want a sticker. 🙁
I got a sticker for voting AND a fudge striped cookie! But I think the cookies were leftover from the last election…a wee bit waxy and stale.
Those stickers never stick…never.
T.H., I think it’s a hairy chest. What shirts out there have armpit cutouts?
I still find it strange that voting isn’t mandatory. I mean… huh?!?
That’s funny, they played the South Park “Vote or Die” episode tonight.
T.H., I think it’s a hairy chest. What shirts out there have armpit cutouts?
I still find it strange that voting isn’t mandatory. I mean… huh?!?
How come that posted twice, nine minutes apart? How odd…
Here in Oregon it’s all vote by mail which makes it ridiculously easy. More states should switch to this, though I do wish I got a sticker and a cookie!
“That’s funny, they played the South Park “Vote or Die” episode tonight.”
I’m not a HUGE South Park fan, but I’ve seen that episode a number of times, and it really does show off Parker and Stone’s genius.
Voting in New Jersey took much longer than usual because the citizens had trouble figuring out the new machines. Most didn’t know there were going to be new machines. Attendants didn’t warn or give instructions. I’ve been voting at same place since 1994, and the same 90-year-old ladies have been there each time. I swear. If the pols want to encourage voting, line up some hot babes to run things.
“I still find it strange that voting isn’t mandatory. I mean… huh?!?”
It would be a paradox if it were, don’t you think, Camel?
umm… no.
I agree with Seymour and I wish the whole country would transition to vote by mail. It would reduce fraud and many of the voter suppression tactics we saw yesterday in places like Virginia.
Re pic: Is that your hairy chest Dave?
Re voting: got no cookie, got no sticker 🙁
But Rumsfeld resigned and a Democrat now has Tom DeLay’s congressional seat!
But let’s give Rumsfeld his due: he finally found an exit strategy! 😀