People aren’t exactly tip-toeing around 9/11 anymore, are they?
One of 3 such outdoor layouts of pirated DVDs on Spadina. The newest titles on Friday afternoon were last weekend’s releases.
By the way… the most popular running gag at TIFF this year was for audience members to cry out, “Arrrrrrrr” when the piracy warning was on screen before movies.
Kill Bill is “Still Ill” on the streets of Toronto.
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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
Nice pictures Dave.
Speaking of laughing at piracy warnings, here are a few parodies of that ubiquitous piracy warning, which I made a couple of months ago, if anyone is interested.
Seemed appropriate, not trying to spam anyone. Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr-vvKOB0lk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSFe0UgB3E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is2KYGDp1Rs
For the record, lest my videos suggest otherwise, I don’t support piracy. I simply hate those ads which infest my legitimately purchased DVDs and detract from my movie-going experience.
Dave,
If you like the Spadina Chinatown area you should go into the Kensington Market just a street or two over. Lots of great food and some of the best cheese and fish shops you’ll find in TO.
As for tiptoeing around 9/11…yeah.
On Tuesday, one of the CBC’s anchors David Gray, made this statement when saying that Americans were commemrating 9/11.
Technically, Nicol, a journalist has to say ‘allegedly’ because nobody has ever been found guilty in a court of law.
(don’t get me wrong – I am not a ‘truth movement’-er.)
Hey Jeff,
Your above statement is actually incorrect.
I know you are just trying to rile me with this one so I think I’ll just lest it pass. Are you familiar with the CBC?
No was was ever captured in the anthrax attacks around the same time as 9/11 either….glad we’ve safer nowadays.
Oh, come on, Petaluma. That was perpetrated by someone with access to a difficult to obtain, regulated substance using the common mail system with copious opportunities for leaving behind any number of pieces of physical and corroborative evidence. You expected some kind of breakthrough on that case? Crazy.
Nicol, who are you thinking of, Zacarias Moussaoui?
Would you settle, for once and for all: are you Canadian? Or do you just live there?
Jay-Z dropped his album The Blueprint on the actual 9/11, back in 2001. Hip-Hop maintains.
The only people that want tip-toeing are the ones who want to exploit 9/11 and use it against their political enemies.
I was in Canada on 9/11 and have never seen such an outpouring of good will from total strangers as I did that day from Canadians. The CBC is not our enemy.
Let’s hope someday we can actually celebrate a day of victory over Al Queda instead of playing politics with a day when our government failed us on an unimaginable scale.
The real way to honor the dead is to get the guys who got them. Not argue over semantics like “allegedly” – it was bullshit arguments like this that Bush used to get us into Iraq in the first place, pulling a bait and switch on the American public with lies and misleading rhetoric, and then cowardly challenging the patriotism of critics who were standing up what’s right.
People with their eyes open know that the disaster of Iraq isn’t just the fault of Bush, but also the fault of all his enablers and fellow dissemblers. And the worst of them, the religious charlatans who practice bigotry and hate in the name of God, are just as bad as the religious nutjobs that caused 9/11 in the first place.
Every time you raise your “alleged” talking points, you just add to the evidence that you are amongst the people who with their hate and lies have hurt America worse than any of the 9/11 hijackers ever did.
And no, I am not saying the crimes are equal. I am saying yours are much, much worse.
The lowest circle of hell worse.
By looking at those pirated movies, if I go backwards I see:
Evan Almighty
3:10 To Yuma
Pirates: AWE
War
The Simpsons Movie
The Bourne Ultiamtum
Live Free or Die Hard
Shoot ‘Em Up
Balls of Fury
Shrek 3
Underdog
Sunshine
–don’t know–
Spider-man 3
Harry Potter 5
Transformers
…Chuck and Larry
–don’t know–
Nancy Drew
Superbad
Rush Hour 3
High School Musical 2
300
–don’t know–
–don’t know–
Sicko
Evan Almighty (again)
Nanny Diaries
Daddy Day Camp
The Number 23
1408
–don’t know–
Ratatouille
–don’t know–
–don’t know–
The Invasion
Surfs Up
No Reservation
Halloween
FF4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
–don’t know–
TMNT
Casino Royale
The rest looks like PORNO.