A Great & Glorious Day
Let us all hope that he can be for America and by extension, the world, what we all hope… an honorable man, a muscular politician, a force for a moral ideal… a beacon.
Bless America and our best dreams.
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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
America is a great place, DP. Was under Bush and will be under BHO. I thank the former president for protecting this country, no matter what his enemies thought but i welcome the change and hope that we get on the right track. It’s gonna take longer than he is in office but it can start with this time. I’m more middle of the road myself and an an indeoendent but I hope the man can do even a fourht what he wants to. that would help us all greatly. Good luck, sir!
And, DP. You are right on the front page of MCN: Micael Moore is an ass.
Something incredibly touching about escorting Bush to the chopper, I have to say.
I’ll just let EOTW’s heartfelt revisionism slide for today. Bush is a very lucky privileged man… unlike those who ended up in his path.
Though it would have been great if Obama would have given Bush one light kick in the behind….for fun.
Anyway. Celebrate!
Christian, it’s not revisoinist at all. I am grateful that Bush did the hard thing. that’s where it ends, but as a ve of the armed services myself, I know the sacrifice that the military makes everyday both in the war and at home. Have to accompany my cousin’s body home from Iraq will never ever leave my mind or my soul. Like all Americans, I welcome the change and a chance for peace, but a peace that is secured by the strentgh of this nation. I believe it is a far way off, years down the road, but I think we are on the path. So no, when Isay thatnk you to W, I mean it, but only forthat one amazing achievement. His presidency was wrought with problems, but this government kept us safe and I believe that BHO will pick up that mantle and carry it forward. A hew day indeed!
And I have no doubt of your integrity and sincerity. My dad served as well and I grew up on military bases. So both our outlooks are that of concern for the soldiers, veterans, and citizens who suffer in wars. I’m sorry about your cousin. I do hope President Obama will be a catalyst for a new path, a more open and truly democratic era. Peace!
JEB IN ’12! JEB IN ’12!
Farewell, most awesome president EVER. BUSH OWNS. Obama should put him in his cabinet or something.
OK this next point is going to be hilarious: The ONLY thing that legitimately OWNS about Obama is the fact that he apparently smokes cigarettes. It would’ve been AWESOME if he’d lit up a WINSTON during the inauguration.
Hey, those of you who are apparently texting in your comments: Maybe hold off on that method until you actually learn to text?
To those who defend Bush by stating he kept us safe, what about 9/11? Didn’t that happen on his watch? To quote someone else whom I can’t remember at the moment, isn’t that like a pitcher giving up nine runs in the first inning before throwing eight perfect innings and only talking about the eight outstanding innings they threw? It’s not like we were being attacked on a regular basis and suddenly Bush ended years and years of terrorist attacks on our soil. The guy (along with others of course) fucked up big time re: 9/11 and we are supposed to congratulate him because there weren’t any attacks after that?
You could say that, SB. You could also say it’s Clinton’s fault because had at least 2 chances to take Bin Laden out and didn’t. the bottom line is that those in power failed. But Bush has done the heavy lifting and picked up the pieces.
I agree that there is blame to go around. I don’t solely blame Bush. If the mess we’re in now is due to Bush’s heavy lifting and picking up the pieces, well, it would have been a whole hell of a lot better if no lifting and picking up had been done.
As long as Bush goes to court for admitting we tortured people, held them without cause/susepended their writ of habeas corpus and generally reinterpreted the constitution illegally, I’ll admit he did do some heavy lifting. Of our rights as a nation.
It’s a gread day for America, but another sad day for Hollywood.
Warner Bros is laying off 10% of it’s workforce, a good piece of it in Burbank. I just e-mailed a friend that works there and she said the mood is very sad.
Stella, you make a great point and I’ll do you one better. Look, no doubt Bush dealt with some stuff that was out of his control, BUT…..him and Cheney have been out in force for the past few weeks trying to convince some one that their biggest accomplishment was “keeping us safe.”
Sorry, but there are families for over 5,000 New Yorkers and Louisians that would have to disagree with you. 9/11 did NOT happen on Clinton’s watch, it happend on Bush’s watch – he was in office for eight months. I challenge any of you to watch the first eight months for Obama and see if ANY ONE is cutting him a break if or when an economic calamity is still happening in September – you can do a lot in that timeframe.
The Cole was bombed by Al Quaeda two months before Bush took office – it was the largest loss of American military life in one day since Vietnam outside of the Beirut bombings. That should have put him on “war-footing” which it did not do. He dicked around with the reorganization of the military and intelligence agencies for months, while planning was underway. So it took the first major foreign attack on mainland U.S. soil to wake him up to action?????
Yeah, I know – it didn’t happen again. But here’s the thing: it NEVER happened under Clinton, Reagan, Bush Sr, Carter, etc. You can’t give yourself special credit for not fucking up TWICE, when none of your predecessors even did it once.
“I challenge any of you to watch the first eight months for Obama and see if ANY ONE is cutting him a break if or when an economic calamity is still happening in September…”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Where is all this stinging criticism going to come from, exactly? He’ll get kid gloves the whole time; Even a limp-dick liberal like UNFUNNY DOUCHE Jon Stewart can’t make the tamest of Obama jokes without being roundly hissed by his P.C. audience.
Any and every MILD complaint about ANYTHING Obama does will result in some thin-skinned, wishy-washy press conference, because the guy is BEYOND REPROACH. Unlike Bush, who just kept on going and didn’t even ACKNOWLEDGE that shit because he OWNS ALL.
But the press will give this guy more free passes than a movie theater with a broken projector, and treat him with the reverent worship of the Hollywood press corps sucking up to George Clooney at some bullshit soiree.
BUSH = GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER. At least the MOST AWESOME. They should put him on Mount Rushmore. Fuck it, they should just change the name to Mount Bushmore.
JEB IN ’12.
Oh, and cry me a river even if someone, somewhere, used aggressive interrogation tactics to keep the public at large safe. Why don’t you take a flight on over to their neck of the woods and see if they’d bat an eye over waterboarding YOUR limp whitebread ass.
Funny, Lex. Based on your usual definition of OWNAGE, should the greatest have been Clinton?…
I’ll just be glad when everyone leaves DC and I can go outside again.
Personally, I couldn’t help wondering whether Obama touching me would cure my scrofula.
And am I the only one who feels that everyone has this backward? Everyone’s acting as though this is the end, when it’s merely the beginning. The easy part’s over. Now comes the hard part. Obama won, he’s in the White House. Now what? What a day January 21 will be for the Obamamaniacs and Bush Haters: the first day of the rest of their lives.
On the one hand, I have always believed that any President, including a theoretical Pres. Gore, would have been blindsided by 9/11 and that it’s not fair to blame Bush for it happening on his watch. Bungling the reaction, yes, but not the first part.
On the other hand, I wish I could believe that Lex was being ‘Phony Lex’ and joking about his admiration for Bush, but he says it often and enthusiastically enough that I have to believe this is Honest Lex, and therefore have to call him out on being an unrepentant dumbass.
Well, after a breif period of semi-lucidity from Lex, it’s nice to be reminded why I skip his posts. Back to the status quo.
Lex you used to brag about being an ignorant non-voter. Why would anyone here take any of your political views seriously? Plus, Jon Stewart isn’t funny but Dane Cook is? Jesus man your taste is in your ass.
“Yeah, gee…it’s almost as though Lex G is trying to annoy and stir the pot by doing things that are arbitrary and against what others are feeling…” said Don as he banged his head against the wall.
i know the media. this buzz, this excitement, it will empty out and make way for the inevitable diminished expectations.
10 seconds after his inagural address, they CNN reporters were analyzing the speech and commenting on how it was ‘less inspirational’ than they thought. mark my words, the media will treat obama like the tabloids treat any celebrity.
they started liking him, then they loved him. eventually, when the reality proves that he is just a man and he has no miracles in his pockets, they will turn on him, they will choke the airwaves with their incessant posturing and punditry until he’s nothing more than what every modern president becomes: an iconic figurehead
this country doesn’t deserve a great leader.
I guess I’m getting emotional, now:
Lex, Bush wasn’t evil, fascist, Nazi, cowboy, any of those things…..he was fucking incompetent!
Everything he touched turned to shit – education, the military, the economy – he spent more money than any of his predecessors and has even less to show for it.
Spare me the “he’s doing what no one else would do….Dark Knight” crap – waterboarding, warrantless wiretapping, renditions, all that shit existed for decades before Bush became President. Let’s be real, here – it predated 9/11, no Hamas or Hezbollah terrorist are even thinking twice right now about strapping on a bomb because they are afraid of being freaking waterboarded!
Get connected to reality, life is not an episode of 24 – this administration was not the first to do any of this shit, but things got so messed up in Iraq and Afghanistan that they became the first administration to make it their “strategy” to brag about it and make it formal law. And of course, a bunch of bleeding heart liberals took the bait on it.
So this has all just been a bullshit game of talking about who’s tougher when the reality is that Clinton and Obama(that’s right) will never think twice of allowing it to happen – they just won’t freakin advertise it for the mouthbreathers who watch Fox News.
It’s all about perception – in reality, Bush and Cheney were no tougher than any one else. Obama will own THEIR asses – did you see his speech, today? He basically called them a bunch of stupid childen who have been playing games for the past few years and it’s now time for the adults to run things again.
Think about it, Lex – were Musharref, Il Jong, Putin ever afraid of these jokers? They ran circles around Bush/Cheney for eight years. Bush looked Putin in the eyes and thought he had a good soul – despite the fake Texas accent and all of the “stay-the-course” bullshit, Bush and Cheney were the biggest pussies to run this country in our lifetime. They let about a dozen dictators and authoritarian governments do whatever they wanted, no matter the consequences. But I’m supposed to give them props, because they sent 140,000 troops to a weakening regime that no one was scared of and STILL found a way to screw it up???? All the while, they couldn’t say boo to the Saud family, while they were funding terrorists – Bush held the prince’s hand, for christ sakes!
What bravery, what courage, what bullshit! Sorry about the excessive language – I just want this Bush mythology to finally end, at least on this blog.
Obama is tougher than you can imagine, Lex, and make no mistake, he’s not going to have the four year honeymoon that Bush had.
After 8 years of Laura Bush and her giant red wig, and not to mention Jenna and her cut-and-paste W on a woman’s body face…Michelle is bringing sexy back.
“Get connected to reality, life is not an episode of 24 – this administration was not the first to do any of this shit, but things got so messed up in Iraq and Afghanistan that they became the first administration to make it their “strategy” to brag about it and make it formal law. And of course, a bunch of bleeding heart liberals took the bait on it.”
Right, because wrongdoing has been done before, it’s somehow less significant? Eh, wrong.
Lex, JFK banged the hottest movie star of his day. He should be your fave.
The next four years look like they’d be an uphill climb for anybody…I’m glad we have someone in charge who seems smart, and Sarah Palin nowhere near the white house.
Righties, it looks like the new president will actually listen to you more than your guy listened to us. Might be small comfort, but take it where you can get it.
Clinton OWNED, JFK seemed cool, but when they made a movie about him, who did they get? Bruce Greenwood. Good actor but BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING.
For W. they got JOSH MOTHERFUCKING OWNAGE BROLIN.
Winner = BUSH.
I already miss him and it’s barely been 12 hours. GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER, representative of everything that OWNS about this country. If nothing else, I’d expect at least SOME of you guys would SHOW SOME GODDAMN RESPECT and THANK HIM for a difficult job well done, and for standing by his awesome convictions even if you don’t personally agree with them.
I am NOT a Republican and don’t tow the party line, wouldn’t vote for Sarah Palin if she was up against fucking Ernest P. Worrell.
But BUSH was the REAL DEAL, and I CANNOT WAIT till JEB becomes President and KEEPS THE OWNAGE COMING.
BUSH POWER!!!!!!
Unrelated, did anyone see MATTHEW MODINE being interviewed at the inauguration on CBS today? Christ, no wonder the HEARTLAND hates Hollywood and pretentious actors, Modine clocking in in some douche-ass cab driver hat and scarf and acting all empowered and political.
MATTHEW MODINE, VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
Don’t come around here again the next time you have a ‘Someone say nice to me or I’m going to drunk myself to death’ dark night of the soul.
What does that have to do with anything? At all? What are you talking about? What, are you and the 17 roommates firing up lines of Pez tonight?
Now show some damn respect; Same ways as libs plead with righties to bend over backwards and say, “I love my country I want my president to succeed regardless of affiliatiion,” all you lefties should BOW to Bush.
For your first question, I submit that bulk of what you’re writing on this subject is intended as a dishonest provocation, designed to annoy most everybody else who posts here. So why should I show you sympathy or respect since that’s not what you’re doing?
For the other part, I absolutely have some agreement with the idea that Bush deserves some degree of respect; but your above-stated position “GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER” (exact quote)?
No, fuck that shit.
(Also, I stay up late because I’m unemployed, duh).
“and for standing by his awesome convictions even if you don’t personally agree with them.”
Hey Bin Laden, I didn’t personally agree with you, but AWESOME CONVICTIONS!
Way to ruin a beautiful day, Lex! You’re worse than a Palin supporter.
Watching the inauguration this evening (it aired here at 3am and some people have to get up for work at 6am) was really nice although was I the only one who didn’t understand any of what Aretha Franklin was yelling about? Christ almighty. And I fast forwarded through that poem lady. That reverend’s speech made me wanna puke, but other than that is was lovely. Obama’s speech sure was good and seeing those crowds was amazing. 2mil people = 10% of Australia’s entire population and they were all within 2.7km of each other (or maybe I’m getting my figured mixed up, I’m fairly sure what’s what the Australian commentator said).
Wasn’t Lex just banned and all his comments deleted, or was it just a dream?
The banning lasted juuust long enough for Lex to hide his bottle, and promise to Dave that he’d behave, fingers crossed behind his back the whole time.
‘Cause acting like a 10 year-old OWNS, apparently….
So Lex gives props to Bush and looks askance at unquestioning Obama worship? Agree or disagree, how is this comparable to the stuff that got deleted? (tjfa67, some of Lex’s comments were axed, but he wasn’t banned — so I guess only half of your dream came true.)
Where are the Lex haters when IO starts saying “Fuck you” to everybody and calling them floppytwats or whatever? Not that I think he should be banned either, but some consistency would be nice.
And I wonder where Matthew Modine stands on the issue?
If Lex don’t get banned for being anti-Obama on this site, then the motherfucker ain’t ever gettin’ banned.
Yancy, some of us have.
This great and glorious day ended with Diane Sawyer three sheets to the wind.
bugger me sawyer pissed on the job, that’s priceless
this would have been more appropriate if posted yesterday while bush still was briefly the pres, but anyway, someone emailed it to me and it’s a bit of a laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aEURwsrUSQ