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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
Just wondering: what would this graph look like if it was extended further back into the past?
If you go back to before Bush was president, it was even higher. Funny what happens when you give millionaires tax cuts while starting two unpaid wars.
Please explain how tax cuts led to jobs in the private sector disappearing.
sure – the very rich have disconnected from the economy.
that’s the short answer. want the long answer? look it up.
June 2009 – Recession Ends officially
Total Jobs – 4.2 Mil
Ages jobs added
55-69 +3.5Mil
20-24 +730K
25-54 -730K
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm
http://bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm
But….
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&s%5B1%5D%5Bid%5D=LNS12600000&s%5B1%5D%5Brange%5D=5yrs
Full-Time jobs keep dropping, BLS offsets them by counting part-time employment.
So majority of PT work goes to experienced workers
College grads have to take entry-level offerings.
55+ end up as consultants or potential retirees who stay on since last years were financially decimating for retirement.
In your 30’s or 40’s?
You’re fucked.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS12500000
Sooo…we’re becoming a part-time nation with a frozen full-time workforce.
This is called “stagflation”.
The goal is to stop it from becoming hyperinflation or deflation. Both suck.
Japan is deflation.
Venezuela is hyperinflation.
Only way out is too slowly raise interest rates so all the money digitally pumped is pulled back in and burned.
But that requires a stop to spending.
Charts and graphs are fun.
As a Virginian with Ohio roots I would hands down set the DeLorean to Nov 7, 2012 at this point.
etguild2 – glorious, my friend. I’m sure millions are with you.
I don’t dislike Romney as much as my liberal friends, but I can’t stand the GOP. True freak show of “leaders” and backwards views.
Still can’t believe the 47% video didn’t just completely sink romney.
Tuck, my first position on Romney is “empty suit.”
But he has become really scary with his skill at lying endlessly, shifting in the wind to whatever angle will help him get elected… and still no truthful offering of his economic plans.
sure – the very rich have disconnected from the economy.
So they stopped making money?
Rashad: I forget who came up with this idea — I think it was the dude who started Amazon — but just because a small group of rich people get a lot richer doesn’t mean the economy will improve. Because, to put it bluntly, there are only so many cars, so many houses, so many clothes etc. that even a very, very rich person will buy. Unless there are millions and millions of other folks out there making enough money to buy new cars and homes and appliances and so on — we’re screwed.
Exactly. Even Henry Ford paid his auto workers a larger than normal wage on the belief that anybody who builds something should be able to afford to buy one.
If what’s left of the middle class and working poor stop buying things (apart from food and other essentials), all the companies that made these men so wealthy will lose sales and eventually go under. They simply don’t seem to grasp this.
Joe: I never argued otherwise. Bob implied that Bush tax cuts cost jobs in the private sector, which is patently untrue.