April 19, 2024
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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
Any of the horror fans here see A Dark Song, from IFC Midnight? I VOD’d it about 2 weeks ago and loved it. I found it quite frightening and even moving towards the end. IFC Midnight has a pretty good track record. The House On Willow Street was a rare miss.
liked A Dark Song a lot … definitely found a fresh way to spin an occult thriller
I’d never seen the last KING ARTHUR remake with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley, but the supporting cast caused me to do a triple take….Stellan Skarsgard, Ray Stevenson, Mads Mikkelsen, Joel Edgerton, Hugh Dancy.
What in the world? Of course it was prior to a lot of these actors breaking out. That’s a lineup a movie would kill for nowadays, the three leads (aside from possibly Knightley) aside.
here’s a little poem i wrote, you might want to learn it note for note:
liar liar
pants on fire
cheater cheater
pumpkin eater
traitor traitor
putin fellator
TBC
Right with you Leah, not sure who is in charge of planning the Fourth of July Fireworks display this year, but I would like to suggest Roland Emmerich.
i don’t get the fireworks reference hcat, did i miss something?
(hard to keep up at this rate, it’s – as the great J demme said in his unique way of speaking – “…a nightMERE”)
adding a verse:
fire fire
reichstag tryer
(either via provocation or DIY it’s the playbook, take care out there peeps. who was it that said, “sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a freight train”)
so weird the lack of political discussion on the hotblog now, did DP ask that it be put on the back burner or something and i missed it?
(Sarah Kendzior is my on-going crush in the twittersphere, anthropologist and expert in authoritarianism, depressingly accurate in her predictions of this kakistocracy of crims and fuckwits from the start)
Leah, I find it interesting that the most vocal and ardent Trump basher on the Blog doesn’t even live in the States.
And to answer your question, I don’t think Dave said anything about political discussions. If he did, I missed it too.
Since politics seems to have taken over every other outlet, I assumed people here just want to focus on movies.
David does discuss politics on Twitter.
Non-movie related, but Chris Cornell dead at 52? WTF?
Strange, if it’s a suicide (like being speculated), to do it in the middle of a Soundgarden tour.
Cornell contributed to movies, so it’s movie-related. Several links on front page, more if they’re as good as Mark Olsen’s appreciation (linked).
The Amanda Petrusich piece linked on front page is also v. good
I saw Cornell in 1999 on his Euphoria Morning tour. He played a small, rundown theater in Milwaukee. It was just him and a guitar. I remember it like it was last night and get chills thinking about it. I arrived early and made sure I was at the front of the stage. He was maybe ten feet away. The best live show I’ve ever seen. That voice. Jesus. I’ve never heard anything like it. The highlight was an acoustic performance of Fell on Black Days. Such sad news. RIP.
really, you find it ‘interesting’ Pete B?
half of my family lives in the US, and my beloved great gran and fave person ever was lakota sioux
(oh wait i forgot, you white boys are the REAL americans, let’s do an interview about your ‘economic anxiety’)
Speaking of DP and politics, that pull quote from Rush Limbaugh is just the worst. Why DP? Why???????
That was a voice that would depict the legend of Roger Ailes, beyond the chorus rightfully recalling decades of predation.
Not sure why the snarkiness Leah. It was an innocent observation.
{And how do you know if I’m white?}
your comment reads passive-aggressive to me, pete B (re-reading it, still does). seems like you could word it differently if you were making some other point than what it sounds like. if i misinterpreted then my bad, tone is difficult to grok sometimes in this written medium
part 2 – the things you say, pete, lots of stuff — off the top of my head, such as defending steve bannon as a ‘nationalist’ and not a ‘white nationalist’ (nonsense); like watching fox/bill o’reilly for balance/’both sides’ (o’reilly is a sexist bigot and a fucking asshole, what is it with needing the asshole’s perspective and thinking it’s ‘balance’?); like suggesting hclint is as bad as trump, seemingly deluded by the usual right-wing propaganda – most disappointing propagated by wilfully ignorant so-called progressives during the campaign – without actually knowing anything about her (such as you didn’t even know the repub smear campaign started with their outrage over her cookie-baking stance while first lady; or that her secret service nickname is ‘hermione’) or much about her platform for that matter, which was pretty much the most progressive in US history. just typical white-boy stuff (and if you’re not, i guess you might as well be)
Leah,
Yes I am white, white as Wonder Bread and vanilla ice cream. Didn’t know it was that obvious.
My post wasn’t meant as passive-aggressive. That makes me scratch my head. I just found it ironic, as you yourself mentioned the lack of politics on the blog.
My comment about balance was between Bill O’Reilly (who was more of a centrist when compared to Hannity, but is now off the air) and Rachel Maddow. Flip back & forth between Fox & MSNBC and its like you’re on 2 different planets. Somewhere in the middle is the truth.
As for the other stuff, we’ll have to agree to disagree. Hence why I normally stick to just films here.