april 22, 2005

what I'm noticing around me.

Wow. There are a lot of great blogs out there. Someday someone's going to get smart and just publish best blogs of the year as an anthology series or something. It's crazy. I read one about a waiter that was just true and real and not poser-ey at all. It was brilliant.

I'm not a huge fan of most writers. They bore me.

I'm a huge fan of Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams and Raymond Chandler and even or perhaps mostly Stephen King. Reading Stephen King is definitely chasing the dragon. I mean, those first half dozen -- wow. Those weren't genre pieces. They were analogies. Metaphors.

And Gary Larson. Super genius. How do you make a one panel cartoon that funny?

You should watch Bill Maher on HBO. I have to say, the man is not my cup of tea -- but the artist is truly admirable. What he's doing is like primer. He's setting the tables for a whole new slew of comedians/journalists. I love Jon Stewart, but that ain't news. What Bill is doing is. And, it's fair and slanted at the same time. Great work.

You should pick up the graphic novel, "History of Violence" I hear that the David Cronenberg directed film is killing in Cannes or whatever big film fest is going on in Europe, impossible to care that much anymore there's so many awards and fests nowadays. I'm surprised that we don't have an "Awardees" awards show where they give awards... Aw, you get it.

I searched the internet today. It's really hard to find anything interesting. Why isn't there a referrral site? You know a best of?

The building I'm in today is Naktomi Plaza from "Diehard" and it's a "swayer." That is so unsettling. Especially since we're in LA. I mean if you're in Chicago, it makes sense with the wind and all. but how much wind is there ever really in LA? Creepy. LA is so going to sink into the ground soon -- the entire city landing flush in the seventh ringer of hell. Completely intact, the denizens of Hollywood not even noticing the lake of fire surrounding them. Before long, a seedy club promoter will put velvet ropes around the smoldering crevasse and charge $30 a person to get in.

Let's face it. If you could only see one, shich would you rather see? Heaven or hell? I'd have to check out hell. I mean heaven sounds nice, but hell has got to be a trip.

I like Las Vegas as a concept. I hate it as a city. It's like New Year's. All build up. No payoff.
I guess I'd like it more if... Naw, it sucks.

It's not Vegas so much as the whole "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" metality. It has ruined the city. People go there now to cause trouble. Trouble is not what Vegas is about. Cooling out is what it's all about.

I need a new mattress.