As I Lay Dying.

[leondacter]

To my learned readers, few though they be...

Have you read much Faulkner? I'm struggling through Absolom, Absolom! at the suggestion of a friend (a very intelligent and well-read English major just graduated from Stanford) and finding his language tedious beyond the point of reason. I've changed my reading habits so much lately that I wonder if

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Re: Khmer Rock and Japanese spice appreciation week.

[dayofthelocust]

Yeah, pot-boiler. That's no insult either. I'm on an Ellroy kick this month. I like pot-boilers.

Please feel free to leave me any leads on the Ros Sereysothea article. I'm a little scared because the party who requested the piece has had it for a few days now and isn't saying anything about it, so I think it's getting cut. It was intended, I think, to spice up a nationally distributed magazine normally devoted to garage rock.

I was actually a little disappointed that the Paprika trailer wasn't a little bit more showy. I am totally devoted the director, Mr. Satoshi Kon. I recommend watching Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, or his Paranoia Agent mini-series on the double.

Do you know about the outdoor movies at Hollywood Forever Cemetery? You sign up for their email list and they tell you what's playing each week on Saturday night. They do some weekday screenings too. I believe tomorrow they are showing The Sheik in observance of the 80th anniversary of Valentino biting the big one. Incidentally, they project the films against the side of Valentino's enormous mausoleum chapel.

Hollywood Forever.

[leondacter]

That's awesome; I saw The Sheik years ago at a film festival (loosely termed) at Washburn University. It showed after a bunch of William Hart silents.

I just got here a month ago, so I'm not particularly tuned in to all the happenings and showings yet. I checked out the Cinespia site and the schedule, and it looks awesome. They're showing Chinatown this Saturday, which I love.

I'll try to check out the Kon and let you know what I think soon.

As far as Ellroy, I've always admired his tale-spinning. I think my preferences run more toward Philip K. Dick, though, with his complex futuristic plot devices that are really contrived opportunities for elaborate psychodrama. That's part of the reason your suggestion of Paprika sounded so enticing.