So I am teetering on the edge of trying out some crazy kind of absurdist/near-nihilist science fiction story told in surreal vignettes about death and the end of the world. It feels too ambitious for me to be tackling (as I told Jeff: if I get this right it's poetry; if I fall short it's wanky indulgent horseshit... and even if it is a smashing ( Read more... )

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So I guess I'd been impersonating Al Capone. I don't know. I knew that that was something I'd done, in the past, the way you might know that when you were younger you smoked pot or shoplifted or vandalized things. But I had locked myself in an old house, or maybe an abandoned apartment building, and only my "agent" (not like publicity agent, ( Read more... )

A while back I wanted to do a whole post, but it never happened. I saw both of these movies (the former one twice) recently and they really stuck with me. The first was great, like David Lynch toning back his deliberate obtuseness (to a more casual obtuseness) and doing a strictly genre film again. The second was good, hilarious and charming but ( Read more... )

Second-tier ("sub-Deadwood") TV series I'm either in the middle of or intend in the near future to start/go through:

• Life on Mars (BBC version)
• Mad Men
• Breaking Bad
• Dr. Venture
• Firefly

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I've been thinking, especially in light of the film I just watched.

( Indulgent writing about my own writing. There's no need for other humans to read this. )

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The American Astronaut. I just described this film to Chris as "Eraserhead meets Old West meets Retro Science Fiction meets Honkytonkish Bar Rock meets Theatre of the Absurd." I also said it was the most authentically Lynchlike film I could think of that doesn't feel the slightest bit like a rip-off. (The second posted clip, I think, shows the ( Read more... )