February 28, 2005 – 12:05 pm
I worked a short time as a script reader. I only read about a hundred scripts, but no more than a handful of them were written with a modicum of confidence, style and ability. The rest were various shades of horrible. A script reader is the second of many hurdles separating a screenplay from production. […]
February 28, 2005 – 4:00 am
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. Oregon deputy Bret King has begun a project he calls the Faces Of Meth. He’s juxtaposed before and after photos of some of the more intense meth-addict cases to come through the Multnomah County Detention Center. Take a look at them here. When the horror subsides […]
February 27, 2005 – 9:37 pm
One of the studios hires the Goodyear Blimp to congratulate its nominees while a plane tugs an Entertainment Tonight banner around the Kodak theater.
February 27, 2005 – 12:34 am
It’s Oscar time again and I couldn’t care less. I suppose I’d be a little more engaged if I’d seen even a quarter of the movies that are nominated. I used to love the Oscars. I would make a big deal about guessing who should win, who would win and where I was going to […]
February 26, 2005 – 11:52 pm
Bind. Torture. Kill. BTK. This guy’s been dormant for so long that most people had forgotten about him. But thirty years after claiming his first victim, Dennis Rader is behind bars. Turns out he’s a family man. He’d always been organized, meticulous and patient. But most of all he was, as the cliche goes, just […]
February 23, 2005 – 11:20 am
I sit down at Groundwork on Sunset and Cahuenga as I often do in the hour or so before work. I’d just hurried through a fierce rain squall to get there, but now that I’m pulling out my notebook, sun streams across my table. That’s the way the weather’s been lately here in L.A. Even […]
February 21, 2005 – 1:33 pm
There’s a terrific editorial in today’s New York Times that addresses the recent acceptance by a Pennsylvania school of an alternative to Darwinism. This approach, dubbed Intelligent Design, figures that human beings are far too complex to have simply evolved by chance. They must have been “designed” by someone or something (they’re careful not to […]
February 20, 2005 – 10:06 pm
It seems Hunter S. Thompson has committed suicide. That sucks.
February 19, 2005 – 11:57 pm
Tonight I spot Trent Reznor shopping the Mezzanine at work. Others tell me he comes in to Amoeba a lot, but it’s the first time I’ve seen him. I have to check three times before I’m convinced it’s him. I kinda want to tell him that The Downward Spiral remains one of my desert island […]
February 18, 2005 – 9:18 am
…our friends become successful. (Part 2.) Right on the heels of Mark Lawson’s stint as a battered boxer on Cold Case, another Mark friend of mine (Mark Smith) has got a book in stores. Comic stores, that is. The Amazing Joy Buzzards, an oddball tale of a rock band that fights supervillains, is now on […]
February 15, 2005 – 11:01 am
What do you do if you’ve attended Julliard, studied the classics and driven yourself to the heights of guitar virtuosity? You become The Great Kat, of course. Her blood photos are pretty outrageous. Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. I got a paper cut under my fingernail.
February 13, 2005 – 11:00 pm
THIS is a glimpse of why I don’t believe that there is a God. Not “god” you see, but “God” as put forth by the limited intellect of the average human. We share a sort of vision because we evolved that way, not because it’s the Truth. Imagine understanding numbers as shapes, as sounds, as […]
February 9, 2005 – 9:10 am
On January 27, 2002 I met John Sanford. It is a cool Sunday, overcast and gloomy. I’d read his novel, The People From Heaven back when Andrew Davis was looking for something to develop by a Santa Barbara writer. The book, an experimental novel about a black woman named America coming to a hostile New […]
February 7, 2005 – 11:56 pm
A little freaked out by a post on Boing Boing today. As if phishermen didn’t have enough income rolling in from duping hapless computer users, this little exploit in Mozilla, Opera, Firefox and Safari makes things even easier for them. It seems that certain websites can take advantage of the International Domain Name specification in […]
February 3, 2005 – 10:54 pm
Two years ago I track down Night On My Side, the debut full-length by singer/guitarist Gemma Hayes. This is during a time of serious transition, and I dig deep into the CD for a few weeks as if it were an emotional salve. On impulse I drop it into my player the other day and […]
