JANET MASLIN IS NOT SMART

I always thought this, was reminded while reading an archived review of Batman and Robin. She said nice things about it!

This slate lady hits it head on.

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SLEEPY

STEVE SUMMERS- "LANDS OF THE MIND"

During the public fracas, Frank Sinatra allegedly contacted Farrow with an offer to have Allen's legs broken

FALCONCREST

MUFFIN FALL

THIS

"Note the Seahawks cap on Skipjack's pal"- J. Brophy

MORE GIGER GOODIES

TOTAL RECALL

CARS

I feel sorry for the Olds Achieva (both four door and coupe). It eagerly wants to be liked, to achieve (acceptance, status, respect). But it is burdened with a dowdy design that is emblematic of middle-American style blindness.

It is analogous to a well-meaning, eager chunky white girl with no sense of irony who dresses up, earnestly expecting success. She fails (in my world).

When they named the car they created a sad character; the car is this girl. The dissonance between the name Achieva and the reality of its place is crushing.

Did Oldsmobile, aware of the failed lumpy look, name the model this, putting its hopes in the Latin saying nomen est omen (Names are Destiny)? Maybe the name would shepherd the car into acceptance?

I think it is more likely that the marketers of this car are of the same model as that white girl, and don’t know any better.

The car looks bad. But the sincerity of the effort is poignant and wins sympathy.

In my head the personified Achieva has been assigned a Care Bear to buck it up when it inevitably has to face itself in the eyes of people like me.

Contemporary sport cars depress me; the predominance of computer driven bubble mush bodies, with aerodynamics trumping the designers pen.

The Bertone design house drew sharp lines for fifteen years (starting with ’68 Alfa Romeo Carabo) until they also went soft.

These striking angular statements form a sword I cut the bubbles with .

Bertone Achieva?

MOVIES

Walken and Wood.

What happened on that boat? I loved their cedar dreamhouse, sold after separation. Chris wore a baseball cap whose bill was remarkable in its flatness. It hadn’t been creased or shaped; 7th graders of my generation would get wedgies for leaving their brim so flat. Brim etiquette is different these days.

The brim was flat, the crown contained his Brainstorm.

I saw a YouTube video of Corey Haim playing a keyboard rack with off-hand domination, luded-up casual mastery, laconic tunefulness.

His sallow porky present-day visage would be at best a joke cameo in an Apatow film.

But as a member of a safe-cracker squad in a Thief redux his imploded glow would be an asset. In each frame his face adds heartache harmony of regret; the squashed wonder boy. Believably into crime.

Mann has indicated no sense of humor to take this kind of risk. In my dreams he does, and also hires Corey to score the picture, leads MM back to when by pure temporal coincidence he was making films of night, neon, and white loafers with the music that best suited it. Synths were in the contemporary mainstream, so they appeared on his soundtracks. Now he features Chris Cornell. Michael, please correct your path.

HEARTBREAK

DON'T PROTECT YOURSELF (because it's on the edge of mom cheese), RECEIVE THIS

COLORADO (not Pete Coors)

MACARTHUR IN JAPAN

BRONSON PINCHOT ON ARSENIO: ONE OF OUR WEENUS DEITIES PUTS IN A CLASSIC PERFORMANCE

SERENADE YOU

THE GLOVE

THE BONER OF VAN DAMME

ELEGANTLY DINGY, BROWN, AND MAJESTICALLY STRANGE. CONCISE - PERFECT LENGTH TO INJECT IN DREAMS

WEENUS TRAINING LOOP PART 7

COZY/SCARY

THIS GUY IS HAVING A BLAST

POSSIBLY THE BEST EVER

KEYED-OUT SUIT

JUNKY BEAUTIFUL

KNOXVILLE?

WAVELENGTH- "FUNK DREAMS"




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FAT CAT DEMO ARCHIVE

I recently went to label Fat Cat's site. I forgot that they had started curating demos they received and putting them online for play and download, with artist info and links. I had seen this feature a long time ago, but hadn't really explored. There is a lot of stuff. There are some cheesy things and some good things.

Here

A FACE THAT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS JUST CRAWLED FROM UNDER A STONE

Walken Talks

DID THIS TO BILL'S BOOK a long time ago

Thought reading this would be a cozy experience, and it was for a bit- then the binding fell apart and the writing started to bug me. It's not well written at all! The word on the street with the mom's (used to be anyway) is that Bill is smart, but I think he may just be Oprah smart- the generic platitudes in this book etc. Best part was his college budget lunch- a selection of Hostess pastries and big soda (correct me) "I budgeted just enough money to get a couple of cherry pies and a big root beer". Something like that.

Anyway, My Fife

(combining all your bathroom duties into one time clump gives you more time with to play fife)

MICHAEL MADSEN, SIRE

"I don't like hospitals. I don't like hospitals unless my sons are being born."

Michael Madsen, on the commentary track from Species

GREIL MARCUS ON IRONY

"Irony is just a form of self-protection. It's a way of pretending you didn't mean what you said. It's a back door. And it's not in the art that I respond to."

This was on the WFMU program the Speakeasy from Oct 9 2006. I'm sure he's said this elsewhere, in a book or whatever, as it sounded deeply felt and thought out.

I do feel I abused by irony these days; I am also a perpetrator, need to quit it. Sometimes I just mean what I say and don't need to undercut i twith ironic winking just so I don't get accused of soft-rock sincerity.