My book on my Kindle
Book update! Today I finished the third and most intensively-edited draft of the DIE HARD book. Now I’m sending it to a handful of trusted friends for feedback and dropped it onto my Kindle, where I’ll give it another read on the plane to Austin and between movies at SXSW.
So, to reiterate, here is the thing, aside from … the thing … there are a LOT of musical cues like this in this extremely strange movie
Good thing this isn’t the BUSIEST WEEK OF MY YEAR
Screaming crying throwing up
Sometimes I watch a movie and think obviously I spaced out during a scene, and it is in checking my memory against other people that I realize they just cut a whole subplot
I assigned “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” a bunch of “Oratorio for Living Things” material and some writing on “Lemonade” to my class this week and in finishing my re-reading to prep I am amazed I thought I could get through it all with equanimity
Weird that my circa 2005 IT/comp sci degree and stint in corporate tech has somehow turned out, in the end, to be useful
The history of Hollywood is bananas and full of dumb corporate choices making way for new art, but the Silicon Valley brained takeover of the American movie business is a new level of yikes and you really have to get how they think to understand what they’re about to do
Studios and critics are not friends, that’s not our job, but I hate this for a lot of people and very specifically for the talented folks at WB (a studio that can be the bane of my existence sometimes) who do phenomenal work for cinema
Mmhmm. Time to start buddy
They mention marketing budgets for the nominees in here too
Galley brag
(have you restarted your allergy meds yet?)
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Matt is the reason I and so many others have careers. He deserves all the best in the world, and any way you can help will go to a truly good dude.
Arguably that’s what Old Joy and/or Meek’s Cutoff are
I’m so sorry, buddy ❤️ ❤️
We decided to keep the Paul McCartney bit off
Mostly I just flail and say “BUT WHAT LEVEL”
Mmhmm
It’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, and buddy, I’m all out of Tony Dokoupil
Yeah, I can totally see my dad loving that if he had made it to his retirement years — seems like a kind of fun gig!
Just unclear to me whether using it as a synecdoche was their intent or not
Leapfrogging the level of smart/stupid of what they did with NFT/blockchain tech branding = dumb gifs
Really impressive
Somehow the simultaneously smartest and stupidest branding coup Silicon Valley pulled off was getting people to equate “LLM chatbot” with “AI”
Few things are more low-stakes enjoyable than a chat with a total stranger about how weird the George Washington Bridge is!
Secondly, in New York you can always have a fun chat with your uber driver, and it’s almost always about their home country. When I travel, they always want to talk about New York, and they’ve always got stories about driving in the city, no matter how far away we are at the moment
One of my favorite things about traveling in the Midwest and South alone, unironically, is talking to all the Uber drivers who remind me of my dad and just want to chat. First of all: it makes me realize my dad would have driven an uber for fun ABSOLUTELY because he loved talking to people so much
