December 2009
5 posts
Why is James Franco on General Hospital?
Because he wants to be!
I have been obsessed with performance art for over a decade-ever since the Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena came to visit my class at Cal Arts summer school. I finally took the plunge and experimented with the form myself when I signed on to appear on 20 episodes of “General Hospital” as the bad-boy artist “Franco, just Franco.” I...
IS THERE ENOUGH MAGIC?
The public radio story that made my wife cry this morning was Euan Kerr’s interview with Jason Reitman on Minnesota Public Radio.
Especially this part:
He’s the son of Ivan Reitman, who’s produced and directed a slew of hit movies, including “Animal House” and “Ghostbusters.” As a youngster Jason was interested in film, but he knew as the son of a famous...
Oh my. Look! People came to the party!
Welcome. Dip is over there. We also have Fresca.
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And thank you.
Malkmus as non-singer
I was walking in to work and Stephen Malkmus’s “Jenny and the Ess-Dog” came up on shuffle. Why, I wondered, is there such a unique and forceful quality to Malkmus’s vocals? Here’s an excerpt from a New York rock blog interview circa 1999:
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Malkmus: (Laughs) I don’t even think my voice is really good. NY Rock: That’s an odd statement coming from a...