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POW! Marky Mark Workout Video. Here is what Boogie Nights, I...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:00:48 -0700

POW! Marky Mark Workout Video. Here is what Boogie Nights, I Heart Huckabees, and The Departed made me forget. Oh time, what wondrous changes you bring.

Enter the Void Teaser. So far so good… How you fall...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:52:00 -0700

Enter the Void Teaser.

So far so good… How you fall doesn’t matter. It’s how you land.

Slight Shout Out on Wired

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:40:40 -0700

Slight Shout Out on Wired:

Look Under KoldCast

Yelp* With Me

Sat, 16 May 2009 03:12:09 -0700

Yelp* With Me

Final Fantasy - “The Butcher”. Solo. Live. In a...

Mon, 04 May 2009 01:29:00 -0700

Final Fantasy - “The Butcher”. Solo. Live. In a basement.

"Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national..."

Mon, 04 May 2009 01:05:43 -0700

““Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal.” —Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer”

Splash Party Redux

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:38:21 -0700

Splash Party Redux

Fuck Yes. Although strange cover for a book dealing with the...

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Fuck Yes. Although strange cover for a book dealing with the years 68-72 being that this is a picture of Downtown LA today - seems temporary. R.I.P Crabby Joe’s. Coming September 22, 2009. Only 8 years in the making.

An Interview with Me

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:42:22 -0800

An Interview with Me

Enter the Void (2009) - a film by Gaspar Noe

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:41:00 -0800

I am going to go out on limb and make the prediction, right now, that this will be the film of the year, as well as the concluding masterpiece of the decade. Why would I be so sure of a film that does not even have a trailer out yet? It is because the filmmaker himself released what I think is the most profound expression of intent I have seen expressed in almost any medium. Without further ado:

“‘Making a film is difficult, but making a great film is an almost impossible task.’

This quote from Spielberg is perhaps not completely accurate, but that’s how I remember it. However, some examples of great films do exist, including the film which had such an influence on my existence: 2001, A Space Odyssey. Without professing to be able to create such a masterpiece, trying to make a film that is, at the same time, a large-scale entertainment, suitable for adults and complex in cinematic terms, is one of the most exciting undertakings one could wish to tackle. And if one does not set out with the aim of making a great film, one can be sure that it will not turn out to be one.

Few of the arts can satisfy man’s need to be uplifted as immediately as film. And none (except interactive video games) can yet reproduce the maelstrom of our states of perception and consciousness.

In the past, certain films have tried to adopt the subjective point of view of the main character. enter the void will try to improve upon its predecessors and accompany the hero just as much in his normal state of awareness as in his altered states: the state of alertness, the stream of consciousness, memories, dreams…

The visions described in the script are inspired partly by the accounts of people who have had near-death experiences, who describe a tunnel of light, seeing their lives flashing past them and ‘astral’ visions, and partly by similar hallucinatory experiences obtained by consuming DMT, the molecule which the brain sometimes secretes at the moment of death and which, in small doses, enables us to dream at night.

The film should sometimes scare the audience, make it cry and, as much as possible, hypnotise it.

In recent years, films with labyrinthine structures have proved the audience’s ability to follow storylines in the form of a puzzle, and its desire to move away from linear narration.

But a complex form where the content does not move the spectator in any way would only amount to mathematic virtuosity. Whereas this film is above all a melodrama: the universal melodrama of a young man who, after the brutal death of his parents, promises that he will protect his little sister no matter what and who, sensing that he himself is dying, fights desperately to keep his promise. A film where the life of one person is linked to the love he has for another human being.

The reason for choosing the most modern areas of Tokyo as a setting is to further emphasize the fragility of the brother and sister by propelling them like two small balls in a giant pinball machine made up of black, white and fluorescent colours.

My previous two films, which were far less ambitious, were once described by a critic as being like roller coasters playing with the most reptilian desires and fears of the spectator. enter the void, whose themes and artistic choices will be far more varied and colourful, should, if I succeed, be the Magic Mountain which I, as a spectator, dream of riding on.” - Gaspar Noe

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Sans Soleil - a film by Chris Marker (1983)

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:34:00 -0800

“He wrote me that in the suburbs of Tokyo there is a temple consecrated to cats. I wish I could convey to you the simplicity-the lack of affectation-of this couple who had come to place an inscribed wooden slat in the cat cemetery so their cat Tora would be protected. No she wasn’t dead, only run away. But on the day of her death no one would know how to pray for her, how to intercede with death so that he would call her by her right name. So they had to come there, both of them, under the rain, to perform the rite that would repair the web of time where it had been broken.”

Now We Ooze Genius

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:30:05 -0800

Now We Ooze Genius

"Look for the details, take them in, let them speak to you, and it will approximate something like..."

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:38:30 -0800

““Look for the details, take them in, let them speak to you, and it will approximate something like the truth of LA back then.” — James Ellroy”

Ripped From the Headlines:

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:13:21 -0800

Mickey Rourke Denies Dating Courtney Love, Would Prefer A Gorilla

Yes, this is the state of news.

Our First Internet Interview

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:45:08 -0800

Our First Internet Interview

"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we..."

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:17:00 -0800

““At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald from Bernice Bobs Her Hair”

Valley Peaks Episode Nine - Featuring Kato Kaelin

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:13:00 -0800

Valley Peaks Episode Nine - Featuring Kato Kaelin

"Sometimes she speaks of her derriere, sticks it out Beale Street style and gives it a slap and this..."

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:45:00 -0800

““Sometimes she speaks of her derriere, sticks it out Beale Street style and gives it a slap and this makes me blush because it is a very good one, marvelously ample and mysterious and nothing to joke about.” — Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer”

Women - “Untitled” Live. Ugly and rough around the...

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:53:00 -0800

Women - “Untitled” Live. Ugly and rough around the edges in the best way possible.

He just loves that rug.

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:47:25 -0800

He just loves that rug.