For you I’ll connect
all the stories in the world…
A Love Poem
February 3, 2010Some LOST Questions
February 3, 20103.) Is Claire dead?
4.) What’s with the food drops?
5.) Who ran over Sayid’s wife?
6.) What’s the loophole?
7.) Who built the statue?
8.) Who was Ben having Sayid kill?
9.) How did the DHARMA barracks get updated furnishings?
10.) What’s the significance of Ben’s painting?
11.) Why did the Others speak Latin?
12.) How did Charlie appear to Hurley?
13.) What’s the significance of the Numbers?
14.) Why does Eloise Hawking have a different last name than her son Daniel Faraday?
15.) Why doesn’t Daniel Faraday have a British accent?
16.) Why doesn’t Daniel have a relationship with his father Charles Widmore?
17.) Who is Penny’s mother?
18.) Why did Christian’s body disappear but Locke’s did not?
19.) Why can’t women on the Island give birth?
20.) What’s inside the Temple?
21.) Why doesn’t Richard age?
22.) Who is Ilana?
23.) Who built the ancient time wheel?
24.) Why does Miles have a different last name from his father, Dr. Chang?
25.) Why does Widmore want to get back to the Island so badly?
26.) Why didn’t Eloise want to return to the Island?
27.) Who funded DHARMA?
28.) What’s the Ann Arbor station like?
29.) Why does Walt have special powers?
30.) Why does Miles hear dead people?
31.) How did Claire’s mother recover from her irreversible coma?
32.) What dangerous mission was Christian on in Australia that he needed a body guard?
33.) Why was Amy (Horace’s wife) so obsessed with “the children”?
34.) Was Karl conceived on the Island?
35.) If so, how and by whom?
36.) Libby!?!?!?!?!?
37.) Why did Jacob need to touch certain castaways in their flashbacks?
38.) Is Bram really a good guy?
39.) What’s fake Locke’s plan?
40.) Geronimo Jackson!?!?!?!?!
41.) How did Eko’s drug plane land on the Island?
42.) How did Eloise and Charles come to live on the Island?
Taken from some other blog…
Today is a Very Special Day!
February 3, 2010Reasons:
1. It’s Groundhog’s Day, though I heard that Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter. Sorry for those of you who don’t live near(ish) to the equator.
2. I got an email from my boss in which he asks if I would be willing to take tomorrow off. SURE. NO PROBLEM!
3. Amazing evening TV line-up for me this evening, the most important of which is the premiere of the final season of LOST, perhaps the most intelligent television show of all time. In order to prepare for this day, I have done the following:
a) Reviewed some of my notes from my college core curriculum classes, which were heavily focused on classical culture.
b) Rewatched 1/2 of the past season, and then the two final episodes, “The Incident” Parts 1 & 2.
c) Will watch the recap airing on ABC at 8 PM.
Then, the raisonne d’etre: the two-hour premiere! Some questions will be answered, many more will be asked. Let’s just hope Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly doesn’t suffer a psychotic break.
3. Finish the end of the documentary Air Guitar Nation. Just look it up now.
4. Watch this week’s Millionaire Matchmaker at 11. Patti Stanger is sort of my new guru. Bitch lives her reality.
5. My friend Ralphy B., badass Indiana Jones-esque relic hunter, is interviewed by the New York Times! Ch-ch-check it out. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/nyregion/02experience.html?ref=nyregion
Big Brother: Refugee Edition
January 31, 2010ID: omg last night i wanted to text you last nightor, afternoonKC’s hairdresser and KC and i
were talking about how apparently (you may have heard this)
4:35 PM they’re parking this cruise ship that can house 300 at the pier in haiti? and either relief workers or refugees will live on it?
they disagreed on this last point
and said, “dude, they need to get cameras on that shit…reality show!”
4:36 PM and her hairdresser kind of looked at me like i was retarded
PS: hah!
that’s great
4:37 PM me: seriously
Real World Refugees
PS: “Carnival Cruise: Miami or Bust”
ID: Pier 5
ID: Find out what happens on the boat…cat fights, romances and malnutrition!”
4:38 PM Paul: “Stolen food, armed militias, topless women!”
ID: i could play this game for a LONG time
Boo-hoo
January 30, 2010I had this idea last year and it seems someone has made it a reality! 😦
Wish I could go anyway (natch) but am stuck in Football Country…
David Foster Wallace’s Incandenza Comes to Life
Rozalia Jovanovic · January 12th, 2010
The filmography of the fictional Wild Turkey drinking filmmaker and visionary tennis instructor at Enfield Academy, James Incandenza, the central character of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, will make an appearance of sorts at the Gallery at The Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies.
Beginning January 29th, the Neiman Center at Columbia University will present A Failed Entertainment: Selections from the Filmography of James O. Incandenza. The filmography is made possible by the contributions of artists and filmmakers who have been commissioned to re-create the seminal works of the storied oeuvre of the avant-garde filmmaker, all of which is included as a footnote in Wallace’s novel.
While the exhibition will be up through February 19th, the spirit of Incandenza will be celebrated at an opening reception, with film screening, on Friday, January 29th from 6:00-8:00pm.
Turner Classic Movies
January 30, 201012:45-2:45 AM
The Happy Ending
Jean Simmons, John Forsythe (1969) An affluent Denver woman gets drunk, pops pills and walks out on her lawyer husband after sixteen years.
Another Underrated Movie
January 29, 2010My boss is writing a script right now and reading over some scripts in order to “get into the mode.” One of the scripts we have is I Heart Huckabees, which I know was a very polarizing film but I, as someone who finds existential humor probably way funnier than it is, freaking ADORED it. Mark Wahlberg being funny=always great. Like crashing parties. It’s just math!
BACK TO: TOMMY AND ALBERT
TOMMY (SMILES):
What are you doing tomorrow?
ALBERT:
I was thinking of chaining myself to a bulldozer. Do you want to come?
TOMMY:
What time?
ALBERT:
Like one o’clock.
TOMMY:
That sounds good. Should I bring my own chains?
ALBERT:
We always do.
Fade out.
And some wisdom from aggressive yet funny man, director David O. Russell.
Q: News feels largely like entertainment at this point, doesn’t it? I mean, that line between journalism and entertainment gets blurred more every day, and i feel like the incarnation we’re experiencing now began with teh first Gulf War, when CNN started with the graphics and theme music. Now who can tell the difference between the news and Entertainment Tonight?
David: You should see the morning shows out here in LA, where the girls practically wear bikinis. The most popular morning show has this guy who’s like 55 or 60 with these two super hot girls. I remember seeing it after the Bush/Gore election, and I was like, Well, that’s why Bush won. Just look at this morning show and it tells you everything you need to know about why Bush won. It’s all in the little tops and the giggles and the subtext is, “No thinking or questioning.” People used to think our totalitarian future would look like Orwell’s 1984 or Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 411 with an oppressive police state — but the mind control turned out to be more insidious than that — it looks like “Wild on E!”
A Formula for Success
January 28, 2010A Formula for Success
If you find yourself with a runaway hit (book, movie, television show) on your hands, the key to serializing while maintaining artistic integrity and increasing profits is to try to be determine the number of installments in the series as early on as possible and inform the fan base of said number of episodes soon after you’ve decided. This way the excitement to the finale BUILDS in proportion to time as opposed to fizzles.
Good examples of this type of success:
The Harry Potter series
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Lost
The Twilight Saga (that’s what it’s called, right?)
Star Wars
Another rule: if you are involved in a hit television show, the popularity of which is waning, and writers discuss one of the central couples having a baby, DOCTOR K THAT SHIT IMMEDIATELY!
Good examples of this type of failure:
Growing Pains
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (hello, Vivian Deuce was like, at least 50 when she popped Nicky out)
Full House
Unfinished Business
January 25, 2010I once fantasized about putting all my unfinished writing into one document and publish it as “Unfinished Masterpieces,” or something similar. There is a genius in what is left undone, in letting the reader or viewer finish it. I remember part of a quote from the brilliant French movie Camille Claudel that expresses that sentiment much better than that. “It’s pure genius before…” Something like that. Michaelangelo repeatedly didn’t finish his sculptures, and these unfinished works are widely considered masterpieces. Not saying I’m Michaelangelo, but really, isn’t completion a myth anyway?
A new way to think about the unfinished:
“I see unrealized projects as the most important unreported stories in the art world. As Henri Bergson showed, actual realization is only one possibility surrounded by many others that merit close attention. There are many amazing unrealized projects out there, forgotten projects, misunderstood projects, lost projects, desk-drawer projects, realizable projects, poetic-utopian dream constructs, unrealizable projects, partially realized projects, censored projects, and so on. It seems urgent to remember certain roads not taken, and—in an active and dynamic, rather than nostalgic or melancholic way—transform some of them into propositions or possibilities for the future.”
-Hans Ulrich Obrist
This man is the quote most important art curator in the world, and an alien end quote, according to partner-in-conceptual-art-crime PS. So often when I’m evaluating texts for literary magazines (which I do, sometimes…I wear many hats) I think to myself, “This writer would have done her/himself such a favor if he/she had just cut it off two sentences earlier, instead of going into the whole, ‘And this incident with my grandparents is why I am afraid of bananas today.'” And so maybe everyone ought to quit while they’re ahead? Maybe you should always stop yourself two
James Wright
January 24, 2010My boss’/my (?) literary agent turned me on to this poet…
Trying to Pray
This time, I have left my body behind me, crying
In its dark thorns.
Still,
There are good things in this world.
It is dusk.
It is the good darkness
Of women’s hands that touch loaves.
The spirit of a tree begins to move.
I touch leaves.
I close my eyes and think of water.
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