HBO’s new series “True Detective” has a dripping backwoods bayou setting, spookily appropriate opening funeral dirge by The Handsome Family, and musical selections hand-picked by T Bone Burnett including Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam and Wu-Tang Clan. Woody Harrelson, one half of a querulous detective team, brings a cocksure “No Country For Old Men” Texas mumble […]
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Just Acting
Thursday, February 6, 2014
It’s my life and it’s my wife– Lou Reed In Sidney Lumet’s “Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead” Philip Seymour Hoffman lies on the bed in his androgynous drug dealer’s Manhattan high-rise and is injected with heroin. Moments later he sits in the living room, reflecting on his job and life: “The thing about real […]
Sherman’s March
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
As a Northern California sports fan living in New York, I’ve become familiar with something commonly known as the East Coast Media Bias – a tendency for major outlets like ESPN to ignore anything happening with a ball west of the Mississippi. It registered on my first day in Brooklyn, 2003, when I picked up […]
Limitloo Sunset
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
I watched Tommy Lee Jones’ adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy play “The Sunset Limited” last night. Been watching a lot of movies of late after scoring a free year of Netflix with a new television purchase. (Actually this production was on ‘HBO-Go,’ but I’ll include that in a future posting “How I Cut The Cable […]
Never Kept A Dollar Past Sunset
Thursday, December 12, 2013
“If it looks like an antenna and acts like an antenna, then it is an antenna.” This according to affably urbane Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, angered at the ‘official’ proclamation that New York’s new World Trade Center is the tallest building in the country. The needle on top was declared something other than an antenna, […]
All Mixed Up
Monday, November 25, 2013
She’s always out makin’ pictures She’s always out makin’ scenes – Cars A long time ago, before Google Street Maps and being able to scope out every block of a strange location, I used to have this weird brain thing. It happened when I’d travel to a place I’d imagined for a long while in […]
Tonight In Louieland
Sunday, November 3, 2013
I was watching an episode of Stephen Merchant’s new tolerably decent HBO show “Hello Ladies” the other night, standard fare cringe-comedy of the sort he’s been doing with Ricky Gervais for the last decade. Merchant has yet to reach Gervais’s saturation level and as such hasn’t veered off into ‘Derek’ territory – the latter’s latest […]
Forty Three Oh Four
Sunday, October 27, 2013
This is my old San Francisco apartment building on the corner of 23rd and Douglass in Noe Valley. My flat, on the top floor, was about 900 square feet with windows in every room, a large sit-in kitchen, high ceilings, and two spacious front rooms connected by sliding pocket doors. I was paying $900 rent beginning […]
Oregon Trail
Friday, October 18, 2013
Got called “faggot” by an urban street-tough on the subway the other day. His foot was in the middle of the aisle and I stepped on it getting up to offer my seat to an older woman. “Excuse me, faggot” he said, all bad-ass and hard-boiled. I had earphones in and I don’t think he […]
Grilled
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
They took my grill away. I’d just returned from a two week stint out west when the notice appeared in my elevator: “Dear resident, blah blah blah, per new insurance policies & NYC Fire Dept regulations, blah blah blah, all roof top charcoal grills have been confiscated.” I posted a photo to Facebook of the […]