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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Friday afternoon just got a whole lot more interesting online. Comics giant Warren Ellis is giving his fans their yearly chance to send him their self-portraits which he'll post to his website for the next 24 hours. We'll let him why: "I dunno. Kind of a tradition now, since the days of the WEF and Die Puny Humans. I have this idea in my head that the internet, like Soylent Green, is made out...
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reader of depressing books (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
michiko kakutani has positively reviewed books by the following authors that i like: frederick barthelme, bret easton ellis, lorrie moore, ann beattie, [probably many others] she has negatively reviewed books by the following authors that i like: nicholson baker, joy williams, [probably many others] i've read probably 30-50 of her reviews and feel that she might enjoy, or not enjoy, shoplifting from...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
• Nathan Cain of Independent Crime has posted the trailer for the upcoming film The Killer Inside Me , based on Jim Thompson’s 1952 novel of the same name . It’s a depressing, violent taste of the finished picture (no such bad things should ever happen to the lovely Jessica Alba), but Cain notes that it all comes “straight from the novel”--no need to “tart up Thompson’s...
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Strictly Writing (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
While interning at Dazed & Confused magazine after completing his History degree in 2004, Gavin James Bower was asked to model for the upcoming issue and went on to join modelling agencies in London, Paris and Milan. His first novel, Dazed & Aroused , set in the bleak and shallow world of modelling, was published by Quartet Books in July 2009. Gavin blogs at dexterity97.blogspot.com. PRIZE...
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Yes, we're a little tardy to party, but we'd argue that this is best video you'll see this week, too. Ricardo Autobahn's mix-video song weaves together an insane number of movie and TV clips in a way that's shockingly catchy and coherent. Or, as Rex at Fimoculous put it, "It's like Girl Talk for movies, except significantly more cerebral." According to his website, Autobahn is "a writer...
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Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Original TBR Challenge Hosted by MizB's Reading Challenges ** Pick 12 books – one for each month of the year - that you’ve been wanting to read ( that have been on your “ T o B e R ead” list ) for 6 months or longer, but haven’t gotten around to. ** OPTIONAL: Create a list of 12 “Alternates” ( books you could substitute for your challenge books, given that...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
After the ill-judged scattershot "satire" of Borat (which hit far too many soft targets – ageing American feminists, for heaven's sake!) Sacha Baron Cohen raises his game somewhat with Brüno (2009, 18, Universal). Fired from his Eurotrash TV show Funkyzeit , the eponymous, gay Austrian fashionista goes west to become a "straight" star "like Tom Cruise". En...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Adapted from an early Bret Easton Ellis novel –essentially an anthology of overlapping short stories – The Informers is a failed attempt ata Robert Altman-style web of vignettes set in Los Angeles in 1984. All of its characters (played by Billy Bob Thornton,Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke and others) arehateful, and the shockingmessage seems to bethat endless, callous selfindulgencedoesn't...
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Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Opposites Attract Challenge Hosted by: Jen's Book Talk To play just read books that have at least one word in the title opposite to another book title's word. You can only use a book once though; not in 2 different sets. And be sure to use some of these with your other challenges if you can! There are many possibilities and combinations to come up with! Also if you have to; use the authors name as...
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Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has a couple of projects in the works. One is his co-writing deal with Gus Van Sant, where the pair will chronicle the lives and odd, tragic suicides of artist/filmmaker couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. The other project is another writing gig that we haven't known much about. But many things become clear during the American Film Market, where indie pics...
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The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Until recently, Roger Avary was a respected if controversial writer/director, best known for "Rules Of Attraction" (easily the best of the Bret Easton Ellis adaptations) and for breaking up with video store-days friend Quentin Tarantino over accusations he was shafted on credit for the "Pulp Fiction" screenplay (he only got a story credit). On the geek side, Avary worked on "Silent...
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The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Doctor Who US airdate for The Waters of Mars Steven Moffat discusses the new series [spoilers] A clip, et al from The Waters of Mars [spoilers] Film Katie Holmes replaces Liv Tyler in The Romantics Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy to star in Mad Max 4 Trailer for The Road British TV Gavin & Stacey may return for specials Russell Tovey gets a six-part BBC3 comedy series French TV French twist on The...
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Tomorrow Museum (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
In addition to scripting a film about Theresa Duncan for Gus Van Sant, Bret Easton Ellis is working on “‘The Follower,’ an adaptation of Jason Starr’s 2008 crime novel. The series will be a satirical look at the romantic lives of a group of New Yorkers in their twenties, as seen from the point [...]
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Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Author Bret Easton Ellis is reportedly writing a new series for HBO.
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chakufor22@gmail.com | 09/16/2009
Gossip Girl S03E01 | Gossip Girl Season 3 Episode 1 Reversals of Fortune Chuck and Blair have started skipping merrily down the path to becoming the couple of Bret Easton Ellis' nightmares; they've apparently spent the whole summer setting up scenarios where Chuck is seduced by a potential mistress, only to have Blair interrupt, embarrass the seductress, and then take advantage of a revved-up Chuck.