ohhhhhhhhh i hate him
― horseshoe, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
"For the most part, I stayed home in the apartment that I loved. And instead of going out, I entered in that summer of 1999 a dark and empty tunnel, an enclosure illuminated along the walls by a flash of naked men and women. I had discovered porn on the Internet. In the solitude of night, and in my little study at home, where mighty volumes of Plato, St. Augustine, Hegel, Montaigne, Nietzsche hardly my regular reading but a recent obsession loomed over the desk, the kneeling young women awkwardly turned their eyes to the camera. They often had long and beautiful hair that they must have laboriously cared for; they looked for approval not from their partners but from the camera, which I thought was the true object of their desire. They wanted to be seen. And the men, ugly and strong, sullen, tattooed some of them, thick-membered, concentrating on their erection and their orgasm, lest they lose either they were amateurs, not models, exercising the democratic art form of exhibitionism, with me as their willing audience. They all wanted to be seen, but I didn t want to be seen."
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
*barfs up entire internal organ system*
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
"Hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," though it is not for the fainthearted" -- david denby on the movie crash
i knew he was dim but what
― ~edgy~ (goole), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder what david denby thinks about deathdrone.com
― Lamp, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
That's also the summer he got into day-trading, I think.
― Let me tell you something about that song. (Eazy), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
the great thing about that crash quote is that not only is he WRONG but he is saying things that are the EXACT OPPOSITE of what is true about that movie
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
also the summer his wife divorced him iirc yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
― horseshoe, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
i was going to write a parody about it but now im legit curious
i think he would have some cool thoughts
like he has about women that do internet porn that he watches
― Lamp, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah "breathtakingly intelligent" as a description of Crash is hilarious
― horseshoe, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
BOXCAR! XP DENBY PORN
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
"not for the fainthearted"
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
'for idiots'
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
"not for the fainthearted" is what really cracks me up, the meaningless descriptors are lol but i mean who did he think was walking out of the movie crash shook? i mean even the wealthy dowager could probably manage the movie w/o dropping her opera glasses
― Lamp, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
Where the hell is that porn thing from?
― Number None, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
the book 'snark' by david denby
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yikes. That outdoes even Thomson's Kidman obsession
― Number None, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
oh, that crash thing
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
max why
why is everyone on ilx so fainthearted
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
i was brazenly alive yesterday. i could have handled it then.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
lol brazenly alive is like madlibs it keeps cracking me up
― horseshoe, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
xxp delicate souls
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
one of the reasons why i don't bother reading most movie reviews - and i've probably mentioned this before on ilx - is cuzza people like denby (and ao scott and others) who will recite the plot of a movie from beginning to end and not spend so much as a sentence on what the movie looked like. its bizarre to me. and just really boring to read too. i guess its a public service to give people a recap of an entire movie? i miss when people would describe the look of a movie. plus, reading that cgi thing i'm thinking the entire time: he doesn't know ANYTHING about this technology. if he did he might have something interesting to say.
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
holy fuck "brazenly alive" - please stop cracking me up already
― brio, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
I am brazenly posting
― dayo, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
feel the braze
i am impudently conscious
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
his inglorious basterds review was like straight up medved. couldn't believe that thing. what a baby. porn lovin' baby.
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
such a loud lol @ "impudently conscious"
how does this dude get to write for the new yorker i ask you is there no decency
― horseshoe, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
spends half the review of IB being all offended by it and then he says that its too silly to take seriously. well which is it baby?
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
i was seriously considering working "brazenly alive" into this review i'm writing and then realized nobody would get the joke
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
i might do it anyway. because i'm brazenly alive like that.
that would be an impudently conscious thing to do
― dayo, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Denby was ok when he worked for New York and was straight-up imitating Kael.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but i would go so far as to say that pauline kael was flagrantly alive
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
he should try to emulate kael's razamataz and baggy pants pizazz more often. not to mention her hurlyburly argybargy dust-ups and folderols.
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Kael's brazenness.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
the naked gleaming allure of kael's flagrant prose.
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
For the record, the porn quote is from American Sucker, not Snark.
― Don Rickles on the Dime (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
brazenly.xls
― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
"At my magazine, The New Yorker, no one wastes words, but no one assails his listener like a jackhammer, either. It isn't dignified. Soon after the phone conversation with my friend, I thought back over the previous few months. I remembered ranting on and on at a party. No one interrupted, but no one commented, either. They were waiting for the storm to pass. Cowed, they sighed and rolled their eyes as if I were trying to impress them, when from my point of view, I was just trying to get it all in. What was causing the rush?"
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
"At my magazine, The New Yorker, no one wastes words..." (proceeds to waste words)
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
is that a real quote?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
is that an excerpt from a Donald Barthelme story?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― horseshoe, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
man people put up with your shit if you write for the NYer
― ~edgy~ (goole), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
"I didn't break down, or stop working. A shipshape magazine like The New Yorker doesn't let its writers fall into the sea. Good words must be written, and I wrote some of them. But there was a gathering heaviness in my chest and a feeling of forlornness, as if the roof had come flying off my head. Over that year of 1999, it came off piece by piece, as in a slow-motion movie of a storm, first the corners flapping and rising, and then the shingles lifting, a few at a time, then a few more, and then the whole thing violently tearing away in a gale. I was in love with my wife, novelist Cathleen Schine, and proud of the marriage, too, which seemed to me an astounding yet permanent fact in the world, like some comet that kept flying forever. It had lasted for eighteen years, and I couldn't believe it was over. I couldn't take it in; I was sure there had to be some mistake, some error, something we had forgotten, some place in the past we could go back to-a niche, a landing where we could reassemble and start again."
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
poor novelist cathleen schine.
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
r.i.p. catherine, too brazen for this life
― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link