August 2010
Guilty Pleasures: Final Destination Series
Okay, sue me. I absolutely love these films. From the very first installment they have been all about winking at conventions of the genre. Scream did it first, but in the Scream series it was a matter of the characters in the films being privy to the joke. They asked you to laugh with them. Something about the slight removal inherent in the Final Destination series makes them all the more...
July 2010
Making Movies
Just spent 14+ hours on rooftops all over the village shooting pictures while baking my brains in the hot sun. Shot over 2,000 exposures. In the course of doing this I may or may not have:
Trespassed several times
Impersonated a member of the NYFD
Paid bribes
Consumed sushi and sake on a rooftop as the sun set over Manhattan
Considered yelling “It’s all for you Damian”...
Fortune Favors The Bold: ... Well, if that... →
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Well, if that intersection existed, you might see more cyclists there!
(I know, I know - he means “either” on Ninth or on Grand.)
20 cyclists an hour is… not bad. If he checked the West Side path a couple blocks away from Ninth Avenue, he’d see many more cyclists. As for the Grand Street…
A lot of bike lanes are very well placed and generally it is quite a progressive idea. ...
Woody Guthrie New York Town
Going to spend...
Death →
Posted about these cats a while back. They basically invented punk but no one noticed. Anyway, they are playing Lincoln Center this Saturday evening. The show is free, but like anything else it’s more fun if you get special treatment. I hooked up some reserved press seats if any NYC peeps care to join us, should be fun.
My Photo Blog →
Just a gentle reminder that I also publish a strictly photographic tumblr. One new picture every day, something I saw recently. Piping hot, yummy and straight from the kitchen.
Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong Gone Fishing
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Watching Yankees-Indians tilt
If I had to listen to Sterling when Carlos Santana is at the plate I might well shoot someone.
Pwned →
Like a lot of people here I once was a regular on Deadspin. Since Will left the site has really gone to hell. I did enjoy Magary’s work there at first but the schtick got old fast. Relying on bathroom humor, prurience and shock value for attention will only get you so far. The linked article shows what happens when you reflexively whore yourself for page hits. Eventually you’ll be...
MC Paul Barman Cockmobster
The poet...
It's good to have friends
I was just at the greatest steakhouse in the world, The Palm, chatting with Al the General Manager.
Me: Al, I want to have my bachelor dinner here.
Al: Bachelor Party? We don’t do those.
Me: No, a bachelor DINNER. Not party.
Al: I don’t know. We really don’t do that. Can you do it on a slow night, maybe a Monday or Tuesday?
Me: Nope. Has to be a Saturday.
Al: No, no,...
I take back every negative thing I ever said about... →
Not really sure how I lived without my beurrier.
Bryan Joiner: My conversation with Steve Nash →
(I’m walking down Broadway and it’s so hot I can barely think so I drop under awning and realize that I’m standing next to Steve Nash)
STEVE NASH: Brutal today, huh?
ME: Yeah. […] HolyshityoureSteveNash
STEVE NASH: (chuckles) Ha ha. Yeah.
ME: Are you aware that you are very…
I thought you were serious at first. A couple years ago (2006, I think) we were shooting a film in Soho. ...
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The Clash London Calling (live)
In the early...
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If I weren't me I'd either love or hate myself pt....
I was taking pictures at the observation deck on top of Rockefeller Center tonight. You get off the elevator and onto the lower deck, and signs direct you from there to the escalator for the upper deck. I’m on the upper deck shooting away when some dopey English tourist yelled up to me from the lower level.
Her: Hey, how do you get up there?
Me: You have to pass an intelligence test...
Yankee Fans
Sitting in Progressive Field holding signs that say “We travelled 600 miles to see A-Rod hit #600”. NYC to Cleveland is 500 miles, so this means one of three things:
1. They aren’t from New York City and are loser front-runner fans, like many who root for the Yankees
2. They live in the ocean about 60 miles east of Montauk
3. They aren’t terribly smart
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Suicidal Tendencies I Saw Your Mommy
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Not to give anything away...
But a comedian whose name rhymes with Madame Schmandler may or may not be making a movie where he plays a woman who Al Pacino falls in love with.
Toots Shore quotes
Q: I understand you had a audience with Pope John?
Toots: Yeah, we sat around and talked. He’s a hell of a guy.
This may become a regular series.
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Waylon Jennings Too Dumb for New York City
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Salt
Spoilers Below, if it is possible to spoil this piece of crap
It took years, but The Last Boy Scout finally has competition for the most ludicrous action film ever made. Actually, it isn’t even a competition. There is a scene in the Last Boy Scout where a football player pulls a pistol from beneath his jersey and starts shooting the opposing team on the field during an NFL game. That...
Freakwater I Know You’ve Never Been This...