Notes of a Defeatist

If you’re amongst the many waiting with baited breath for more work from the esteemed and very talented Lucien Knuteson check out his new site.

Bookmark it, link it, email it to friends, and demand—demand that Lucien get some stuff up there for our buying pleasure. We all have blank walls that need something interesting to [...]

The Defamer reports that Showtime has picked up the show for 2 year at 12 episodes a year (maybe 13) with a third year option. The final decision on the show’s fate rests with creator Mitch Hurwitz who had some thinking to do.

I maybe in the minority but I’m not sure that I want it [...]

One Sunday wandering through Harry W. Schwartz Bookstore, this caught my eye.

“Davidson…smudges the line between comedy and horror, cruelty and mercy. His remarkable stories are challenging and upsetting… Don’t look for comfort here.” –Chuck Palahniuk

Praise by Palahniuk always gets my attention.

Additional raves by the likes of Bret Easton Ellis, Thom Jones, and Clive [...]

Some actual footage from the forthcoming Samuel L. Jackson epic.

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The Beat interviews Alan Moore and as you can expect he has some very pointed things to say about the American comic industry, V For Vendetta, and he talks about his upcoming novel.

“The Beat: But, Alan, isn’t that throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

Moore: Well, I don’t own the baby anymore, Heidi! The baby [...]

V For Vendetta opens this weekend and it looks awesome. Alan Moore, however, isn’t too keen on it, or really any of the other shitty adaptations of his work, which doesn’t come as shock. In fact, there seems to be very few people Alan Moore isn’t pissed at these days. Guess that’s to be expected [...]

From Moviepoopshoot.com 









NEW YORK -  Isaac Hayes has quit “South Park,” where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion.

Hayes, who has played the ladies’ man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed.

“There [...]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man…in Another Young Man’s Eyeball

This isn’t Photoshop trickery. No,no,no—these are Lucien’s skills pure and simple. How’d he do it?

Let him do the explaining:

“Actually no light directly hitting Josh’s face—it’s all bounce light from the flash hitting mine. We pale people are highly efficient reflectors.”

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John Freedman interviews David Foster Wallace about his very excellent new book Consider The Lobster .

Q. Did you take a blizzard of notes for this book – there are so many acutely visualized scenes that I think, how in the heck did he get all this in there?

A. I think for me it’s a little [...]

 

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