INTO: Photography, art, music, traveling, pole dancing, squatting empty buildings, and laughing ‘til I cry.
NOT INTO: Being steady in a place, city or country.
MAKES ME HAPPY: Martinis, parties, traveling, open-minded folk, sun, the beach, dogs and warm people – I need ’em in my life!
MAKES ME SAD: Empty conversations, wannabe-nevergonnabe people, noisy people, respectless mothafuckers, vivisection, civil war, poverty, the zoo, losing people I love!
HOBBIES: Rehab.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My camera, my vynals, cigarettes, coffee, a bottle of water.
VICES: Listening to loud music when I’ve just awoken, never being on time to appointments.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: At concerts, and around my friends with a Corona in my hand.
Could the European currency that looks like Monopoly money’s ugly cousin actually be a weapon designed to gut labor laws and environmental regulations?!? No?!? That would be a crazy conspiracy meant for a crazy man when he’s having one of his crazy conversations between him and a bewildered dog…Oh, except the dude who created the Euro said so…This probably sounds more confusing than it is. Watch the video, and it will all make sense. I use orgies as an analogy.
Last week we had an army of awesome arm piece entrants so we’ve picked three #TattooTuesday winners: @harleykaos, @womaninprogress, and @SJVEEN – well they say good things come in threes!
Enter this week’s competition by replying to this tweet with a pic of your fav tattoo and the #tattootuesday hashtag.
Good luck!
A few things to remember:
You have to be 18 to qualify.
The tattoo has to be yours…that means permanently etched on your body.
On Twitter we search for your entries by looking up the hashtag #TattooTuesday, so make sure you include it in your tweet!
“I often feel like my Los Angeles is never represented accurately onscreen.”
– Alex Kurtzman
This is one of the only times I’ve spoken to Alex Kurtzman by himself. He’s usually part of the screenwriting duo of Orci and Kurtzman. He and his partner Bob have written films like Transformers, Star Trek and Cowboys & Aliens. The duo also co-created TV’s Fringe. Forbes Magazine called them “Hollywood’s Secret Weapons” and considers them “the force behind $3 billion in box office.”
Not only was I getting Kurtzman solo, but he made time for me at a moment I couldn’t believe. He had just returned from a nationwide tour promoting his new movie, People Like Us, and as soon as he got home from the airport he called me. I know what it feels like to travel. I would not be coherent after a flight and a drive. I guess that’s why I’m not a screenwriter.
People Like Us is also Kurtzman’s directorial debut. It is the personal story of a debt-ridden investor (Chris Pine) who grudgingly returns home for his father’s funeral. When the will is read, he learns he has a sister (Elizabeth Banks) and nephew, whom he meets but doesn’t quite fully introduce himself to.
If you thought talking robots or space aliens were hard to explain, here’s a situation that would take a Hollywood mastermind to sort out. Luckily Kurtzman was on the case. He couldn’t keep his original title, which was Welcome to People, but Kurtzman explained how he dealt with a human drama. After we asked about all the other big movies he’s writing and producing, Kurtzman left us with some screenwriting theory advice too.
“The message of Deep Throat was different strokes for different folks.”
– Randy Barbato And Fenton Bailey
I first saw Deep Throat about 15 years ago on grainy bootleg VHS tape [remember those?]. At the time I thought that Cinemax Friday Nights after Dark were more scandalous and titillating. However Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbatos documentary Inside Deep Throat schooled me just as it will school everyone else who forgot or never knew what an impact the seminal porno film had on this country. Through brand new interviews with director Gerard Damiano, Norman Mailer, Harry Reems and archive footage of Linda Lovelace we find out just why Deep Throat polarized America and ended up grossing over $600 million.
