So apparently
I am now directing the film. This would be wrong. But I do find it amusing.
View ArticleI will accept praise from anywhere
I think I just took to heart some praise about my writing from “GE Front Load Washer” in my comments section.
View Article“my roommate’s gay. yay.”
Just finished the Tyler Clementi bias-trial article (“The Story of a Suicide”) from a few weeks back in the NYKR by Ian Parker. It’s a terrifically precise and reported article, with this satisfyingly...
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I actually hesitate to post this because I feel like I am aiding and abetting terrorists. On the other hand, I have no other documentation of the film actually happening: Daniel Radcliffe, caught by...
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liminal space
A smart, fair, and not uncritical dispatch from Site:Lab’s “Night of Pythias” on April 13. Just what I’d been waiting to read. The lack of a vigorous critical culture is one of the disappointments of...
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Just back from NYC seeing the assembly of Kill Your Darlings. I felt so lucky to be in the room with the fantastic editor, Brian “Blazing Hands” Kates, and John. I’m not comfortable talking about what...
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I know, I’m bad. It’s been months, and busy ones. A summer to NYC and back for the edit. Working on a RUST audio documentary with a terrific radio producer and getting schooled in how much listening is...
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The new iTunes — usually a disorienting update, since changing the interface is also a headache. But now, with all my back catalogue of purchases sudddenly available (The Stars! Richard Butler!...
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Kill Your Darlings heads to Sundance! Credit goes to John and the editor Brian Kates’s long hours in the edit suite. Having never been to the festival, I am now shopping for fashion-forward thermals....
View Articleloving Leaving the Atocha Station
was one the best reads of the past year for me. A poet’s novel. And brilliant.
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Bob and I put together a 30 second trailer for the doc last night — what’s more fun than make a trailer? Coming up with a tagline. I kept trying to work “Back to the land” into something, but then I...
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crescendo, crescendos
So, as Sundays go, Sunday was pretty much one for the books. Bob and I put together a screening Lavender Hill at Cinemapolis, in downtown Ithaca — we pretty much had to, considering that the story is...
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us (Sunday directors!)
Bob, me, and Bryan (Spooners director). Bob and I decided not to have a “director” for the documentary — I’m listed as producer and writer and Bob is editor and cinematographer. That felt right and...
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@Toronto
A thousand possible things I could say about being at the Toronto Film Festival (!), I will leave it to these photos: The red carpet, heading into Roy Thompson Hall for the premiere of Kill Your...
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Just sent off the newest draft of Kill Your Darlings to John — we need a “final” draft of the script that reflects the film that people will actually see. This is, honestly, what most screenplays ARE...
View Articlefrom the Ithaca Times
I will always be a fan of alt-weeklies — having worked at The Village Voice. They kinda work their way into your heart. Thanks to Arts Editor Bill Chaisson for this article about the screening.
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The Toughest Scene I Wrote. The backstory to one of the trickiest moments in the film.
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the subject of creativity
KYD makes the top 10 list by Rob Lowman, of the LA Daily News. Best Films of the Year, Year 2013, by Rob Lowman, critic
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When I was in eighth grade, I played basketball. Or rather, I watched others play basketball while I sat on the bench and prayed for armpit hair. Unlike Colin, my twin bother, I have no real knack for...
View ArticleKill Your Darlings script excerpted in The New York Times
This: “Love, The Universal Scenario”
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