hard to pick the best rendition here. patti sure is sweet, but elvis' drunken drawling ad-libbing with the jordanaires or whoever they are might be the winner. anyway, pc's tennessee waltz is the best.


can you ever get over priscilla? jesus christ. i seem to recall watching lots of made-for-tv movies about elvis' life as a child with my mother. i thought priscilla was IT. i still do!

from square america, like half the shit cluttering my desktop. i am positive i have made this exact post before, but feel unwilling to investigate this.

oh dear

born too late, i guess. o to imagine a day when one could peruse the (scandalous) comings and goings of glen campbell, the cashs, jackie, dino and the farrows in the supermarket line.

from chateau thombeau, one of the best.

sigh

Let's Scare Jessica to Death

I love this movie. It's a little dreamy, and the setting is right, and Jessica's frayed and insecure behavior is both endearing and pathetic. It's probably just something the actress suffered from herself, but Jessica sometimes begins to trail or break off in the middle of a sentence, in a place that isn't appropriate to just stop speaking. Like she thinks better of finishing the thought, or loses the desire and can't keep it up enough to at least sound normal.

Also, the soundtrack is amazing.

Emily's joke. "There was this enormous cake that was terrorizing England - Devil's Food cake. And it would ooze into the windows and into the doors and engulf the people. It'd eat everything in its way. It was traveling down the coast from Scotland, and whenever it would come to a town or a village, it would call out, 'Here comes the cake! Here comes the cake!' BBC sent out an emergency [broadcast warning everyone not to open] their doors [to the cake or else it would engulf them.] This old lady hears [something outside] and she's got her ear to the door, and she says, "Who's there? Who's there?" And a voice comes back, 'It's not the cake!'"

a series of captioned photos from around.

dad. two weeks ago.

i think my friend's kid is a super genius, mostly because i've noticed that most other kids her age should probably be in a state facility. she's 4. she looks you in the eye and says things like, "i'm a big fan of r2d2" and "you should come to the house some time."

i talk a lot of shit at work. the sign was put up to ward me off, not the other way around.

the iphone camera really fails with the close-up. IT'S A SPROUT. ALREADY. i had low expectations for these seeds because they are old. these are some bachelor buttons that i picked up while buying lots of blue things. i haven't done the seeds thing in years due to upheaval, so now i am OVERJOYEDDDDD.

new moon

no illumination

I was so excited to be out of school for ten days, allowing me to read books of my choosing rather than something from a list, that I instantly picked up Life's Greatest Trip, by Arthur Blessit. Like,

Well no, instead I read several bitchfests by gay blade Gore Vidal, who talked about things like how fat and nasty Anthony Burgess' wife was, and how Burgess' eyes looked like "infected buttonholes." I flipped the mental rolodex until I found the Cavett/Burgess interview from the early 70s. He is definitely right. Vidal is a genius at snarkery so subtle that most people wouldn't notice to take offense. This must have been an evolved survival tactic, because he routinely says such horrible things to and about people that anything less than ultra-subtlety would have resulted in many an altercation, I am sure.

Worth watching is the Mailer/Vidal battle on Dick's show. Mailer loses, but I think I read somewhere that he was drunk at the time and therefore not as prepared for the quiet savagery of being attacked by GV.

Dick's memory of this night is recounted here: In This Corner, Norman Mailer

OH finally something good has happened in this dreadful-ass week:

chad ziemendorf / the chronicle

chad ziemendorf / the chronicle

michael macor / the chronicle

Fuck you, Prop 8.

Funny days when I read blurbs by the Terminator as well as Laura Bush and nod in agreement, but I suppose that goes to show how black and white the rights and the wrongs in this situation actually are.

Remember No Gays for a Day? Greatest op-ed of '08. So glad to see a close for such sentiments (in California), though, at least for now.

"No Gays for a Day will demonstrate what it would be like if -- as so much of the non-coastal U.S. seems to desire -- gays just disappeared. You may not even know who all your daily gays are, so there's no predicting the impact. "

a very brief monsoon this year.

cold rain turns to steam on the burning streets.

OH HELL NO