the funk is its own reward
Squinting past giant “PROPERTY OF” watermarks one screener at a time in the annual quest to catch up with potentially award-worthy releases.
Waitress
It’s awful what happened to Adrienne Shelly but hasn’t the statue of limitations on uncritically praising her last movie expired by now? Even Marcy was much too kind. Adrienne Shelly, 2007. *
The Namesake
Generic-soapy [...]
“America’s Greatest Living Writer” Neal Pollack is on the road promoting his hipster parenting memoir Alternadad. I caught Neal last week at Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction; here’s the entire reading–poo, vaporizers, bhotman and all–cut into four bite-size chunks for your enjoyment.
[youtube]TlU5mUV-XsQ[/youtube]Part 1: Prologue and Amsterdam
[youtube]mLHKuk8xNwc[/youtube]Part 2: Blog Posts
[youtube]FJZYRvx87Fo[/youtube]Part 3: Q&A
[youtube]EZinsAzYwNE[/youtube]Part 4: The Silver [...]
It was one of those downtown nights that go a long way toward justifying the absurd rent we pay: as part of an epic lineup, Marcy read at Rachel Kramer Bussel’s In the Flesh series at Happy Ending. There were Victorian choose-your-own-sex adventure novelists, Stephen Elliott, Mo Beasley’s UrbanErotika poet’s posse, and somebody simply known [...]
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