Definitely enjoyed the Steven Soderbergh The Girlfriend Experience (movie) with indie pornstress Sasha Grey. (not that enjoy is really the right verb) I’d gone in2 watching expecting something pretty disaffected almost emo + it was (only 6.2/10 on imdb) : But the insight into insecure New York Hedge Fund / Investment Bankers + the hustle of high end escorting - has alot parallels to the professional services industry so many of us operate in.

Now onto Judd Apatow’s #FunnyPeople, as well as Superbad followup #Adventureland, as well as what I’m looking fwd to Devil Wears Prada’s Emily Blunt in #SunshineCleaning. All part of my home / portable watchable indie film festival - after missing Tarantino at Miff on Sunday with #IngloriousBasterds - as I was watching Melbourne win the first 2 draft picks against Richmond, goal after the siren’n'all to The Tigers n’all. Fix The Tank already Demetriou. Now for my random links of last few days..

Jess McGuire via Defamer on the Kyle + Jackie O suitable sacking for operating one too many polygraph for one too many underager on one too many WRONG topic; “I remember at the time thinking to myself “My god, do these people actually get paid to produce such indulgent, childish radio? Why won’t they stop talking and play some goddamn music?”

But what about The Mother : I’m hoping she goes to jail, not get 2 tickets to a Pink concert. And let’s hope Fuzz catch the dodgy perpetrator.. who what’s the alleged bet he is somehow connected to the mother…

Grab the gateways 2 the movies ere’ if u want to replicate The Free Home Indie Film Festival…. Or just grab the feed + get new viewing updates…

The September 2009 Vanity Fair issue feature essay on Farah Fawcett sounds like a reason to buy a magazine…  Well till the pdf arrives on the p2p scene.

“I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me,” Ryan told me. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me—Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”

“That’s our relationship in a nutshell,” Tatum (his 45 year old daughter) said when I asked her about it. “You make of it what you will.” She sighed. “It had been a few years since we’d seen each other, and he was always a ladies’ man, a bon vivant.”

Found an awesome new (to me) online book etailer… Skylight Books.. some of my wishlist suggestions I bookmarked. Skylight have an Infinite Summer meetup for David Foster Wallace My Favourite Clear Number 1 Book Ever : Infinite Jest. Respekt; “For anyone who loves Infinite Jest or who is taking part in the mass reading of it for Infinite Summer, we will be offering the store as a meeting place to find kindred DFW fans. We won’t be leading a discussion per se — the point is to put lots of IJ readers in the same room and see what happens. Maybe we’ll talk about the book. Maybe we’ll vent about how heavy it is to lug around. Maybe we’ll play “cartridges.” Maybe we’ll break into a spontaneous game of tennis. Who knows? All of our staff members that evening either have read or are currently reading Infinite Jest! This is the first of two events — see September 22 for more details about the second gathering.”

#TrueBlood has been kicking ass : HBO’s biggest hit since Sopranos I read this week. Congrats to Alan Ball. There is no funner show until September kicks in and we get new #MadMen + #SonsOfAnarchy !

Twin Study @ Skylight Books : “Cavemen Roam The Suburbs, Morality is questionable, teens are angsting, and alcoholics abound. This is the world as Stacey Richter sees it. In spite of–or perhaps because of–this alarming cast of characters, Richter’s stories are infused with wit, humor, and keen observations of what makes humans tick. There is no sentimental hand-wringing about alcoholic or absentee parents, lost loves, or the most terrible suburban neighborhood Christmas displays. Richter’s characters live, exist, play, and often drink too much because that is simply what they do. Carrying on is the only option. Richter writes with volatile energy, hurtling through her stories while coasting seamlessly between the regular and mundane. She sees the repercussions of bad parenting, forgotten kids, and while she may scoff, her caustic observations never demean her characters. By turns heartbreaking, mirthful, sardonic, and wise, her stories occasionally take a turn into the bizarre.”

I love this detailed fact based rant by IntoMobile.com why Apple won’t be making a Tablet, even tho another Techmeme.com article said an analyst had seen one. Who is right ? The Suspense; Will it be Steve Jobs XMAS comeback presentation:) ?

The Musical Illusionist @ Skylight Books : “In the tradition of Borges and Calvino, The Musical Illusionist is an interwoven collection of postmodern folk tales-disappearing manuscripts, neurological anomalies, teleporting bacteria, and an unforgettable composer who manipulates sound to bend perception-that masterfully blends scientific curiosity with magical-realist caprice. Alex Rose has published stories and essays for McSweeney’s, the North American Review, The Providence Journal, the Forward, The ScienceCreative Quarterly, and DIAGRAM. He has also directed a number of short films that have appeared on HBO, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, and the BBC.”

Underground Cult T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism @ Skylight Books : (what a gr8 title hehe) - “The underground cult bestseller Essays redefining the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho-black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults - this is the bastard classic, the watermark impressed upon our minds. Where conscience informs praxis, and action infects consciousness, T.A.Z. continues to worm its way into above-ground culture.”

Zeroville @ Skylight Books : “Erickson is as unique and vital and pure a voice as American fiction has produced.”-Jonathan Lethem A film-obsessed ex-seminarian with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his head arrives on Hollywood Boulevard in 1969. Vikar Jerome enters the vortex of a cultural transformation: rock and roll, sex, drugs, and-most important to him-the decline of the movie studios and the rise of independent directors. Jerome becomes a film editor of astonishing vision. Through encounters with former starlets, burglars, political guerillas, punk musicians, and veteran filmmakers, he discovers the secret that lies in every movie ever made.”

Good 2C Shrinking Kitty once of Franger isn’t taking no red light catfight mess from her working grrls : “A verbal cat fight broke out in the girls backroom and was my job to defuse the situation and restore calm and order. I did it. I waded into the fray looking confident and assured. I shouted my little rosebud mouth off and I nearly laughed in the middle of my dressing down, because I sounded just like I was hollering at my kids. Inwardly I was shitting myself. I hate that sort of thing at work, but it is a part of the scene and I accept that. I am totally pissed off that bitches like that think they can crash into my nice little world and fuck it up.”

Glory Goes + Get Some @ Skylight Books : “How is a woman in her thirties, HIV-positive and fresh out of rehab, supposed to find love and work in contemporary, urban America, steering clear of self-pity and doctrinaire “happy-talk”? This linked short story collection shows how Glory goes and gets some. Emily Carter’s debut traces Glorys stay in Minnesota’s recovery community, from halfway houses in blighted urban neighborhoods to well-funded treatment centers in bucolic pastures. From her addictions to heroin and alcohol in New York through her unlikely, tenuous, yet rewarding alliances with the full range of treatment mavens in the midwest, Glory gives us an uncensored and irreverent account of her experiences in twelve-step recoverya process that, for all its faults, ultimately works for her.”

Couch @ Skylight Books : “In this exuberant and hilarious debut reminiscent of The Life of Pi and Then We Came to the End, an episode of furniture moving gone awry becomes an impromptu quest of self-discovery, secret histories, and unexpected revelations. Thom is a computer geek whose hacking of a certain Washington-based software giant has won him a little fame but few job prospects. Erik is a smalltime con man, a fast-talker who is never quite quick enough on his feet. Their roommate, Tree, is a confused clairvoyant whose dreams and prophecies may not be completely off base. After a freak accident floods their apartment, the three are evicted–but they have to take their couch with them. The real problem?”

This book sounds very post-#TrueBlood : The Sacred Book of the Werewolf @ Skylight Books - “The world’s first Zen Buddhist paranormal romanceapublished to coincide with Halloween One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevinas comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and “Time” has described him as a apsychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.a In “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf,” a smash success in Russia and Pelevinas first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf whoas the key figure in Russia’s Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from Russiaas most gifted literary malcontent.”

#Hung is a gr8 new HBO show (i know zero people that watch it… in the land of cultural cringe eps ere)  … u can watch it for the interiors alone.. as for the awkward interactions (sounds like the latest press conference had a similar degree of cringe/cant look away).. Spot on ! Sepinwall… : “.. one of the more interesting/confrontational moments came when a critic asked the creators whether the show was actually supposed to be considered a comedy, or if it was just a half-hour drama with occasional moments of humor. Everyone on the panel seemed surprised by this suggestion, particularly when the critic used this episode and next week’s (which also features Natalie Zea as Jemma) as an example of the show heading into darker territory. The panelists (primarily co-creators Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson, plus Jane Adams) acknowledged that the show has its dark moments but that, as Burson put it, “We do think of it as a comedy of awkwardness,” and they had a very different read on these episodes than the critic, who compared them to “Fatal Attraction.”

The Little Book @ Skylight Books : “Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwardsas dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler Burdenabanking heir, philosopher, student of history, legendas son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball heroaone day finds himself wandering not in his hometown of San Francisco in 1988 but in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: Vienna, 1897. Before long, Wheeler acquires a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young woman, and encounters everyone from an eight-year-old Adolf Hitler to Mark Twain as well as the young members of his own family. Solving the riddle of Wheeleras dislocation in time will ultimately reveal nothing short of one eccentric familyas unrivaled impact upon the course of human history.”

Of a similar epoch, #Feed sounds an apt n interesting read : “Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world — and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.”

Did I mention my teams woz wobbed at the footy on Sunday after the siren ? Well at least we won draft picks.

With David Foster Wallace gone, I might need to try the latest Thomas Pynchon, the previous Postmodern fiction Giant. I like the title and book cover for his new read, if I can be suitably totally superficial; “Inherent Vice” - also sold at Skylight when it comes out.

With golf on Friday and Footy Saturday / Sunday with my bro pre the rest of his post with child life... my shin splints were not hindering me at all 2day… could have just kept running and running... 82 minutes / 12 kms on treadmill later.. oh and I need Yuketen goatskin peanut suede hunting boots… fit like a glove… hehe - surely no1 is still reading this.. just look at the pictures or download a file.. or do some work.. already.