Embrace the Dull

Back from fucking Provo

And it feels so good.

Few things are more draining than living in a hotel. I'll rephrase, there are few things that have happened to me in the last month more draining than living in a hotel.

Especially a Marriot. Ugh. Marriots are covered in nothing but maroon and khaki and they make me want to drink...wait, is my dad a Marriot*?

So I'm back in LA with Liz and Emmett and we're all moving to a new shwanky place in West Hollywood on Tuesday. Holla!

Updates to follow...

*Just kidding, dad. Sort of.

A Film brought to you by a group of stereotype-Native-Americans

Liz gets all these casting emails sent to her - here's the text from one she got earlier this week:

LeadFemale / 20 to 30 / CaucasianCassandra is princess of Troy. She is very pride. She likes to feel powerful, that's why she accepts Apollo's deal. Pride is the character's flaw. Character's need is to be less pride. She actually learn the lesson, but it is too late. Nobody believes her anymore when she tried to warn people about the horse, so Troy is destroy.

Apollo Co-StarMale / 20 to 30 / CaucasianApollo is a greek god, he is a big lover. He always gets what he wants. He has fallen in love with Cassandra, but she is not interested in him, so he makes a deal with her to get her love. He punishes Cassandra, because he didn't get what he wanted and he feels betray.

David Lynch on Product Placement

Little known fact: Good Friday is preceded by Whore Day

The Lord giveth, and He taketh away. Yesterday we got the news about Liz's part in the movie, today Liz had to slog away as background on CSI.

This is a text message she sent me from the CSI set: "It's 'Whore Day' on CSI today. Jesus Christ, the clothes*"

Evidently the extras were instructed to dress as "sexy club goers" which, to quote Liz, meant "dress like a bunch of fucking skanks."

She arrived in jeans and a small shirt and after being judged prohibitively unskanky was sent to wardrobe where a woman asked her, I shit you not "ok, is it absolutely necessary for you to wear underwear?"

Liz remained in her knickers (or so she says) and was presumably forced to play the dowdy, cock-blocking friend-of-skank every guy knows all too well.

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*Doesn't Jesus Christ: The Clothes sound like an apparel line run out of the Bob Jones U student bookstore?

A hearty congratulations to my lovely wife...

...for landing her first real-live movie role.

It's an indie film, so I'm not hanging up the stapler just yet, but it's totally fucking sweet; Emmett is so excited he shedded all over the couch and barked at the cats.

The role is in an adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story which makes this blog now seem eerily prophetic...

Go Liz, Go!

Hitchens

From Slate

I am one of those who, for example, believes that the global conflict that began in August 1914 did not conclusively end, despite a series of "fragile truces," until the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

He didn't support going to war, he merely supported the fact that we were in a war. Before we were in one. Even though there isn't a war. Now go away. And support the war. That we're not in.

Utah's Relationship with African-Americans

This pretty much sums it up...

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Appropo of nothing...

This is a cool car.

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What? I like orange.

What the hell is going on?

Google down! Gold up! McGreevy and his wife used to have 3 ways with dudes!

I need a nap! I need to get out of Utah!

1980 Iggy Pop Interview on Tom Snyder