”Fade away” by GOLD STAR. Heard it on a punker NTS show. Post fire. Every song was an ode to LA. Host said it would be cheesy but we shd EAT THE CHZ. made me weep
“Share a smoke on the sofa and blow a kiss to the cops
Here, help me move the kitchen table aside
Heaven Hill in the freezer for the bags stamped beneath our eyes
Opened miles wide
And all we'd seen
Was gold and green
Gonna make this garden grow
Inch by inch, and row by row
Row by row”
I hesitate to say her movies are ’about’ masculinity (they’re actually about sadism), but since AMERICAN PSYCHO is the jumping off point, he r ouevre feels appropo to cite. Random aside… One of my fav observations/quips I’ve read about a film was re: ZERO DARK THIRTY, we nt something like “Even though Jessica Chastain is the star, ZD30 fails the Bechdel test. There’s only one s cene of her and a woman are having a private conversation, and wouldn’t you know it, the conversation is about a man (Osama bin Laden).“
Narrates an experience observing (for almost a decade, 100% via social media) an acquaintance who got deeply involved with a pyramid scheme. Fire prose. Unstoppable vision. Must read
