The new SN&R is out, and it has listings for all the crap that's going on this weekend. There's a lot of it, and it's all happening on saturday. I can't find anything about it online, but there's an event at the Memorial Auditorium on saturday from 10-4 that has some old-timey art deco shit on display. It also says there will be two silent films exhibited with a real organ playing, but it doesn't list titles or times.
The "found" magazine guys are coming to town and they have a show at Bodytribe on saturday. I love found but I don't know how good the show would be. Has anyone been? The idea of watching them perform songs based on some of the found items is not enticing me to punch it into my blackberry.
The TFO is this weekend at the Crest (sux for the Crest employees, sorry dudes), and they're showing "Carrie" at midnight on saturday. I'd kinda like to go to that but the rowdy TFO people usually ruin the screenings.
I'm going to see "saraband" at the Tower today because it only played for one week and today is its last day. It's the sequel to "Scenes from a marriage" like 30 years later. I think I better grab some kleenex because I bet I will be crying. I love that movie and the idea of seeing those two reuinted after so many years has me tearing up right now. Speaking of movies (and now I'm treading on Barnesyard territory) has anyone seen the preview for the new Terence Malick about Pocahontas? Malick's one of my favorites but this looks like a stinker. Why the fuck did he cast Colin Farell?
Capote opens at Tower tomorrow and here's the first few lines of Jim Lane's review: I tried years ago to read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, but I was never quite able to finish it. Capote himself has called it a masterpiece, and no one has ever contradicted him. Certainly I won't: what I read of the book was indeed masterful.
That is so weak on so many levels that I don't even know where to start. 1) who could start that book and not finish it? 2) why mention it if you didn't finish it? 3) are you quite sure that NO ONE has ever disputed that it's a masterpiece? I doubt that 4) If it was so "masterful", once again, why couldn't you finish it?
Capote is HOTT right now. He has two movies out, Sac's literary crowd (consisting of heckamax) has been buzzing about him, and this week the New Yorker printed an unpublished story that he wrote when he was 19. The New Yorker also has the Sarah Silverman piece in which she is again not funny.
C.K. in Clubber this week continued the breathless countdown to the opening of the new True Love. Maybe the SN&R could just get someone to live blog it as each piece comes together. I want to know which posters are going on the walls, which brand of spatula they are buying, and I want the SN&R to tell me!
And last but certainly not least, Kate Washington wrote a mouth-watering review (I haven't had lunch yet) of a new Indian place called Chaat Corner on 2700 Northgate. I can't wait to eat there! Housemade yogurt, for fuck's sake! Now there are two reasons to eat on Northgate, 524#2 and this place (presuming I agree with her). Does anyone know where on Northgate that is? Like in relation to thrift stores?
Art Deco, Silent Films and a real organ playing. I think it's cheap the way you keep trying to cater specifically to me, Heck. It's insulting and highly informative.
ReplyDeleteWhen you find this indian place, let me know, I'd like to go too. Eating Indian food is almost as good as eating Indian people.
the time i went to a Found live show, i was nearly bored out of my mind. so not worth it.
ReplyDeleteand, Friday night, The Devil Makes Three will be returning to Sacramento. Old Ironsides. these country kids from Santa Cruz are not to be missed.
The Thrift Store is on Northgate. So is the closest 7-11 to my house.
ReplyDeleteI hope I am not starting something by declaring that I am fully in the "Truman Capote secretly wrote To Kill A Mockingbird school.
Throw stones if you must.
G Bomb
Here you go, werenotdeep
ReplyDeletehttp://www.eathufu.com/home.asp
When I marry Sarah Silverman, I'm not inviting you Heckasac. So there.
AND he wrote all of shakespeare's plays. Including the sequel to Hamlet that not many people know about, where Hamlet is gay and just goes to lots of famous peoples parties.
ReplyDeleteNo, I meant where is the chaat place in relation to northgate thrift? Has anyone seen it?
G Bomb,
ReplyDeletei'm beginning to totally back your theory. i mean, it's so in his nature to have done something that kind and selfless for a person he loved. at least, it seems like it would be.
plus, the writing style, the fact that Harper Lee is so secretive....
thanks katy for the advice on the found show. i figured it might not be worth going. I got the first dirty found and I decided that I prefer regular found. It's funnier.
ReplyDeleteIf I remember right, Norman Mailer (or was it Gore Vidal?) excorciated In Cold Blood and the whole 'non-fiction novel' concept... Capote writes about it in Music For Chameleons.
ReplyDeleteAnd, glad to hear I'm not the only one who has problems with TFO. It's like they took all the lamest creeps from the suburbs and filled up the Crest with them... oh wait... They did!
I really enjoyed the Found show I went too, so there you go.
ReplyDeleteI give the Live Tru Luv Cafe blog a C.
ReplyDeleteCapote! Finally. I've been waiting for what seems like forever. As for Capote writing To Kill a Mockingbird, I think maybe he helped Harper Lee. If he had written it entirely, I think he would have bragged about it, especially during his later druggy years when he was always saying really inappropriate things.
ReplyDeleteNiki
What? Harper Lee can't write her own book? What is this theory based on, cuz it seems mean to take away her props?
ReplyDelete-michele
I'm guessing it's based on the fact that chicks can't write good books, everyone knows that.
ReplyDelete-Connie
(that is sarcasm. To Kill a Mockingbird is a wonderful book and Harper Lee is wonderful for having written it herself. Tusk! Guphy!)
Here's a second thumb's up for Found live.
ReplyDeleteI discovered Found when I took Bridget to the Boston stop of This American Life on tour. Davy Rothbart was part of the act and he was hilarious. Afterwards, found magazine was the only merch we could afford so we bought 1 and 2.
We also saw him last year at the bookmill in Montague, MA. Funny.
But you don't have to take my word for it. You can listen to the TAL bit online. It's episode 239, or search "lost in america." The Sarah Vowell piece in that one is particularly good.
malick also cast richard gere, but DAYS OF HEAVEN is a masterpiece. personally, i'm excited about THE NEW WORLD: those native american fortresses are right out of BADLANDS; and even though they are selling the film for its action sequences, i think it will be a quiet, introspective film about imperialism, genocide and survival.
ReplyDeleteIs that link work-safe? I realize it's likely to be, but I just need to be reassured.
ReplyDeleteAlso, my name is Chris, and you can call me Chris. Not that I expected you to know that, but just so that in the future you can call me Chris if you want to, whoever you are.
I went to that website anyway. Not that bad, but well...I should have waited for the reply.
ReplyDeleteHeh, I thought it was going to have something to do with Silent films or Art Deco.
I don't really eat people, by the way.
I dunno where Chaat Corner is in relationship to the thrift store, but a friend of mine just moved up there and Caat Corner is at the corner of Northgate & Wilson.
ReplyDeleteI've been meaning to check it out, so I was pleased to see the review this morning, too.
While teaching summer school I had an assignment where the students were "literary detectives" attempting to solve the case of whether or not Harper Lee had her old boy, Truman (Dill!), write her first novel for her. The evidence was astounding: we compared the first two pages of each of the authors' books (in Truman's case, Other Voices, Other Rooms)and noted the similarities in style, setting, character, the use of a biblical quote to open up the book, the font the boks were printed in, yadda, yadda, blah.
ReplyDeleteAfter discussing similarities that could not have been coincidental, my panel of experts told me this: "Mr. Maxwell, you are full of shit. Capote is known to have helped Harper Lee edit and proofread the book, but beyond that, the authorship clearly belongs to Ms. Lee. PLease note the difference in tone and theme in To Kill a Mockingbird when comparing Capote's entire works -- clearly the work of a different author. The next time you want to lay this sexist shit on us, take a flying F and leave poor Ms. Harper Lee alone, just as Atticus wanted Jem and Scout to let Boo be."
-heckamax
Thanks for clearing that up Heckamax!!!!!
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But why did she never publish again? Why did she throw such a hissy when the book's publisher wanted her to write a new introduction for the 50th anniversary addition? Why did she actually sue her publisher when they printed her letter refusing to write the introduction?
ReplyDeleteWhy?
And why am I such a woman hater?
G Bomb
So you think she actually wrote so little of the book that she couldn't write an introduction?
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of this controversy, so I really am curious.
-michele
Well, it just makes me think. The introduction fiasco, and the fact that it is still unresolved, no matter what heckamax's brilliant (I'm sure) students say. Curious and curiouser.
ReplyDeleteI would love it if she wrote it. I would love it if she wrote more perfect novels that haven't been discovered. Mockingbird is certainly better than anything Capote wrote on his own.
G Bomb
G, it's only curiouser and curiouser because it's like a scab that you keep picking at. It just gets grosser and grosser.
ReplyDeleteI mean, any outrageous claim that you can make which absolutely can't be proven or disproven will forever be unresolved.
Was Lincoln Gay? Was the shroud of Turin the real burial cloth of Jesus Christ? Was there a driver on the grassy knoll? Did Christopher Marlowe really write the works attributed to Shakespeare?
The only reason why it remains in question is because if you really think about it, there can never be definitive proof either way, unless an authoritative body of people, not just one person, can be found who sat and watched Harper Lee actually writing "To Kill A...", and not just sitting there writing something, but the actual text of To Kill A Mockingbird, and close enough to how it ended up being published that it is irrefutable that she actually conceived it herself.
Why did she never write anything else? Why did she freak out about the 50th anniversary business? Because she's a writer, and writers are eccentric. That's not very locigal, but it does make a lot of sense.
I mean, you want to talk about the way authors act? J.D. Salinger. 'Nuff Said.
And by "driver", I of course mean second gunman.
ReplyDeleteThe 50th anniversary thing is pretty understandable. Just because YOU might still think "To Kill a Mockingbird" rules doesn't mean Harper does. She had to spend a hell of a lot more time with it than you did (well, not me. I read REEEEEAL slow) and I'm sure she's sick to death of talking about it, hearing asshole students ask her about it, and now with the internet, having people post blog comments about it. Think of how embarrassed you get, pulling out papers you wrote three years ago. Now, multiply that by 16.66666666667 years and think how you'd feel, having to re-analyze that bullshit you wrote. Besides, artists are flighty with what they produce. Need I remind you of the old Kafka legend? or Weezer?... um, those are the only two examples I can think if, and they look real dumb, sitting right next to each other like that. On the average, artists usually can't stand their work about a year after it's been made (except me. I'm still patting myself on the back for that song I wrote about Accutane back in high school).
ReplyDeleteHeyo,
ReplyDeleteThe High School students (Summer School underachievers), despite my baiting them as much as I possibly could, did not buy the fact that Truman wrote "To Kill A Mockingbird". When asked why was it assumed that he wrote it instead of Harper Lee, they unanimously responded, "because she's a girl and people don't believe that girls can write books as well as guys." It was pretty interesting to hear them come up with that explanation on their own -- I really expected a few of them to argue that Capote wrote the book for her.
Despite what they said, I truly believe Harper is the author.
Gotta get back to grading. Sorry G Bomb for poi9nting out your woman hating ways... can't live with 'em can't live without 'em.
-heckamax