Tuesday I went to the launch party, all of the cheesy wannabe celebrities in the VIP section made me laugh, they were oh so snooty just because they happened to be on some reality TV show. That guy Christian (or whatever his name is) from Project Runway laughed at my outfit, it was like...get over yourself. After all of that I think I need some quiet nights in for a change.

New York Dolls

I'm interviewing the New York Dolls for Venus tomorrow, their new album was messengered over, it should be a good story though my list of questions keeps coming up short. Other than having them on my ipod and playing their album as a college DJ I know very little about them.

Watchmen

I went to see The Watchman on Friday, choosing a cinema trip, over the requisite night spent drinking in the LES. Because I read the book, I appreciated the book's close adherence to the text, I also thought they improved the ending and made it more believable, emphasizing the similarity between the work and 9/11 (though it was written well before the tragedy.)

It went on a bit too long though--the movie started at 11:50 and ended at 3:00 am, people kept getting up and leaving the theater. I nearly fell asleep but I made it until the very end. The changed ending seemed to have a great similarity to the Dark Knight flick.

New Writing Assignments in a Bleak Economy

I have been in a bit of hibernation in terms of my writing work, not to mention the fact that our scary economy has lead to newspapers folding and art sections being slashed down, even doing free work is a rarity for some nowadays. I guess that's what I get for doing my career planning in the nineties when journalism was a realistic career path for the most part.

I had a review of Here Art's The Thirst in last week's issue of The Villager. I also am going to a launch party tomorrow night at the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex for a new jewelry line/record release from Semi Precious Weapons, I'm writing it up for Venus Zine.

Magazine Work

I recently uploaded my pieces in Venus Zine and some of my reviews for Bust Magazine as they are not available online. You can view the following:

Venus Zine Spring 09

Mary Gaitskill Interview

Vivian Girls Interview

Bust Magazine

June/July '08

August/September '08

October/November '08

February/March '09

Oscar Party

Sunday night C and I went to an Oscar party at the Greenhouse in Soho. We both got glammed up, putting on red lipstick and black dresses. I wore my sequined ostrich feather headband, which I really don't find enough excuses to wear. There was a two hour open bar and freebie gifts.

While we had fun, the show itself seemed a little dull, though perhaps it was the din of the overflowing room we were seated in. I found it strange that for the awards this year they opted out of video clips for best actor/actress and best supporting actor/actress instead opting for a showering of compliments from prior winners, I like the clips. Hugh Jackman also seemed like an odd choice.

We were seated next to a middle aged woman who seemed very out of context with the rest of the youngish crowd, wearing glasses and a baggie winter coat, eating saltines out of shopping bag along with her free drinks. She then circulated the tables snatching up the left over freebies from tables that hadn't bothered to put theirs away, moving through the crowd even to just snatch up free green pens. C and I both said that perhaps we will be like that in twenty years time.

Afterwards we dashed through the cold to the Waverly Restaurant where gobbled down burgers beneath headshots of 80's hasbeens.

New Pieces

My interviews with Mary Gaitskill and The Vivian Girls are in the newest issue of Venus Zine (with Evan Rachel Woods on the cover). I think my Gaitskill interview came out a little fluffy for my taste, but I still am psyched to see it in print.

I have a review in the new issue of Bust as well (Amber Tamblyn is on the cover).