Wired: “The director sent an early copy of the script to Brad Pitt, who was already an Aronofsky fan. Fifty pages into the script, the actor phoned Aronofsky in tears; the director told him to finish and call back.”
Year / 2006
Pynchon Roundtable Forthcoming
Hear ye! Hear ye! Adept literary connoisseurs and other devoted followers of the Chums of Chance may wish to note that a roundtable, it being an interchangeable variable to be squared in a forthcoming equation, shall begin anew for the thick tome, Against the Day, now making its postal peregrinations to swell and salacious folks scattered across the Republic. Their veritable derring-do will be unearthed upon these pages, where there shall likely be talk of aether, balloons, anarchism, the Great Fair, and, of course, the considerably overlooked Chums of Chance, whose adventures have not met with the grand reception equal to their deeds.
Stay tuned, in as much as your monitor resembles Philo’s discovery, to these pages for more!
Damon Albarn Starts New Band…
…and it’s called The Good, The Bad and the Queen. Of course, with the way he starts new bands, he’ll have another one next month.
Your Tax Dollars Telling You What to Do as Adults
USA Today: “Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007. The government says the change is a clarification. But critics say it’s a clear signal of a more directed policy targeting the sexual behavior of adults.”
Deiter from Sprockets Comes to Mind
If you’ve ever wondered what Murakami translator Alfred Birnbaum looks like, now you know. (via Rake)