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November 01, 2005
Capote... and the Mysterious Skin DVD
Just saw CAPOTE. Brilliant. I'm one of the world's hugest Truman Capote fans, and it's so great to see such a great film about him. (Below: Catherine Keener and Philip Seymour Hoffman in CAPOTE; and Truman himself, by Irving Penn, 1965.)
I'm probably going to join the thousands of others who are doing the same thing right now and re-re-re-read IN COLD BLOOD.
Thanks to everyone for the support re: my French television trauma. Other than that, my trip was completely terrific. I'm still planning to post photos from my ten days there; however, for some odd reason, my digital camera isn't allowing me to transfer the pictures to my PowerBook. I'll be on the phone with Nikon before the end of the week and hopefully it'll all get figured out.
If you search hard enough at this site--a database of photos of writers--you'll find more French publicity shots from Montparnasse Cemetery. In some of 'em, you can see my favorite Threadless t-shirt.
Tonight was Halloween... for personal reasons, not a great day for me anymore, as anyone who's read past entries would know, but I think I got through this one without too much pain. (Thank god there weren't trick-or-treaters out here at the Cape place.) And I got work done on the book, smoothing a couple of pestery glitches, so that felt good.
Oh: I forgot to mention that the Mysterious Skin DVD has finally been released. So for those of you who didn't live in one of the cities where the film initially played... now you can get it in stores or rent it from Netflix. I think the dastardly Blockbuster is even carrying it, unedited!
For reasons far too complicated to discuss right now, the DVD doesn't have all the extras that the press releases initially promised. So you won't be seeing the interviews with me, Gregg, Brady, and Joe from the Tribeca Film Festival after all. So much for my 15 minutes of fame....
Here are a few new CDs I like:
[Broken Social Scene, "Broken Social Scene"; Ladytron, "Witching Hour"; Jay-Jay Johanson, "Rush"; and Bed, "New Lines" (these last two were bought in Paris, since they'll no doubt take months, if ever, to appear here).]
Posted by at November 1, 2005 01:09 AM
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Hi Scott, Have you sorted thing with Nikon yet? Would be great to see the photos from your days in Paris.
Marc
Posted by: marc vallee at November 13, 2005 06:03 AM
Broken Social Scene is an incredible band. I've been into them since "You Forgot It In People", and was lucky enough to see them live in northhampton mass. Scott, If you haven't heard "You Forgot It In People", or "Beehive", you're missing out. The album they ever released is an acquired taste. It doesn't immediately grab onto you like the last three lps. I hope you get the chance to see them live. They put on an incredibly fun show. The trumpet player has the most incredible mustache in existence.
Posted by: Erik Miller at November 9, 2005 09:08 PM
the new Broken Social Scene is so very goood...
Posted by: jason at November 8, 2005 07:47 PM
I just saw the DVD last night. Joseph Gordon Levitt is truly brilliant. I can't gush enough about his performance. Too bad about the extras!
And now I am even more excited to see Capote. I go to Bennington College's Writing Seminars and Philip Seymour Hoffman spoke at our last residency about making the movie and such, so I think it will be interesting to see it. And since you liked it, I am sure it's good. And yes, it's time to re-read In Cold Blood.
Posted by: bree at November 7, 2005 02:36 PM
Saw Capote as well, and I absolutely loved it. I thought it was very well done. I never read In Cold Blood, but you're right, now I want to. I should get on that. Right now I'm reading a biography of Anne Sexton. Good stuff. Previous to that I read Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley. Dear lord was that a good book. The more intense the book became, the more I felt like I was going to just fall apart and turn into an emotional mess, kind of how I felt while reading Mysterious Skin. I bought the DVD of the Mysterious Skin film and watched it the next day. Yup, it was just as good as the first time. The reading with the two actors was cool to watch. They are quite the pair of talented cuties. Well, take care.
Posted by: Robert at November 2, 2005 01:23 PM
Hello Scott, it was so great to meet you just a few months after Gregg ! I'm the last one who interviewed you in Paris with Aurelie. What you said about your next book really inspired me. Therefore I've made a photograph called We Disappear. It's for you. And Here it is : http://www.viciousart.com/wedisappear.jpg
:-)
Posted by: Gui (a.k.a GUI@B) at November 1, 2005 07:00 AM
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