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May 25, 2004

My Lost Car, My Fainting Spell, My Split Lip

Yeah, yeah... three months since the last one.

We're at the Cape right now--taking over Michael's dad's summer house for a couple of weeks until the parents get here for the season. I'm working on the novel! Slowly, slowly.

The past month has been strange. I went to NYC to play softball and also housesit for my old housemates in Brooklyn while they were on vacation. While there, my car--actually my mom's car that I inherited--turned up missing one night. I went to the tow lot, but no luck. I idiotically searched neighboring streets, thinking I'd forgotten the correct parking location. Nothing. During the following days, I stood in a lot of lines, made countless phone calls; I filed stolen car stuff, and went through a week of drama, only to discover that the car had been towed after all, they'd just filed it under Rhode Island plates. I guess it's understandable--the words "Kansas" and "Rhode Island" do look a lot alike, don't they?

Another highlight of recent days: fainting one morning after waking up, then coming to only to realize that I'd bitten my bottom lip half off during the fall. Not a pretty sight.

I'd never read A SEPARATE PEACE by John Knowles, but I am now! It's great. I'm also finishing the stories in DENNY SMITH, the new one by one of my favorite authors Robert Gluck. Very different from Knowles, but excellent and funny and dirty and incredibly smart.

Yes, I'm still a huge horror film fanatic. While in NYC, with my film critic pal Dennis Dermody, I saw an early tape of this upcoming French horror film HAUTE TENSION. Really heavy-duty scarefest... singlemindedly relentless and violent in the way that classic stuff like Texas Chainsaw and the Hills Have Eyes were. I'm actually excited to see it again in a theater with a bunch of screaming people.

I also saw THUNDERBIRDS at the Tribeca Film Festival, since Brady Corbet, who's one of the leads in the MYSTERIOUS SKIN film, is a lead in that. It was strange and momentous and thrilling to hang out with both Brady and Joe Gordon-Levitt (Joe was in NYC for the festival as well). At the Thunderbirds premiere, I touched the sleeve of Robert de Niro. He was shorter than I'd thought. Namedropping! Anyway, I still haven't seen the finished Mysterious Skin product, but hopefully any day now... Gregg, if you're reading this...

oh, and there are photos of the premiere at the WireImage website, and a few of me and Joe, too (they say "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and friend Scott Heim" even though Joe told them to mention I'd written the novel for the forthcoming movie blah blah blah).

The first time I saw Fantasia on American Idol at the season beginning, I predicted she would win. So in two days, hopefully, the prediction will come true. Right now I'm also watching SUPERSTAR USA, which is mean to the point of evilness but totally hilarious nonetheless. Michael is weirdly in love with the superskinny bucktoothed New Jersey twinkie boy.

I bought a beautiful photograph from a photographer named Tom Chambers; it's now on my bedroom wall along with the other photos I'm slowly starting to collect. Tom has a nice site: Tom Chambers

While I'm on that topic, Anthony Goicolea, the photographer I interviewed for OUT a few years back, finally has his first retrospective book out. It's full of a bunch of really gorgeous photographs of his. Amazing. Kind of expensive but worth it.

At this point, I'm so nauseated by George Bush and his cronies, I would vote for anyone to take his place. Notice he does not deserve a boldface in this weblog entry.

Michael and I went to the Pen New England awards ceremony, where our good pal Jennifer Haigh won an award for her marvelous MRS. KIMBLE. It's just out in paperback recently-- beautiful and worth every award it'll get.

more later! xxscott

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