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 Right now I am deep into Dishwasher . It's a beautiful, working class bible. A 'fuck you' to the system. A reminder that we should reassess what is important in life. This book was gifted to me by the author himself (Pete Jordan) when I was visiting with him in Amsterdam. Our history goes back to the mid 1990s when he was still a dish dog and I was scrapping by - by running printing machines. We were both starving zinesters. Pete would drop in to sleep on my floor, spend his days in the library and his nights washing dishes in Brooklyn. He was a bit of blessing in my life. Back then, no matter how many hours I worked, I could not keep up with my bills. My dreams outside my day job seemed so lofty. As a dish dog Pete had perfected the art of living on a dollar a day. Or less. To him it was a challenge. His thriftiness was awh inspiring. He made survival an art form. A messy one, but an art form none the less. He helped me see that poverty could be more than just an obstacle or an embarrassment. Lately, while trying to keep up with some tough medical bills (my kidneys), I have been keeping a really tight budget. Like, $5 a day. Or less. It's not easy to do that in New York City. And once again, Pete dropped in (through his book) to remind me that I can do anything. His message to me is that money does not make me richer - living well does. Thanks Pete. I am also reading The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. It's a hard read for me - with more footnotes than content. But full of interesting information. For example, during these times the estimate the 24% - 50% of children were abandoned. And the church decided visiting prostitutes was a sin not because it was illegal to have sex, pay for sex, or sell sex - but because they were afraid men would engage in incest due to high number of abandoned children who would be forced to turn to prostitution for survival. Incest was the crime. How fucked up is that? And then, as an orphan I naturally had to think about the fact that I turned to sex work for survival. Over the years it was certainly possible that my birth father or any one of my 50+ cousins could have seen me in in adult magazines or visited my website. Not even knowing who I really am... Oook!!! Creeps me out. But also reminds me that there are more people like me. Long since gone and surviving today. Makes me think about how many Christians have an ethical problem with sex-for-sale and do not even realize the ethical issue stems from child abandonment issues - not issues of sexual expression. That family values that should really be addressed are those of - do you care for your children? Will they be self-sufficient without you? And not just your children, but the children in your community and in the world? How do you allocate your resources? Does your bank account reflect your values?
You may say so, but I'd really like to see those bank statements for myself.And you? What are you reading?
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Hi there.
So... I'm moving to Washington DC on Friday. Crazypants, I know. However, you and my parents both will be relieved to know that I have an apartment and a job down there. The apartment is a cute little 1-bedroom in northeast DC. It is on the second floor and comes complete with a washer-dryer and a soon-to-be-adopted/kidnapped-by-me dog that lives downstairs. The job is at a small bookstore that specializes in travel guides, maps, atlases, globes, and other travel-y things. It's the kind of job that makes me wish I hadn't thrown away that 3'x4' map of Maine because I can foresee arguing with coworkers over who is the biggest map-nerd. Or maybe that is just what I hope will happen...
In any event, I am mostly excited about the move. Obviously I am sad to leave Boston and my Bostonian friends behind, but it is time for a change of scenery. This city has been good to me, and I will not rule out returning here someday. But right now I have the opportunity to do something completely different for a year, and I am grabbing it by the horns. Or by the UHaul's steering wheel. You know. Whatever.
So that's the life-plan. If you find yourself in the greater DC area, track me down. I will (in theory) have a sofa by then and a kitten to play with. More on that later.
Cheerio!
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From Wizard Universe. WRIGHT: ...Bryan Lee O'Malley's book, Scott Pilgrim, is something that was sent to me when the first volume came out. I'm not gonna lie and say that I had read that book and said, "Oh, I have to make this film!" Somebody else read that book and said, "Edgar Wright should make this." Through that I've become close to Bryan from my part of the process and even his. It's been interesting over the last couple of years working on that, to be working with him in terms of doing an adaptation of his comic to actually reading the final draft versions of the book that hasn't yet been drawn, so that's been brilliant for me to get involved with him on that level in terms of sort of seeing a series take shape. It's been a real eye opener so I'm gonna be a shill and say that Scott Pilgrim is my favorite comic of recent times. It is. It's a fantastic book, though, isn't it? Oh, it's incredible! It's one of my favorite things coming out.WRIGHT: It's funny. When I first read it I did think, "Oh, this is kind of a bit like 'Spaced.'" You know, sort of the ... and really, Brian had never seen the show and when we first met I gave him a copy of it and he sort of said, "Oh, it's funny." You know. It's obviously not similar plotwise but it has a similar aesthetic to it, you know? Yeah, exactly. So while you were reading it you really saw what you could do with it?WRIGHT: Yeah. I read it kind of completely blind. Sometimes people give you synopses of things and I tend to kind of try and skip that, just read it blind. So I was reading it and as it got into the Matthew Patel's first appearance, I was thinking, like, "Oh, okay, I get it. I get it! This is gonna be cool." Can you tell me anything about the production of it? What stage are you guys in?WRIGHT: We’re hopefully going into production later this year. We've been doing a lot of work on it in a conception level and getting into casting and crew and stuff. In the number of times I've been to Toronto, one of the most amazing things about Bryan's artwork is that it all refers to real locations. All of the locations in the book he took, maybe even sometimes there's a chain restaurant, like, a Pizza Pizza in Toronto that's a specific branch that he's taken a photo of. Just last month I took some sort of the crew around, like, the Scott Pilgrim locations and it's an amazing thing to take one of the books and say, "Hey, there it is!" You know, and especially where it's essentially very non-descript locations that Bryan has taken photographic reference for and there and lo and behold is the place! Do you have a grasp on how you're gonna work with how many books are eventually going to be in the series?WRIGHT: Yeah. The script that we've written essentially covers all six. If it was at the level of Harry Potter we might be able to talk about doing six films but in this case our film is very much an adaptation of the entire six. It's very much in the spirit of Bryan's books and certainly in terms of the first and second books there are whole sections that are straight from the books but then it slightly takes on its own momentum and kind of pace. Especially as a counter point to how uninvolved we were in the American remake of "Spaced," I've been very keen to involve Bryan in every stage of this so that he feels happy and comfortable with what we've written, and as Bryan, I'm sure, will tell you, there are a couple of bits in the fourth and soon to be fifth book which are lines from our screenplay. I feel quite proud that there's a couple of bits in Scott Pilgrim volume 4 where I'm thinking, "That's my line!" Tags: edgar wright, film, scott pilgrim
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