Links Have You Where They Want You
by Alex Carnevale
There is no other world besides the world of Judd Apatow.
Adam Sander and Seth Rogen will star with in Leslie Mann in an untitled comedy that Judd Apatow is set to direct from his own script.
The plot is being kept under wraps. Mann (Apatow’s wife) previously starred with Rogen in Apatow’s 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, while Sandler and Apatow worked together with Robert Smigel writing Don’t Mess With the Zohan, a comedy, in which Sandler also stars, that opens June 6. and
Production on the new comedy is set to start later this year.
Sandler is currently shooting the Adam Shankman-directed comedy Bedtime Stories for Disney. Mann stars opposite Zac Efron in the Burr Steers-directed 17 Again for New Line, and will star with Owen Wilson in the comedy Drillbit Taylor (set to release March 21), which Rogen co-wrote and Apatow produced. Rogen, who voices a character in Horton Hears a Who, is shooting Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
Will's poem from his CG chapbook.
Stills from the Sex in the City movie.
Christian Bale as the adult John Connor. Yesssssss.
We enjoy this Star Wars love letter.
The Rock is going to play The Tooth Fairy.
I found this fight between me and Danish in the TR archives. It's all the more relevant today as he has gone against my wishes and refuses to cover SXSW for TR.
Danish: I’m so west coast and beyond everything.
Me: Okay, that’s out of nowhere, but at least true.
Danish: Send me the new White Stripes single as long as it’s not a radio rip, I hate the radio.
Me: You hate the radio? Non-sequitor! Anyway, here ya go.
Danish: It came too late, I’d already heard it by then. And I don’t even need it, because the song sucks anyway.
Me: Actually I thought it was a fun integration of the different sounds from their last two albums and found it kinda catchy.
Danish: O-o-o-o-o-ok. I liked rap before it even existed and you’re going to tell me about music? Please.
Me: You’re right, I’d better not. Music and pastries, it’s the two things you’re best at. Hey remember when we had that crazy Spring Weeken–
Danish: Remember when is the lowest form of conversation.
Emily Gould interviews someone I've never heard of
Lebron is the fucking best.
I Am Legend alternate ending.
Rachael Ray talks music
Ramesh Ponnuru was sick in the latest NR:
The primary contest, then, pits the McGovern-Hart coalition plus blacks against the Humphrey-Mondale coalition plus middle-aged white feminists.
A place that exists only in nightmares.
Julia Allison resigns from blogger laureate post, massive retrospective coming soon
I went to high school with this girl I now realize:
I also went to high school with that dude who was on Passions and in some Disney movie. He was a rather forgettable sixteen year old.
more on cassie here
When grandpa dies you go bowling
Jordin Sparks' single, "Tattoo", is my new favorite song.
Fictionalized account of Heath Ledger's last days, via K. Longworth:
And Mary-Kate is not what you think. She comes off like a straw, something hollow that things pass through. But it's more an inner strength than a vapid soul. She once told me, Growing up as one half of something made me feel I had to overcompensate to be worth a whole. Then I realized it was the greatest foil. I have a built-in hiding place everywhere I go. She's the only person in the last month who has seen me cry. She's kindred, in that she's got these issues she won't talk about that make her so damn sexy.
America's money culture lacks values
objectivists issue of poetry magazine
Do not send your child to college
Will someone please rip the new Why? album and send it to me. Thank you for your time.
Nevermind:
"A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under" - Why? (mp3)
"The Fall of Mr. Fifths" - Why? (mp3)
"Brook & Waxing" - Why? (mp3)
Pandatoes be dissin blogger
More Diablo Cody in her undergarments.
The Met takes a turn for the awesome
Lotta great stuff in this month's New Criterion.
TMZ pays mad cash for OJ story.
Hot quote from Edith Kurzweil's new book:
On that balmy Sunday, William was laid to rest in my plot in Westchester Hills Cemetery—two graves away from Robert [her second husband]. When will I be buried between them?
John Simon (so cranky) has an awesome review of new Mallarme translations:
Who, we may ask, is she [Barbara Johnson, the translator]? The jacket informs us that she has taught in Harvard’s English and Comparative Literature departments. So far, so good. But she is now the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society. How do law and psychiatry fit under the same hat, and where else but in society could they exist?
Her previous books are The Critical Difference, A World of Difference (no similarity?), and, more troublingly, The Wake of Deconstruction. No less disturbingly, she mentions in a “Translator’s Note” Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine (observe the pedantic use of first names), and “Jean Baptiste Poquelin (Molière).” Like that! Later, ominously for me, she invokes Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan.
She also offers “the following essays” as a “good introduction to Mallarmé.” Since there is a goodly amount of literature on Mallarmé in English, I expected some of that from her. But all she cites is a number of books and essays by Barbara Johnson. These, moreover, sound not especially helpful, e.g., “Défigurations du langage poétique” and “Poetry and Performative Language: Mallarmé and Austin” and, my favorites, “Les Fleurs du Mal Armé: Some Reflections on Intertextuality” (when I hear that word, I reach for my gun) and “Mallarmé as Mother.”
Awesome ways to filter your gmail.
Things aren't going that great in Gaza.
Danish's tumblr is hot, I reads it every day
Gore Vidal's gender bender
Child prodigy or hoax?
heartbreak soup is back up
Joseph Conrad's boring book about his awesome life
Amazing:
Mr. Spitzer gained national attention when he served as attorney general with his relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing. As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force. In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island. ”This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. "It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring."
Also:
"I figured, here’s a woman who also met her husband at law school, who had been a lawyer with a firm, whose husband was a state attorney general before he ran for governor," Mrs. Spitzer said of Senator Clinton. "There really aren’t that many role models for this."
Alex Carnevale is the editor of This Recording.
BLOGS FOR US ALL TO LIVE INSIDE LIKE TINY SHELTERS OF THE MIND
hopefully Hard to Find A Friend gets it going again
stereogum is still the best
PREVIOUSLY ON THIS RECORDING
Let the golden age begin.
Age appropriate in Shanghai.
Tales from the grocery store cash register.
