This past weekend marked the twentieth anniversary of Guns N’ Roses’ messy yet magnificent magnum opus, Use Your Illusion. Honoring that occasion, the excellent Maura Johnston, music editor at the Village Voice, made herself a single-disc edit of the sprawling two-CD album–something I did for my own entertainment five years ago (although any honoring of […]
posted 19 September 2011 in Links, Tasty Bits. 2 comments
Congratulations to the lovely and talented Melissa McCarthy for her Emmy win last night. McCarthy and I had a thoroughly enjoyable lunch together a few weeks ago, at which we ordered more fried food than we intended to. You can read a short excerpt at the Rolling Stone website, or check out the George Harrison […]
posted 19 September 2011 in Articles, Links. no comments yet
Photographed in Brooklyn in late August. I lived in New York City for almost twenty years and never saw a baby pigeon–apparently, one has to be visiting.
posted 16 September 2011 in Photos. no comments yet
A few months ago, I told you about a long interview I conducted with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer for the British magazine Huck, in which we discussed many of his tweets and his state of mind when he composed them. Unless you frequent skate shops in the UK, you probably didn’t see a copy of […]
posted 15 September 2011 in Uncategorized. no comments yet
Photographed in 2005. Eventually I was able to think of the WTC site as a construction project rather than a mass grave–but I never really got used to the immense high-security hole in the ground.
posted 9 September 2011 in Photos, Uncategorized. no comments yet
In the fall of 2001, I lived on 176 Broadway in New York City, one block away from the World Trade Center. It took me a long time to make even rudimentary sense of what happened in my back yard on September 11th, and ultimately flipping a coin and taking photographs proved the best therapy. […]
posted 8 September 2011 in Archives, Unpublished. 3 comments
Trying to understand The New York Times’ effect on man, I wrote a profile of Mr. Hugh Laurie that appeared in this past Sunday’s edition of the paper (in the Magazine section). You might still have it by the side of your couch, or you can read it here. Laurie, aside from starring in House, […]
posted 7 September 2011 in Articles, Outside. 4 comments
I love having mysteries in my daily life, but I’m even happier when they get explained. Exit Through the Gift Shop provided me with a narrative for a lot of the mysterious street art and billboards I had been seeing during my first couple of years living in Los Angeles (although I’m still not certain […]
Like a salmon swimming upstream, I have returned to the pages of Details. Well, one page: the last one in the new (September 2011) issue, which has my short interview with Steve Jones. Not “Jonesy,” the Sex Pistol with the much-missed radio show–this Steve Jones is the charming rake who will be hosting The X […]
posted 15 August 2011 in Articles, Outside. 2 comments
As mentioned previously, I’ve been writing some cover stories for Playboy. Indeed, I have one out now: I interviewed Rachel Oberlin, better known as Bree Olson, even better known as one of Charlie Sheen’s “goddesses.” If you’d like to know more about Sheen’s sex life, his Patek Philippe watches, or his Apocalypse Now obsession, you […]
posted 4 August 2011 in Articles. 2 comments
