Stuff I’ve Been Reading

Do not miss this essay on Bob Woodward and the writing of Wired. It’s an extremely important piece of writing and analysis, and quite damning. It made me think of Didion’s essay on Woodward, although it’s even more critical of Woodward than that.

Kim Morgan on the vagina purses in Hitchcock’s Marnie. I love this piece so much.

“loomfixer which welled shadowy” An eerie post of images/words on one of my favorite sites out there, The Art of Memory.

I want to rent the last Cinema Bus for screenings.

Because of Jessa Crispin’s enthusiastic reviews and interviews with author Eva Illouz about her book Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation, I picked it up. It’s not necessarily “my thing”, normally: It’s a sociology book. It’s about love/romance in the modern world. Despite having a bit of a learning curve with the language (it reminds me of college), it is a fascinating examination of the modern-day marriage/love market. Quite upsetting in many ways, and triggering, but I think Ms. Illouz is onto something. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the whole game of love, modern men and women, courtship, all that. With great examples provided from literature and elsewhere.

A really great analysis of Susan Hayward, the ultimate B-girl.

An incredible must-read story: “I work at the NBC storage warehouse in Englewood Cliifs, New Jersey,” the man said. “We’ve got several boxes of 16mm reels of film from ‘You Bet Your Life’ and we were wondering if Mr. Marx wants any of it. If not, we’re going to destroy all of it tomorrow.”

This piece from Jeremy Richey is from last year, but we were just discussing the great character actor Luis Guzman on Facebook this morning, and I linked to it because I admired it so much and agreed with it wholeheartedly. Luis Guzman is a fine actor.

Good piece: The Weirdest Episode of the Weirdest Season of ‘Saturday Night Live’