November 2010
5 posts
19 Hours After Its Release, Jesse Eisenberg Still...
I am at a gala to benefit children who were affected by Chernobyl, the unintentional nuclear explosion in the USSR in 1986, and Jesse Eisenberg walked into the cocktail ballroom and he was swarmed by girls with braces who wanted to take pictures with him. One of them knocked my phone onto the ground in a rush to get closer to Jesse Eisenberg and I had to get on my hands and knees to grab it from...
Gerard Butler's Favorite Rapper is Lil Wayne
In a club in Midtown at a Victoria’s Secret fashion show after-party, Gerard Butler is talking to a middle-aged woman and leaning against the bar. I wait until they’re done speaking and then I go up to him and say,
“Hi! I write a blog about music. May I ask you a question?” He says, “Yes.”
I ask, “Who is your favorite rapper?” He goes, “Why do you ask me about rap?” He speaks in a thick...
Writing a Movie
About three months ago, at my friend Leon’s reading, I read a story about something I did one summer, and then a few days later I got an email from a man who works at a movie production company. His e-mail said that he was at the reading and he thought there might be a movie to be made out of the story that I read, and he asked me if I could e-mail him the story and also if I would like to meet...
DJing a Halloween Loft Party in Midtown
My post is on the website The Awl today:
http://www.theawl.com/2010/11/djing-a-halloween-loft-party-in-midtown
…it is packed and really hot now. I roll my sleeves up and I am sweating a little and my glasses got fogged up so I took them off and then put them back on a minute ago. The girl who looks like Lady Gaga is still dancing about three feet in in front of the DJ booth. I am...