Thinking about moving to New York to try and make it as an artist? Just Kids author Patti Smith advises against it. She told Jonathan Lethem and an audience at NYC’s Cooper Union art school that the opportunities that launched her career no longer exist there anymore. “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling,” she claimed. But apparently she’s heard great things about Poughkeepsie!
While everyone’s still humming about Christina Crawford’s “Surviving Mommie Dearest,” I figured it would be helpful (and extremely tasteful) of me to point out these beautiful hand-crafted “Mommie Dearest” dolls. When you think about it, $150 isn’t bad for two whole dolls, especially when the “ultra-convenient neck post” allows you to switch the heads at a whim. And remember: If you don’t like them, you can make them disappear.
Paul Thomas Anderson is finally starting to flesh out his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, and he seems to have a good eye for flesh! New cast members include Reese Witherspoon and Jena Malone, with a side order of Martin Short. I’m hoping this will be the oddest detective movie since Robert Altman turned Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled The Long Goodbye into a sun-baked love letter to ’70s Los Angeles.
What better thing could I possibly leave you with for the weekend than a music video that reprograms Ursula from “The Little Mermaid” to perform a song by John Waters’ trash-cinema goddess Divine? Without further adieu, here’s “Shake It Up”.
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