The Last Blab December 2003

Published Jan 01, 2006

New York's a go-go and everything tastes right, especially the green tea tiramisu I've just discovered at an East Village sushi joint. Besid...

R.E.M. Around the Sun

Published Nov 01, 2004

Though they may not be making music that is at the same level they were at in the ’80s, R.E.M. have always been a fairly dependable band. Of...

Blab November 2003

Published Nov 01, 2003

New York, New York, it's a helluva town. The Bronx is up and Ground Zero is down. On my most recent trip to the big wormy apple, for an exhi...

Blab September 2003

Published Sep 01, 2003

The day of Visions of Excess, the endurance performance event based on the work of Georges Bataille taking place in the unlikely location of...

Blab August 2003

Published Aug 01, 2003

I really didn't really want to go to Birmingham again. No, not bloody Birmingham, Alabama, like some people have the gall to ask. Who the he...

The Raspberry Reich shooting diary continues Friday, November 1

Published Jul 01, 2003

People always tell you to look for the light at the end of the tunnel, but what happens if what is waiting for you at the end of the tunnel...

The Raspberry Reich shooting diary continues… Wednesday, October 30

Published Jun 01, 2003

Oh joy. Today I get to sleep in, since my call time isn't until noon, and boy do I need it. We're shooting a scene that is meant to take pla...

The Raspberry Reich shooting diary continues Sunday, October 27 (later that same day)

Published May 01, 2003

It's back to our location on Karl Marx Allee in East Berlin, not to be confused with KarlMarxstrasse, which is the street where I'm staying....

Blab April 2003

Published Apr 01, 2003

The Raspberry Reich shooting diary continues…Thursday, October 24In the afternoon James (my cameraman) and the Giant Peach (me) check out so...

Blab March 2003

Published Mar 01, 2003

Tuesday, October 22. I'm driving around with Jurgen, my producer, and his assistant, Klaus, to check out more locations for my latest film T...

Blab February 2003

Published Feb 01, 2003

San Francisco? That was so long ago it seems like a previous life. I do recall capriciously smoking a joint with Yaroslav and his Brazilian...

Blab December 2002 / January 2003

Published Dec 01, 2002

San Francisco, in case you were wondering, is still there. I hadn't been in about five years, so when an art gallery owner named Javier Pere...

Blab November 2002

Published Nov 01, 2002

Well the big day has arrived, Platinum Oasis II, except I've spent so much time writing about the preamble that now I really don't care to d...

Blab October 2002

Published Oct 01, 2002

Before I get down to the rest of the Platinum Oasis Part Deux nitty gritty, allow me to make a detour through my friend D-J, hot former Dutc...

Blab September 2002

Published Sep 01, 2002

"Why mix drinking with pleasure?" asked Darren Stevens recently on a Bewitched rerun (Dick York, the original, straight good Darren, not Dic...

Blab August 2002

Published Aug 01, 2002

I'm not sure why I all of a suddenly decided to try to segue into fashion photography, a world that seems from the outside about as hermetic...

Blab July 2002

Published Jul 01, 2002

As an inveterate introvert, a magesterial misanthrope, and a inherent inhibitionist, I sometimes have to force myself to commune with my pub...

Blab June 2002

Published Jun 01, 2002

Now that the Muslim has gone back to Mothers India and Africa for a number of months, what am I supposed to do? Knit? Purl? Knit and purl? I...

Blab May 2002

Published May 01, 2002

After venal Vancouver I'm hardly in any shape to be visiting nasty New York, but as I've already used up all my hard-earned air miles on a n...

Blab April 2002

Published Apr 01, 2002

Vancouver is supposed to be a lark for me, but it ends up being more like a raven. A big, black menacing raven like the stuffed one that per...