Friday, January 2, 2009

Ayn Rand on Sex

"The men who think that wealth comes from material resources and has no intellectual root or meaning, are the men who think—for the same reason—that sex is a physical capacity which functions independently of one’s mind, choice or code of values. They think that your body creates a desire and makes a choice for you just about in some such way as if iron ore transformed itself into railroad rails of its own volition. Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself."


P.S. Angelina Jolie rumored to play Dagny Taggart? wtf$%!#

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

RE: Solutions

I wouldn't be surprised if none (or any) of these were lived up to.

1) See Berlin
2) Finish the screenplay (maybe also begin to imagine casting choices for the lead who are not Clive Owen)
3) Get an apartment
4) Get a job I'm proud of
5) Be more cynical (it'd help with the creative process of #2)
6) Read The Fountainhead again
7) See New York City in the summer
8) Relieve my debt-load
9) Play with my cat (she's getting old)
10) Blog

Monday, December 29, 2008

I wish I felt better



To celebrate my self-imposed bedridden-ness (see: flu), I'm watching a zillion episodes of House on SurfTheChannel. I started noticing that lupus came up as a possible diagnosis in a lot of the episodes, so I Google image searched "House" and "lupus" and found this awesome jpeg.

<3 Hugh Laurie

Friday, December 26, 2008



I attended the Christmas release of Fincher's Buttons yesterday, and the film haunts me still. While I've read several reviews belittling the directorial casting choice (Fincher's previous credits include Se7en and Zodiac), I see no more perfect a selection than the godfather or serial killer narratives to bring to life Fitzgerald's rendition of time-as-silent-killer.

A part of me always winces when I see recycled classics on the big screen, but this one's an example of repuporsing with purpose. Hollywood's mastered the art of bringing the textual to the screen in spectacular ways (this is what Godard loves about the Americans), and this is one of those universal stories that packs the most punch when told visually.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

A tax sheltered Christmas

Merci maman pour la belle contribution au RRSP.
Nothing says Christmas like registered savings.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The screenplay

With the holidays upon us and the '09 just on their tail, it's time to kick last year's projects into high gear. The screenplay is on its 35th page and looking swell. Xan and I await the notes of 1995 Governor General's Literary Award winner Tim Wynne-Jones before proceeding.

A sneak-peek: