Extra bits and links
Apple: America’s best retailer in Fortune:
That’s what makes Apple such a hard study: The subject won’t sit still for its portrait. “I can’t even remember Apple without the stores,” says Jobs. It’s a statement of how integral they’ve become to the company; 8,000 of Apple’s 20,000 employees, he notes, work in retail. But it’s also a reminder that what we’re glimpsing are his taillights.
Tarantino on Grindhouse in The Times:
It’s kind of cool, what I’m doing – the New Zealand stunt girl in the film, Zoe Bell, she was Uma Thurman’s stunt double [in Kill Bill]. She’s gonna play herself and do her own stunts.
Boneheaded Academy Award Nominations (Scott Weinberg at Cinematical):
“Plus I just don’t like living in a world that calls Click an Oscar nominee.â€
Thanks to someone, probably Public Address, I was pointed at this, eminently quotable, article from a recent Independent where Martin Amis answers readers questions. One may not agree with anything/everything he says but one has to respect someone who uses words like “frictionlessly” and “gynocrat”:
Whats the worst thing that’s ever happened to you? NESA GARDEZI, by email
One day I returned home from a book tour in the US, and I noticed that the leading edge of the toilet roll in the bathroom wasn’t folded into an inviting V – as it was in all those American hotels.
Not only that. I then had a tedious five minutes issuing instructions about the new arrangement to my wife.
Trying to get back to a regular posting schedule. Here goes:
Holy Hell, possibly the funniest thing in the world: Some deranged genius adds James Earl Jones dialogue from other movies to Star Wars. I shit you not!
The Be Good Tanyas live at The Barbican in London (reviewed in The Grauniad);
A.O. Scott in the NY Times (reg. req.) ponders why critics and public respond so differently, so often (I just watched POTC:DMC and can see both sides “complete shit” v “a $9 diversion with a few laughs”;
Amazon are in big trub for selling cock-fighting magazines – but that’s not all they sell… (thanks Gawker);
Bob Geldof gets a hard time for cancelling in Italy when 45 people turn up to the 12,000 seat stadium (“Harden up, Sir Bob!”) but let us not forget that he helped organise a benefit concert in Auckland when the Neon Picnic was cancelled in 1988 so he’s alright by me – the $1,500 a plate shindig in Auckland the other week is much harder to excuse.
Alright then, while I am fiddling with css here are some links to amuse and alarm you:
There, all of these are weeks late but none the worse for that I shouldn’t wonder.
