IFC just bought this and it’s making my weekend, maybe my whole week!

Not to be like that, but also totally to be like that, I read this book like a thousand times when I was 12-13 and this is not what I was looking for in a movie. Mostly because Nick spends about a third of the novel living life as a woman, in the style of Mrs. Featherbottom.

In case any of my type bitches in the crowd haven’t seen this yet.

Thought about Futura but the em space was to wide

Not even when condensed, believe me I’ve already tried

Gill Sans the “G” is wack when it’s in lowercase

Avante Garde you make me hard but like Helvetica you’ve been played

Plus I just love how hard the main guy goes for it. And don’t even sweat it, they know they’re pronouncing “Neutra” wrong.

I relate to that, Noah Baumbach. (Ben Stiller still isn’t going to happen in drama though, except in The Royal Tenenbaums. Quit twitching, dude.) This is pretty exciting; I’m going to see Caitlin and Leach this weekend! And we used to watch Kicking and Screaming twice a week after high school. NB is like thirteen years older than we are in real life and like eight years ahead of us in movies, but we’re precociously cynical.

Oh, also, Hollywood, which I am so into lately! (The neighborhood, not the metonym for the film industry.)

TP narrates his book trailer. He sounds like Jeffrey Lebowski, yeah, and Chong, but he also sounds like what you think Zoyd Wheeler probably sounds like. I’m really looking forward to reading IV because I love LA, of course, and I’ve been so camped out in it lately (with my new job), and obviously my favorite time in history is America in the late sixties/early seventies, and I also recently finished Vineland. The southern California parts of that were so good, most were set further south in the OC and it’s a totally different scene, with giant statues of Nixon, but there were small parts, pages, in Gordita Beach. Those parts were good. Even if the whole book seemed like a first draft. A Pynchon first draft, granted.

Who wrote this terrible trailer (“His wife is fantastic…” [Cut to his wife being angry about something.] “Based on the book by the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” [Sorry Roald Dahl, JK Rowling has rendered you completely unknowable.] ”Forget about super…”), for this awesome-looking movie? Genius casting George Clooney. And Jason Schwartzman! “I can fit through there. You wanna know why? Because I’m little.”

I wonder whatever happened to Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon? It’s disappeared even off of IMDb.

We’re doing a thing.