I love the guitar, in spite of a perennial inability to improve my skills or understand music theory. Watching a bunch of people shred, as I did for this story in Nylon Guys, was obviously going to be a lot of fun. And it was a lot of fun, both the watching and the writing. The piece is an attempt at ‘Talk Of The Town’ style, and I think got close. That’s what I tell myself, anyway.
BONUS: If you look closely, you can see me in one of the photos. (You’ll have to employ Waldo-level looking skills, though. Good luck!)
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I interviewed Kele Okereke—lead singer for Bloc Party, recent solo album releaser—at a café on the Lower East Side. Doesn’t that sound dumb? “A café on the Lower East Side”? “An antiques shop at the end of a winding boulevard.” “A pagoda by the banks of a rushing river.” Whatever. His album is worth checking out—dark, heavy, metallic.
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This piece appeared in Nylon’s Young Hollywood issue, which recently left the shelves and wandered off to…actually, where do old magazines go when they’re done with the newsstand? To a landfill? Probably. Interesting question to ponder, or for that matter, to easily look up on the internet.
Anyway, it was a pleasure speaking with so many excellent directors, all of whom acknowledged the odd, not-exactly-rational nature of their industry while avoiding cynicism—and even more, while staying more or less optimistic about the future of things.
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Why not go ahead and pick up the latest copy of Nylon? It’s the “Young Hollywood” issue, and I wrote an essay about the difficulty of distributing independent cinema. There are some tweens—perhaps they are teens, I am not sure—on the cover.
People Quoted
Lynn Shelton
Andrew Bujalski
Joe Swanberg
Antonio Campos
Concepts Touched Upon
Technology
Video-on-demand
Digital versus film
Festival clout
The exciting, very apropos illustration comes by way of Andrea Wan. Rad.
