tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33084622011-04-21T12:43:07.292-07:00Los Angeles based writer and photographer Japhy Grant serves up slices of downtown culture, literature and style to the unwashed masses of the 'net.Japhynoreply@blogger.comBlogger2591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1151524989753556472006-06-28T12:36:00.000-07:002006-06-28T17:32:04.563-07:00

BEFORE YOU READ ANY FURTHER Read this brief preface by the Author From 2002-2004, Japhyjunket was my blog. For a number of reasons, I closed up shop and after a nine month hiatus, started a new blog: The Modern Romantic. It's probably where you want to go. This site isn't entirely uninteresting, however. It began in January of 2002, three months after 9/11 and my very personal responses to

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Hello Cruel World. This is it folks. After three years, Japhyjunket is closing its doors forever. I hope everyone who's read this blog has enjoyed it; I know I really have. This may be a self imposed ending as much as any, but the time has come. The blog itself has suffered since I've moved to L.A. and the changes I would make to it to make it work would be so radical that it wouldn't really be

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Goodbye #1 Hey there Constant Reader- If you've been watching this blog lately, you've noticed a few things: 1.) It is infrequently updated. (not really news, I realize) 2.) I keep talking about how it's going to shut down soon. 3.) I am randomly adding features, while other features go unfixed. The "Japhy" logo has remained obscured by the Blogger bar for months now, I know. 4.) I am

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New York Opening Worth Seeing If you're in the NYU area tonight, check out my pal John Movius' show " Sight Range: Photographs and Stories from Soldiers of Desert Storm." It looks to be a winner. Movius spent the past year meeting with veterans across the country, interviewing them and taking their portraits. Combined with the soldiers own personal photographs, the result is a humane and

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Tom Leaves, Network News Prematurely Declared Dead Tom Brokaw's departure tonight seems to be an opportunity for the press to stage a funeral-by-proxy for network news as a whole. With Rather leaving CBS in March, Peter Jennings will be the last of the three greats. All three started the same year and if you believe the Times, Fox News, The Post, or well- us bloggers, it's sunset for

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Japhy Go Boom Plus, Larry Kramer Gets His Ass Kicked, My Andrew Sullivan Connection, I Write a Novel and The Dem Ticket for '08 One of the great things about blogging is that you're free to write about whatever you want, whenever you want to. Later this week, I'm going to put up a guide to leaving the country, but first let me tell you about my awfully fun brush with death. Fascicle is

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All My Friends Are Famous Some Just Make Movies Congratulations to my pal John Krokidas for landing a picture deal to direct a feature version of his short film Slo-Mo. If it's anything like the original, expect it to be a romantic comedy with a slightly sardonic edge, a great soundtrack and a turtle. While Gawker already covered this, the often underrated About.com reveals that Single Cell,

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DISASTER The Culture War Begins At a friend's request I found myself at the Human Rights Campaign Election Party last night in West Hollywood. If there was a more liberal place to be standing on November 2nd, I don't know where it is. As the night wore on and the mood shifted to quiet talk of how fucked this country is, it became clear that I was standing in the crater of a social conservative

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"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We ... will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... We shall nobly save, or

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Update: Hurray for me! Search for "japhy" on Google, and I am the first entry listed. All other Japhy's: bow down before me! No longer am I second fiddle to "japhy's perl suppository!" I'd link to them, but it might tip the balance back in their favor. So, as you may have noticed- no redesign as of yet. Between putting out my first issue of the magazine I'm editing (more info on that

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The Modern Romantic is clearly delayed in his arrival and Japhyjunket will remain until the end of October or so. It's raining here in L.A. and I'm happy for it. Frequent readers may enjoy this excellent review of Vertigo, which really may be my favorite movie of all time.

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What I Learned from George In the past month, I got to see more of my president than I have in the last four years. There he was in three different incarnations over three nights, like the Fates or the Stooges. First there was sour old King George the Scowler, then emerged fist pounding Prince George of Lake Mistakeless and finally sunny King George of Botoxia who smiles at everything, be it

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Downtown for Democracy's Excellent L.A. Adventure Halfway through the evening, I thought to myself, "If they bomb this auditorium right now, American literature would be set back 20 years." While Cheney and Edwards duked it out in Cleveland Tuesday night, UCLA's Royce Hall filled with what passes in L.A. for progressive activists: a mixture of liberal-leaning undergrads, subdued Hollywood

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Check it out: New Review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow over at blogcritics.org. Observant Japhyjunket readers will note this is the first time I've ever written a movie review. Ever. I wish I could say Sky Captain moved me in some amazing way, but really it was the most recent reviewable thing I've seen and they've got quotas over there at Blogcritics.

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Request to webmasters who link to this site: For now on the correct url to link to this site is http://www.themodernromantic.com This is change is permanent.

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Check it out: New Review of In the Shadow of No Towers over at blogcritics.org.

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R Ahoy Me Mateys! While me crew of sclawags and I are hoistin' up the mainsail to set sail for yonder new website, I wanted to tell all ye landlubbers that this Sunday, September 19th, is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Savey?

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We're Thrilled, Too! All new Japhyjunket coming in October. This will be a complete site relaunch with all new crap presented in all new ways. NEW NEW NEW! In the meantime, please be prepared for hiccups as features are implemented. Also, check back on September 11th, as I'm sure I will post something.

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In Case You Were Worried I'm Not Drinking Enough. Proof I'm Drinking Just Fine. Hurray For Blue-Eyed Aryan Types! Thanks to S. Carty's Sunset Junction Party for the booze and the drunken photos which resulted.

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British Fads! In my continuing internationally flavored Olympic coverage (Hurray for the rest of the world!) I bring you a brief list of fads from the other side of the pond (ie: Great Britain, Merry Olde England, The Mother Country, Gitville). Like snaggle teeth and royal bottom slapping, expect to see them here soon. Doing "the Lynndie" - You remember America's Little Torture Sweetheart

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Let the Games Begin! There are few better arguments that Humanity continues to be a worthwhile endeavor than the International Olympiad. Watching the opening ceremonies tonight, seeing the endless shades of my fellow men and women marching together, not for the edification of their home countries, but in celebration of Mankind itself, I thought, "Yes, we are marvelous." This is what the

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Hurray! America has its first openly gay governor! Boo! He's been cheating on his wife and he has children! Yahoo! News - N.J. Governor Resigns, Admits He Is Gay

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Give Peace a Shoe What do Yoko Ono, Mos Def, basketball star John Irving and Converse shoes have in common? Turns out, they're all peaceniks. Join them tomorrow (Thursday) at noon in Times Square for a public gathering for peace. The Youth with a Purpose Choir will sing "Imagine" and Yoko will unveil Converse's Peace Chuck Collection of shoes, featuring artwork by John Lennon. It warms

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Silverbacks of the (Hollywood) Jungle Tom Cruise: America's alpha male dons a silver mane and growls a lot in 'Collateral'. Defamer strikes again, because there is no such thing as TOO MANY Tommy Cruise jokes. Fay Wray: The 96 year old former lover of King Kong is dead. More importantly, she refused to have a cameo in the upcoming Peter Jackson remake. She'll never work in this town again

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Hey, At Least It's not MY Poetry I've come up with an irrefutable proof on how any unselfish act is inherrently amoral, and I'll tell it to you, dear Japhyjunket reader, soon enough. The thing is, before I post it and thereby doom myself to being branded a heartless cynic for all eternity, I thought I'd share with you these song lyrics, because I found them by accident and I love them.

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Two Shades of Hallelujah k.d. lang with special guest Rufus Wainwright Los Angeles patricians and their pearl necklaced wives mixed it up with lesbian mommies and gay dandies this weekend at the Hollywood Bowl’s Canadian themed, “An Evening with k.d. lang”. While Ms. Lang and her special guest, Rufus Wainwright both hail from the Great White North, their connection is deeper than location;

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He's Gonna Take You Up to Glendale... Few artists can break down the artist/audience wall like singer-songwriter Daniel Holguin. With an irreverent edge and unabashed honesty he commands your attention with his songwriting and banter. Accompanied by a cello on selected songs, Daniel takes "coffee house" folk-pop music to a new level of unique sophistication. With a set of songs touching

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The Princess and the Thief a fairytale   Once upon a time, in the great city of Carthage, long before it's fields were made barren by the Romans to the North and long before Aenius stole Dido's heart there lived a princess whose name time forgot.  Like all princesses, she lived in a great castle, filed with revelry and pomp.  Her life was an exciting one and she had been taught by the best

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Family Values- GOP Style The Jersey GOP proudly gives us "The Republican Babe of the Week".     Winners include Condi Rice, Dolly Parton and Sarah Michelle Gellar (a Democrat).  fulfilling their mandate to "put the party back in the Grand Old Party", these Jersey pachiderms throw out forty years of feminism to offer you up HOT CONSERVATIVE BABES.  Then again, maybe the GOP doesn't know

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Winning By Chocolate   Somehow, somewhere, I wound up on George W.'s mailing list.  I just received an email from our dear sweet first lady, Laura, asking me to volunteer for her husband's campaign. The cynic cries, what's the incentive?  Well, dear reader, I don't know about you, but Laura's offer of her recipie for Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies has swayed this citizen's mind.  Of course,

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I'm a Hipster, You're a Hipster, Aren't You Gonna Read 'A Confederacy of Dunces' Too? Whilst browsing through Amazon (Notice my wishlist in the sidebar. Buy me things.) I came across one of those little guides that Amazon gets members to make because they're too cheap to create content themselves. This Amazon.com list gets right to the point. So You'd Like to... Be A Hipster Artfag.

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Jlink: Tom Mauser's son Daniel was killed at Columbine. Tom's started a petition to extend the ban on assault weapons like AK47's and Uzi's so that the tragedy that took his son won't happen again. Please take a moment and sign Tom's petition. LINK| Tom Mauser's Petition to Renew the Assault Weapons Ban

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Jlink: This is a new feature to Japhyjunket. As most of you have noticed, this "blog" isn't really a blog at all, since very rarely does it link you to other sites, which ostensibly, is what a blog's about. My mama always said to give the people content and that's what i do, but apparently, I'll get higher ratings if I give you all some old fashioned blogging now and then. I promise to keep

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Stranger in Paradise To leave home always means something. It requires drastic tectonic shifts in the body and mind of the thing that moves. It's perception shift at its truest. Us humans are environmental creatures and this is never more evident than when your world is suddenly brand new. You are sudenly brand new. This is about L.A., of course. I'm struck not so much by the new

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How to make a Japhy Ingredients: 5 parts jealousy 5 parts ambition 1 part instinct Method:Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add a little caring if desired! Username: Personality cocktailFrom Go-Quiz.com

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The world is small but I'm smaller still A reflection of my need to grow tiny ants marching up a hill This is how I've come to the unknown.

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The Gothamist Interview In which our hero pretends to be famous I love the Gothamist. Well, actually, I love Gawker, but the Gothamist is a close second, honest. The semi-snarky blog has graciously listed its most popular interview questions, so that lesser lights like me can answer said questions and thereby pretend, that I, in fact, am Gothamist worthy. Let's pretend now I'm sitting at

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If we were all a little bit smarter, we would all live in Albuquerque. Here is a city with video stores that proudly refuse to carry Jerry Bruckheimer so that there's more room for their Fassbinder collection. Stroll up Central, a revitalized portion of neon-lined Route 66, and you'll see vintage camera shops, a cinema showing a film noir festival, a cafe that gives free internet access to

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Postcards from the Center Well, I've been on the road now for enough time that I don't know just how long on the road I've actually been. I'm in Dallas now, a city which, by virtue of being near another city (Fort Worth) has been given the high-fallutin' nickname, "The Metroplex", which, to me, sounds like something out of a Robocop movie. I've been wildly busy shooting all kinds of people

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I HEART NY Today is my sixth anniversary of being a New Yorker! Hooray! Hooray! Here's some secrets I've learned that I'd like to pass on to you. BROADWAY IS CRAP Between Disney, the Roundabout and the tourists, American theatre on 42nd Street is dead dead dead. That's why we have BAM. CHEAP DATE THAT ALWAYS WORKS Take the Staten Island Ferry. It's free and there's a nice

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The American Vision In the past years since September 11th, 2001 I have watched men who seek to control this country for their own agenda defy the will of their own party, the American people and the world. It is the right and the duty of Presidents to create a vision and see it through, but when that vision includes lying to your own people, restricting their rights to assemble, speak out

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Get FRAG'd FRAG’d is a hi-speed transcontinental feature-length documentary investigation into America’s LAN parties and gaming subcultures. Big and small, these events are amazing and interesting to a large, diverse, and rapidly growing community. We are coming to your town soon. Shooting on DV and super-8, we will be conducting interviews and capturing footage of your gaming competitions,

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Spring Arts Review 2004 Welcome to Japhyjunket's look at what's new, what's good and what sucks deep donkey ass in New York's art world this spring. While the Spring is usually a good time of the year to check out New York's art scene, this year is especially good. With the arrival of the Whitney's 2004 Biennial, galleries have gone into overdrive to produce unique- and for the most part,

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Spring Arts Review: Special Biennial Section Whitney 2004: An Old Navy Kinda Biennial To put it briefly- the most exciting thing about the Whitney Biennial this year was that I saw Lili Sobieski among the crowd of attendees. Considered to be the show which defines the state-of-the-art of art for America, no article about the Biennial can omit the phrase "the show everyone loves to hate."

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Spring Arts Review: Theatre The Best Dream I've Ever Seen BAM presents The Watermill Theatre's triumphal all-male version of A Midsummer's Night Dream Oh, what a gimmick these Brits do have! Directed by Edward Hall, this UK import of Shakespeare's most beloved comedy is a fantastically inspired work of genius. Playing at BAM through March 28th, any Shakespeare lover should hightail it

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Spring Arts Review: Galleries Spring Galleries Now. What to see in New York this spring. Kashya Hildebrand Gallery Tianbing Li: New Hybrids March 4 - April 17th 531 W. 25th St. #:212/366.5757 e: infony@kasyahilebrand.org http://www.kashyahildebrand.org Tianbing Li's deal in the kind of surreal hyperrealism usually reserved for David Cronenberg films. His New Hybrids deal

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Spring Arts Review: Film

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Censure Bush A gigantic Spring Arts Review is on it's way (including the Whitney Biennial), but today, I'd like you to take a look at this interview with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. I'd then ask you to call your representative (if you live in New York, his name is Congressman Charles B. Rangel. His DC phone number is 202-225-4365. His aides are very polite) and let them know that you

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"How was your trip to L.A.?", people ask me. Well, I'll tell you later- for now, read this L.A. Craigslist Ad, which is a.) funny and b.) so very sad.

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Greetings from La La Land- So, I'm in L.A. doing writer stuff. Here are the impressions so far: -All the stereotypes are true. I walk in to a coffee shop in the Valley with my producer and there's not one Valley Girl- there's 8, one of them in her mid-fifties, but with roots as straw blonde as Britney and lip liner as black as Whitney. - Oddly, the work ethic in L.A. is much stronger

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I am a Russian. What's your Inner European? brought to you by Quizilla

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Sleeping with Doug Faneuil I'm fascinated by Douglas Faneuil, the broker assistant who is the key witness in Martha's ImClone trial. Appearing yesterday in court, Doug was polite and sweet, but what makes him so fascinating is that he's a breed of boy that makes this city run: the young gay boy with aspirations. He's everywhere. Clean cut, agressive, with good sense for what's appropriate

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1076176570345203772004-02-07T09:56:00.000-08:002004-02-12T19:48:53.186-08:00

Proof of Life Yes folks- dear sweet Japhy is still with us. Forgive him for not posting. He's been awful busy (I'll tell you why later) and am also redesigning the site. Till then- Look! Pretty map! Pretty shiny map! create your own visited states map or write about it on the open travel guide

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1075059023678261592004-01-25T11:30:00.000-08:002004-01-25T11:36:31.920-08:00

Tarnation News Hey there folks- This is more for my benefit than yours. Here's a small compilation of press articles about my friend Jonathan' Caouette's film Tarnation, which got raves at Sundance. Congratulations Jonathan! Wired News- on how the movie cost a little more than TWO HUNDRED dollars to make. Movie City News - on how it's being called a masterpiece. Sunspot - on how

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1073199352396862512004-01-03T22:55:00.000-08:002004-01-05T11:02:32.293-08:00

2004. A buzzword lexicon. To ring in the new year this year, I journeyed forth to bonny Salem, Massachusetts, home of witches and shoe-manufacturing in search of a way to divine what is to come in the coming year. Stumbling into "What a Witch!" a small store not far from the Peabody Essex Museum, I gathered the things I needed: a scrying mirror, bloodwort and Roget's Compendium of

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1071876382764574152003-12-19T15:26:00.000-08:002003-12-19T15:28:13.826-08:00

Sappy Solstice, Everyone! Hey there folks. As usual, the season is filled with the sounds of the season: the clash of battle axes as you join the barbarian horde fighting your way through Bloomies, the soft crackling sounds of fire as you set ablaze all the crappy fuzzy sweaters given to you by Aunt Mildred and what's Christmas without a little stressed out screaming with the one you love?

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1071172138712910982003-12-11T11:48:00.000-08:002003-12-11T14:27:02.200-08:00

Theatre Review: Conspiracy Mom A trip down memory lane leads to saccharine tears in “Frame 312” When I used to work at ABC, one of my co-workers would try to bond with me over his pet interest in the JFK assassination. One day, he actually explained to me, using real English words, how Elvis was in fact, responsible for the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. JFK’s death was undeniably the

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1069292347978399152003-11-19T17:39:00.000-08:002003-11-19T17:49:11.250-08:00

The Most Pompous Thing I Have Ever Done Yet. Quizilla is like Old Faithful, only for quizzes, instead of geothermically superheated steam. Every week or so a new "Must Do" quiz comes out. Since I've written before about my dislike of academic jargonism (which has nothing to do with real intellectual inquiry), I thought it would be fun to take the What 20th Century Theorist are You? Quiz.

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1069206376530742112003-11-18T17:46:00.000-08:002003-11-18T18:22:27.576-08:00

Let's Never Marry A Gay against Gay Marriage Dearly Beloved, We are gathered here today to celebrate the union of Love and Law as expressed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. How glorious is the Divine Creator who looks down upon these two anthropomorphizations this magical day and says unto them, "Lo! May mankind legislate every emotion under the sun!" If any of you know of

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1068677754462160202003-11-12T14:55:00.000-08:002003-11-12T15:06:55.543-08:00

Will the Real Metrosexual Please Stand Up? A Phone Call One of my childhood buds is a Red Sox fan, but being an adopted New Yorker, I’m a Yankees fan. Two hours after the Yankees inevitably beat the Red Sox in Game 7 of the AL Championship, my friend called me up, obviously a little bit drunk: “Rooting for the Yankees is stupid.” “If by stupid you mean, being on the winning side,

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1068175884986230912003-11-06T19:31:00.000-08:002003-11-07T14:03:35.136-08:00

Why The Matrix Revolutions is Great To read the reviews for The Matrix Revolutions, you would think the final installment of the wildly ambitious sci-fi trilogy was a remake of Battlefield Earth. Having just seen it, I have to say to all the detractors, "Give us [the moviegoers] a fuckin' break!" I'm not exactly sure what these people expected, but apparantley a movie that is one of the

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1068063189397241932003-11-05T12:13:00.000-08:002003-11-05T12:15:45.010-08:00

The Aesthetic of the Cheap. New York is the capitol of capital. For a city that has been the home of the likes of Duke Ellington, Jackson Pollack, Elia Kazan, Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Laurie Anderson and countless others, the New York of today is a nearly impossible place for artists to both survive and create. The galleries are filled with artists from Pittsburgh, Providence, Berlin and

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1067893855034661342003-11-03T13:10:00.000-08:002003-11-03T13:12:36.490-08:00

dearest internet, For my Lesbian Love Tragedy version of Othello (I'm calling it 'Othellia'), I need lots of cardboard. Can you get me some or tell me where I can get some? All my love, Japhy P.S.- I also need girlish actors to audition for me. P.P.S- And a pony.

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1067278337634400262003-10-29T14:03:00.000-08:002003-10-29T14:12:07.676-08:00

TRICK OR TREAT! TRICK Japhy Presents the Top Costumes of 2003 The Metrosexual: Put on a mud mask, manicure your nails and wear your favorite Diesel jeans and Burberry jockstrap! Finish it off with some lip glass and a really tight t-shirt and be everybody's favorite media-coopted fashion statement du jour! This costume is not complete without a quintent of nelly stereotypes following

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1067463031290171692003-10-29T13:30:00.000-08:002003-10-30T09:05:55.226-08:00

Blogs Suck. Camille Paglia says, in her new interview in Salon: "Blog reading for me is like going down to the cellar amid shelves and shelves of musty books that you're condemned to turn the pages of. Bad prose, endless reams of bad prose! There's a lack of discipline, a feeling that anything that crosses one's mind is important or interesting to others. People say that the best part about

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1066953678469899742003-10-23T17:01:00.000-07:002003-10-23T17:01:39.320-07:00

Come One! Come All! Oh! Don't I feel like Uncle Walt opeing Disneyland right now? I do! It is with deep pride and insincerity that I introduce to you Japhyotype - Portraits and Views 1824-1928, the latest expansion to the Japhy empire. To get there, just click on the "Images" link above. Go my children! Go!

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1066869421338691812003-10-22T17:37:00.000-07:002003-10-22T17:39:08.043-07:00

Adam Superstar I'd like to tell you all a story about a young man named Adam. I have known Adam for a few years now and on the whole, he's mainly irritated me. Adam has an intensity that kind of makes you want to run screaming. He also happens to have a terrible- I mean, terrible, love life, which he wants to tell everyone about. The combination, of course, is just what we want in a *pop

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1066364768463317982003-10-16T21:26:00.000-07:002003-10-16T21:26:08.260-07:00

What an amazing game! Cop cars are playing their sirens in the streets! Cheers everywhere!

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Waiting for the Goldbergs Though I am no longer a student at NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing, I'm excited to hear that they've received over a million dollars from Rita and Burton Goldberg, specifically for playwriting. As reported in The Times, they've admonished department chair and beret-wearer, Mark Dickerman, to focus the money specifically to playwriting, which I think is just

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1066172850585531942003-10-14T16:07:00.000-07:002003-10-26T19:44:19.316-08:00

The Love of Japan Entirely There are We! America loves Britain. We love the tea, we love the accent, but most of all we love their constant disdain for us "Yanks". We like to see each other as allies. While Barbados and India still chafe under the banner of post-colonialism, the original rebelling colony has moved on. We're a country of free-spirits and independent thinkers- we don't

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1066019972391095002003-10-12T21:39:00.000-07:002003-10-12T21:45:07.706-07:00

Death of a Blog My deepest sympathies to Ms. Modern Age for being voted by The Village Voice, "Best Scenester of 2003". How cruel of the Village Voice to essentially damn what was a wonderful site with such a destructive title. You'll see now that The Modern Age is in ruins. Since, if any of her cadre, I'd be the one most likely to be Elton John, I'd like to pull out my sunglasses, sit

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1066018352290495432003-10-12T21:12:00.000-07:002003-10-12T21:44:59.973-07:00

Craig & Me Update In which Craig Newmark shows his love for the little guy Earlier this week, I wrote craigslist founder, Craig Newmark about a problem I was having regarding Craigslist, which he has described as " a place for people to get a break". I placed an ad for a casting call and offered one dollar as renumeration (in addition to a video tape/transportation and food) to fufill the

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1065734674913637572003-10-09T14:24:00.000-07:002003-10-09T14:25:05.346-07:00

LAST DAY TO REGISTER!!! Hey New York! Tommorow (Friday) is the last day to register to vote and switch your party affiliation if you want to vote in the Democratic primary on March 2nd! The forms are available here. In NYC, drop off the forms at: New York County Board of Elections 200 Varick St. New York, NY 10014 Phone: 212-886-3800 Serioulsy, y'all, don't go putting down "

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1065726142279965922003-10-09T12:02:00.000-07:002003-10-09T12:28:36.306-07:00

Craig & Me Japhy's brief encounter with the Craig Newmark: craigslist founder, geek politico and chill guy. In my Inbox this week: An email from Craig Newmark. Any semi-savvy young metropolitan knows about craigslist, the free community meeting ground where you can meet the love of your life, get a new apartment together, find a free bed to shag on and then find jobs to get away from

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1064439704652279462003-09-24T14:41:00.000-07:002003-09-24T14:49:40.786-07:00

My Dearest Jill- Miss Quinn, it has been far to long since I have touched your ivory face or gazed upon your sun-wheat hair. As I think of you, somewhere past the gull cry, I find myself asking, "Why oh why did you go and become a pirate?!?!" Pirates are horrible bloodthirsty scavengers of the sea! You were fair and kind and now you probably have a peg leg and a crew of deserters and

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1064333517972112292003-09-23T09:11:00.000-07:002003-09-29T12:50:40.213-07:00

Theatre Review: Over-Dose: The Weird and Mainly Unpleasant World of Dose: The Musical "-Do you like me? Yeah? -Would you do something really special for me? What? -Heroin." (from Dose: The Musical) I'd like to begin this review by pointing out that most people, me included, go to the theatre to enjoy themselves. The audience, for the most part, wants to have a good time. The

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1063741099028640462003-09-16T12:38:00.000-07:002003-09-16T12:54:28.036-07:00

Advice for the High School Senior From the College Senior Hey there Senior! Congratulations, you're almost out of high school! You've taken your senior photo and now, if you haven't already, you find yourself spending each weekend at some new campus that tries to woo you with impressive talk about "academic rigor" and "fun dorm living!". You've eaten at more Sodexo cafeteria's than you

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-106365462823608282003-09-15T12:37:00.000-07:002003-09-15T12:39:54.810-07:00

This is General Wesley K. Clark. From NPR.com: "Clark was Supreme Allied Commander of Europe from 1997 to 2000. A West Point graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and decorated Vietnam War veteran, Clark was the director of strategic plans and policy for the Joint Staff at the Pentagon from 1994 to 1996 and lead military negotiator for the Bosnian Peace Accords at Dayton, Ohio, in 1995." This week

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1063326824926697942003-09-11T17:33:00.000-07:002003-09-11T18:01:23.333-07:00

The War on Terrorism Count...It Keeps Growing and Growing and Growing... Hope you had a Happy Terrorism Day! I'm not going to write about September 11th specifically today. Suffice it to say that turning on my TV this morning, I saw a special news segment on "What Celebrities Were Doing on September 11th" in which I found out that Christian Slater called his agent to find out when his flight

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1063134631356496942003-09-09T12:10:00.000-07:002003-09-09T12:42:40.410-07:00

Our Dull tomorrow: The Latest Issue of Time Hails the Death of The Future Take a look at the September 8th issue of Time, a special report entitled What's Next- Our fearless forecasts in the worlds of Science, Medicine, Tech, Sports, Design, Movies and More.[Click here to see it online] The "Look into tomorrow" theme is certainly not a novel one, but what's so telling about America's

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1062555545689361842003-09-02T19:19:00.000-07:002003-09-03T14:11:59.473-07:00

Come Have a Happy Ending! Once a Chinese massage parlor (with release!) Happy Ending is now a hip, swank, soiree (with release!) Come celebrate the birth of one party and the death of another! At 8 p.m.: The Happy Ending Reading Series begins with music, magic and Rick Moody! Free. (details) At 10 p.m: Dean Johnson and Johnny McGovern say goodbye to their own Happy Ending party. I'll

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An Open Letter to Daryl Lang (Which You Can Read Too) "I'm just writing to point out that the destination you describe in your "Gone Hikin'" entry sounds an awful lot like New *Hampshire*, not New York. But have a great trip, wherever the road takes you!" - Daryl Lang, regarding my most recent blog entry *Japhynote: Daryl Lang can be read every day at his stupendous journal @

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Gone Hikin' Japhy will be spending the next week or so summering in the glorious White Mountains of New York. His goals are to climb Mount Washington, see Clark's Bears, swim out to the shark rock in our lake, go ride one of the rock flumes and see (or rather not see) the remains of the Old Man in The Mountain. He'll return next week, rested and hopefully capable of writing in the first

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1061237180350352862003-08-18T13:06:00.000-07:002003-08-19T22:23:00.716-07:00

Jerry's Kids Love Japhy. So Should You! Welcome back folks! I'm proud to announce that The Get Japhy His Clie Back Fund is more than a third of the way to its 300 dollar goal! Thanks to generous contributors who value the prose and puns of Japhy, his Clie is well on the way to becoming a reality! However, we still have a ways to go and we need your support...your support in greenbacks,

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1060997603396307092003-08-15T18:33:00.000-07:002003-08-15T18:41:12.383-07:00

I Heart Electricty Hey there folks- 9:12pm Causing people to cheer and holler out their windows, power just returned to my current location (25th Street and 8th Avenue) about ten minutes ago. Amid both the general community friendliness that marks New York and the price gouging done by markets and restaraunts as food supplies dwindled (I managed to snag some chicken from Chez Brigitte

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1060809591755049552003-08-13T14:19:00.000-07:002003-08-13T15:02:21.270-07:00

See Me. Feel Me. Touch Me. Buy Me. Like Tommy, I'm a kid in need Hi there folks. Bad news. My Clie, which I love and adore, which stores all my phone numbers, ideas and notes, has been lost. You have no idea how I've looked all around for it. It's my own fault, I'll admit it- I was in such a rush to get to the orphanage to help out those poor little tykes, that I must have left it lying

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1060632719473604632003-08-11T13:11:00.000-07:002003-08-11T13:39:54.603-07:00

Tiresias Speaks: Blind Items from a He-She Know-It-All Greetings Gossip Hounds, I've been working on a new blog for a while that will prove that the concepts of "Freedom" and "Liberty" are utterly meaningless and must be struck from the lexicon at once if we are to save democracy. It's a bit involved, and seeing as how we're in the dog days of August, when brains turn to fried eggs and

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1060268808948437312003-08-07T08:06:00.000-07:002003-08-07T08:12:33.816-07:00

A Call to Arms Dear Friends, I'd like to take this opportunity today to officially announce my candidacy for Governor of California. While rumours have been rampant over the past few weeks, it brings me great delight to say to you, and to the people of the Sunshine State (no wait, that's Florida...) um, the state with the bear on its flag, that I intend to throw my hat into the

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1060184549332246982003-08-06T08:42:00.000-07:002003-08-06T08:45:32.220-07:00

A Touch of Class: The O.C. is Good Dumb Summer Fun Ryan Atwood (Benjamin McKenzie) has it rough. He scored in the 98th percentile on the PSAT's, he looks like a dimpled, cuter and younger version of Russel Crowe and he has the biceps that come from hours spent at a high class gym perfecting them. The thing is, Ryan's guns weren't toned at some tony gym, but on the mean streets, where, in

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1059235502317706122003-07-26T09:05:00.000-07:002003-07-26T11:44:56.443-07:00

The Anti-Intellect or, Why Theorywankers Piss Me Off You meet them at loft parties in Brooklyn, or outside the Film Forum. They are young and most likely English or Film majors. They are universally apolitical. They are, or rather fancy themselves, the heirs of Bohemia and the Left Bank, and yet they are slavish in their devotion to the ideas of the past. Meet the Intellectual, who's

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1058977988750460662003-07-23T09:33:00.000-07:002003-07-23T10:08:09.280-07:00

Japhy is Having More Fun Than You Are One never knows what will happen at Fiammi. Rather than talk about the party, per se- let's focus on this photo of the party- ya know, as a piece of art. Fantastic composition, yes, the use of color sublimely restrained and the subjects are at once beautiful and horrifying. Let's break it down shall we? From left to right, we begin with T.Sammi.

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1058820294369180682003-07-21T13:44:00.000-07:002003-07-21T14:01:25.300-07:00

Theatre Review: Avenue Q: A Beautiful Play for our Neighborhood There are so many superlatives I want to throw at Avenue Q, currently in previews and opening July 31st at the Golden Theatre, that I risk burying my message underneath a mountain of adulatory roses, so let me begin simply: Go see this musical. It is by far the best thing on Broadway and the most exciting and

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1057302104962935052003-07-04T00:01:00.000-07:002003-07-04T00:45:30.400-07:00

Get Ready for The Fireworks How a universally ignored issue has suddenly become an election flashpoint. If you had asked anyone six months ago what the major issues going into the 2004 elections would be the answers would most likely be the usual: the economy, social security and healthcare. Today, bewilderingly and seemingly out of the blue, one issue seems to be shaping up as the fulcrum

Japhynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308462.post-1057177060243028482003-07-02T13:17:00.000-07:002003-07-02T13:18:04.540-07:00

Brockobitch Yes, I hate just blindly linking people to other sites (after all, you should be paying attention to ME!), but Wagner James Au's piece in Salon about Julia Roberts love of the hardcore violence videogame Halo, is just too funny to resist. So here's to Deathmatch, Julia Roberts-style

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Katharine Hepburn: 1907-2003 It was only two weeks ago I sat in my Modern Drama class watching the film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. Onto the screen stumbles a frail looking woman, frail but for her chin, which thrust outward as if decreeing by sheer will the nobility of this frozen, fractured woman. The character of course, is Mary Tyrone, a dope fiend.

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Hulk Smash! The metaphysics of the monster In a perfect world, Ang Lee's "Hulk", which opened in theatres yesterday, would be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. Lee set out to raise the action-blockbuster genre to a new level and he's succeeded brilliantly. I haven't been this jazzed by a movie in a very very long time. From Danny Elfman's nearly perfect score, filled with ever

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japhy unplugged : im not dead will explain all soon much to tell

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Sunday Brunch @ Japhyjunket: Damien Rice Ed Note: Sunday Brunch is an occasional series focusing on the things in life that justify humanity's continued existence. Like Brunch. I've been sitting here for the past five minutes trying to think what magic words I have to say to get you, gentle reader, to go out and buy Damien Rice's CD this very instant. First, I thought I'd write, "If I

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