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“This role’s destroying you.”

Black Swan (2010) Dir. Darren Aronofsky 

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Going through this old tumblr and came across this old post of mine. We talked about this sequence a lot when planning the club scenes in Ibiza.

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“None of us are taking photos, we’re so in the moment.“

Ibiza (2018) dir. Alex Richanbach

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These are great. Thank you.

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Ibiza (2018) Directed by Alex Richanbach

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It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that when we shot this scene, I hoped someone would break it down into gifs and share it on tumblr. This is the kind of post I loved finding from my favorite movies. Thank you, Mikkel.

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a picture & a story. #2

It’s really hard to pick a favorite actor, but no one sticks out quite like the great Jack Nicholson.

I often post old pictures of Jack on here, but the one above is particularly cool. This one is fro, perhaps my favorite portrait photographer, Martin Schoeller. It’s the cover of his book “Close Up.”

I first saw these photos as large format prints hanging in a restaurant and I was immediately taken with them. I currently have the book on my coffee table. The detail, clarity and the specialness of the faces is unparalleled. 

A couple years ago I read “NICHOLSON” a biography by Marc Eliot and it read like a thriller. Jack’s life and work is unlike anything else. It’s exciting, it’s powerful and it often boggles the mind to try to understand how he did so much for so long.

When I think about Hollywood, and Star Power and the things that make this town so fun, I always think about Jack.

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a picture & a story. #1

I have not used this tumblr much over the last couple of years. In fact, I had to reset my password just to log in. I almost certainly won’t keep up with it, but it’s always good to try new things, so I’m going to post a photo and write something quick as often as I think to and see how it goes. Of course, this first picture is of myself, sitting on my couch, just before writing this. I’m wearing a backwards hat, which is a thing I didn’t start doing until my late 20s and have only slowly built confidence with it. I’ve always been afraid that either I a) wasn’t cool enough to do it, or b) would look like I thought it/I was cool, which is even worse. So I just stayed away from it entirely.

In the last couple of years I grew to like the casual way a backwards hat makes me feel. It’s a reminder that doing things that feel good to you is cool, you can’t waste too much time on how you might be perceived, because the way you are perceived is completely out of your control. You might do a boring thing so that you won’t be judged, but then you’ll be judged all the same. (Oh boy. Just stop.)

Today I went with my fiancé and dog to get a bagel and coffee (my favorite Sunday morning tradition) and have spent most of the day reading. I tried to avoid seeing too much about Trump, which is almost impossible. So I read a NY Times piece on some of the longest tenured guys in baseball (I have a never ending interest in process & longevity), a profile on Shirley MacLaine (process & longevity strike again) and am spending some time re-reading a project that I’m hopefully going to be shooting soon (my own process towards my own hopeful longevity).

I also spent an entirely reasonable amount of time researching watches on Hodinkee.

All that to say, today I put on my hat backwards ignored our current President and indulged in some things I found relaxing.

Here’s a picture. The hat is an Oregon hat and I like it.

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I ate a breakfast burrito on a green screen. I love breakfast burritos. @joshuasalzberg made this, which I guess is about breakfast burritos and us.

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Simone Manuel just became the first Black American to win a gold medal for swimming

Gifs: NBC Sports

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Mick Jagger, Madonna and Tony Curtis at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Mortons, Los Angeles. March 24,1997. Photograph by Dafydd Jones.

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Chuck knows for a fact, but he’s guessing also…

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Tonight I Ate A Lot

Here’s an essay on tonight in Atlanta. I just ate a lot. Like multiple entrees. I wanted to try all the southern comfort food and I did. And then I finished all of the dishes I ordered. Plus dessert. I just ate like way too much. This was an essay on that.

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Action Bronson & Mayhem on F*ck That's Delicious : Atlanta

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Alone In Hotels

It’s been awhile since I’ve used this thing, but why not dive in to a website that no one uses anymore. I thought maybe since I’ve been on the road a lot and making a lot of different stuff, that it would be good for me to start using this more like a blog. Even that word feels weird. Is it cooler if I call these “Essays”? Somehow that feels like what people do now. 

So, let’s do that. Here’s an “Essay” on being in hotels all the time. Although, I might not really create a full thought here, so if I don’t, let’s call it a Life Of Pablo Essay. I’m posting it tonight, but I reserve the right to change it and update it and put it on other sites as frequently as I want for as long as I want. God Bless Kanye.

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Because I’ve been working on the road a lot this year, I’ve been spending a lot of time in hotels. And as someone who hasn’t lived alone in a long time, it’s been awhile since I spent this much time by myself in a room with no other human body near by. I can get online and check in with people and even socialize to whatever degree online socializing is socializing, but ultimately it’s just me in this room overlooking a city I’m not super familiar with, thinking my thoughts.

And guess what, I kind of like it. I like that I’m stuck with myself more these days. It feels a lot like how it felt when I was growing up. Before I started to figure out who I was.

I remember when I was younger, on a family vacation, I went in a hotel bathroom and laid out a pillow and some blankets in the bath tub in the middle of the night because everyone else was sleeping, and I wanted to stay up to think.

“Wanted to” .... “panic attack” ....it’s all relative now. 

Regardless, I used to feel alone all the time. And I don’t feel so alone anymore. Not feeling AS alone, is great, but sometimes I miss my old friend, loneliness.

Hotels are peaceful for me. It’s just me and my dumb ideas, and my rambling thoughts and that little feeling that you are removed from the rest of the world. Sometimes that resonates as pain, but a lot of times it resonates in a much more positive feeling. A feeling that from anywhere in the world, whether anyone else is there or not, I can always think, I can always write. The next idea is just around the corner.

And I love room service. When you’re working, most of the time they pay for your room service. That’s honestly the best part.

Good night.

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Hawaii (📷 by Garry Shandling)

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Simpler times.

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Flashback Friday: Christian Slater and Chris Rock, 1991