Random Notes (Janvier)

Cannot get a proper blog post goin for the life of me. It’s been since last April that I was forced into some random notes, but “have at thee then” (as m’man Thor would say). Learned this month that a Ghost Rider 2 sequel (booo!) just got signed off on, but that Marvel Studios is nickel n’ diming Sam Jackson and Mickey Rourke for possible roles in Iron Man 2 (c’mon y’all); loved Revolutionary Road for that rarely seen, all-American “hollow emptiness, quiet desperation” p.o.v.; as the wheels keep turning for my book deal, the next project to be picked up is The Masters, no bullshit; that said, keep your eyes peeled this summer for BronxBiannual.com; speaking to former Prince/James Brown/D’Angelo road manager Alan Leeds on Monday (happy belated, Alan), plus former Madhouse drummer Dale Alexander; peace to Wax Poetics while we at it; cannot find a good book to dig into, so a re-read of David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster will have to do; glad Chloé Mortaud is a black Miss France 2009, but she ain’t the first, or even the second (peace to Miss France 2000, Sonia Rolland); and rest in peace to the late French hiphop journalist Antoine Garnier. I haven’t seen the brother since a powwow at the World Bar up on the fifth floor of Printemps de l’Homme a few years ago. He will be missed…