| From: "BushwickBK.com" <jeremy.sapienza@gmail.com> |
1:08 PM me: howdy. I'm going to be interviewing Peter Weller for an article for Rolling Stone, and he grew up in Bushwick
he's Robocop, incidentally, and was also in Naked Lunch, won an Academy award in 93 for a short film he directed
1:09 PM he's featured in an upcoming documentary about William Burroughs that I'm reviewing
BushwickBK.com: cool
me: I could do a side interview about him growing up in Bushwick if you'd like, I think. Let me know if you'd be interested.
BushwickBK.com: yes, do it
1:10 PM me: word
I'm also interviewing Sonic Youth, apparently, although I can't name a single one of their songs
BushwickBK.com: how;s your new area
haha
yeah Iw ouldn't knwo either
1:11 PM me: pretty sweet, it's near my favorite bar, Union Pool, and luckily we live far enough from all that such that I don't have to see too many white artist types as our enclave is mostly Puerto Rican and black, which is good because I'm not sure I could handle being thrown back into white liberal society all of a sudden
1:12 PM oh, also
I've been hanging out a bit with this totally crazy chick who moved to Bushwick recently
BushwickBK.com: haha, ned to ease your way toward Bedford
me: bite your tongue
Bedford my ass
anyway, this chick
actually writes pretty cool pop songs
1:13 PM and is producing an album with money she earns from foot fetish parties
was thinking of doing a profile on her at some point if you're interested
BushwickBK.com: that is the most absurd fucking thing
me: oh, that's not even half of it
BushwickBK.com: very much so
me: I brought her out to my friend's place last night
1:14 PM she got on a laptop and did a bunch of web-based tarot readings
BushwickBK.com: the people, they miss barrett
wild
me: to figure out whether or not her manager at foot fetish club was mad at her
BushwickBK.com: lol
jesus that's nutty
1:15 PM me: she stayed over at my place last night and sat in the den reading about sex slavery on my laptop until seven in the morning while I slept
has called me twice this morning so far
she was talking about how her music manager just called her with some good news about something or other
and she says, "I was going to tell my dad, but I don't really talk to him at all, so I said to myself, 'I'll call Barrett.'"
that's some crazy right there
1:16 PM BushwickBK.com: yeah, also, aren;t you livign with a chick?
me: in conclusion, please send me an application form for gayness
BushwickBK.com: or that not an exclusive thing
hhaha
me: oh, it's not sexual
this is my old friend
and also my entertainment lawyer
I've lived with her before
BushwickBK.com: ah
me: I'm still seeing two other chicks
1:17 PM BushwickBK.com: yeah everyone should be closer with their entertainment lawyers, I always say
me: or, rather, I'm avoiding one of them because she's also crazy
well,
I'm living in the den
paying $500 for the privilege, as it's a one-bedroom
the advantages are
that she took care of furnishing the place and all that stuff
1:18 PM and won't let me do hard drugs
BushwickBK.com: yeah you seemed deficient in that area before
me: so if you think of it as rehab, it's a bargain
BushwickBK.com: oh, very good
how you doing with that
me: fine, totally got off
again
lol
1:19 PM but for real this time, as this chick is an Arab and yells at me for stuff
so I can't feasibly maintain my druggie lifestyle
BushwickBK.com: Aabs hate disobedience I hear
me: this one is a Lebanese princess stoner from Dallas
1:20 PM kind of hard to describe, actually, but we've been bestest friends for a long time
anywho
I'll get back to you with one of those aforementioned pieces
oh, wait, also
1:21 PM I'm meeting with True/Slant execs on Wednesday about Project 3Jane
BushwickBK.com: Queen Noor is from Texas if I recall, so, keep that connction intact you knowmsayin
me: they're interested in getting involved and perhaps implementing the software across their system
BushwickBK.com: oh yeah? keep me up on that
me: also promoting the project in general
1:22 PM BushwickBK.com: antiwar might be a good thing to hook up to it, if it is what I think it is
me: okay. Also, I;m going to be doing that announcement piece explaining the project in further detail after I've had the meeting, you can run it for free on BushwickBK if you'd like, will also run on HuffPo
1:23 PM yeah, as I mentioned
I converted Raimondo from enemy to ally in like four minutes flat on gchat
he's interested
BushwickBK.com: oh, sweet
yeah he's exactly the right thing for it
half his column are tearing up shitty olumnists
me: but I couldn't work too closely with him or publicly, I don't think
1:24 PM without pissing off a bunch of other people
I'm already juggling a lot of mutually hostile folks
it's going to be weird
but I like Raimondo even if he's a bit off his rocker
guy left like five comments on my article
BushwickBK.com: oh he's nutty but fun
and smart
1:25 PM me: yeah, but he's viewed as an anti-semite by a lot of people
1:26 PM of course, a lot of people are unfairly
BushwickBK.com: he's not remotely
they are morons, only nocons think he's anti-semitic
me: I know, but he did the Israeli art student story
and that freaks out a bunch of people
BushwickBK.com: 2/3 of the people at antiwar are at least half jewish
1:27 PM me: of course
BushwickBK.com: yeah so?
you can't even mention israel without being a holocauster
you know that
me: not necessary a problem
I know, I got accused of anti-semitism a few months back
1:28 PM because my upcoming book attacks a lot of columnists who are mostly JEwish
which is like accusing a basketball critic of being anti-black
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XDLnpGlOHFU/SzAPDmreB9I/AAAAAAAAEqg/NQYTIcpAWyA/s1600-h/barrettbrown.jpg
BushwickBK.com: haha
1:29 PM yeh next they'll call all critics of bankers anti-jewish
me: they already do that
BushwickBK.com: or a guide to doctors in boca raton florida
1:30 PM me: of course, that was just Robert Stacy McCain, no one else is going to seriously accuse me of anti-semitism, and even he was half-joking
1:31 PM BushwickBK.com: it's amazing that still sticks, it's been so overused
oh reminds me, my old forum anti-state.com
I got this hasbara ad
$100/month
first i asked the guy why he would think my readers would be interested in his site
me: hasbara?
1:32 PM BushwickBK.com: he said, irrelevant, do you wan tthe ad or not
yeah, Israel state-funded propaganda
I told the guy I'll take his money
me: lol
BushwickBK.com: the users ae already making fun of it
me: at a site called "anti-state", at that
lol