man, maurice must be making so much bank this year. i wonder how you spend a massive windfall when you're in your early 80s.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
eat out more often
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for posting about the documentary, it premieres tonight at 7PM EST. Here is a schedule with some additional airdates:
http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=712469
― Bangs, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
this doc was awesome imo
many fun facts, like outside over there was inspired by sendak's childhood terror after learning of the lindbergh kidnapping
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope nobody watches it w/ their kids, sendak is fond of the word motherfucker
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Absolutely, absolutely wonderful interview on Fresh Air b/w an agéd and sober Sendak, on his legacy, death, and new book. Can't recommend it enough - he's a little hazy at points, but never loses the thread. About his new book Bumble Ardy
Sendak says that he worked on Bumble-ardy while taking care of his longtime partner, Eugene Glynn, who died of lung cancer in 2007."When I did Bumble-ardy, I was so intensely aware of death," he says. "Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did Bumble-ardy. I did Bumble-ardy to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live as any human being does. But there's no question that the book was affected by what was going on here in the house. ... Bumble-ardy was a combination of the deepest pain and the wondrous feeling of coming into my own. And it took a long time. It took a very long time."
"When I did Bumble-ardy, I was so intensely aware of death," he says. "Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did Bumble-ardy. I did Bumble-ardy to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live as any human being does. But there's no question that the book was affected by what was going on here in the house. ... Bumble-ardy was a combination of the deepest pain and the wondrous feeling of coming into my own. And it took a long time. It took a very long time."
Listen here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140435330/this-pig-wants-to-party-maurice-sendaks-latest
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.daemonsbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Bumble-Ardy-550x440.jpg
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
Amazing interview. Amazing guy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/02/maurice-sendak-interview
Just this part alone!
Of Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times, he says: "That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Just came to post that interview. I never bothered to try to watch the movie of Where The Wild Things Are but I did see the documentary the Spike Jonze made about him at the the same time and there was some hilarious stuff in that.
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 October 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.m/the_big_picture/2009/10/spike-jonze-is-wild-about-maurice-sendak.html?p=2This was my favorite part:
In one extraordinary scene, Jonze films Sendak reimagining his mind-set as an ambitious young artist, almost greedy for success. "I want to be famous, I want to be snooty," Sendak says, reconnecting with his younger self. "I want to have a big, gray shiny car and everybody will see it. Here comes Big Mo! Holy [moly]. It's him, it's him! Sure I'll give you an autograph, you [expletive]."
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 October 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
NYT twitter feed reporting Sendak has died...
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
Aw man. But such a life!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
I want to pimp this interview again. Introspective, sad, and brilliant Maurice Sendak on mortality, his sexuality, childhood, inspiration, and looking out the window.
― et tu, twinkletoes? (remy bean), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
wow. really sad news.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
NYT obit now up -- cause was complications from a recent stroke:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
RIP. A helluva a guy.
Woah at Spike Jonze native Brooklynite connection.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
Love the description of his books:
"Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten..."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
"I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready."
― et tu, twinkletoes? (remy bean), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wow, RIP Mr. Sendak. Thank you for freeing up the minds and spirits of children and human beings everywhere.
I just read Night Kitchen to the kids at bedtime last night, for the who-knows-how-manyth time? Tonight we'll do Wild Things, for sure.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think i've ever read my daughter a Sendak book. maybe tnite will be the first...
― Mordy, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
Bumble-Ardy – his last – is really lovely and dark.
― et tu, twinkletoes? (remy bean), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
its hard to be sad sad because he livef such a rich, complicated, long life. but jesus this is like someone telling me my irascible great-uncle maurice just died.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
otm but RIP anyway
his recent ubiquity on TV (HBO doc, colbert appearances) was a real gift
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
His interview with Colbert is one of my favourite things I've seen on TV recently. Such an awesome dude, RIP.
― Roz, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
fucking hell.
RIP
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
this makes me crazy sad.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/544825_3499025228098_1045659274_3235343_2065513989_n.jpg
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link