oh hello
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/12/17/consider-this-james-franco-on-the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower/
And Ezra Miller, well he makes me want to be gay, his character is so full of vitality.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
i like how in the freaks & geeks reunion article in vanity fair judd apatow talks about when they cast him as desario, they did so because they thought his mouth was too big for his face, he looked "off" and weird, etc. then all the women around them started talking about how gorgeous he was and they thought they were nuts cause they couldnt see it
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 December 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
interior. leather bar. looks like it might be really good
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 December 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
oh God, put out or shut up, Franco.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
ezra miller is crushworthy
wait he's only 20 nvm but what a lovely man he will one day grow to be
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
EM has an all-time jawline, but he needs to grow out of using it to maximize his scuzzball cachet.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
Equine men act foalishly.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
ugh yeah beatnik thing is nagl on him
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
maybe it will grow on you
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
like moffe growing vpon the skull of a man
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
actual lol
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nb5sZPl-dE
"James Franco didn't suck any dick last night? Now I know you all are trippin."
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 21 December 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFu61oFi_6Y
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
James Franco in wackface:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouVDDB-Oo90
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, 18 January 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
James Franco declares himself the mayor of Gay Town
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
jesus christ
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
brilliant?
― :C (crüt), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
its awful, surprise
― purp (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
hay i got wasted & painted some tshirts also welcome to gay town yr welcome love james franco
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
"James Franco: a West LA creative writing major and aspiring film-maker type who is always four months away from finding out about WFMU."
― Cunga, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 06:32 (eleven years ago) link
Promotional stills for Franco's adaptation of As I Lay Dying are making the rounds
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
here's the link:
http://screenrant.com/as-i-lay-dying-movie-images-photos-james-franco/
blurb references the Great Plopsby, and intimates Franco's possible plan to adapt Blood Meridian
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Na976y1.jpg
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Strut, pout, put it out, that's what you want from Faulkner.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
irl lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Watched a good block if a freaks and geeks marathon yesterday. Unfortunately the chill beauty of JF was interrupted every commercial breaking by mark Maron simulating sex while giving a thumbs up to the camera. Total Franco buzzkill
― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://laist.com/2013/05/30/james_franco_mural.php
― polyphonic, Thursday, 30 May 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
someone needs to spot this guy in the open and hit him with a couple tranq darts
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
and have his way with the deadweight
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
ew man
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
ew yourself
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
"and have his way with the deadweight"
That is a bit harsh, he is at least half as charismatic as Warren Beatty.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 30 May 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
The actors in James Franco’s brilliant debut novel include a McDonald’s drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers and Midwestern transplants; a vampire flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written by a famous actor gone AWOL; and the ghost of River Phoenix. Then there’s Franco himself, who prowls backstage, peering out between the lines—before taking the stage with fascinating meditations on his art, along with nightmarish tales of excess. “Hollywood has always been a private club,” he writes. “I open the gates. I say welcome. I say, Look inside.” Told in a dizzying array of styles—from lyric essays and disarming testimonials to hilariously rambling text messages and ghostly footnotes—and loosely modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous’ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Actors Anonymous is an intense, wild ride into the dark heart of celebrity.
― waterface, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
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i don't like james franco's writing and filmmaking from what i have read and seen -- the obama poem and the hart crane film. however, i feel the deck is sort of stacked against him because of his celebrity. if this novel -- which seems to be vaguely experimental -- were really good, how many people would want to admit that? the idea of james franco, of pineapple express fame, writing a book that involves the ghost of river phoenix is just taken, immediately, to be ridiculous, but if bret easton ellis did that i'd imagine people would have more time for it.
i guess there are worse people to be than james franco, but being james franco is not without its disadvantages.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
i understand that james franco's celebrity is a big part of the reason his book was able to find a publisher and receive promotion in the first place but still...
― Treeship, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/A-California-Childhood-James-Franco/dp/1608872025/ref=pd_sim_b_1
In A California Childhood he plays with the concept of memoir through personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and stories. “I was born in 1978 at Stanford Hospital and spent my first eighteen years in a single house at the end of a cul-de-sac in Palo Alto,” Franco writes in his introduction. Steve Jobs’s daughter and the grandson of one of the Hewlett-Packard founders may have both been in his graduating class, but just across the freeway from his home turf lay East Palo Alto, which in 1992 had the highest murder rate per capita in the country. For Franco, the terrain of his upbringing is fraught with the complication of a city divided. But within that diversity, universal aspects of adolescence rise to the surface, and those are the subjects at the heart of Franco’s work.
Ultimately this is a portrait of a childhood brightened by California sunshine, but with trouble awaiting in the shadows. At turns funny, dark, and emotional, the journey of this book delivers an undeniable immediacy. And at the end the reader is left wondering just where the line of Franco’s art ends and where his true life begins.
― waterface, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
if this novel -- which seems to be vaguely experimental
?!?!?!!?!!!
i was just referring to the fact that, from what i gleaned from skimming your posts, it involves river phoenix's ghosts, so i imagined it was some magical realist type thing that incorporated pop culture elements in a way that would read as "gimmicky" to most readers of realist or genre fiction.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
Ghosts don't seem gimmicky, experimental, or magical realist to me, but OK.
― waterface, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
We're watching freaks and geeks atm and james franco and his lips
― mundane peaceable username (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
xp it's told in a "dizzying array of styles."
vaguely experimental does not equal good or even truly experimental. it means that it is fucking around with form and self-consciously deciding to avoid certain conventions, perhaps in order to be taken more seriously by certain kinds of critics. (james franco has an MFA).
― Treeship, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
it's like basically a genre tag, not a compliment. i was saying that since he is james franco the more "out there" elements of his books, any kind of imaginative anything that he does, like making river phoenix's ghost a character, is more likely to be mocked.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
― Treeship, Tuesday, July 23, 2013 5:39 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark
if it's good, it'll find an appreciative audience. getting your vanity projects financed & published on a whim is something a lot of people would kill for so there's no reason on earth to feel bad for him - i dont think even franco cares if people like his shit
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
(james franco has an MFA)
― waterface, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I think if it's good (it doesn't sound good) than yeah good for him but it sounds hideous.
― waterface, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
"vaguely experimental" describes the James Franco Project.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
― mundane peaceable username (darraghmac), Tuesday, July 23, 2013 5:35 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the only really important update to this thread in years
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 5 August 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link