ok I just read the interview... wow 🥵
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 April 2019 03:45 (five years ago) link
You came to the defense of Roseanne Barr, saying that she denied, after tweeting racist stuff about Valerie Jarrett, knowing Valerie Jarrett was black.Did she say that? That she didn’t know she was black?You say it in the book.Yeah, right, I quoted her.
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 April 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
Thanks so much for talking.It’s interesting to have that back-and-forth pull in an interview. The only problem, however, is that I am not that political, and so, when we have this conversation, and you confront me with certain things like this, I really am, I have to say, at a loss.
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 April 2019 03:49 (five years ago) link
what a choad
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 April 2019 04:00 (five years ago) link
he’s SO imperious like some regent giving audience to a scribe which is hilarious bc almost no-one gives a shit about him anymore
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 April 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
Seems like the people posting here give a shit about him
― badg, Friday, 12 April 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link
I kind of hate that they used that dewy, youthful glamourshot of him in that interview (note: I've never given a fuck about him besides that checkmark on gay men who are terrible misogynists.).
― Yerac, Friday, 12 April 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
the shtick of saying wrong or irritating things in conversation to get attention, only to reveal you don't remember any particular conversation because you had no real emotional investment in one thing
doing so in print and then shrugging it off as "oh, I guess I wrote that, whatever" to further irritate an interviewer and the audience makes me think he's subconsciously going for next-level jackanapes status
― mh, Friday, 12 April 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
The entire comes off as him having had many decades of therapy but ultimately he just doesn't care because it doesn't affect him personally (except for not being able to fuck his millennial boyfriend in peace). Please buy his book.
― Yerac, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
otm, that disaffected stance of "I don't give a shit about any of this but it's the only thing anyone around me will talk about. I'll just be contrary so they pay attention to me."
― mh, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:05 (five years ago) link
As I posted upthread he was reflective when talking about this when I saw him a decade ago, but since then he’s obviously gone full culture war and decided that he was the wronged party and that he’s never, ever getting over it.
― gyac, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
I think I am an absurdist. I think politics are ridiculous.Maybe don’t write a book about it. Would that be the solution?[I think the problem is that I don’t necessarily see this as interesting as fiction.Yeah, I could tell.
Maybe don’t write a book about it. Would that be the solution?
[I think the problem is that I don’t necessarily see this as interesting as fiction.
Yeah, I could tell.
lmao
i love isaac chotiner's interviews, he's remarkably good at letting people hang themselves
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 April 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
I haven't been able to track down who they're talking about, but some people on twitter have mentioned that Bret's partner is a boring-ass centrist democrat.
― mh, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
He seems to be a Biden fan, so yes.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
Does Biden have a lot of millennial support? Wouldn’t have thought so.
― gyac, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
he's def the choice of boring-ass centrist democrats
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 April 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
he watches Maddow and his name is Todd
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
This. He tweaks the left because they are the only ones who know who he is and might give a shit. Trump voters likely don’t give a shit about him; can’t rebel if no one knows who you are.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 12 April 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
remember back when ivanka trump was explaining that she wanted a man like patrick bateman
sometimes ponder whether she thinks she got that
― mh, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/discovery-todd-michael-schultz
― Yerac, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
ok, if that's Todd's actual twitter account I found...
...well, I don't really use twitter to be an intellectual, but jesus christ
― mh, Friday, 12 April 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
Him tweeting “come over at do bring coke now” at like 5 in the morning that one time was pretty good tbh
― circa1916, Sunday, 14 April 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
Gloriously scathing review from Anna Leszkiewicz at the graun.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/24/white-by-bret-easton-ellis-review-sound-fury-and-insignificance
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 25 April 2019 08:03 (five years ago) link
Best review yet in nailing how Ellis acts like the detached observer when he's the irrational, outraged one. Funny how David Mamet has done something similar, going from being the guy who was all about the mechanics and math of playwriting to becoming the didactic, moralizing writer he always bemoaned in essays and interviews
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 25 April 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
https://s.put.re/xaEDHCno.jpeg
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 25 April 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
My two cents.
https://bookandfilmglobe.com/nonfiction/book-review-bret-easton-ellis-white/
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 May 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link