― AP, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The only amusement I derived out of it was the fact that the entire time I was reading it, I was painfully, consciously aware of the fact that it was the WORST novel I had ever read, and the only reason I kept reading it was to see if it coule possibly get any worse. And it always DID!!! Astounding!
― masonic boom, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Stevo, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark Morris, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tony, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Maybe this gets explained later in the novel, but it's bothering me now. I find it hard to go further with such discrepancies.
― matt1973 (matt1973), Thursday, 7 November 2002 01:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcy Matthews, Thursday, 7 November 2002 03:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 7 November 2002 08:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MM, Thursday, 7 November 2002 10:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
I like BEE. HE is nice man. I not read any of his book tho cos I not like reedin. Troo.
I ssen the flim where the man in the suit kut up the ladees tho
― misterjones (misterjones), Thursday, 7 November 2002 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
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Only read American Psycho which is amazing and made me feel superior to just about everyone I know who had read it who didn't get it or didn't understand what was happening and assumed it was meant to be taken as literal narration.
I love the conversation where Bateman is seems to be saying all the vile things flitting through his head but his female companion is just responding as if he's saying small talk (which obviously he is in objective reality).
And the record reviews are brilliant. Very well utilised in the film - though I heard there's an exploitation sequel which again assumes its all real.
― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 7 November 2002 11:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm really enjoying The Informers. It's great. I just love the atmosphere.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's me with my pal Bret
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v4/p721520122-3.jpg
― krakow, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB08qDd1PVw&feature=player_embedded#!
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Saturday, 25 September 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Teaming up with Paul Schrader.
― saint dominic's p4k review (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/bret-easton-ellis-american-psycho-sequel-2012-3?op=1
― s.clover, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
its like dude is making a mockery of himself. some of those are genuinely funny, tho. any sequel sounds couldn't go beyond the realm of fan-fic, even if by the author himself. i'm just not seeing how much "newness" we can derive from p. bateman... rather ellis set up all this current pop-culture homages in some other affordance, or with new characters. plus bateman would be, what.. in his 50s? we've done this shit already, gordon geccko/shia lebouf
― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
after the Less than Zero sequel, this is the lit equivalent of all these "classic album" shows
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
brett easton ellis is really clever with what he does. In fact is he like one of the best American Writer's or what? I thought American pycho and Glamorama were his best books, some of the best one's out there in tghis short of stile. He writes so well, his character's come alive. There not just about violence, Easton Ellis get's some real messages across. EG Money versus reputation, and vice versa. I thought Less than Zero was sort of shit, just boring but written in a fun style, the only thing that kept me reading it. You appreciate it more when you read his later stuff. Rules of attraction is pretty much the same, just bigger and maybe more to it, story line that is. Oh yea and Don Dalillo rules, he's like one of America's greatest writer's as well, along with Pychon, thou his stuff is just totally a head fuck or what? It's so crazy it leaves you feeling punch drunk, recommmended. I want to get my hand's on David Foster Wallace cause I hear he's got some good stuff. Oh yea and Chuck paliniuk is a fucking great writer as well, read all his stuff, loved all his stuff. just read it for crying out loud, this is what it's all about. If you don't like the way Brett easton ellis writes that's okay but once you get it you got it and I loved it. Can't wate for the next book, I'll be camping out for it. See ya― Tony, Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:00 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
what the hell, I didn't post that twice
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
See ya.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
read Less Than Zero and hated its guts, liked American Psycho quite a bit but absolutely couldn't stomach the first ~5 pages of Glamorama that I read...he's a boring starfucker with intellectual insecurity issues, but with cool aesthetics. idk...i keep up with his twitter. really wish he got the gig for the 50 shades of gray movie.
― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 29 November 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
I wish he'd write a book length treatise on empire/post empire since he's clearly done with novels for now
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 29 November 2012 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/39/2012/12/tb_aa_2.jpg
http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/39/2012/12/tb_ab_1.jpg
― Macro Polo (Phil D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
Burrrrn
― fiscal cliff huxtable (latebloomer), Friday, 7 December 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
fuck this doucherocket who writes shitty books
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
You know, they called Jesus a doucherocket too.
― Pat Finn, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:26 (eleven years ago) link
But Jesus didn't write shitty books or send assy tweets AFAIK.
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus probably preferred Point Break to Hurt Locker.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus OTM if so
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:32 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if Jesus would have even bothered reading Glamorama.
― Pat Finn, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus is still wondering why they took the vampires out of the movie version of informers.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
I think Jesus is kidding himself by thinking of that film as some kind of missed opportunity. He's basically alone in his enthusiasm for the book and I think he's self-conscious about it.
― Pat Finn, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus just wants to see vampires terrorize LA because his betamax copy of lost boys is worn out and JHWH won't pay for decent enough broadband to torrent anything.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
JHWH experiences time differently from us. He doesn't realize how essential high speed internet is now.
― Pat Finn, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
JHWH definitely on the Empire side of Empire/post-Empire.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
He just doesn't get that Charlie Sheen doesn't want to be his goddamn prodigal son.
― Pat Finn, Saturday, 8 December 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/BretEastonEllis/status/277295977113739264
^B.E.E., like Jesus, letting us know that he is one of us after all.
― Pat Finn, Saturday, 8 December 2012 06:44 (eleven years ago) link
Anybody see The Canyons?
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 2 August 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
theres a thread my man
Paul Schrader's THE CANYONS, starring Lindsay Lohan and some porn star
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 August 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
has anybody listened to his podcast yet?
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 17 January 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
yes - I had to turn it off after 5 mins, i'm just not used to hearing an "interviewer" shoe in his own cliched views in the discussion
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 January 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
yeah there is some serious ponitificating going on in all the interviews. they have all been particularly annoying so far tbh.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 17 January 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
WRONG
They have all been pretty great.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
the fred armisen/carrie brownstein episode was amazing so icy
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
um u do know they're all fred/carrie episodes?
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Monday, 14 April 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
literalist
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
well, when you're writing about bad prose...
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
god i wish there were more interviews like this, ellis is such a fucking self satisfied dope and out of his depth
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bret-easton-ellis-thinks-youre-overreacting-to-donald-trump
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
Agreed. Agreed.Well, you said it—of course you agree. So what you are saying is that everyone can agree assault is wrong, but maybe we are going too far?
Well, you said it—of course you agree. So what you are saying is that everyone can agree assault is wrong, but maybe we are going too far?
so good, man
― devvvine, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
Ouch. I almost couldn’t finish that, I was so embarrassed for him.
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
I have... thoughts.
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 April 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
I read the whole thing, which was excruciating. Here's what I posted on a friend's FB thread:
"I’m a fan of his, with reservations post-2013. (He isn’t making it easy.) As I said on someone else’s share of this interview, I’m actually HAPPY this interview happened - because it might help inspire Ellis to shut the fuck up about politics, which he’s admittedly misinformed about (not just here, but on his podcast and social media) and stick to what actually makes him INTERESTING and of value for many of us who follow him - which gets drowned out by the political/cultural stuff, which grabs headlines and has transformed him into an all-around punching bag - his aesthetic perspectives on film and literature."
In the next week or two I'll have a review of White out in the world, which I'll link here when it's up.
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 April 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
my impression is that his fiction, and its portrayal of people who are often decadent and at best morally ambivalent, reflects his actual view of human nature. the validation of his work being successful has made him think that everyone's like one of his characters and doesn't get why claiming real life figures and their behavior falls within acceptable boundaries brings outrage
he's not exactly a writer of stories where characters come to epiphanies about their own behavior although he's due a few of his own
― mh, Thursday, 11 April 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
ray is otm, so much of BEE's podcast is old man yelling at cloud / millennial boyfriend. but i enjoy his film commentary, even if i disagree with him most of the time.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 April 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
We could totally do without him by now, couldn't we?
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 11 April 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
Pretty much, yeah, and I'm someone who loved Less Than Zero, American Psycho and Glamorama (the latter in particular; I've read it four or five times).
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 11 April 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
Lunar Park is the one... his most sincere & moving prose
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 April 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
I tried Lunar Park but couldn't make it to the end.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 11 April 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
he's doing this to get his name in the cycle imo. if this interview goes well, who reads it? almost no-one. instead...
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 12 April 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
does he express the same dipshitted thought-free views on his podcast for hours every week and in other interviews and in his writing as part of the same long game?
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 12 April 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
yes
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 12 April 2019 00:57 (five years ago) link
his whole career has been exactly like this
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 12 April 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
any decade now, he's going to write something that isn't surface-level vapid in its understanding of humans and money, and we'll all be wowed because of his careful cultivation of alternate expectations over the rest of his output
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 12 April 2019 01:15 (five years ago) link
Having heard many of his podcasts I'm always amused that his opening salvo about whatever he saw at ArcLight that week or some snowflake grievance is done with his guest waiting quietly there with him. He'll go in for 10 minutes before introducing them and they have to jump in wherever he is.
― Yelploaf, Friday, 12 April 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link
10? more like 45it is a good bit
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 April 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
https://s.put.re/xaEDHCno.jpeg
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 25 April 2019 19:55 (four 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 (four years ago) link