I Don't Tend To Think

I Grew Up In Evanston And Lived In Chicago For A Long Time, In Old Town And Wrigleyville. I Did Three Films When I Was In High School. The First Was 'class,' With Rob Lowe. I Had A Supporting Role In That.

The Reason Bin Laden Staggered The Planes Going Into The Towers Was So Every Camera Would Be Focused On The Second Tower When The Plane Hit. It Was Not Only The Murder, But The Perpetual Image Of The Horror That Permeated Into People's Consciousness.

When Applied To Politics And Taken To Its Extreme, Kitsch Is The Mask Of Death. Fascism Was All Aesthetics. There Was No Core Principle To It. There Was No Truth To It.

It's Something We, Guys, Have All Done. Made Tapes For Girls, Trying To Impress Them, To Meet Them On A Shared Plane Of Aesthetics. Read Them Someone Else's Poetry Because They Do Poetry Better Than You Could Do It, Because You're Too Awkward To Do It.

Poe Had This Curious Kind Of Alchemical Courage, Where He Took All The Terrible Things And Terrors That Happened In His Life, All This Shame And Fear And Pain, And Turned Them Into Great Works Of Art. He Was A Complex, Brilliant Person Who Was Just Wired Too Tight.