Bai Ling interviews read like transcripts from Insanityland

The San Francisco Chronicle recently had the balls to ask Bai Ling five entire questions.

The answers are made of sweet, sweet crazy (check it out here).

Q: What are these "Band-Aids of Truth" you wear on your legs?

A: I have a little spirit (who talks to me); she's crazy, extreme and she has her own little world and does whatever she wants to do, a show-off. I use the Band-Aids and I write messages. I just write things so unique, and you know when you have a scar you can't hide it, so I make kind of a trend. I was filming a movie with Ben Affleck and Rebecca Romijn ("Man About Town"). We were fighting - like a girl fight on the floor - and I scratched myself here (pointing to her knee), so I went to this event and I put a Band-Aid on. It was so ugly, so I cut Brad Pitt's head here and the other side was Quentin Tarantino.

I must MUST have her book, Nipples (yes, really), when it emerges!

Let's make this happen.

There is also an amazing Movieline interview for us here.

Q: What kind of movies would you like to make if you could have your choice?

A: I deserve so much more than the roles I get offered now. I’m one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar. I’m already winning it. I just have to find the platform to show it. I’m already winning it! I’ve got that talent.

And thanks to the GFY gals for alerting me to these wondermous chattings.

I have the saaaadest liiiife.

Oh, how I've been waiting for this Grey Gardens movie.

Waiting to judge it.

Will I love it?  

I adore the source material.

Will I hate it?  

I despise Drew Barrymore.  She is a movie-ruiner.

It's anyone's game at this point, but what's for sure and certain is that a shitton of gay men and I have been waiting for this event for a long time, and we're giddy with anticipation.

C'est Trop...

French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy:

"People always think that loyalty is laudable.  People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas.  Of course not!  That would be equivalent to zero brain activity.  If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas--even those belonging to your spiritual family.  For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity. 

...

What is the use of thinking if it is not to see what the world is trying so hard to hide from you?"

--from his interview with Olivier Zahm

Interview Magazine, November 2008 

A Great Quote from the Daily Routines Blog

Kingsley Amis

INTERVIEWER
Do you have a daily routine?

AMIS
Yes. I don’t get up very early. I linger over breakfast reading the papers, telling myself hypocritically that I’ve got to keep with what’s going on, but really staving off the dreadful time when I have to go to the typewriter. That’s probably about ten-thirty, still in pajamas and dressing gown. And the agreement I have with myself is that I can stop whenever I like and go and shave and so on. In practice, it’s not till about one or one-fifteen that I do that—I usually try and time it with some music on the radio. Then I emerge, and nicotine and alcohol are produced. I work on until about two or two-fifteen, have lunch, then if there’s urgency about, I have to write in the afternoon, which I really hate doing—I really dislike afternoons, whatever’s happening. But then the agreement is that it doesn’t matter how little gets done in the afternoon. And later on, with luck, a cup of tea turns up, and then it’s only a question of drinking more cups of tea until the bar opens at six o’clock and one can get into second gear. I go on until about eight-thirty and I always hate stopping. It’s not a question of being carried away by one’s creative afflatus, but saying, “Oh dear, next time I do this I shall be feeling tense again.”

--The Paris Review, Winter 1975

The internet video gods have been good to us today

They have given us this gem...


(I think Gladys is actually my Grandpa)

And also David After Dentist, which won't embed.

(This is your kid on drugs.)

Complete Artistic Communion, he said.

"For me there is no hierarchy in art.

Things have an inherent quality or they don't.

A collection is like a dinner party.  It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don't.  There are also, of course, the ones who couldn't make it.

...

It would never have crossed Yves's mind to say to me, "Ah, I saw a Picasso..."  He knew perfectly well what was interesting with Picasso, as did I.  

But let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves and I were.  

Like all couples we went through "storms," as the Jacques Brel song says.

But if there's one area where we never had the slightest disagreement, it was art.

Never.  Not once.

Not about painting, not about opera, not about theatre.

We were always in complete communion.

Of course, that's how all of the collection came into being."

--Pierre Bergé to Judith Benhamou-Heut in Interview, Feb. 08

{speaking of the upcoming auction of the art collection he created with his longtime partner, Yves Saint Laurent,  during their 50 years together}