Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:
“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.
So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”
We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.
And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.
It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
Just so great.
Highway and high trees. #LiteralTitles
Red Rock Canyon
(Las Vegas, NV)
Dance party!
(More photos by me at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/semigravitas)
One step closer to release: we met with our composer/musician friend the other night. Genuinely excited about the prospects.
I feel like I’m in a Cohen film. #IWish #WouldI? #ConversationWithSelf #FilmNerd
Birds on the wire.
"The Christmas Frog"
My dear and talented friend, Anelise Chen’s story published in the New York Times’ “Opinionator” page. Beautiful people write beautiful stories.
“Do not bubble. Do not spin your wheels. Use words I know.”
Will do, sir. Will do.
Via Slate, regarding a term paper Kurt Vonnegut assigned his students at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop:
I should like them to be both cynical and religious. I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. “This above all …”
Read the whole thing here and wish you, too, could have a teacher like this.
Image credit Marty Reichenthal/AP
I think I just walked into a Korean Drama. #ThrewUpInMyMouthALittleBit #FromTheArchives
Your turn. #vote
I’d like to promote my friend and artist Thomas Hamada’s work (http://bornonamonday.com/index.html), and brag about how I have the original print of this illustration. I’m one lucky person.
