[personal profile] rm
This is an astounding piece of writing. Astounding. I don't even know how to talk about, where to place it on the true/real/false/fake Venn diagram or why exactly after reading it, I can't tell you the one relevant thing I have to say about it, even though I've told you that story before.

http://www.esquire.com/features/heath-ledger-last-days

Date: 2008-07-23 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schpahky.livejournal.com
This is so true to the New Journalism of the late 60s that everyone's forgotten about now. Wow.

She is more interested in drawing up the story she will tell later than she is in living in this moment with me.

Yes.

Date: 2008-07-23 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
Yeah. The Nicholson voice was amazing, but what sold me was the whole thing with the chick and the ski mask and our societal dedication to narrative when everyone's bad at it.

Date: 2008-07-23 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com
Want to have stories to tell, but not wanting to tell stories.
Except for a perverse obstinate few, I suppose.

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