Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

01. Ten hours of music fun at Laneway Festival. Highlights: on the ‘small’ stage, Bel Air Lip Bombs and Teen Jesus delivered. On the big stages, I loved seeing Lucy Dacus and Role Model but the highlights were Wet Leg and (of course) Chappell. Continue reading

The Bennington Project: Episode 3 – An Alley Along Melrose

Cast from the film version of Less Than Zero –  Andrew McCarthy as Clay, Jami Gertz as Blair, and Robert Downey Jr. as Julian.

Episode three of the podcast, Once Upon a Time at Bennington College, is titled An Alley Along Melrose, and it focuses on Bret’s exposure to the seamier side of Hollywood, courtesy of another Buckley schoolmate, Dominic Gross. Dominic is described as a ‘Richard Gere lookalike’ with a surfer edge.

Dominic’s Hollywood is down-market compared to Julie’s. The movie stars in it are movie stars on the slide and not-quite-yet movie stars, and the sex partners of movie stars on the slide and not-quite-yet movie stars. But it’s younger, wilder, and far more titillating… Continue reading