James Frey's Blog, page 106

Loud Enough To Knock You Down

from The Drive Colorado Race Track’s ‘Largest Burnout’ World Record Claim Denied by Guinness A total of 170 cars performed a simultaneous burnout at the KBPI Rock & Roll Car Show in Colorado, but they all forgot to do one thing. BY CHRIS CHIN Earlier this week, several videos shared to social media claimed to have […]

Sketch Artist

from The Observer Who Is Loretta Fahrenholz, the Artist Who Directed Kim Gordon’s New Music Video? By Helen Holmes Musician, style icon and provocateur Kim Gordon is practically inextricable from the art world. As the vocalist, bassist and guitarist for Sonic Youth, she helped solidify a streak of 1990s’ cool into an instantly legible visual aesthetic. Now, […]

Frey and Taylor-Johnson on A MILLION LITTLE PIECES

from Vogue UK “We Were Living And Breathing It”: Sam Taylor-Johnson On Making A Million Little Pieces With Her Husband by LIAM FREEMAN

Chicken Wars

from The New York Times A Popeyes Chicken Sandwich and a Tactic to Set Off a Twitter Roar “Look at how much attention they’re getting — it’s impressive,” the executive editor of a trade magazine said. By David Yaffe-Bellany The first Popeyes tweet seemed innocent enough — a photograph of the chain’s new fried-chicken sandwich (chicken breast, brioche bun, […]

A MILLION LITTLE PIECES Director on FIFTY SHADES

from THE LIST Sam Taylor-Johnson would never want to repeat Fifty Shades directing experience Sam Taylor-Johnson says she had an “intense and maddening” experience while working on the first instalment of the Fifty Shades of Grey’ film series Sam Taylor-Johnson would “never want to repeat” the time she spent working on ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. […]

My Little Porny

People livin’ in competition

from The Atlantic How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. by Daniel Markovits, Professor at Yale Law School In the summer of 1987, I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and headed northeast to attend Yale. I then […]

Easy Rider Gone

from Dark Horizons R.I.P. Peter Fonda By Garth Franklin The “Easy Rider” himself, Peter Fonda, has died – the famed actor passing away at 79 from lung cancer. Fonda had an interesting childhood – a difficult and distant relationship with his famous father Henry Fonda, he accidentally shot himself in the stomach and nearly died on […]

O Youth!

Plants Are Clocks

from Yahoo! News Plants can tell time even without a brain – here’s how Anyone who has travelled across multiple time zones and suffered jet lag will understand just how powerful our biological clocks are. In fact, every cell in the human body has its own molecular clock, which is capable of generating a daily rise and fall […]