James Frey's Blog, page 205

Hey, Dude – It’s corporate. Can you do me a favor and trash the store. Nah, it’s cool, man – go ahead.

from The New York Daily News Prank caller tricks employees into destroying Circle K convenience store, causing about $30,000 in damage: cops BY  JASON SILVERSTEIN At least they’re good at following instructions! A prank caller fooled two Circle K employees in Globe, Ariz. into destroying the convenience store so severely that it temporarily shut down. The […]

Dizzying Hedonism On Film

from The Daily Mail Glitz, glamour and infamous excess: Dizzying photos from inside Studio 54 reveal the star-studded debauchery of the world’s most famous disco Nearly 40 years after it opened its doors to a flood of party-hungry movie stars, fashion royalty and debaucherous disco dancers, Studio 54 remains the most famous night club America […]

Classic Oscar Gag (+ Watch For Howard Stern)

SQUAREPUSHER Damogen Furies Woo-hoo

from Paste Magazine Squarepusher Announces New Album Damogen Furies, Shares New Track By Jeff Pearson Since 2012’s Ufabulum, prolific English producer Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson) has been relatively quiet. He released the Music for Robots EP last year, a composition written by Jenkinson and performed by three Z-Machine robots, but that didn’t quite sate the die-hard fans in the interim. Squarepusher […]

Poo-Pourri Rules

Meditation Boom

from The LA Times MEDITATION BOOMS AS PEOPLE SEEK A WAY TO SLOW DOWN By MARY MACVEAN Participants meditate during a class at Unplug, a new meditation studio in Los Angeles, on April 24, 2014. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times) One hundred fifty people sat in the big meeting room, hands on laps, eyes closed, […]

Philip Levine Gone

from The New York Times An Appraisal: The Poet Philip Levine, an Outsider Archiving the Forgotten By DWIGHT GARNER Della and Tatum, Sweet Pea and Packy, Ida and Cal. You met a lot of unpretentious people in Philip Levine’s spare, ironic poems of the industrial heartland. Mr. Levine had toiled in auto plants as a young […]

Michele Ferrero, Creator of Nutella Gone

from The New York Times Michele Ferrero, Tycoon Who Gave the World Nutella, Dies at 89 By HILARY STOUT Michele Ferrero, widely regarded as the richest man in Italy and — a distinction more notable to lovers of sweets everywhere — the creator of Nutella, died on Saturday at his home in Monte Carlo. He was […]

$2.5 Billion Per Annum On Oreos

from EATER The World Spent $2.5 Billion on Oreos in 2014 by Khushbu Shah The Oreo is going through a bit of a renaissance. Sure the beloved sandwich cookie has been around for over a century, but it’s made headlines recently with its introduction of novelty flavors. Oreos now come in flavors like cookie dough, watermelon, peanut butter, caramel […]

30 Years Of Meat Is Murder

from PASTE Magazine Meat Is Murder, 30 Years Later By Mack Hayden Thirty years ago, The Smiths followed up a self-titled debut album which featured songs like “This Charming Man” and “Hand in Glove” with a record called Meat is Murder. It may not have the visceral punch of the debut, the gothic beauty and cohesion of The […]