EVERYTHING BY JACK

I've stopped posting on this blog and moved over to tumblr.  If you like STAINLESS STEEL you can follow me on my new blog (<--click link).  You can also see a preview of my official website, which is under construction but nearing completion.  Check it out!  

And you know, I may return to this blog once in a while...

Wow. I LOVE this cover!  I have mixed feelings about the concept, but this author is an authentic old timer from the Bay Area and a former private eye, so he gets a pass.  Also I was glad to read that this novel involves Sam Spade setting up shop in San Francisco and spending a lot of time in John's Grill.  The cover though, so cool.  RIP Dashiell Hammett.   

Go See Medicine for Melancholy

I was excited to see that this movie got a great write-up in the New York Times!  And the Village Voice!  Medicine for Melancholy was written and directed by Barry Jenkins and shot in San Francisco by my high school friend James Laxton.  James is possibly the nicest guy ever and a SF native, so I'm glad to see that the film is getting some attention.  I got to see Medicine for Melancholy when it premiered  at the San Francisco International Film Festival, apparently it is getting a wider release.  Opens today in Manhattan. 

Click here for a great analysis of photos from the Bush presidency by filmmaker Errol Morris.

Via The New York Times