Diary of a Young James Franco

From the diary of a young James Franco:

age 9, "I thought in those movies and tv shows when they talk about having a coffee break that they should have a masturbation break. But then again, maybe that would decrease productivity. Aha!"

age 11, "Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it because they don't involve a ball."

age 16, "a well-bearded man is only a well-bearded man as long as someone makes sure that he stays that way. Instead of the morning shave as status quo, a new order emerges. Instead of the never-ending regularly recurring necessity deserving comparison with the trials of Sisyphus there is...what exactly I don't know yet. A lot of people like saying things like, 'hey man, nice beard.'"

Christmas, 2014, "I think I'm the only person in my family who's ever been high. maybe also my brother. i'm not sure. definitely not my sister. then again, maybe my whole family has been high, and we just don't tell each other these things."

The James Franco Weed Challenge (YouTube)

The time of James Franco's novel
is the time of a humanity that has lost its continuity
with humanity.

A humanity that no longer knows anything
no longer remembers anything
lives in cities without names
where the streets have no names
or with names different from those they had yesterday.

Because a name is continuity with the past
people without a past are people without a name.
 
***
To appreciate a mystery,
part of the mind must be left behind,
brooding,
while the other part
goes
marching
on.
 - James Franco, 12/25/14

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James Franco is post-postmodern.

***
Franco estimates that a person would have to smoke
a hundred pounds of marijuana
per minute
for fifteen minutes
in order to induce a lethal response.

Sounds like a YouTube challenge!

Only One Of These Is True (1)

Either:

(1)
Fighting with his wife,
James Franco once threw his three-month-old daughter
against a wall.
It was a padded wall in his ironic "madhouse" room,
but still.

Or:

(2)
James Franco thinks St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine
were both anti-Semites.

Or:

(3)
James Franco says he has read
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
at least three dozen times.

Someone Nodded Hello

Someone nodded hello to James Franco on the street yesterday. It must have created a domino effect, because once this someone started, everyone was nodding hello to James Franco on the street yesterday.

Franco's affair with Anna Akhmatova's great-great-granddaughter, Anna, in Amsterdam in 2044. True or false? Later in Franco's life, having never left Amsterdam, after a third of a century, James would be astonished to learn how famous he'd become, mostly thanks to Anna.

Either: James Franco's favorite personal artistic creation is a Haiku he wrote when he was 20. It's three lines long. He started it when he was 14.

Or: If forced to choose, James Franco once said, "I would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Picasso."