I’m Alex Pappademas. I live in Los Angeles. I started this Tumblr
in– God, was it really 2007? Is that possible?– and no longer
remember posting half of what’s on here. These days I write for
Grantland and co-host a podcast called Do You Like Prince Movies?. You
can see all my Grantland stuff here. But here are direct links to
specific Grantland things you might enjoy. A surprisingly emotional
Q&A with Dolph Lundgren. Awkward interactions with David Duchovny and
Cameron Diaz. A pretty fascinating conversation with Errol Morris.
Profiles of Action Bronson and Dan Harmon and Shane Black. 21 notes
about post-Kubrick sci-fi movies and 20 thoughts about David Lynch’s
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. A feature story about the life of a
professional strongman. Career retrospectives on Frank Miller, Hype
Williams and Stan Lee. A diary of a few days lost in Kim
Kardashian’s mobile-phone game. A deep dive into late-period Nicolas
Cage films. An essay about Kim and Kanye that not enough people seemed
to like and a review of a Drake show written in a Third Person
Indulgent tense that everyone seemed to really hate. An essay about
the Universal Soldier movies. Grantland obituaries for Dick Clark,
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Blockbuster Video, and Richard Dawson. A story
about the mourners at Paul Walker’s crash site and an essay about
how we react as a culture when a Nick Stahl-type celebrity goes
missing– Nick Stahl, in this case. A representative sample of my
ill-advised weekly column about watching football on TV. This thing
about that brief moment when it seemed like Axl Rose and Lana Del Rey
might be a thing. Reviews of stuff: a Fast & Furious movie, Rick
James’ autobiography, the then-new Arsenio Hall show. I also wrote a
Playboy story about West Coast rap legend The D.O.C. that won a Los
Angeles Press Club National Entertainment Journalism Award for Profile
Writing in 2013. I wrote a New York Times Magazine story about Lex
Luger that everyone seemed to really like. I also wrote Times Mag
stories on Jonny Greenwood and MTV’s reboot of the Teen Wolf
franchise. Before that I worked for GQ, where I wrote stories about
Quentin Tarantino, Jeff Bridges, Winona Ryder, Jon Gosselin, life at
the National Enquirer, and what it’s like to become the new lead
singer of Journey after being discovered on YouTube singing in a cover
band in Manila, Philippines. That’s probably more than enough,
right? My email is alexpappademas at [popular free email service
starting with “G”].com. I am almost never not on Twitter.