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On "Almost" "Famous": 24 Hours With Max Steele

When the snark is parsed out there's actually an interesting curve here, which gives silent credit to Max Steele: Zachary falls into a passive criticism of hipsters, the drinking, sluttiness, a flat surface attention to Facebook and g-chat --- which is all built, I take it, as a party profile of expressed disappointment in "artists our age", because, how else do we read the lack of discussion on his work? why IS Zachary doing this interview? --- but as the story builds, he falls more into the first person: here I am napping with (or rather sleeping near) Max, the wet dream of the art fags; here I am getting pushed and rejected by a wasted Geo Black Peter for my betrayal of friendship (or rather my reporting); here I am falling into earshot of a "straight hipster" who wants "to finger a girl and go to sleep," --- and son, if that didn't make you laugh... but it did, and that's why it's in here. This is his party story, not a criticism of Max Steele. It's too bad "Almost" "Famous" is in quotes, because I think that was the right starting point: the vulnerability Russell Hammond eventually shows William Miller, which is the gateway to Penny Lane, was given to Zachary right away. He held Max's confidence and interest, and his concern. But rockstars are dead and there are no William Millers. He knows it, Zachary knows it. So what do you make, Zachary, of the posters on his wall, the make out session with a golden god of the queer punk scene, the fashion icons on This Is Fag City? His appropriating gogo dancers? Letting you into his private life in such a way? What of all that?

Posted on June 25, 2009 at 5:57 pm 0