Bret Easton Ellis

Listening to his podcast and enjoying it...for the moment.  On the one hand, I'm sympathetic to his laments about the movie biz and his fading-empire theory of the media.  On the other, how sure are we that these grandiose notions of decline, etc, isn't just a reflection of one man's depression?

I'm getting older now and thusly pay attention to older people more than I used to.  And when the "they don't make 'em like they used to" lament comes out -- as it always does in different forms -- I cannot honestly tell whether something has changed or we've both just gotten old.

But maybe there is something good out of it -- I much prefer Elli's podcasts to his books or the movies he's been a part of.