Noah Baumbach Generates Some Buzz at The New Yorker
Over at The New Yorker, Noah Baumbach - who's directing the upcoming Greenberg for Focus Features - has a great little comic riff on a story about scientists who did addiction research by giving a group of bees, um, freebase cocaine.
Here's the news clipping quoted by Baumbach at the start of the piece:
"To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees’ backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain. The scientists found that bees react much like humans do: cocaine alters their judgment, stimulates their behavior and makes them exaggeratedly enthusiastic about things that might not otherwise excite them."
After this, Baumbach launches into a brilliant stream of consciousness monologue from the perspective of a "buzzing" bee. I recommend you fly over to the New Yorker site to check it out in full.
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