I wanna hear the new sound, I wanna see my new girl(Dammit, I will post something before lunch if it kills me!) After a weekend spent watching a lot of useless television, last night was redeemed by the amazing Charles Atlas documentary about Leigh Bowery on the sadly terminal Trio Network. Leigh Bowery, a performance artist/fashion designer/musician/professional nose tweaker (NTM Lucian Freud's best-known model), died in 1994. Watching the documentary made me think about how avant garde he was. I wish he were still alive. He would've been in the fucking Venice Biennale by now. Though given an extra decade on this earth it'd be surprising if he hadn't alienated everyone in the world by now. The documentary repeats on January 25, so mark your calendars. Oh, and here's an mp3 of Bowery's band Minty singing "Useless Man." Speaking of mp3s, I watched Napoleon Dynamite on Friday, partly based on this guy's recommendation. JPo, you have some splainin to do. I will admit going into this movie with extreme prejudice beforehand. I'm actually surprised that I hated it less than I expected to. But I can't help but feel like the movie was a big long rumination on nothing, and also rather heartless mockery of just about everyone. Kind of like this blog, eh? Oh, except for the fact that I'm not Mormon, which everyone in this movie apparently is. Why do Mormons hate America? WHY? (Neil LaBute, I'm looking in your general direction.) I will credit this movie with one thing: Reminding me of the totally forgotten pop gem "The Promise" by When in Rome. And you know what's better than an mp3 of the actual song? AN MP3 OF THE RINGTONE. w00t. Posted by Dana at 10:23 AM
|
Theatre Is the Life of YouI haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite, but the spoiler sucked.
Posted by: Fes at January 10, 2005 03:35 PMIt's a character study! It's a statement on our moral bankruptcy! The tater-tots represent our repressed self-loathing!
Posted by: jpoulos at January 10, 2005 05:04 PMAnd where do you get the Mormon thing? I don't doubt it, but I missed that.
Posted by: jpoulos at January 10, 2005 05:10 PMThank you for NOT loving Napoleon Dynamite! I thought I was all alone on this. People are still telling me how great it was. Loving & missing you!
Posted by: Octavia at January 10, 2005 05:16 PMjpo, both the crew and the star of ND went to BYU...and during one of the voiceovers in the "outtakes" section of the DVD the director mentions being "on a mission in chicago." Plus they're all married. MORMONS!
Posted by: dana at January 10, 2005 06:07 PMI thought it tried too hard. I can't laugh at that. I mean, the dance scene made me giggle because it was insular, but the rest seemed so...one-trick.
But JPo recommended (then loaned me) Serial Experiments: LAIN (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/), so his recommendations are still okey-dokey by me.
Posted by: brittney at January 10, 2005 06:58 PMFucking mormons.
Posted by: jpoulos at January 11, 2005 11:45 AM