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my friend Nicole inspired this post by sending me this video:

now I can't decide if I should trek all the way out to mofo brooklyn to see the Sunn O)))/Earth show next week? tempting but, brooklyn, not so much.

Trash Humpers

I dunno. This just looks scary. Its seems like watching Harmony Korine's new movie, Trash Humpers, would be like being trapped in someone else's nightmare. I'll probably see it one way or another just out of curiosity.

official statement?:

A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, TRASH HUMPERS follows a small group of elderly Peeping Toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality they crash against a torn and frayed America. Bordering on an ode to vandalism, it is a new type of horror; palpable and raw.

and now for a brief musical interlude

death is the theme lately

Summer of Death™ (or is it fall now) has claimed another 80's icon.

DFW 1962-2008

This afternoon I just happened to listen to a podcast of David Foster Wallace reading a story about 9/11 at the Walker Museum. I had not even realized today is the one year anniversary of his death. sad. There is movie version of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men directed by John Krasinski (random) being released soon (I think). My copy of Infinite Jest is still sitting on my nightstand virtually untouched.

Here's a quote from Wallace from a speech at Kenyon College in 2005:

"learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.

This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger."

The Hunger

What better way to commerate 09.09.09 than with a blog post? I recently watched The Hunger. Classified as a horror film, directed by Tony Scott (who did Top Gun and True Romance) in 1983, I found this to be a surprisingly delightful gem. Catherine Deneuve while always gorgeous, looks particularly stunning in this movie. She's a vampire (yes, this is where the cheese comes in) whose lover is the handsome, talented David Bowie, a cello player who is also a vampire thanks to Deneuve. From what I can gather, Miriam (Deneuve) then falls in love in Susan Sarandon, a sleep specialist, and when this happens David Bowie then starts to lose his immortality because it only lasts as long as Miriam is in love with her lover. He rapidly withers away (he is hundreds of yrs old after all) and soon there's some lesbo action happening btwn Miriam and Sarandon. Miriam infects Sarandon, confusion ensues, Miriam invites Sarandon to be her lover in everlasting immortality but alas Sarandon rejects her and hence Miriam then dies herself. Gothic rock group Bauhaus opens the movie, Ann Magnuson and Willem Dafoe make cameo apperances. There's some 80's footage of Times Square, Central Park, and upper east side. The sensuous atmospheric quality, cast, and hypnotic Deneuve makes this a surprisingly delightful film.
Its on Netflix and also looks like someone posted the whole movie on youtube.