Clockwork

Aube! What random material did this one use. Great shit!

Music From The Empty Quarter! I haven't thought of that name in ages. What's you grab, if you don't mind sharing?

What was the nugget? If it's not rude to ask?

Amongst the greatest visuals in film.

That album feels almost out of time, even compared to his later stuff.

Any smart person would, at your request.

Also, typo: I meant everyone not anyone.

Not sure if that's a winner for anyone.

... I don't understand how Wayne never learned to lean in for the first sip, though.

Michael Shannon playing an early "Michael Shannon" type, of course. Denis Leary as Wayne stood out to me as a particularly strong performance.

The supporting cast contains many familiar faces from film and television. It looks like it was largely shot in Philadelphia and New Jersey, so that's logical enough for acting talent having doable commutes for the likely couple day shoots per segment?

The films feels, now a decade-and-a-half on, very of a piece with much of mid-90s indie filmmaking. Billy Crudup plays Fuckhead as much more of a puppy-dog than I recall the written character, but the shift from the interiority of writing to film might make that inevitable.

I haven't read that short story cycle in quite a while, so didn't recall all the details. The film seems to streamline some, and collapse some of the female characters FH encounters all into Michelle, played by Samantha Morton.

In the midst of reading Denis Johnson's 'Train Dreams', which has prompted a watch of the film version of his renowned 'Jesus' Son'.

Dandy in Aspic is an excellent book and good movie. Both worth one's time, if into the genre. Derek Marlowe has some very interesting books with a good angle into semi-unreliable narrators. I should learn more about him.

Not my place to say, but that's utter nonsense!

With the reduced resolution of the digital cameras at the time, especially compared to the then dominant film stocks, they really leaned into dynamic compositions to fill in that gap. It creates a unique experience for sure.

(Apologies, know this commentary is late).

For what it's worth, it deeply touched me. It felt like the world as it exists.

Plot and mood-wise, elements of 'Videodrome', "Crash', 'Naked Lunch', and I'm sure more.

I found everything about 'The Shrouds' engrossing. The pace, characters, mystery, and elements of perversion all felt familiar and modern to me

I'm confident that's not entirely true!

It immediately reminded me of the Hobbit cover as well. That used one of Tolkien's own illustrations, so almost certainly a bit of "influence" as opposed to a shared artist.

Graffiti that’s says: “Fuck Trump. Facsist pig. [I can’t spell]

Wisdom. Regardless of any typos.

Not a writer or an artist, but as someone working adjacently, I think this is correct. Scale distorts. All of the business models around the art itself have been corrupted by scale and disaggregation, even if the artists themselves rarely benefited. Something like this will be the path forward.

As seen at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art.