Lol
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 November 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
Apparently, he can’t remember it.
― Mark G, Friday, 26 November 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
Ian Paice?
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
On the Squeeze album with Doug Yule in the 70s
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 26 November 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
Right. He can’t remember playing on it?
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link
ohhh sorry thought you were wondering why him
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 26 November 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link
XPost correct
― Mark G, Friday, 26 November 2021 08:47 (two years ago) link
he remembers perfectly well it's just more yule erasure by the metal establishment
― mark s, Friday, 26 November 2021 11:34 (two years ago) link
my thought on greil's grasp of avant-garde film is that i don't think he's a scholar (not the way amy taubin is a scholar for example) but he def has a feel for the territory: perhaps from thinking abt (of course) debord (soc-spec, howlings, in girum…) and he's written abt bruce conner back in the day (i know bcz i ran a nice piece by him in the wife when i had that power) so
― mark s, Friday, 26 November 2021 11:37 (two years ago) link
the WIRE
borat voice: my WIRE
Autocorrect is a scourge
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 26 November 2021 11:38 (two years ago) link
it is but this was absolutely fat fingers
― mark s, Friday, 26 November 2021 11:54 (two years ago) link
It’s my wire and it’s my lyre
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
“Take my Wire, please!”
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 26 November 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link
Before the scourge:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDm_cptMRNI
I used to think Gerard was a joke with all that whip dancing, but I’m starting to warm up to him.
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfUkipNBq70
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGrMhyqcI08
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
I’ve decided I like Mary Woronov much better when she is talking about her own would-be boyfriends and dishing on the other Factory denizens rather than just shooting hippie Phfishes in barrels.
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
Swimming Underground: My Time at Andy Warhol’s Factory (the subtitle sometimes changes) is really well-written, for one thing.
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
Never knew about this guy: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/arts/allen-midgette-an-ersatz-andy-warhol-dies-at-82.html?referringSource=articleShare
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
The sore thumb in the Greil piece is the Godard quote, which he really doesn't need: I've done it too, it's a crutch, it's overselling, it's a little touch of (I guess unwitting)self-parody (has he written so much about Elvis that he's a little touch off Elvis), it's too late to stage an intervention, but it's also the dues we pay to read his music, man, so be it.
― dow, Saturday, 27 November 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
But also, far as I know, it's the most vivid mult-d film review-as-tenacious-tracking shot since this one:https://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-power-the-gory-martin-scorsese-taxi-driver-manny-farber-patricia-patterson/
― dow, Saturday, 27 November 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
it's a crutch a symptom of somehow feeling like you need one, no matter how good the rest of it is. Also a symptom of knowing you might be wrong about how good the rest of it is, aieeeeeeeee
― dow, Saturday, 27 November 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
also scraping the absolutism off godard is like stripping an insect of its exoskeleton: highly likely it stops doing the work you're requiring of it!
(which come to think of it may actually be GM's underlying half-intuited concept and he ran out of time to hit it more exactly and fashion it less thirstily)
(seeing as there's a haynes-ray connection -- with far from heaven -- that he doesn't make out loud)
― mark s, Saturday, 27 November 2021 12:08 (two years ago) link
"just like nicholas ray said" <-- right there dude
― mark s, Saturday, 27 November 2021 12:09 (two years ago) link
Couldn’t hit it sideways
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 November 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
Always though of Far from Heaven as more Sirk, but yes, Ray fits as well.
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 November 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
lol oops yes
― mark s, Saturday, 27 November 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
split slightly and caused little rhythmic sirks of red to pulsate gently in the morning sun <-- right there dude
― mark s, Saturday, 27 November 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
Doug Yule / Doug Sirk, what's the difference?
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 November 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
David O. Selznick/Steve Sesnick etc
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 November 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
ppl coming round to my way of critical thinking at last
― mark s, Saturday, 27 November 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkiIwV6m0zk
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 November 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
Another VU:Michael J. Kramer@kramermjThe new Todd Haynes doc tries to make the Velvet Underground into the Beatles, while the new Fab Four doc Get Back makes the Beatles into a durational Warholian VU experience.8:15 AM · Nov 27, 2021· Which was my impression of 1970 Lindsay Hogg making-of Let It Be doc, though I preferred Warhol or whoever made any Warhol-branded film up to that point (did indicate that Yoko was *not* the real prob).
― dow, Saturday, 27 November 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
this doesnt seem a very accurate review
― mark s, Saturday, 27 November 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
No, but I'd like to see him say more about the first part (since Get Back as endurance test or experience does seem plausible [however much it may or may not plausibly compare to Hayes/Warhol/VU], given my Let It Be experience, though it didn't help that I didn't give a shit about most of those songs in the first place, just went to see it because **Beatles**)
― dow, Saturday, 27 November 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
VU as Beatles, ? as Yoko, re "breaking up the band": was/is there such a figure, according to some fans?
― dow, Saturday, 27 November 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
lou reed iirc
― mark s, Saturday, 27 November 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
I trusted you not to say that! I meant not a member of the band, but some one too close by, according to some---
― dow, Saturday, 27 November 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
Sesnick!
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 November 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
^
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 November 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
Just walked past signed picture of Jonas Mekas at Lincoln Center cinema. #One Thread
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 November 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
Also
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 November 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
Compare use of split screen in the VU doc vs end of Jackson's "Get Back"
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 27 November 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/01/14/79280001.html?pageNumber=36
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 November 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
Amazing
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 28 November 2021 01:51 (two years ago) link
Can't see it, no account (have I) sorry thanks.One last attempt to justify pasting that tweet:VUare Bizarro World Beatles. Beatles impact: Hot! Fast! Massive! VU: Cool, slow-growing, infiltrating---as Beatley sounds become more niche, going to power pop etc., VU becomes less so, more of a given in punk, new wave, "post-punk"(which as mark says, could also be pre- and para-punk)(I'm paraphrasing).Beatles stopped touring because things(girls) getting too massive and wild, discovered Epstein had sold off ancillary rights etc, had to keep cranking out records for income, but also overheard was no excuse not to keep slaving away to meet expected standards. also flooding the market no excuse because it didn't happen because they were the Beatles, prisoners of success.VU made all their money playing out, records mostly sounded like bootleg. VU not prisoners of success.Beatles media, incl. making movies and having press conference. VU multi- media when working w light show, only "movies" silent footage and Lou's Warhol "Screen Test," no press conferences per se that I know of, or that they were known for (I'm old, had contacts, would have heard about it).More?
― dow, Sunday, 28 November 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link