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Looks awesome.
Let’s hope it is.
I first discovered Hunter in high school after reading an excerpt from ‘Polo Is My Life’ in Rolling Stone. If anything it only helped reaffirm the path that I was already on. The best music, the best art, the best writing, in addition to a world of other things, a) makes you feel, but also b) makes you feel less alone, shrinks the world around the creator and their audience.
‘Gonzo’ being the title kind of scares me though.
One of the reasons the latest Bukowski documentary ‘Born Into This’ was so successful is that the first 10 minutes or so sucked the average Bukowski fan in with what they wanted to see: drunken debauchery, belligerence and madness, before stopping on a dime and dropping them inside the great sadness that was much of his life and the tragic beauty (lame I know) that permeated his most crucial work. I went opening night, the Friday before a holiday weekend, and half the audience was drunk.
I was not.
And it was an awesome moment in the theater when the crowd stopped laughing, started listening and allowed the film to introduce them to the complicated and sensitive creature that Charles Bukowski could also be, the Bukowski the crowd didn’t realize they’d actually come to see after reading something that made them want to get in the car and drive to the theater the first place.
‘For Jane’
- Charles Bukowski
225 days under grass
and you know more than I.
they have long taken your blood,
you are a dry stick in a basket.
is this how it works?
in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.
when you left
you took almost
everything.
I kneel in the nights
before tigers
that will not let me be.
what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not care.
And this long distance dedication goes out to the boys and girl in Headlights…
The World Premiere of the Asshole Parking Trilogy in its entirety.
Not sure who Jesse is, but I truly appreciate the invite, and I?m all down for being respectful, staying positive and thinking healthy.
But how is this even a party?
No booze?
No cops?
No meat?
One of the headlines is BRING VEGAN FOOD!!??
AND it’s in Palm Dale?
Jesus.
This kind of healthy living can be taken care of at home, on your own time.
Yes, some more “progressive” people (in Venice, San Fran, Portland, Seattle and Palmdale apparently) might go to parties to have genuine interactions with others of their own species, drink Mona Vie, un-crimp their auras and gather their chi for their next lifetime, but most people go to parties to get drunk, get high, dance, maybe eat, get laid and lose their minds for a night.
Call it a “gathering,” “a variation on a party-like theme” or a “protest against fun,” but please don’t call it a party.
At least it doesn’t say “No Drugs.”
Who wants to save these people from a lifetime of boredom and roll out to Palmdale with me with a side of beef and a keg?
Some easily answered.
None profound.
But questions all the same.
1. Does Chelsea Clinton make apologies for her mother’s insanity behind closed doors?
2. How is George Clinton still alive after smoking crack for 20 years straight? (I saw him at the opening of the new Zune venue and he looks better than me.)
3. WHY is George Bush still alive?
Answer: The type of people that assassinate political figures are the type of people that vote FOR Bush, not against him.
4. Will reports by the EPA make their way to the public unmolested now that George Bush has admitted that global warming exists?
5. Am I losing my mind or is Mauro’s Cafe (Fred Segal) cutting down the size of their prosciutto sandwich? (They definitely shorted me on the meat.)
6. What did I say to the people I drunk dialed Saturday night?
7. How hot was Sharon Tate?
8. Why do people bring their dogs shopping?
9. Is LA the only city where people bring their dogs shopping? (In France I’ve seen poodles on planes.)
10. Why don’t people bring animals besides dogs shopping? (Scratch that — I saw a rabbit in a grocery cart in Food-For-Less wrapped up in baby clothes once).
11. Why do people continue to breed and purchase pitbulls?
12. Has hope for stability and contentment replaced the American dream?
13. Will my landlord ever raise my rent?
14. Does John McCain really not know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites?
15. Why do I feel sad that Ed McMahon is no longer laughing?
16. Is “This American Life” better on the radio or as a television series or is there room for both?
17. Are there enough universally interesting American lives to keep up that kind of pace?
18. Why do I feel a sick pleasure in the fact that GM is failing?
19. Is it anti-American to feel this way? Or am I just being haunted by that John Cougar “Our Country” ad campaign they did a few years back?
20. “Our country?” Whose country?
21. Genius or pathetic that an American corporation’s boardroom-produced idea of patriotism can elicit guilt in people let alone convince them to buy a domestic-made product over a more practical and efficient one built overseas that they originally wanted more?
22. What is the ultimate apocalypsemobile?
23. Has Gaspar Noe made any films since “Irreversible?”
24. Whatever happened to the band “Jellyfish?”
25. Will activism replace apathy with the latest return of psychedelic music and culture, or will the neuvo-hippy kids continue to focus their energy on collecting feathers to decorate their Burning Man bikes?
26. Did the forces behind the making of “the Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down” really think the Cahuenga Pass was a creatively satisfying, timeless and important enough subject to produce/create/invest money in a film about it, or did they think LA hipster culture was a hot enough topic that they could get a return on their investment no matter how lame the film turned out in the end?
27. Why do people on myspace keep asking me if I want to know how much I’m worth?
29. Will civilian spaceflights ever be truly “affordable” in my lifetime?
30. Who watches the Olympics?
31. Is there still as much corruption in the Los Angeles judicial system as there was back in the days of the Roman Polanski rape trial?
32. Which portion of the brain controls man’s fear of heights, or is it a combination of two or more?
33. And do genetics factor in?
34. Were any of the Flying Wallendas afraid of heights?
35. What now?
Don’t believe me?
Here’s proof:
Seriously, why is this guy an actor?
Should be a professional poker player.
If anything happens to this guy…
You know who did it.
“THIS HIPSTER SHIT HAS GOTTA GO” - TOMMIE SUNSHINE
Homecoming ?08: Went back to Chicago for a lovely/ugly night with Tommie Sunshine at the Smart Bar.
We got down to business in a shady hotel room before the show, covered everything from Fellini to Vietnam, and yet somehow my favorite ended up being the ?Love and Sobriety? episode.
EPISODE ONE
Sunshine Sound - Paris vs. NYC - NYC vs. LA
EPISODE TWO
Music as a Reflection - Rise of the Blogs - Interpersonal Communication
Love and Sobriety
EPISODE FOUR
Music for all Seasons
EPISODE FIVE
First Memory - Rave Memory? - Sunshine, The Dancer
EPISODE SIX
Inspirado - Fellini - Johnny Rotten - Toby Dammit - Reinterpretation and Respect - Hipster Shit
EPISODE SEVEN
Two angry men discuss art, politics, pop culture, Son of Svenghouli, man’s quest for knowledge and George Bush’s ‘America’
EPISODE EIGHT
The Definition of Punk (Running time 8 sec.)
EPISODE NINE
What the world needs now - Over and Out
The voices in my head nearly convinced me to take Coachella off so I could enjoy actually enjoy the music, buy then I ended up busting out the camera to discuss sex, drugs, Dwight Yoakam, Sean Penn and all things Coachella with some of the peeps, including the lovely Dita Von Teese, on the magic bus and out on the field:
NOTE: I ‘borrowed’ this ‘High Definition’ camera from Best Buy just in time for Coachella, only to find out after shooting in HD, that converting it for web viewing blows. Hence the crappy lo-res carnival mirror shiz below. So AV Team Members, if you got ‘em, please hit me up with some solid HD export settings so I can pretty these suckers up.
COACHELLA 101
ARTIST MOST LIKELY TO, ARTIST YOU’D MOST LIKE TO…
MEMORIES
EITHER/OR & PENN VS. YOAKAM
FIRSTS
ALL ABOUT YOAKAM
“THIS IS A CLASS WAR!” - Chris K.
Asshole Parking 101
Asshole Parking - Part II - Return to Sender
Asshole Parking - Part III - The Haunting
