Click the image for an interview with Danny Trejo. An ex heroin addict bank robber shooting for the stars. I don’t know if he did heroin, he seems like he needs the fast lane, but sometimes it gets too fast, and then the quickest way out is the slow road. Feed the poison to the tattooed snakes, sink the fangs in, bite into the hand that needs.
Here is a documentary on Chris Cunningham. Sort of anyway. Chris Cunningham directs music videos, among other things. Strange and amazing. I think his best stuff is all of his work with Aphex Twin. Search for him in youtube if you haven’t seen his work before.
The audio on all of these is off. And its annoying. The video clips end up basically being full length videos with snippets oh him talking between. But if you like Chris Cunningham its kind of neat. If not, fuck it. I’ve posted his newest work (which is fairly sparse) and some interview links below this documentary.
I’ve been searching everywhere trying to find any information about upcoming projects. But there really seems to be nothing. Apparently he is going to release a book of concept sketches for his work, which would be cool, but the interview where he talked about that was from like three years ago. Another project abandoned perhaps. I wish he would just make a movie with a series of bizarre images and instances. No story, nothing. No discernible concept. An hour and a half of off the wall energy. All to Slick Rick, Aphex Twin and Patsy Cline music. Actually Slick Rick and Aphex will make an album together for the project, maybe make some percussion on Patsy’s grave stone with a voodoo shin bone. And the sound basis will be the opening song in the Window Licker video when the boys are driving in the sun.
I found these interviews below, which, though older, are still good. He’s made one video, a commercial and did a photo shoot with Grace Jones that I could find (All below.) If anyone else knows of anything let me know.
I just watched a documentary by Martin Scorcese. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies. It’s written and directed by him. Three parts. Each part an hour. He simply explains film, and how it has affected him from the early years up until the burgeoning sixties. He stops at the point he came to exist in cinema. He speaks of the story-telling in film, the technical aspects of film. The fight between directors and studios. The wins and the losses. All of the advancements. All of the magic.
Older film has rested on my shoulder like an annoying pecking middle aged dinosaur bird that i cannot deny, but have trouble acknowledging, because simply, like a dumb dog stuck in it’s owners yard. I cannot relate to the so called masters. It’s good, real good. Below are a few clips I captured from the documentary. Such style. Such eye patches.