gets back from NYC on Tuesday...yeah, i'm excited to see her...
who else, on a Sunday night, can you talk to about Joe Strummer, the Dali Lama, Peking Duck, camping, snuggling, siblings, beers, high-school foods, Alice Waters, "slow" movement culture, parents, knife-fights and kisses...
hi S., i know we just talked about it, but i hope you had a great show on the Right Coast...
...currently listening to The Knife Silent Shout...
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hrm. nice one.
What did you think of the biopic?
i liked it a lot...i dreamt about strummer all last night too...
i didn't really like the campfire conceit though...kind of lame.
and johnny depp and john cusack really didn't need to be in the doc...
but yeah, i really really really liked it, kind of stays with you...
The campfires aren't a conceit, Joe spent the last years of his life establishing Strummerville as an actual NGO, non-profit thingy. He was very into it. I think the film failed to really explain why and where it came from.
Depp I could have done without but Cusack is an old punker at heart and loved Joe, so I say he stays.
makes me think of the song -
I dreamt I saw Joe Strummer last night,
alive as you or me,
to Joe, I said, your 3 years dead
'I never died' said he
'I never died' said he
well that makes a lot more sense...i mean, i got the whole joe strummer/campfire primal/human-nature symbolism stuff...but i thought that was as far as it went...i was feeling like they were hammering it in a bit too heavily...but now, with you explanation, it makes more sense...
yeah, nothing wrong with cusack, but he didn't really add anything...he said "i saw joe strummer and the mescalaros a lot..." and that was kind of it...it did make me think about his character in High Fidelity wearing the cut-off The Clash tee-shirt...
Yeah, you're right.
Cusack's not like Jarmusch, who not only liked the music, but worked with the guy and was his friend. He is kind of peripheral, but in that regard we could say the same of Flea and Anthony Keidis, though their comments are gold - especially the stuff that got cut from the film.
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