At 11:29 AM 12/24/97 -0800, Gonzi 'Fresh' Merchan wrote:
quoted 12 lines And this from a fellow who LIKES Atari Teenage Riot? pffft! Take a look>
>And this from a fellow who LIKES Atari Teenage Riot? pffft! Take a look
>at Videodrome and tell me Come to Daddy was not inspired by it. I won't
>even try to defend Naked Lunch and Crash as they are both works of art
>and I feel stand on their own as such. During the holiday season while
>the family is visiting, I do suggest trying to dig up some of the
>horribly mangled and out of print video copies of Croenenbergs early
>work floating around at the smaller video stores. Particularly The
>Brood, with its snowy canadian landscapes and sexless mutant
>manifestations of psychic energy its the perfect film for the holidays.
>Watch the movie, you'll see :)
>
well.. as for Cronenberg.. like i said, i didn't know what influence over
or involvement in Come To Daddy he may of had, so I asked. secondly, i'm
not too familiar with his works outside of Naked Lunch & Crash, which were
both awful movies and posessed none of the art of the original novels.
Crash especially. what an awful movie - nothing more than a porn. it had
none of the mystique or shock of Ballard's novel and was just a silly
excuse for a film. it's one those career-ending type movies for the actors
involved. trash. controversial? pah.
and, as for ATR... they're great! like I said, they're not the most
inventive musicians but they make up for it with their live energy,
something of a rarity in the electronic scene. i get something different
out of them, and seeing them live was fun as hell.. yeah, they're not
releasing ground-breaking music, but shit.. they're fun. and where else can
you see over-privileged middle-class suburbanites screaming "FUCK
CAPITALISM!"? certainly not at a RDJ show. =) (not a knock on RDJ, mind you).
anyway. i'll try to check out The Brood.. it certainly has to be better
than Crash.
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"all these things we'll one day swallow whole
and fade out again and fade out again"