You know how Ed Wood is about someone with no natural talent but a strong work ethic and positive outlook on life who recruits a stable of like-minded people to create a family?
This is the exact opposite story of that.

people really be having whole ass careers as tambourine players

“In every religion you go to hell for pretending to be god & not being able to back it up” - man dressed as Paul Dano playing John Lennon

"You fucking broke my sitar, motherfucker."

Easily the greatest documentary about music, musicians, the music industry, mental illness, homelessness, poverty, drug addiction, ego, personality conflicts, religion, cults and hand-to-hand combat ever made.

Anton Newcombe is a force to be reckoned with, an immovable object annihilating pawns thrown towards him from every which way. The world, for better or worse, revolves around him, and Joel Gion and Genesis P'Orridge (may s/he rest in peace) are the only people smart enough to know this and abide. Are you getting that okay? Dig!

"You fucking broke my sitar motherfucker!" 
- Anton A. Newcombe

Ok but I really wanna know what Harry Dean Stanton was doing there

A giant, monolithic effigy to the art of excess, a resounding fuck you to restraint. Makes Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut feel like Phone Booth.

I'm exhausted, my head hurts from laughing and I'm very emotional. I got to share one of my favourite movies of all time with two of my greatest pals, and even though it was padded to fuck and gently soaked in AI, the story sings louder than ever. Breaking hearts and sitars since 2004.

*Anton Newcombe menacingly rollerblades into the frame*

The brightest any tambourine player has been allowed to shine outside of an elementary school class recital.

I can fix him