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I am writing two of the most important books of the 21st century at the same time.
Jay-Z “Raymond Gun-Virus” Ballard
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Jay-Z “Raymond Gun-Virus” Ballard
@Evan_Pincus
HE IS A FULL TIME VIEWER. HE ANALYZES. HE EPITOMIZES THE NON-DOER. HE'S COOL, HE'S INSANE, AND HE'S OUT OF HIS DEPTH!
Joined August 2009
- A few years ago on a trip to Chicago I wrote Steve Albini on a whim offering to buy him coffee and pick his brain about finding one’s way as an independent recording artist. Instead he invited to Electrical Audio and spent the day showing me around and answering questions.
- Replying to @Evan_PincusObviously he was a legendary crank but I was shocked to find someone who couldn’t be more humble, down-to-earth, accessible. He knew what he’d built was singular and worked as hard as he could to share it, keeping rates low and picking up the phone if a client called. RIP.
- met Béla Tarr after a screening of Satantango. Asked him to sign my copy of The Melancholy of Resistance (adapted into Werckmeister), which he politely refused to do - "you'd have to ask László." Very fair, but Béla, which one's smoking in an alley directly in front of me?
- Replying to @canyoncinema100% correct, but I don’t think the things being discussed in this tweet are artists films/experimental/independent work but, like, cancelled TV shows that all but a select few fans have forgotten. I don’t think the statement ignores the valuable work of archivists at all!
- Jackie Brown on 35mm last night - great movie! God-tier bit to make this richly observed, deeply complex and emotionally mature movie about aging as your third movie at the age of 35 and then follow it up with Kill Bill lol. Forgot how much of a revelation Forster is in it!
- learning that i saw the tv glow takes place at "void high school (VHS)" and according to dave ehrlich is explicitly inspired by the aesthetics of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, what the hell are we doing here lol
- I am developing the take that the RAND Corporation's A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates is probably the best piece of government funded American art. I am like 98% certain I actually believe this.
- "Even eternal hell needs an opening act." (Dr. Caligari, 1989 dir Stephen Sayadian A.K.A. Rinse Dream)
- “The best Holocaust movie I’ve witnessed since my own” has gotta be one of the funniest things anyone’s ever said not gonna lieHigh praise from the Master
- George Lucas wanted to make abstract experimental films and got cucked into story structure so hard he’s building a “museum of narrative art.” This is perhaps the greatest American tragedy.
- A friend of mine got murdered overnight and trying to find info I ran across, like, auto-generated headlines and thumbnails saying "death cause is SHOCKING and UNBELIEVABLE" with a photo of his face overlaid over a body bag on a stretcher. I hate the internet and miss my friend.
