new harmony korine: "Spring Breakers"

"This is more than spring break... this is our chance to see something different."

The fans of these chicks apparently don't want to see them in anything different, other than the Disney Channel shit-coms from which they originated. NC-17 is not porn. Grow up, kids: They're just actors, working and gettin' paid... And they're probably a lot smarter than their fans. We barely know anything about Selena Gomez or ... who is this other chick? Vanessa Hudgens? Someone from High School Musical... But anyone in Hollywood willing to work with Harmony Korine probably has at least half-a-brain, and so we say "good for them." We'll give anything from Harmony a shot, even though Trash Humpers was probably the worst movie we've ever seen... Most of his movies don't get distributed all that well, but we're hopeful that name-recognition will help to get Spring Breakers in ordinary-ass AMC theaters by the end of the year. This is good news.

EDIT: HUGE BREAKING NEWS: GUCCI MANE ALSO HAS A ROLE IN THIS MOVIE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Breakers

ANOTHER EDIT: The Guardian UK has reviewed an early screening, which includes the following excerpt: Full credit to Korine, who sustains this act of creative vandalism right through to the finish. Spring Breakers unfolds as a fever dream of teenage kicks, a high-concept heist movie with mescal in the fuel tank. The director monkeys with the plot and kicks away the signposts. He loops the dialogue and drags a dilated, ecstatic camera-lens across honeyed flesh and painted nails. The result is his most fully realised, purely satisfying feature film since Gummo, his outrageous directing debut, way back in 1997. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/05/spring-breakers-review

minutemen movie

Probably a sad movie

"Pearl Jam Twenty"

More 20-year-anniversary nostalgia crap... And we'll continue posting about it as long as it all remains interesting....

Once upon a time, somewhere around 2002/2003, I had strongly considered writing a book with the working title Axl Vs. Kurt, which mostly planned to chronicle the events and dozens of legendary stories that took place in Los Angeles at the 1992 VMA's, an evening of television that has fascinated me for years. In addition to using Howard Stern's Private Parts as one of the sources, I had planned on also using passages from Charles Cross' Heavier Than Heaven, detailing Nirvana's experience.

One section of this book describes the story of Kurt Cobain backstage, walking up to Eddie Vedder while Eric Clapton was on stage playing "Tears In Heaven," and they awkwardly slow-danced for a few minutes.

After years of assuming this story was simply legend and possibly never actually happened, it turns out that Cameron Crowe has somehow obtained filmed footage of this amazing moment, and he's placed it into Pearl Jam Twenty, his documentary showing the early history of Pearl Jam. We normally hate Cameron Crowe, and "a documentary on the history of Pearl Jam" is not normally a movie description that we'd consider exciting. However, this trailer, plus the slow-dancing sequence, is making it all seem legitimately badass... More than likely way better than something intended for fans-only...

West memphis 3 possibly being released today // Paradise Lost 3 trailer

hooray for thanksgiving

Silkworm Documentary

2010 might be the year this finally comes out...

SXSW 2010

This year's SXSW had the big Alex Chilton tribute, and Japandroids are playing 3 or 4 shows there this year... Sounds to me like it's a pretty outstanding party, but most of this information is meaningless to me, since I cannot attend due to living thousands of miles away from Texas. What's excited me the most about this year's SXSW are some of these movie trailers... I'm somewhat interested in seeing all of these... especially Trash Humpers, which appears to be Harmony Korine's proper follow-up to Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy...

"Trash Humpers"


"The People Vs. George Lucas"


"Lemmy"