David Lynch is one of the reason I am who I am today. His masterpiece, Eraserhead
The David Lynch Interview Project is a 20,000 mile cross-country road trip around America. The journey lasted over 70 days, and along the way Lynch and his team interviewed hundreds of people they found on the side of the road, in bars, diners, gas stations, etc. Every three days a new interview is posted. It’s amazing (especially in this vomit-soaked day of “reality” television) to watch real people simply talk about themselves and their life. It’s moving to hear about their real struggles. Meeting people without leaving home. Different backgrounds and philosophies. But no matter who the subject or what the opinion of that subject might be, one thing remains consistent; a connection to each other. A common ground that lies behind our eyes, our sighs of disappointment and our squeals of victory.Â
Much Love
Travis
Bad Boy Bubby
is a film I feel is extremely important to both its audience and the art of cinema, but one that gets very little attention, most likely do to its experimental nature. If only it were still the 70′s! I feel a film like this would get a bit more attention if it were. The time when filmmakers risky and personal visions were considered sellable product. Ah, to dream of paradise. But look, seriously, see this movie. Filmmaker Rolf De Heer explores the human condition using a 35 year old man who has been locked up in his shit-hole apartment his entrie life. Kept prisoner by his mother, Bubby knows very little of what goes on in the outside world. When his father returns for the first time since his birth, Bubby is forced out on to the streets to discover what living is really all about. What follows is an amazing journey of a man with no preconceived ideas of what it is to be a good person. Nicholas Hope does an outstanding job portraying Bubby and makes us understand the character even when he ignorantly does some of the most awful of things. There are so many scenes in which I would love to talk about, but I always find it annoying when I read about stuff like that and haven’t yet seen the film. What I would rather do is push you to see this movie and then open up your own dialog about it.
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I recently saw this film at my neighborhood cult theatre that plays double features for $7.00. Timecrimes (yes, it’s one word) is one of those time travel movies that sits your brain down and hands it several pieces of a very webby puzzle. It’s a story that unfolds 4 different times, each revealing an extra layer of the characters most bizarre journey, which is to manipulate himself (his own physical other self) into doing things to his future selfs advantage. It asks a common question of most time travel stories, “can we fix the past?” But what Timecrimes does so successfully is tell a very suspenseful and engaging story on mere peanuts of a budget.
Sadly, I feel that it suffers from a very unfortunate title (as well as cover art). Timecrimes sounds like cheesy science fiction movie loaded with some amazingly awful CGI and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (wait, that was Time Cop). And the artwork doesn’t give you much more to go on. Scissors, a clock, a man with his head wrapped? The movie is far to clever for both of these set backs. Ah well.
Allow me to introduce you to a band that I am sure a good majority of you have never heard of. They are currently one of my favorites and deserve more attention…but since they are weird as shit I’m sure they’ll never get it. I discovered The Tiger Lillies when I was looking for songs to inspire me as I prepared to shoot my last movie, Lo. Since the movie was a comedic love story about demons, I was looking for upbeat songs dealing with Hell…and I found exactly that. The iTunes Store search engine brought up Tiger Lillies. I clicked on it. I listened. When it ended I knew immediately that this song  would go over the end credits of my movie. It was beyond perfect. I then checked out more songs from the band and fell in love.
 the experience of the story. It sets a tone and gives it personality. When I look back on the books I have read, one of the first things that comes to mind is the artwork that graced the cover. Anyone read Stephen Kings, Night Shift? The cover with the hand and all the eyeballs poking out of the skin? “Holy alien dimmension, Christian Bale!” That thing was the center of awesome town! DVDs play a tad differently for me in this catagory. There are a shit-ton of great movie cover arts, but it seems in recent years studios lost the love for good imagery and have opted instead for how many movie stars can they cram onto a cover. But let’s be honest, a good movie poster is a good fucking movie poster.
I am proud of my movies, damn it, and I want to show those ladies off. If you come over to my place and I catch you scanning over my DVDs then I am going to get a bit excited. Movies are important to me and I enjoy watching people run their fingers down my lovers. Everyone does it. You check out your friends flicks. Silently judge him or her on their choices and taste. Â Same with books. My mother fuckin’ stuff is on display. What I do NOT give two shits about is my collection on a hard drive or kindle. That, to me, is dull. I do not want to sit down at my television and scroll through my movies. NO! I want to stand in front of them. Say, “good morning, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight”. Study their spines, savor the taste of each one…and then, pull the perfect selection from the shelf…which leads me to-
