THE NEW YORK STALKER is a trilogy of music videos following Ben Warren’s lurid journies through Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens on a misguided quest to connect with humanity. Director Matthew Glasson (God The Band’s “General Queer”) creates a fractured and darkly comic portrait of Ben’s obsession as he succumbs to his madness. With each video, a new side of Ben’s deranged mind is explored as he stalks another potential victim and falls further away from his own sanity.
THE NEW YORK STALKER steeps in a nostalgia for the grindhouse slasher cinema of the 1970s and 1980s set on the mean streets of New York City such as MANIAC (Joe Spinell), DEATH WISH (Michael Winner) and Lucio Fulci’s NEW YORK RIPPER. It both embraces and sends up the genre that shaped the videos and is complementary to Ben Warren’s raspy voice and intense musical stylings.
Hey Matt, Happy Birthday! Been a while since I talked to ya. Hope all is well in Brooklyn. On a side note, I might end up in Chicago for work soon. The phrase Never say Never has new meaning.
Sorry about my virtual non-existence. I guess I'm coming back. Been busy, been tired, been trying to exist in real life. It's exhausting. Real life exhausts me. Virtual life distracts me from it. Where's the balance? Hope you're well, bro. Love, Cyn
You're sooo... you know! All things considered, I'd rather have a 16 year old car than a 16 year old kid. Tearing out a voice box would be contraindicated. Poker in the living room (the rear one), ALWAYS, and sometimes I win. When ya coming to Chicago? I'll be in NYC 9/29, maybe, for work.
