listen:
A SILVER MT. ZION
AL BOWLLY
ALBERT AYLER
ALEXANDRE VERTINSKY
ANLA COURTIS
THE ANTLERS: ‘East River Berlin Wall’
ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS
ARVO PÄRT
BAD BRAINS (early)
BEIRUT
BÉRURIER NOIR
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON: ‘Dark Was The Night’
BOB & EARL: 'Harlem Shuffle' BOB DYLAN
BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY
BUNKER HILL: ‘Hide & Go Seek’
BURIAL
THE CAKE: ‘Baby, That’s Me’
CAN
CAROLYN MARK & CAREY MERCER: ‘Claxton’s Lament’
CHARLES MINGUS
CHET BAKER: ‘Deep In A Dream’
COMPANY FLOW / EL-P
DEFORD BAILEY: ‘Old Hen Cackle’
DELIA DERBYSHIRE
DJ PREMIER / GANG STARR
ED ASKEW
EDITH PIAF: ‘Les Amants Du Jour’
GÉRARD MANSET
GLENN GOULD
GRAILS
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS
GUSTAV MAHLER
GYÖRY KURTÁG
GYÖRY LIGETI
HENRYK GORÉCKI
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
HOAGY CARMICHAEL
ILITCH
J.S. BACH
JACASZEK
JOHN CAGE
JOHN COLTRANE
JOHN JACOB NILES
JOY DIVISION
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
LARKIN GRIMM
LEADBELLY LEONARD COHEN
LOU REED / VELVET UNDERGROUND
LOVE IS ALL
LOW
MAGAZINE
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS
MARISSA NADLER
THE MODERN LOVERS
MOMUS
MORRISSEY / THE SMITHS
MULATU ASTATKE
NICK CAVE NICO
NINA SIMONE
ORNETTE COLEMAN
PAAVOHARJU
PERGOLESI
PIERRE BASTIEN
PJOTR LESCHENKO
THE ROOTS
RUDI ARAPAHOE
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
SCOTT WALKER
SHOSTAKOVICH
SVARTE GREINER / DEAF CENTER TOM WAITS
VLADIMIR VISOTSKY
WASHINGTON PHILLIPS
WILLIAM BASINKSI
WOLF EYES
...etc.
電影
"The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good." --Andrey Tarkovsky.
Pierrot Le Fou (Godard)
Persona (Bergman)
Vivre Sa Vie (Godard)
(all Godard, really)
The Mother & The Whore (Eustache)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
The Seventh Continent (Haneke)
Teorema (Pasolini)
L'Avventura (Antonioni)
Rope (Hitchcock)
Rosetta (Dardenne Bros.)
Stroszeck (Herzog)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky)
Les Enfants Du Paradis (Carné)
Institute Benjamenta (Bros. Quay)
Possession (Zulawski)
Even Dwarves Started Small (Herzog)
Zéro de Conduite (Vigo)
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
Lovers On The Bridge (Carax)
Mauvais Sang (Carax)
Baby Doll (Kazan)
Satantango (Tarr)
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
Beau Travail (Denis)
Import/Export (Seidl)
Spalovac Mrtvol (Juraj)
Wanda (Loden)
Badlands (Malick)
Walden (Mekas)
Mother Joan of The Angels (Kawalerowicz)
The Pumpkin Eater (Clayton)
Pentimento (Zwartjes)
(the films of Paolo Gioli)
"The great art of film does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation." --Louise Brooks.
電視
書籍
compulsively pleasing authors: Diogenes, Kafka, E.M. Cioran, Wilde, Daniil Kharms, Marina Tsvetaeva, Yukio Mishima, Italo Calvino, Dostoevsky, Bukowski, Jean Genet, Kundera, Edward Gorey, Jean Cocteau, Knut Hamsun, Buchner, Graham Greene, Beckett, Brecht, Quentin Crisp, Baudelaire
favorite books: -Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" -Robert Walser's "Jakob von Gunten" -Plato's "Symposium" -Stendahl's "Love" -Milan Kundera's "Book of Laughter and Forgetting" -Fernando Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet" -...and the book of Ecclesiastes for ending with the only line in literature that negates all that came before or that would come after: "One further warning, my son: there is no end to the writing of books."
偶像
-"Life is a funny thing that happened on the way to the grave." -Quentin Crisp.
-"We're all set to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened out by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing." -Henry Charles Bukowski.
-"It is only when we realize everything is pointless that we can act fearlessly." -Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
-"Life is so meaningless we may as well make ourselves extraordinary.” -Francis Bacon.
-"Facts do not interest me. Facts are for accountants. Facts create norms. Truth creates illumination."-Werner Herzog.
-"Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man."-Jean-Luc Godard.
-"In real life, I identify with the victim. In my art, I am the murderer. I feel for the ordeal of the murderer, the man who has to live with his conscience.”-Louise Bourgeois.
-"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."-Jean Genet.
-"Tragedy is a closeup; comedy is a long shot." -Buster Keaton.
-"My ideal artist to audience ratio is 1 to 0. Solitude is a necessary state which the artist needs in order to consciously contemplate his own divinity." -Glenn Gould.
-"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."-Franz Kafka.
-"With every moon it as though you’re getting closer to your soul."-Nico.
-"I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief."-Pier Paolo Pasolini.
-"If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence."-Simone Weil
-"I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else's. I've always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them there are."-Tom Waits.
-"A piece of art is a deed—not a paycheck."-Andrei Tarkovsky.
-"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."-E.M. Cioran.
-"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” -Bob Dylan.
關於我： Film Director/Scribe. Born on the island of Oahu. Currently resides on the island of Manhattan.
Directed, shot, produced and edited "KILL YOUR IDOLS", a documentary (from the executive producers of David Cronenberg's "History of Violence") tracing the history of NYC's art punk scene from its inception in 1972 with Suicide through the No-Wave acts of the late 1970's and the early inheritors immediately after (with bands like Sonic Youth and Swans) to the most recent generation embracing the ideals of transgressive innovation (including bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Gogol Bordello, Black Dice, etc.) After being screened to critical and audience acclaim at over 50 international film festivals--including Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival, where it was awarded the prize for Best Feature Documentary by members of the NY Film Critics Circle--the film was released in select theatres throughout Europe in 2005. "KILL YOUR IDOLS" opened theatrically in the U.S. on July 7th, 2006 and became available on DVD in North America on August 29th, 2006. The film is also now on DVD in Italy, Switzerland, and Japan.
**THIS IS THE ONLY OFFICIAL PAGE FOR THE FILM "KILL YOUR IDOLS"**
((( PLEASE WATCH THE MOVIE TRAILER IN THE 'VIDEO' SECTION )))
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PRESS QUOTES for "KILL YOUR IDOLS":
-"KILL YOUR IDOLS thrills!" - THE VILLAGE VOICE
-"****--Compelling stuff. Thrillingly scratchy and lo-fi." - NME
-"The music gets to spill all over you, scalding and still shocking, from the screen."
- UNCUT magazine
-"Engagingly raw style...An enjoyable monument to an undervalued chapter in rock history."
- SIGHT & SOUND
-"Edgy and energetic!" - FLAVOURPILL London
-"Funny, informative and thought-provoking." - CLOSE-UP FILM
-"If you have any interest in the alternative music scene of the last few decades, this documentary is definitely worth a look...Has an obvious relevance well beyond the confines of the New York punk scene." - FILM247.NET
-"A masterpiece of a documentary." -CINEMA SOURCE
-"RECOMMENDED." -AMOEBA MUSIC
-"KILL YOUR IDOLS is the only documentary that digs deep enough into the Underground to truly portray the intensity of New York's No Wave movement and the impact it had on the future of noisemakers everywhere." -LYDIA LUNCH
-"Hot Ticket! This is the most vital rock scene New York's had since Blondie, the Talking Heads and the Ramones hung out at CBGB."
- PAPER magazine
-"Film of the month!" -DAZED & CONFUSED
-"Damn good!" -THE PORTLAND MERCURY
-"Far more compelling and entertaining than virtually any of this summers big budget blockbuster movies..."Kill Your Idols" is just as powerful and disturbing as the music scene that inspired it." - REELMOVIECRITIC.COM
-"Mischievous...Anyone with a niggling suspicion that contemporary bands are more hyped than heard would do well to catch the film."
- THE LONDON TIMES
-"Equal parts art and music...making KILL YOUR IDOLS thoroughly enjoyable and informative."
- ROTTEN TOMATOES
-"Intriguing!...Rough & ready!" -CHANNEL 4 (UK)
-"Cocky, hypocritical, noisy, and just a little bitter—exactly the way a documentary about No Wave should be." - DVD VERDICT.com
-"Any self-respecting punk's wet-dream!" - ART ROCKER
-"***--Illuminating." - ALL MOVIE GUIDE
-"Ostensibly about the ultra-obscure New York art-punk scene of 1977-82, this cleverly edited film is really a meditation on originality and nostalgia." - EMPIRE MAGAZINE (UK)
-"Crary convincingly conveys the fiercely confrontational spirit of the No Wave movement."
- BBC
-"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED--Not just a history of a specific time in music. It's also a testament to the lasting effect of the era's influence, for better or worse." -DVD Talk
-"Manages to leave even those who know nothing about punk feeling nostalgic for the passion and intelligence of its early days." - CINEMATICAL
-"***--A sharp look at the crisis of innovation in an age of commodified nostalgia." -TV GUIDE
-"Could find worshippers!"
- DAILY VARIETY
WINNER:
OFFICIAL SELECTION OF OVER 50 INT'L FILM FESTIVALS.
