LOCATION: Cape Henlopen Seashore Park, DE... Lewes, DE... Nantucket Island, MA... Wilmington, NC (esp. Borden Avenue)... West Grove, PA (796/896 split... X-Mas '76-'77)... Townsend, DE... Welby Way, Van Nuys, CA... Sherman Oaks Galleria, Los Angeles, CA... Burbank, CA... Kennett Middle School (campus), PA... Old Saybrook, CT... and the ferry ride to Hadlyme... my carriage home and the ensuing property, Landenberg, PA...
GUIDE: Elaine Greggo, Butch Malinowski, Harris Ross, John Snyder, Elizabeth Nonas, Joseph Campbell, Dan Millman, Paul Stanley, Andre Breton, Christian Metz, U.S. Anderson, Myatin...
PICTURE AUTEUR: Bunuel, Altman, Allen, Sautet, Rohmer, Lynch, Baillie (esp. "All My Life"), Rudolph, Jodorowsky, Bergman, Deren, Haynes (esp. "Safe"), Egoyan, Heckerling, Rafelson, Antonioni, Coscarelli (esp. "Jim: The World's Greatest"), Lumet, Carpenter, Bogdanovich, Petrie, Leone, Brakhage, Ferrara, Argento, Soderbergh, Kieslowski, Lebute, Eastwood, Mulligan (esp. "Summer of '42"), Hartley, Nichols, Kaplan, Boorman, Friedrich (esp. "Sink or Swim"), Sayles, Coppola (esp. "The Rain People"), Anderson, Tykwer, Truffaut, Frankenheimer, B. Clark, Cronenberg...
STILL: Sally Mann, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Shelby Lee Adams, William Eggleston...
SKETCH/BRUSH: Edward Ruscha, Robert Motherwell, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth (The Helga Pictures)...
PROSE: Oates, Carver, Gifford, Hurston, Salinger...
SOUND: I love this silliness. This is where I list all of the bands, "retro" or contemporary, that musicians interviewed by Details, Blender, Alternative Press, et al claim are "smart" influences to have on a band resume... thus guaranteeing me a vast, young female fan-base, who are now more-than-enamoured with my ultra-cute, overtly-postured Collingwood 8 X 10... suck it... never gonna happen...
rather... here is a list (non-comprehensive) of quintessential records by bands who have done this better than us which you could be seeking out in lieu of reading half-assed MySpace pages...
Labradford "Mi Media Naranja",
Cerberus Shoal "Homb",
Pan American "Pan American",
A Small Good Thing "Slim Westerns",
The Jefferson Airplane "Crown of Creation",
The Chameleons "Strange Times" and "Script of the Bridge",
16 Horsepower "Sackcloth and Ashes" and "Secret South",
Gogol Bordello "Gypsy Punks",
Cliff Martinez "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" Soundtrack,
Current 93 "Thunder Perfect Mind",
The Cars "The Cars",
Cheap Trick "In Color",
Fred Myrow/Malcom Seagrave "Phantasm" Soundtrack,
Shudder to Think "Pony Express Record",
Nick Cave "Let Love In",
Supertramp "Breakfast in America",
America "Hat Trick",
Talk Talk "Laughing Stock",
The Incredible String Band "Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air",
Nina Simone "The Amazing Nina Simone/Nina Simone at Town Hall",
Ova Looven "52:34",
Joy Division "Closer" and "Unknown Pleasures",
Elvis Costello "This Year's Model",
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry "Nothing Wrong" and "Blow",
Jackson C. Frank "Blues Run the Game",
Afghan Whigs "Congregation", "Gentlemen", and "Black Love",
Twilight Singers "Twilight As Played By the Twilight Singers" and "Blackberry Belle",
Antarctica "81:03",
The For Carnation "S/T",
Hood "Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys",
Dirty Three "Horse Stories",
Bauhaus "The Sky's Gone Out",
Tarantel (anything),
Scorpions "Animal Magnetism",
Love "Forever Changes",
The Strawbs "From the Witchwood" and "Hero and Heroine",
Kiss "Hotter Than Hell",
Ed Tomney "Safe" Soundtrack,
Jesus Lizard "Goat" and "Liar",
Fields of the Nephilim "Elizium",
Big Black "Songs About Fucking",
Shellac "Terraform",
Creedence Clearwater Revival "S/T",
Tindersticks "S/T",
Chet Baker "Sings",
Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy",
Sisters of Mercy "Reptile House E.P." and "First and Last and Always"
... more later...
Sounds Like
... a proposed score to a Bob Rafelson film or a Joyce Carol Oates novel...
This is the OFFICIAL MYSPACE PAGE for THE COLLINGWOOD and for guitarist/filmmaker CHRISTOPHER MALINOWSKI. Chris's FILMMAKER PROFILE can be located at MYSPACE.COM/ALMSYOUSAY.
“There is an autumnal longing in
The Collingwood’s music, the wistful
guitars and half-buried vocals
evoking long-abandoned dust-filled
rooms and the last light of dusk
falling on empty suburban streets.” - Shaun Brady/Philadelphia City Paper
Formed in 1999 by guitarist/filmmaker, Christopher Malinowski, The Collingwood mesh cinema-driven, minor-key melodies with elements of post-rock and progressive-soul, creating circuitous compositions, both contemplative and severe. The Collingwood is renowned for its impetuous, harshly-lit live performances, equal parts drama and ass-shake. Members live, run, and photograph in Landenberg, Pennsylvania - Newark, Delaware – and Elkton, Maryland.
RELATED BANDS are Freakshow (Delaware -1986-1990) and The Absurd (Delaware - 1992-1995).
RELATED 16-MILLIMETER FILM PROJECTS are "Metz Committed", "Son of a Fishlicker" and "'Alms,' You Say" (almsyousay.com) or (myspace.com/almsyousay).
The Collingwood's "Sylvester to the Bzz Myapp Accompaniment" C.D. is available here:
i did the make up for the band. and i took photos for the venue. i love kiss and i was really happy to be involved. the tribute band was formed from teenage kids that take music/acting classes at the premier centre for the arts. i should have told you gents to come out. you would have had some fun.
You guys ever going to birth a full length album? The body gives rise, and the body gives show, but when is the body going to give sound recordings? heh.
Thanks for the add, anybody have thoughts on MOJO 13? I used to hang out there years ago when under previous management and it was like "barfly" come to life. I have such bad memories of that building.
Hey long time no hear!You guys sound great!I'm playing with Lex Luther Vandroz now we should put something together at Mojo 13. It could be "One enchanted evening!!!!LOL!!
I viewed your film pages, myspace, and almsyousay. com. The stills look brilliant, I want to see this film now! haha! Keep me posted on the progress of it, blog it up etc. Will you be submitting it to festivals?
Congratulations to you and everyone involved in the creation of 'Alms You Say'! It looks fantastically intriguing.
Editing on my first film begins on Monday, and I've been composing to the rushes for about 2 weeks now, as some of the scenes are sans dialogue.
If there's any advice you can offer to a (hopeful) beginner filmmaker I'd be greatly appreciative.
