coltish gallimaufry
MAIDSTONE: NORMAN MAILER + RIP TORN BRAWL 1968 Video sent by mrjyn
“Maidstone” functions for the intelligentsia of the ’60s in much the same way that “Gimme Shelter,” Albert and David Maysles’s documentary about the Altamont festival, does for the counterculture. In our diminished age, “Maidstone” provokes renewed amazement that artists ever really did such things, as well as nostalgia for the vivid presence of literary action heroes like Mailer. A bright thread of violence wound through the shooting, giving “Maidstone” its ominous air and notorious climax. At one point, Rosset emerged from his house to find a drunken Villechaize drowning in the pool; then come the last three minutes, which guarantee “Maidstone” a kind of immortality as one very late night in a so-called “Assassination Ball,” where Mailer/Kingsley, in top hat and tails, no attempt on his life was staged. The next day the cast decompress and use up leftover film. Pennebaker’s camera focuses on Rip Torn, who removes a hammer from a backpack, strides over to Mailer and hits him on the head twice, announcing: “You are supposed to die, Mr. Kingsley. You must die, not Mailer. I don’t want to kill Mailer, but I must kill Kingsley in the picture.” Shocked, Mailer wrestles him to the ground, and they roll down the hill in an ugly tussle, Mailer biting Torn’s ear as Mailer’s wife and children scream. Finally separated, the two bloodied men walk at a wary distance from each other, Mailer hurling curses, Torn explaining calmly: “When — when is an assassination ever planned? It’s done, it’s done.” The sequence ends with Torn calling Mailer “a fraud” and pointing a finger at the camera, taunting, “Hoo hoo!”Rip Torn took Mailer’s premise more seriously than Mailer himself and acted them out, in the process both stealing Mailer’s film and making it for him. The scenario slipped away as things devolved into a saturnalia, “a psychic pigout” in the words of one participant, and a dangerous one. His bullyragging, mock-seductive treatment of the nakedly needy actresses “auditioning” made my skin crawl.
Johnny Thunders: The Wizard 1982 + Jayne County + Klaus Nomi Video sent by mrjyn
Johnny Thunders [RIP]: "The Wizard" [w/b Marc Bolan] (Acoustic: Live in Studio with Elliot Kidd [RIP]guitar, 1982) + Jayne County Live @ Max's Kansas City, 1979 (Peter Jordan on bass with Jeff Salen [RIP]guitar) from "Paul Tschinkel's Inner-Tube" [NYC Public Access Cable, 1982]"HOLY CRAP!Was that me??? LOL. What was I wearing and what was I on??? And doing Countrybilly!!! Well, at least I was still a skinny bitch. Now I am FAT!!! Time Has No Mercy!!!--JaynecountyProfessor Paul Tschinkel, a video artist, trained his camera on contemporary art and music and produced documentaries that will be viewed and treasured for as long as scholars and students contemplate late 20th century art.Professor Tschinkel produced four different documentary series. His first series, "Paul Tschinkel's Inner-Tube" (1974-75), produced for New York public access cable, was the first weekly cable program created by an artist. His second series (1977-78) was entitled "Artifacts." His third series, "New York Music New York" (1979-84), captured early Punk and New Wave music. His fourth series, 1979-present, "Art/new york" 58 programs. The "Art/new york" series is internationally applauded and incorporated into contemporary art exhibitions.
James Joyce macellaio il suo sporco lettere [Nora Barnacle] Video sent by mrjyn
James Joyce macellaio il suo sporco lettere [Nora Barnacle]
JERRY LEE LEWIS: Breathless [3rd MIDNIGHT SPECIAL 21.10.73] Video sent by mrjyn
JERRY LEE LEWIS'S THIRD APPEARANCE ON 'THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL." THIS "Midnight Special" IS SPECIAL INDEED, NOT FOR HIS FIREBALL PERFORMANCE OF 'BREATHLESS,' OR THE UNUSUAL AND RARE ADDITION OF A HORN SECTION, OR EVEN HIS CHOICE OF TUX JACKET: THIS CLIP IS THE ONLY VIDEOTAPE WHICH FEATURES HIS SON, JERRY LEE LEWIS, JR., PLAYING DRUMS. [DIED SHORTLY AFTERWARD. THE OTHER KNOWN CLIP BEING FROM THE 'MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW,' WHERE HE PLAYS TAMBOURINE.] IF THIS WERE NOT ENOUGH TO DISTINGUISH A VIDEO FROM THE THOUSANDS ON THE WWW, THE OTHER DRUMMER IS NONE OTHER THAN MORRIS "TARP" TARRANT, THE INFAMOUS, CRAZED, MEMPHIS SPEEDFREAK, WHO AFTER DRUMMING WITH JERRY FOR A WHILE, TRYING TO 'KEEP UP' AND 'KEEP TIME' AMONG OTHER THINGS, ENDED HIS DRUMMING DAYS WHEN HE DECIDED, HIGH ON DEXAMYL, AND DRESSED IN ALL-BLACK COWBOY ATTIRE ALA LASH LARUE, TO ROB A CONVENIENCE STORE...HE DID A LITTLE TIME ON THAT BEEF, AND IT WASN'T 4/4! Los Angeles 21.10.73 Broadcast 11.11.73 Band: Kenny Lovelace - guitar Herman Hawkins - bass Morris 'Tarp' Tarrant - drums J. L. Lewis Jr. - drums Marty Morisson - organ Charlie Owens - steel guitar Bill Taylor - trumpet Russ Carlton - saxophone *thanks to thrund for the video and peter checksfield for the jll jr. videography.