Comments on: Too Much Too Soon

By: blurb

blurb — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:39:42 +0000

Patatomic, thanks for those links early (I didn’t click them, but I need to give you ups for sending them).

Village Voice piece was snoooooooty. Not because it slammed the film, but the hipper than thou tone is why I don’t read their criticism much any more.

Dale, thanks for the spoiler! I was trying to avoid that.

By: DeeAnna

DeeAnna — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:56:13 +0000

You could fill the whole page with ads and have the content be one small column to the side and I would still visit the site. I go because I love the writing, because I feel like I’m visiting a friend and because I’m insanely jealous that you guys get to stay home with Leta and still make it work. I have no idea what goes into writing a blog or making it pay the bills, but I do know I enjoy your and Heather’s writing, so as long as you keep adding new content, I will keep visiting.

By: Tristin

Tristin — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:42:17 +0000

Hey Jon,
The show is opening in SLC this Thursday at the Tower.
T.

By: Sara Jones

Sara Jones — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:01:29 +0000

Dale Cruse - While I wouldn’t exactly characterize that Village Voice piece as having “slammed” the movie, the review is a great example of the Voice’s irritatingly adolescent too-cool-for-school style. Ugh, ugh, ugh.

By: buttergun

buttergun — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:18:14 +0000

Thanks for the tip. It was great!

The early footage of The Dolls was gorgeous and the late interviews of Arthur were a perfect foil in their quiet tension. The film was beautifully edited and there are some great hand drawn diagrams attempting to explain The Dolls place in the pantheon of rock that reminded me a bit of the beautiful maps in Peter Greenawayís ìA Walk Through H.î Your friend did an interesting Q & A afterward.

My only criticism is that I wish the director would have explored the tension between perceptions of what it means to be a Mormon and what it means to be a Rock Star more. It is obvious that Arthurís two worlds were in conflict (androgyny vs. strict gender roles, questions vs. answers) but the film pretty much avoided that.

The documentary ìMayor of the Sunset Stripî about Rodney Bingenheimerís similarly anticlimactic career allows itself to reflect a little more on darker implications.

The cake topper is that one of the previews was for Giovanni Ribisiís new movie.

(p.s. The subject of his burial was mentioned in the q & a but not answered at all. It was the only thing he seemed uncomfortable talking about.)

By: Strizz

Strizz — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:59:55 +0000

I love the lipstick cursor. That is all.

By: Miko

Miko — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:53:14 +0000

yeah, I thought of you when I heard about it on KCRW…

By: patatomic

patatomic — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:39:28 +0000

Oh sure, NOW you claim having Mormon ties when it’s cool;)

Dale Cruse: Yeah, I read about his wife as well. Probably the worst piece of journalism I have ever read. Just to clear the air: the Church does not claim bodies of it’s members. My guess is that some friend of Killer’s who happend to be Mormon cremated him or handled his estate. Why wasn’t his wife around when he died anyway? Also, in the 8 minute film clip Killer talks about how he is single…I dunno…I don’t think that we’re getting the whole story.

By the way, this showed at Sundance and had it not been for other plans we were going to see it.

By: erat

erat — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:46:09 +0000

Thursday night at 7pm, the movie will be shown at the Tower Theater in Salt Lake City as part of a live broadcast of local NPR show “Radio West.” KUER’s home page (kuer.org) says Greg Whitely and others will “join” them, but I don’t know if that means in person or over the phone.

Just an FYI.

By: kim

kim — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:40:44 +0000

ha! i loved reading about the elevator incident again. isn’t giovanni’s sister married to beck? that’s about all i know about him. except he is good at playing mentally challenged people with juliette lewis.