Here's my situation
I recommend Pop’s Soldier …
Don’t do it!
Call the hotline, please!
Idiot:
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Iggy-Pop-The-Idiot-mp3-192-kb-s-tntvillage/435897eb38359af366e349e540247e46009cf1adfa9e
If you haven’t seen this yet, check it out:
Blog devoted to the making of THE IDIOT
This remains my favorite Iggy album ever (Stooges included) by a long shot and one of my favorite albums of all time and one of my favorite Bowie albums to boot.
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well, i’m still here.
Don’t listen to “Mass Production”!!!!!!!!!!!
well, i’m still here.
Glad you didn’t do a full recreation of Ian Curtis’s final night.
What did you think of Control?
I thought Control was brilliant, it did a fairly accurate depiction of his life, but after getting into the book I can see how some things could have been fabricated. Ian was more of a villain than I’d like to believe. I love him and the film nonetheless!
And what did you think of that cheap suicide scene in 24 Hour Party People? I still can’t understand why they did it that way? There were a chicken, laughing voices and Ian’s swinging legs, right? It was the worst suicide scene I have seen. And the sloppiest.
Kaan: I wonder if that scene was designed to convey cheapness and sloppiness.
It was certainly meant to be incredibly black-heartedly comic, and it knowingly sacrifices any respect for Curtis’ character to express the movie’s attitude about the cheapness of life. I personally didn’t like the flick because of this very tone throughout, but I can’t deny it was intentionally dismissive of the idea that human life has some inherent value.
Kaan- the chicken part was from stroszek, the last movie ian watched before he killed himself. incidentally, stroszek kills himself at the end of the movie
That’s a compelling argument, Ben. You may be spot on.
But I was suggesting that perhaps the scene was displaying a contempt for suicide, not life itself, and that it was attempting to show disrespect for what might fairly be called a selfish act, considering Curtis’ responsibilities to his child and her mother.
I understand that Curtis was dealing with a serious medical condition, but I am not sure that he didn’t allow his circumstances to lead to an ugly indulgence in self-absorption at times.
Not judging; just describing. I wasn’t there, so perhaps even a description is unfair as well.
But in any event, JD’s music and Curtis’ lyrics certainly influenced my young years.
sabrinask
Not sure how this will turn out…
[see: tomorrow morning]
PS. Will someone let me borrow their Iggy Pop record?