From wells Sent Wed, Dec 24th 1997, 21:16
At 11:29 AM 12/24/97 -0800, Gonzi 'Fresh' Merchan wrote: > >And this from a fellow who LIKES Atari Teenage Riot? pffft! Take a look >at Videodrome and tell me Come to Daddy was not inspired by it. I won't >even try to defend Naked Lunch and Crash as they are both works of art >and I feel stand on their own as such. During the holiday season while >the family is visiting, I do suggest trying to dig up some of the >horribly mangled and out of print video copies of Croenenbergs early >work floating around at the smaller video stores. Particularly The >Brood, with its snowy canadian landscapes and sexless mutant >manifestations of psychic energy its the perfect film for the holidays. >Watch the movie, you'll see :) > well.. as for Cronenberg.. like i said, i didn't know what influence over or involvement in Come To Daddy he may of had, so I asked. secondly, i'm not too familiar with his works outside of Naked Lunch & Crash, which were both awful movies and posessed none of the art of the original novels. Crash especially. what an awful movie - nothing more than a porn. it had none of the mystique or shock of Ballard's novel and was just a silly excuse for a film. it's one those career-ending type movies for the actors involved. trash. controversial? pah. and, as for ATR... they're great! like I said, they're not the most inventive musicians but they make up for it with their live energy, something of a rarity in the electronic scene. i get something different out of them, and seeing them live was fun as hell.. yeah, they're not releasing ground-breaking music, but shit.. they're fun. and where else can you see over-privileged middle-class suburbanites screaming "FUCK CAPITALISM!"? certainly not at a RDJ show. =) (not a knock on RDJ, mind you). anyway. i'll try to check out The Brood.. it certainly has to be better than Crash. - wells oliver : xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx.xxx "all these things we'll one day swallow whole and fade out again and fade out again"