Thu 21 Jun 2007 11:40 AM
Whose life isn’t substantially involved with trying to parse all the weird little bits of pop-cultural detritus that attract to ur teenage enthusiasms? Raise your hand. Here’s a trailer for a japanese release of one of Richard Hell’s psuedo-profound celluloid offerings. Check out the dub! I’m interested in imagining the audience for this thing, but I’m totally clueless. What’s the idea?
June 28th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Even tho I’m one to fetishize the cookie-crumbs of popular culture this preview caused me more reason to avoid rather than seek out… However I can’t explain a single thing about why the Japanese suffer the pre-occupations that they do– it looks horrible to me but I’m sure that there’s enough America in those couple of minutes to woo more than enough poor souls and their yen…
More importantly this reminds me of the existence of yet another thing I always meant to track down and procure… It looks worse than Smithereens but I’d hold them all to my chest and breathe deeply if I could…
Not so much for the recent Richard Hell releases… Haven’t even tried to listen– makes me shaky and uncomfortable… Hell, if it didn’t come so loaded with obligatory respect I don’t even think I’d have his second album…