More Harmony stuff, again via Ray Pride:

Harmony Korine - one time punk and enfant terrible of the New York indie scene - was there in a very ordinary shirt and V-neck jumper but could barely contain his excitement about having last week finished editing his new film Mister Lonely. 'It's pretty weird but it's the best thing I've ever done, by a long, long way,' he told me. It stars Samantha Morton (as Marilyn Monroe), Anita Pallenberg, Werner Herzog and Diego Luna as Michael Jackson.

I wrote about this project a couple of times, about a year and a month ago, for Cinematical. Around that same time, Joe Swanberg told me about this video, which Harmony directed for Will Oldham's Bonnie Prine Billy. Somewhere in the interim, Harmony made the following video with Cat Power:

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As far as I'm concerned, You Tube is interesting solely because it allows us to revisit and disseminate Great Moments of Popular Culture that would have otherwise died on VHS. Here now, is Harmony Korine on David Lettermen:



My favorite part:

Dave: How much does this [Harmony's "novel", A Crack-Up At The Race Riots] go for?
Harmony: I think it's regular book price ... I can't imagine why anyone would buy a book these days.

Via Ray Pride

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Long weekend, much needed.

In a couple of hours, I'll meet up with Nick and we'll head off to New Jersey for a long-awaited holiday weekend in the suburbs. But first, I'm going to head into the city and try to track down a copy of the Criterion edition of Secret Honor, which I've never seen, but which since the death of its director, I can't get out of my head.

While I'm gone, take a look at this short documentary I found on You Tube, in which Sonic Youth discuss their collaborations with filmmakers such as Spike Jonze, Richard Linklater and Harmony Korine on videos and features. Towards the end, Lee Ranaldo says the band is eager to explore more film work: "We still haven't been tapped to do that ultimate Sonic Youth-meets-film soundtrack." Consider that a call to arms, girls and boys...

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