The doc on Israeli punk will be at fool's at 7 tonight. The director will be there!
Besides that, I don't know. It's the Waterboy's tenth anniversary this weekend. There will be an old-timey birthday party on sunday for you-know-who. Borat opened and I'm glad because NPR has been like the all-borat-all-the-time station for about two weeks now and I feel like I've already seen the movie. This is like how every fashion magazine has been all atwitter about Marie Antionette for a year and it opened and it's a big dud. Hopefully Borat will not be such a dud. The Tower now has an all-monarchy lineup with "The Queen" (snoresville) and "The Last King of Scotland" (goresville).
I like how Olsen has a secret rule that Seven Arms of Shiva will only play when I'm more than 100 miles away.
ReplyDeletecurse that old-timey tease...
I'm not very subtle at all, am I.
ReplyDeleteYou know, it's funny how (mostly old) people will come to Tower and watch anything without even bothering to find out what it's about. I wouldn't say swarms, but we've had numerous occasions of little old ladies sitting in the lobby waiting out the end of Last King of Scotland because it got too gruesome for them. I had an elderly lady come in the other night to buy a ticket, and as I was ringing her up, she asked what it was about, and when she found out that it was about Idi Amin and not King James I, she left. I don't know about you, but maybe when you're at the box office and about to hand over your money, it's kind of late in the game to be investigating what the movie you're seeing is about.
ReplyDeleteCNN has also jumped on the All-Borat-All-The-Time bandwagon. How much longer til the fratboys and your co-workers at the watercooler start incorporating all the Borat-isms? Very Niiiice! High Five!
ReplyDeleteCowabunga, don't have a cow man. I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?
Love,
Funkyzeit mit Bruno
I've seen the movie, I also was the singer of one of the bands there - "Kafa La Panim Shel Limor Livnat".
ReplyDeleteI really don't like the movie, I think it's a really lousy movie, it doesn't reflects the Israeli Punk scene and most of the people who are being interviewed on the film are talking bullshit (especially my band's Guitar player, Oded (aka Gutzy)).
Maybe I could find on the web some review my friend from "Nikmat Olalim" wrote about the movie, that pretty much sums up what's wrong with it.
Liz had a few words with me. I don't like her at all.
I've seen at least three "journalists" doing their Borat impersonations when discussing the film, two of them locals. We need a "Slap the talking head" button on our TV remotes.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the above quote re; Isreal punk doc, I'm really wishing I'd gone and seen it. I LOVE bullshit. Bullshit is my genre.
Did anyone else see Inventos, the camcorder doc on Cuban hip hop? It's really good.
That disgruntled punk is way off base. The documentary was rad and eye-opening. It does restore your faith in punk. Even if the music those kids make is crappy, it still attracts the most anti-establishment, funniest, sharpest kids to the scene.
ReplyDeletehe may have a point: i hear the film neglects the anti-zionist bands for more nationalist bands. here's a quote from david of nikmat olalim:
ReplyDelete"“a band like Retribution gets a lot of screen time when it fact it's a very neglectable band in Israel. They play very few shows, and are probably more busy lifting weights. But Liz Nord had to have them, because they are all into "Israel pride" or some fascist bullshit like that, while the anti-Zionist bands like Nikmat Olalim or Kafa Lapanim Shel Limor Livnat, or others, were hardly represented."
http://www.yellowisthenewpink.com/articles_detail.php?idno=12
Flawed or not, it was interesting & I definitely know more about the Israeli punk scene than I did before. Like she said, she didn't really make it for the Israeli punk audience but more for people who had no idea that scene even existed. I'm sure every Israeli punk band who wasn't in the movie that much - or at all - thinks it sucks. Imagine if someone from Austria came & tried to make a Sac punk documentary. I hardly think it'd be possible to make one that everyone involved in the scene agreed was accurate. How you see your scene & how an outsider sees it will always be totally different - and both views are probably about half right, half wrong.
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It was really important to have a strongly zionist band there because they represent a huge portion of the opinion in that country. Why else would so many be supporting the various terrible things their government is doing in Lebanon and the Palestinian area not to mention that horrible wall they are building. Of course all of the cool punks must fucking hate that band so they don't want them to be given a voice, but that would only be showing one side of Israeli opinion. If everyone was as liberal as the peace punks it would be a very different (and probably nonexistent) country.
ReplyDelete>Imagine if someone from Austria came & >tried to make a Sac punk documentary.
ReplyDeleteWow, Bruno is coming to Sac? Fabulous!
Love,
Funkyzeit
As in every discussion about Jericho's Echo, I could easily find the typical idiotic complaint:
ReplyDelete"I really don't like the movie, I think it's a really lousy movie, it doesn't reflects the Israeli Punk scene and most of the people who are being interviewed on the film are talking bullshit (enter personal insult here)."
God, why must I hear this bullshit over and over again.
So, just to point out as a little more than a passive spectator, those who complained about 'not being represented' actually tried to avoid representation at any cost while the movie was shot. Seriously, if any of you had any brains between your ears, you would notice that Liz was begging for interviews with radical-left/anarchist punks, which in their turn either dismissed her completely (Mapakh center) or just spat a few cynical remarks at her (Nikmat Olalim) - while the 'right-wing' band took advantage of the possible exposure it can have and made the most out of it. I am not surprised though, this is amazingly typical for rich kids playing with Anarchism and punk. You brought it upon yourselves. Please stop whining about it.
Thumbs up to anyone who participated in the movie and was positive about the whole thing.
Oded (aka Gutzy)