Of the people who went in and out of the doors of The Factory she stands out perhaps most of all. Why? Because she is the woman who shot Andy Warhol. Which bring me neatly to how I heard of her — the film I Shot Andy Warhol. That film was a great portrayal of [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Take Art, andy warhol, artists, blogging, film, ideas, jim carroll, manic street preachers, people watching, political, the factory, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: andy warhol, i shot andy warhol, people watching, the factory, the scum manifesto, valerie solanas . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
The film by Julian Schnabel delivered the tragic yet charming story of Basquiat to me before I found it, which I eventually would have through my exploration of Warhol and the world of The Factory.
His art is unlike anything else that I have seen before or since — it has a musical quality to [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Take Art, andy warhol, art, artists, blogging, culture vulture, film, updates . Tags: abstract art, art, artists, jean michel basquiat, painting, Take Art . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Have I anywhere publicly expressed my loathing for Star Wars? I am not sure that I have. I feel the urge to do so now. Why? Because my children have the Star Wars Lego computer game and the sound of R2D2 screaming like he is being introduced to twelve inches of wookie meat is driving [...]
April 29, 2008
Categories: blogging, blogosphere, culture vulture, facts, film, ideas, ramblings, ranthead, sci-fi, science fiction, tinternet, updates . Tags: blockbuster, childhood memories, film, george lucas, star wars . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Click the above link to check out this new site.
This is a site that will advertise the indie media (books, CD’s, etc) for the artists and provide indie authors resources for indie publishing, including links to publishing resources, articles on indie publishing, and free advertising for their products. There is also opportunity for freelancers to [...]
April 15, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, Turn The Page, artists, blogging, book, comic, comics, culture vulture, facts, film, ideas, magazines, news, papershop, poetry, sci-fi, science fiction, tinternet, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: independent media, independent publishing, indie bookShelf, poetry, poets, wendy grimsley, writers, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment
If you are into music, and I mean good music (fuck that relativistic bullshit about personal taste and all that) then you will find your way to Tom Waits. Actually if you watch a fair amount of films you may find him via that medium — he has a fairly healthy filmography under his belt [...]
April 10, 2008
Categories: beat generation, blogging, film, music, rebellious jukebox, tom waits, updates . Tags: music, musician, rebellious jukebox, tom waits . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment
My first introduction to Takeshi Kitano was through Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence where he plays the Japanese guard that everyone could like. At the time I didn’t know his name and have to admit that I was watching the film for a certain Mr David Bowie. Still his acting left a definite impression and when [...]
March 29, 2008
Categories: art, artists, beat takeshi, blogging, culture vulture, film, people watching, updates . Tags: beat takeshi, culture vulture, film films, film hick, hana bi, movies, takeshi kitano, zatoichi . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment
When it came out there was nothing out there quite like it — it was edgy, humourous, sexy and intelligent; it was a prime example of MTV hitting the nail squarely on the head. It meshed Western ideas of sci-fi with the anime aesthetic in a way no one had seen. The cartoon still seems [...]
March 26, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, anime, art, artists, blogging, cartoon, comic, comics, culture vulture, film, updates . Tags: aeon flux, animatrix, cartoon, culture vulture, film, mtv, peter chung . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
If you watch this film I can guarantee you that it is gonna stick with you — you will let that title roll off your tongue in a trilling victorious though damaged voice that those in the know will recognise: Bad Boy Bubby. Bubby has been locked up for thirty years by his mother who [...]
March 19, 2008
Categories: film, updates . Tags: bad boy bubby, cult films, film hick, films, great viewing, movies, watch this . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
On a recent flight I got to watch Factory Girl where Sienna Miller plays Edie. I have read interviews with David J of Bauhaus and with the authors of Girl On Fire a book about Edie. She had been on the periphery of my mental landscape for a long time — I think my first [...]
March 18, 2008
Categories: art, artists, blogging, book, edie sedgwick, film, the factory, updates, warhol . Tags: andy warhol, bob dylan, edie sedgwick, factory, people watching, the cult . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
If there is such a thing as an under-rated Tarantino filmĀ then I would posit that this is it. Not a favourite among many Tarantino fans that I know (my sources are as reliable as any Gallup poll, I assure you). I think it is a shame because the characters in this film are in [...]
March 17, 2008
Categories: blogging, film, quentin tarantino, updates . Tags: elmore leonard, film, film hick, jackie brown, movie, pam grier, quentin tarantino, samuel l jackson . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments