The shame, man. It pains me that this week's installment is so late, but dig this would you ever;
It would've been on time to the damn second, except just as I was about to finish it off, I got notice that I was being given an award for General Punctuality by Queens University in Belfast, so I had to set off, pick up the award, wine and dine a buncha elitist motherfuckers, and then make my way back home burdened with the knowledge that my DVD List would be late on account of it all.
The irony. Shit, man, it's like as if I were looking for a knife and all I could find were ten thousand spoons and a fucking Alanis Morrisette album.
And it wasn't even Jagged Little Pill. It was one of the other ones. Maybe the one were she stood in the road naked singing about Africa, India and so on.
The utter scathing irony.
Anyhow, as far as the old DVD viewing has been going this week, I've mostly been indulging in the brilliant Anchor Bay Herzog / Kinski box-set, picked up for a nigh-on unbelievable 19.99. What it has is the likes of Nosferatu and Aguire, Wrath Of God, and the fantastic documentary My Best Fiend, featuring no end of footage concerning the ridiculous antics of Klaus Kinski.
What a demented motherfucker that Kinski was.
Probably you'll get a review of the whole thing some time in the near future, but while you're waiting, why not inspect some of these here Region 1 DVD's, what I've laid out ever so conveniently?
Johnny Cash - The Man, His World, His Music
This documentary has been issued a few times, and there's at least two different releases in The Duke's local DVD emporium. If you haven't picked it up, though, it's high time you did. What it is, is a film made in the late 1960's concerning the day-to-day life of Lord Johnny Cash. You see him singing new compositions to June in his front-room, you see him recording his TV show with Bob Dylan, and, perhaps best of all, you get to see some of that amazing Folsom Prison concert.
One of the best rockumentaries of all ever, is the truth of the matter. For a sweet double-bill, you should pick up the excellent Heartworn Highways, too.
The Ring - Collectors Edition
Just before The Ring 2 hits cinema screens, directed by Hideo Nakata from the original, don't you know, you can re-assess this surprisingly good first installment. For sure, the notion of a Hollywood re-jigging of Ringu was last on The Duke's list of Thing's I Wanted To See, and probably top of the one marked Things I Never Want To See Even Once, but Gore Verbinski went ahead and ensured it became a fine addition to his already glorious C.V.
Article comments
1 - Eric Berlin
Do you happen to know what that "Booz" release is in reference to? I was in a "band" called "Booz" my freshman year of college. It basically consisted of my friend on guitar and me on bass. We'd jam in the dorm laundry room, and occasionally someone would come to wash their dirties and listen to us play (or stare at us dirty). Curious to see if this is another musical enterprise of the same name.
"Rhinestone"... could be harmful to your mental operations, for anyone who hasn't seen it. I would go into that experience inebriated, with metal foil helmet or, preferably, both.
2 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Eric, Booz is a hip-hop label, and this DVD seeks to take folks to the after-show parties and the like, with plenty of "adult visuals"
In other words, really embaressing soft-porn.
sigh.
3 - Eric Berlin
Yep, just as I expected, pretty close to those laundry room days... (uh, not really, I guess).
Duke, got a question for you that you're of course free not to answer: what do you do with yourself during times when you're not watching DVDs, singer-songwritering, BlogCriticerizing, serving at the alter of the mighty Ms. Dunst, etc.?
4 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
that i would possibly answer via email. in a public forum, i can say only that i am a hitman of some sort, probably one with jet-black hair and a Smiths t-shirt, shooting folks with the bullets of sarcasm, on account of the pacifism.
5 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
you, sir, have mail.
6 - Eric Berlin
Thanks very much, sir. Far be it from me to be rude to a lethal force-wielding purveyor of sarcasm...
7 - Eric Berlin
I must have seen Dutch, the horrid film with Ed O'Neill and some punk-ass kid, at least eight times as it seemed to be on television constantly during a particularly couch-ridden time in my life.
To think, I could have like volunteered and helped people, or built several model airplanes with that time. Or something.
8 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
tut tut. what would our good friend WXYZ think about it, i wonder?