If you're ever in LA, check out Jon Brion at the Largo. He's a film composer (Punch Drunk Love, I Heart Huckabees), record producer, who also happens to be a multi-instrumentalist that puts on a live layered loop show, doing everything from a traditional drum kit, to bass, all styles of guitar, and piano. I've watched him go from Mozart to honky tonk piano and then up into industrial noise, on into a Detroit rock medley, using only the music he recorded on stage. First time I saw the show in this little low lit club facing a small stage, I had the biggest hard on. I went to jerk off in the bathroom and Fiona Apple walked out. Sorry if I'm being a bit raw here, but it was THAT good.

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>> ^shuac:

This is going to sound like criticism but it's really not. It's more like an observation: PTA appears to be leaving behind the style that brought him (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia) and headed into Terrence Malick territory (There Will Be Blood, The Master) with Punch Drunk Love as a bridge betwixt the two styles.
So my question is this: why is my refrigerator making that weird noise?


"Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?"

why don't you catch it.>> ^shuac:

This is going to sound like criticism but it's really not. It's more like an observation: PTA appears to be leaving behind the style that brought him (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia) and headed into Terrence Malick territory (There Will Be Blood, The Master) with Punch Drunk Love as a bridge betwixt the two styles.
So my question is this: why is my refrigerator making that weird noise?

This is going to sound like criticism but it's really not. It's more like an observation: PTA appears to be leaving behind the style that brought him (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia) and headed into Terrence Malick territory (There Will Be Blood, The Master) with Punch Drunk Love as a bridge betwixt the two styles.

So my question is this: why is my refrigerator making that weird noise?

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>> ^L0cky:
Adam Sandler was also excellent in Reign Over Me and Click


And don't forget Punch Drunk Love with an amazing score by Jon Brion.

You saw Punch Drunk Love seven times in cinemas? Can you tell me why? I guess you were seeing something I missed because that movie was just sort of empty to me. I always felt it was a misfire by PTA. It certainly had a unique tone. I did love the interstitial bursts of colour and sound over a white screen.

Jared Leto was at my screening of Punch Drunk Love. Earlier in the day he was going up the escalator in front of me in Chapters (our version of a mega-bookstore), and I'm sure he was talking to Oliver Stone about Alexander on his earpiece.

The only movie I ever saw seven times at theatres? Attack of the Clones... by refilling my popcorn and having a smoke during certain sections (when Anakin and Padme take off to Naboo) it made for a decent distraction from the worst summer of my life. I also would often go to the movies at that point just out of habit, to smoke a joint in the parking lot and then mindlessly chew popcorn for a couple hours. I did this so much that I think I bought north of 70 movie tickets in 2002. I remember seeing so much shit I knew would be bad that year, like True Crime, Spyder, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Master of Disguise, Feardotcom, PowerPuff Girls, The Real Cancun (walked out of that one) that summer just because I had a compulsion to go sit in a darkened theatre. Looking back I really should have bought tickets to better movies if I was going to be going, the problem though is part of the compulsion was this specific white cheddar topping that was only sold at one chain of multiplexes, which showed only the most mainstream shit... aaaanyways I was just really wondering what you got out of Punch Drunk Love that would make you see it seven times. Did you find something there or were you just looking?

1. I'm not actually a chimp.

2. I have a political science BA even though I'm completely apathetic when it comes to politics.

3. I am (was) related to Edward Said.

4. I hate the word "foodie."

5. I am a foodie (for lack of a better word).

6. I slept with the lights on until my first year of university.

7. I once played a racing game in an arcade with John Tesh.

8. I went to film school.

9. I'm abandoning my dreams of becoming a filmmaker and going into law school in September (assuming one will accept me).

10. One of the highlights of my life (recently at least) was actually hiring a steadicam operator for a recent short film I made (which will probably end up being the last film I ever make).

11. The most times I've ever seen a film theatrically was Punch Drunk Love (seven times).

12. I've been playing videogames since the Atari, and would definitely call myself a gamer, though I've probably only finished maybe 20 or so games all the way through.

13. I am way more of an introvert than I'd like to be (ie. I'm distressingly shy).

14. Stanley Kubrick is a god to me.

15. I cannot stand people who use the word "guesstimate".

16. I've only watched three movies at home in the last two months thanks to the humongous time-sink that is World of Warcraft.

17. The first thing I ever downloaded was a picture of Andrew Dice Clay from a BBS. It was mind-blowing.

18. I made my first website, a Duke Nukem 3D fansite, in 1996. You can still see it at the internet archive (http://web.archive.org/web/19981205233542/http://members.aol.com/knusair/duke3d/duke3d.htm).

19. When I first heard about 3D cards, I thought "a card just for 3D graphics? What a ridiculous idea, that'll never fly." I bought my first 3D card (a Monster 3D) a couple of years later.

20. I can't stand watching or playing sports of any kind (even hockey, which means I can never truly be a Canadian, despite being born here and living here all my life).

21. I can't stand the taste of beer (see above, RE: not a real Canadian).

22. My family is Palestinian on both sides, though I rarely tell people that to avoid the inevitable discussions/conflict.

23. I wear a Mickey Mouse watch.

24. I've never been in a fight.

25. I would like to one day travel to every country in the world, with the exception of the super-poor and/or scary ones (ie. I have no real desire to go to, say, Afghanistan).

Yeah that's the good stuff! I liken this film and Will Farrel to 'punch-drunk love' with Adam Sandler- both excellent performances I didn't expect at all.

Thanks, Issy! On an unrelated note, I actually don't mind John Tesh's music. How much respect have you just lost for me?

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
*promote!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Jon-Brion-Here-We-Go-Punch-Drunk-Love

Great use of the music from Punch-Drunk Love.

The only good Sandler movies were Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish, and maybe the Wedding Singer. The rest of his work is puerile nonsense, IMO.