OK, I just watched Kill Bill (both volumes, back to back; Si and I wanted to see them together before Pippa moves back to Evanston, and it made for a curious sort of pacifist father-son bonding). I’m undecided about whether the beauty warrants the brutality, but I can’t deny the beauty. Tarantino knows how to make an extraordinary movie.
The reason I mention this, though, is to ask whether anyone pointed out how eerily David Carradine resembles Chris Locke? In the first shots in which he appears (the wedding rehearsal scene in volume 2, not counting his hands and boots in volume 1; his hands and boots may resemble Chris’s, I haven’t looked that closely) I almost dropped my popcorn thinking that Chris had gotten a movie role and never told us. Separated at birth? (And a thousand years hence: Gordon Liu.)
But the real reason I bring up the resemblance is that now everybody’s getting in on the “plug Gonzo Marketing” fad, six months after I tried to stir up a wave of Rageboymania: “Since Gonzo Marketing was eclipsed by post-9/11 spasms of grief and insecurity, relatively few of the mainstream pundits who’re trying to suss out the Dean Qijote phenomenon have read Chris Locke’s brilliant, profane, analysis of why things happen the way they do online.” (Then once again in June.) Ah, well — if it finally catches on, who cares who started it?
DRMA: Father by Aphex Twin; That Falling Feeling by Phil Manzanera and 801; Turn It On by Flaming Lips; The Home Front by Billy Bragg; Wild Thing by Jimi Hendrix; Wild Wild Life by Talking Heads.
Posted by AKMA at October 22, 2004 11:03 PM | TrackBackhey, i want credit there. you may not remember, but i said he looked like locke the first time i saw it.
Posted by: nathaniel at October 23, 2004 12:19 AMI had a feeling that came from someone else — props to Nate for thinking of it first.
Posted by: AKMA at October 23, 2004 09:00 AM