Let's match the filmmaker with the band.

I remember reading a few months ago in a book (it may have been "There's a Riot Goin' On") that Jean-Luc Godard said, when filming the Jefferson Airplane in concert for a film of his, that the band "epitomized everything (Godard) is about." This got me thinking about what a perfect match the filmmaker and the band seemed to be for each other. Both Godard and J.A. were icons of the 1960s counter culture, painfully self-indulgent at their worst, briefly Maoist, and though highly original they seem incredibly dated today. Now while some of those similarities are subjective opinions of mine, it made me think of a second, even better, idea: how many other filmmakers have a matching rock band/pop star?

Right off the top I could think of Quentin Tarantino/Pavement. They both ascended around the same time, are incredibly smartass, have always enticed critics with their vast knowledge of film and rock and roll's past (and the way they can litter their works with homages and in-jokes that only fellow buffs will appreciate), and both still have a strong presence amongst undergrads. I'm sure there are many more similarities between those two.

Anyway, what other filmmaker-band connections can we make? Does Steven Spielberg have a corresponding band? Is Wes Andersen/Belle and Sebastian a fit, or is that just the obvious answer? What about Scorsese/Rolling Stones? This could be fun, ILM.

I thought Tarantino was the Jesus Lizard.

tarantino's more of a pavement to me.

that's the most disgusting blasphemy i've ever heard.

David Cronenberg/Aphex Twin

damn stevie, must be a boring life you lead :p
xp

Tarkovsky- Sigur Rós

Orson Welles/Scott Walker

Chris Marker, Robert Ashley.

Bill Forsyth - Roddy Frame/Aztec Camera?

Beyond the collaboration on Faces, Cassavetes and Mingus shared a scrappy outlook and prickly humor. And both were happy blurring the line between composing/scripting and improvisation. It's always hard to tell what's planned and what being made up in their work.

Obvious answer: Scorsese/Clash

ed wood - misfits

Woody Allen/Sparks
David Lynch/Pere Ubu

Wes Anderson would like to be matched with the Kinks but it is actually Vampire Weekend

Also Tarkovsky/ Sigue Ros? No-o-o-o-o.....!

He's worth Can at least, and they're about on a level with Luc Besson or somesuch

Wes Anderson would like to be matched with the Kinks but it is actually Vampire Weekend

ha!

otm

rob zombie/rob zombie

Tarantino is no where near as boring as Pavement.

that's the other way around.

Nope it's right.

i mentioned it for the obvious postmodern influences in each artist's work.

i find it sad that someone could be so pathetically humorless to call pavement "boring".

Yes, cuz Pavement such good joke-rock, of course.

Anyway not to derail the thread, I think I could see someone like Kubrick = Scott Walker. Woody Allen seems more like Prince to me.

minus some of the sauciness obv.

The image of Woody dressed in a purple jumpsuit, tootling a pink clarinet (oh, er) springs irrestibly to mind.....
Otherwise, not sure I see it?
Richard Curtis/ James Blunt?
Dickie Attenborough/ Sting?

and a good one:
Duke Ellington/ Howard Hawks

Who matches with the Smiths? John Schlesinger?

Oh, and I guess we can get the obvious out of the way with Warhol/Velvet Underground.

Woody Allen and Prince is inspired, really.
Others:
Richard Linklater / Pavement
Godard / Beatles (think about it)
Fassbinder / Velvet Underground
Scorsese / Rolling Stones
Antonioni (or Visconti) / Roxy Music
Altman / Captain Beefheart?
What band is Cassavettes?

boetticher- link wray
is john waters germs or flipper?
fassbinder- half japanese or maybe gg allin if he was good
dreyer-kraftwerk

are any of these right? this is hard.

also bresson-homosexuals if they did more than one album? maybe pole.
wes anderson- esquivel

What band is Hitchcock?
(It's amazing what smoking a bowl does to this thread)

hitchcock could be serge gainsborg or maybe birthday party

(It's amazing what smoking a bowl does to this thread)

Alas, far too many of my threads go well with that.

I'm kind of teetering on the edge of committing to Guy Maddin/Magnetic Fields...

Oh yeah, you couldn't have thought of that without being high
Great idea btw.

well, thank you

John Waters and the B-52s

steven spielberg/?

i was thinking michael jackson but spielberg is still successful and popular

Spielberg and U2 - both over-earnest and prone to large hammy gestures.

B-52's is good but dosent have the shock value needed for his early films? Otherwise perfect fit.

Robert Bresson- Ornette Coleman

So, essentially, filmmakers I like are musicians I don't like?

Spielberg and U2

What specifically are you referring to Eric?

The fact that I like most of these directors and dislike most of these musicians.

Like which filmmaker is the Isley Brothers?

Larry Cohen

Which musicians do you like? Very hard to have a discussion over generalities. Perhaps it could work the other way round.

OK, I want filmmakers who match with Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Masters at Work, Wonderlove, The Gap Band, The Supremes, One Way, Parliament, Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Earth Wind & Fire, A Tribe Called Quest and Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band.

who is spike lee?

A Tribe Called Quest - Spike Lee - maybe he is too serious? makes wordy, dense films, perhaps without the sense of fun that tribe have.
Daft Punk - Luc Besson - Frenchie who makes garish, bright films with plenty of action
The Supremes - Ron Howard - lots of lightweight fun hits.
Parliament- someone with a singular, eccentric and funky vision? not moving too far outside the genre you have created. nothing comes to mind.

Don't know some of these too well. Perhaps some music dosent have its own director.

Douglas Sirk - this shouldn't be too hard...nope..Gene Pitney?
Preston Sturges- Bo Diddley

Spike Lee - Boogie Down Productions
Cohen Brothers - Drive-By Truckers

Yes. BDP thats much better.

Todd Solandz = dude from Xiu Xiu (with a little Michael Haneke or Lars von Trier thrown in for good measure)

Oliver Stone = the pretense of Rage Against the Machine x the artifice of Audioslave

Lynch = Eno

Christ, I could be thinking about this for hours. I've gotta sleep..

Terrence Malick = John Fahey?

Which band is Cameron Crowe?

Remy Belvaux=Mark E smith.

Cassavettes - Yo La Tengo

Steven Soderbergh - Paul McCartney, battling between populist mainstream work and edgy experimental pieces.

Francis Ford Coppola - Television/Tom Verlaine, one canonical piece of work, several other well regarded but less successful experimental pieces.

michael bay = the prodigy

Prince/The Revolution ;)

More on-topic perhaps: George Lucas=ELO

OTM

who is radiohead?

radiohead = paul thomas anderson

YES OTM

Michael Bay:Dragonforce

Obvious one but John Ford/ The Band
Who's Sergio Leone? (apart from Ennio Morricone)

If Paul Anderson is Radiohead then I guess that makes Robert Altman Pink Floyd (and they do match: zany early work followed by increasingly ambitious and murky mid-1970s period and then they fall wildly out of fashion by the 1980s).

who's jodorowsky?

Jodorowsky is a musician himself isn't him?

Jodorowsky = Devendra Banhart perhaps?

They both like sprinkling their output with an uneven mixture of jocular humour and fey mysticism. Their body of work has a sinister dichotomy between childlike innocence and sinisterly demented storytelling...

oops fucked up that last sentence but I think it's still understandable.

I'd say Todd Solondz = Magnetic Fields

I'd say Zach Braff = The Shins

lol

obvious, Gondry = The White Stripes

Jarmusch = well, wait a minute. The obvious answer would be Tom Waits, but he's really too heart-on-sleeve to rep for J's style. Definitely some NYC dudes though. Tom Verlaine, Dean Warham and/or Thurston Moore?

Kenneth Anger = in equal parts: John Zorn, Peter Brotzman, Jandek, The Residents & Roky Erickson?

I don't see Paul Anderson being Radiohead outside of matching era and the Greenwood connection. A better fit would be LCD Soundsystem/James Murphy. Both are critical favorites who have the show-offish aesthetic of the movie buff/record collector mixed with smartass and the ability to pull of unexpected moments of great pathos.

Ken Russell = Queen (campy, exquisitely produced)
Sam Peckinpah = Motorhead (explosive, Old West aficionados)
Edward D. Wood, Jr. = Venom (lovably inept, Grade Z produciton values)
Preston Sturges = Roxy Music?
Stanley Kubrick = Pink Floyd (I dunno, just because)

Sidney Lumet?

Sidney Lumet = Curtis Mayfield? - great craft, deep humanism, slight worthiness?

Scott Walker/ Robert Bresson
Fatboy Slim/ Quentin Tarantino
Johnny Cash/ John Ford
Death In June/ Luchino Visconti

And the Beatles = Hitchcock, totally classic and unescapable touchstone.

Sidney Lumet = Curtis Mayfield could work although it doesn't capture the modern day Vin Diesel-aspect

Terry Zwigoff = Butthole Surfers

Tarkovsky- Sigur Rós

― Vision, Friday, 24 October 2008 04:09 (1 month ago)

So wrong on so many levels.

Mike Leigh = the Go-Betweens?

Just back from getting a head full of Novocain. You're right: drugs help this thread.

Oliver Stone = Guns ’N’ Roses
Louis Buñeul = of Montreal
Catherine Breillat = Peaches
Pedro Almodóvar = Army of Lovers
Jim Jarmusch = White Stripes
Whit Stillman = the Roches
Tim Burton = My Chemical Romance
Fellini = the Tubes
Cecil B. DeMille = the Polyphonic Spree
Busby Berkeley = Scissor Sisters
Terrence Malick = Bruce Springsteen
Larry Clark = the Knack

Douglas Sirk = Roy Orbison
Mike Leigh = The Beautiful South
Jodorowsky = Magma or Albert Ayler
Robert Downey (sr.) = Zappa or Beefheart
David Lynch = Sonic Youth
David Fincher = Nine Inch Nails
Godard = Ornette Coleman
David Cronenberg = Nick Cave
Alan Smithee = ?

Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker=Beck (totally postmodernist and crowded with references to a lot of other stuff)

Oliver Stone = either Sting, U2, Bob Geldof or Peter Gabriel.

Stanley Kubrick = Pink Floyd (I dunno, just because)

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Spacy, cold, symmetrical, flashes of odd humor, anti-war, not afraid of long running times, perfectionist, not often photographed, after his death you get the Spielberg version (that would be Momentary Lapse of Reason).

Not sure where "Lolita" fits in.

I just can't stop thinking about these matchups...or trying to think up more of 'em.

Francis Ford Coppola = Brian Wilson/Beach Boys
Terry Gilliam = Captain Beefheart
David Lean = Dire Straits
Joel & Ethan Cohn = Was (Not Was)
Wachowski Brothers = Chemical Brothers
Ridley Scott = David Bowie

Oh I forgot: Billy Joel = William Friedkin

Spielberg and U2 - both over-earnest and prone to large hammy gestures.

I was going to say Coldplay, but this works just as well.

I'm thinking Cohen Bros. are more = Tom Waits -- quirky characters, period pieces and genre studies that are "slightly off", critically regarded as well as relatively popular

Sofia Coppola - The Raveonettes

James Cameron = Phil Collins

Peter Jackson = Metallica

James Cameron = Phil Collins

wtf how?

• since 1968, an indication of subpar work across many genres
• output is always subject to nipping, tucking, cropping, cutting, protooling, etc. from the studio/producers/publicist
• garners attention upon every appearance, then goes straight to the bargin bin

• could be a man or a woman

Jerry Lewis = the Who

Jarmusch = Morphine

dunno, low-key 'cool' without obviously Lurie/Lounge Lizards

Todd Haynes = Redd Kross

As for Coens = Waits, fair shout, what about his alcohol-soaked piano ballads though?

I'd say Coens = Beck - for reasons already listed plus the consistent shared criticism levelled at both - 'emotional investment' etc etc

Terrence Malick = John Fahey?

Badlands=Red Cross for reals

M. Night Shamalayan = Radiohead (or Coldplay)

Wong Kar-Wai = Afghan Whigs

Woody Allen is Van Dyke Parks

Peter Jackson = Led Zeppelin

You're rong, Wong Kar Wai is prob DJ Shadow

Todd Haynes = Ariel Pink

James Cameron = Phil Collins

wtf how?

highly-crafted, highly-reliant on studio effects that they are hailed as masters/pioneers of (Terminator 2, The Abyss meet the electronic drums of In the Air Tonight), regularly accused of being hacks, though there are others far hackier and schlockier, guilty pleasures of people that have guilty pleasures about popular entertainment. Not as perfect a match as the Spielberg = U2 one, but I stand by it.

As for Coens = Waits, fair shout, what about his alcohol-soaked piano ballads though?

I'd say Coens = Beck - for reasons already listed plus the consistent shared criticism levelled at both - 'emotional investment' etc etc

I'd say the alcohol-soaked piano ballads are comparable in a sense to the Coen's thing for film noir -

But Beck, yeah, that's another good match, though I'd attach Beck to Todd Solondz, who plays with narrative structure akin to Beck's cut up style, lots of emotionally cold postmodern pastiche in both.

but maybe I'm doing too much matching up based on contemporaneity.

Paul Verhoeven = Madonna
but I think there's probably a better one

Try this: Stanley Kubrick = the Alan Parsons Project. A different theme/genre with every outting; icy sheen as unifying esthetic.

M. Night Shamalayan = Radiohead

LOL WUT? what do you have against radiohead?

Woody Allen is Van Dyke Parks

Don't like disagreeing with you since you were nice about my Terrence Mallick/ John Fahey but I always thought (i.e. before this thread) that Woody and Elvis Costello were a match, at least with respect to each others bad qualities, Ach Nil fhios agam......

Ceart go leor, that's probably better

Gus Van Sant?

if scorsese = rolling stones, then spielberg = beatles...

Verhoeven so totally is Madonna.

Miranda July = Neutral Milk Hotel

Have we had Bunuel yet? I'm thinking Dylan, but only Blonde on Blonde to John Wesley Harding (incl. Basement Tapes) Dylan

M. Night Shamalayan = Radiohead (or Coldplay)

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta)

This just makes me want to slap someone.

M. Night Shamalayan = Radiohead

LOL WUT? what do you have against radiohead?

― k3vin k., Thursday, December 4, 2008 4:18 PM (6 hours ago)

seems pretty fair 2 me

please elaborate

2 drunk

Bunuel = James Tenney or maybe Charles Ives, high art mixed with popular subject matter ...or if composers are going too far astray, you could go with the Pixies for the eyeball-slicing connection.

M. Night Shamalayan = Radiohead
LOL WUT? what do you have against radiohead?

career trajectory is out of whack - it's gotta be someone that had one decent to good song or album and then made a bunch of utter garbage, I'm thinking sentimental ballads, that gets played on easy listening radio stations that you hear in offices.

Maybe Gus Van Sant would be Iggy Pop or Husker Du

what about Christopher Nolan?

sarahel almost otm, except maybe instead of "easy listening ballads" i'm thinking over-indulgent meaningful-core.

Gus Van Sant?

David Bowie.

Jodorowsky = Beefheart
Both became underground cult figures in the 60s, continued to work sporadically for a few decades before becoming disillusioned with the industry and drifting off into other fields. They're both a little bit genius, a little bit megalomaniacal, and a little full of shit.

Fassbinder = Sun Ra
Both were incredibly prolific and presided over a family of regular collaborators in an almost cult-like and sometimes communal situation.

Hitchcock could be any of the 50s blues / early rock & roll artists who were considered genre fluff early in their career before being rediscovered by fans, critics and artists outside of the U.S. and ultimately canonized before they died.

highly-crafted, highly-reliant on studio effects that they are hailed as masters/pioneers of (Terminator 2, The Abyss meet the electronic drums of In the Air Tonight)

I see your point, though I think it could be applied on the same grounds to someone with more cultural impact than Phil Collins. Like Eno or whatever. I don't understand how anyone could consider Cameron a guilty pleasure.

Orson Welles = Elvis Presley
Francis Ford Coppola = Led Zeppelin
Stanley Kubrick = Peter Gabriel (pre-Sledgehammer)
Quentin Tarantino = Wu Tang Clan

Sorry if these are boring/predictable.

Richard Linklater - The Hold Steady?
and maybe Welles should be Phil Spector?

I see your point, though I think it could be applied on the same grounds to someone with more cultural impact than Phil Collins. Like Eno or whatever. I don't understand how anyone could consider Cameron a guilty pleasure

But does Cameron's work have a lot of cultural impact? Lots of people have seen it and like it. He's made a lot of money and won awards. But I'm trying to think of how his work was influential apart from the use of special effects and contributing to Arnold Schwarzenegger being elected governor of California. He hasn't invented or revolutionized a genre, experimented much with narrative structure or formal elements of film, or made a film that led to changes in society or popular media reflecting on society that happens with some mainstream film, like Fatal Attraction, Thelma and Louise, Traffic, Crash, etc.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "I don't understand how anyone could consider Cameron a guilty pleasure." As in, nobody who has "guilty pleasures" could take pleasure in Titanic or Terminator 2, or you don't see his work as being emotionally or cinematically manipulative and/or schlocky mainstream crap? Titanic. This is the guy that made Titanic.

re: M Night Shamalamadingdong

sarahel almost otm, except maybe instead of "easy listening ballads" i'm thinking over-indulgent meaningful-core.

like Fallout Boy?

ehhh, that would imply that FOB have done something of worth. getting there though! (btw i'm not just taking the piss out of you here...i don't have an answer either lol)

ehhh, that would imply that FOB have done something of worth.

yeah, that's the thing. Though I'm sure their legions of fans that like to respond to negative posts about the band that come up on google would disagree vehemently. But maybe they also liked "lady in the water" and "the happening," too.

responding to posts upthread:
John Waters = The Cramps - fond of 1950s camp, tongue in cheek, initial shock value lapsed, still at it
Guy Maddin = Jandek or maybe Daniel Johnston or someone with a singular wtf style
Peter Watkins = Ian Mackaye? or Cornelius Cardew (treatise = that very very long reenactment of the Paris Commune)
maybe Godard would be Derek Bailey

Jodorowsky=beefheart - definitely works, though I was thinking of Albert Ayler for the religious connection
Miranda July = deerhoof
Michael Haneke = Matmos?

James Cameron's '80s stuff (the Michael Biehn trilogy) = first-rate, as far as that sort of kinetic slam-bang action stuff goes.

James Cameron = Aerosmith, maybe

Jodorowsky is definitely Beefheart. Good call.

M. Night Shamalayan= Radiohead
however, is so wrong.

beaten to the punch:

Terry Gilliam = Captain Beefheart
John Waters = The Cramps

i was thinking Cohens = Steel Dan, maybe. fans of either - or both - will likely balk, but...

arch. barely contained (or not contained at all) contempt for characters (audience? selves?). consummate craftsmen. equally adept at comedy and tragedy, often in the same song/ film. two principals with somewhat ambiguous strengths & duties within the partnership.

(Dan have fewer misses imo)

...wear antecedents on sleeves without being hacky

So who would be Stan Brakhage? William Basinski? Some noise artist?

Lynch would obv. be Zorn. Jarring, stylized, "postmodern" in an almost stereotypical way, weird noirish influences, often the token "avant-garde" pick of casual fans within their medium.

Lynch would obv. be Zorn. Jarring, stylized, "postmodern" in an almost stereotypical way, weird noirish influences, often the token "avant-garde" pick of casual fans within their medium.

I can see that. A better match than my upthread Sonic Youth pick, who I think would be a better match with Steven Soderberg - doing some more conventional and some experimental work, indie darling before working with majors, championing and encouraging the work of other up-and-comers

So who would be Stan Brakhage? William Basinski? Some noise artist?

― i fuck mathematics, Saturday, 6 December 2008 09:55 (Yesterday)

John Cage

Who would John Carpenter be?

Who's Rob Reiner? A case could be made for Spinal Tap, sadly.

George Lucas - Weezer

OTM, but what have Weezer contributed to the art of music making that would be analogous to ILM/Pixar?

OF COURSE John Waters = The Cramps, good one.

David Lynch = Pere Ubu

Pasolini could be lots of people, but Scott Walker could only be Pasolini.

John Carpenter = Black Sabbath, maybe?

M Night Shyamalan = Toto

Clive Barker = Van Dyke Parks (Hellraiser = Song Cycle, Lord Of Illusions = Jump)

Sam Raimi = Aerosmith

Tarkovsky = The Durutti Column, obviously

Haneke = Xiu Xiu

Van Sant is tricky. I'd say Eno. Early films = four solo records, Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester = U2 and James, Gerry/Elephant/Last Days/Paranoid Park = ambient albums, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues = The Drop. No explanation for Psycho or No New York.

Who is Peter Weir?
Who is David Cronenberg?

Michael Cimino = Peter Frampton

John Boorman = Neil Young

Who would John Carpenter be?

Well, JC always composes/performs his own soundtracks, so his equivalent would have to be some musician who always produces/directs his own videos.

xpost - Peter Weir = Dire Straits, Cronenberg = Marilyn Manson

George Lucas - Weezer

`OTM, but what have Weezer contributed to the art of music making that would be analogous to ILM/Pixar?

I'd posit - guitar driven power pop and 'emo', the pop cultural lyrical references and Spike Jonez videos. Both are beloved by geeks. Both started out cutting edge, with unexpected early success that has overshadowed their subsequent output and has been hugely influential on mass culture. Weird reclusive relationship with the public. Attempts at 'comebacks' met with mixed reactions.

i rly like the Husker Du = Van Sant idea, but it's hard to make it fly through out Van Sant's entire career (maybe just Bob Mould???) or maybe Van Sant should be associated with somewhat in the Pacific Northwest, like, I don't know, Buzz Osborne...

i think Peter Weir = Eno & Cronenberg = Skinny Puppy prhaps?

maybe Weir = Van der Graaf Generator though???
(I'm really stretching myself here)

Who would Darren Aronofsky be? I'm thinking either Tool or Mars Volta.

Michael Cimino = Peter Frampton

haha!

George Lucas = Paul McCartney for the money and influence and bad lyrics (corresponding with Lucas' godawful dialog), but I like the ELO comparison

John Carpenter = Sabbath works for me

I still stand by my Cronenberg = Nick Cave comparison: relatively brief period of rawer more experimental work corresponding with The Birthday Party, then a steady stream of work contending with common themes of bodily horror with references to larger cultural or sociopolitical themes in a similar vein to the Bad Seeds blues-type tales of love gone wrong with the religious and literary references. Then they both go soft - Cave doing more piano ballads, and Cronenberg doing crime thrillers.

Have we had Powell and Pressberger? because they're the Kinks

"pressburger"

Clive Barker = Iron Maiden maybe, definitely a metal band though

Aronofsky = Tool or Rage Against the Machine

What about John Hughes and Alex Cox?

John Hughes = Tom Petty maybe?

For Cronenberg == Cave to work, Cronenberg would have to write a really amazing country album. I'm looking forward to this.

Came to me in the car this morning listening to 'Flim-Flam Man' on the great budget 'Best of' Laura Nyro cassette I got recently: She's Martin Scorsese - at least up to Taxi Driver/ Ney York, New York era. This line from 'New York Tendaberry' - 'You look like a city/ But you feel like religion to me' capture the rapt devoted attention (early) MS pays to the place perfectly.

Kevin Smith = Weezer

Same era, early claim to fame was primarily through gigantic "Hai remember 1970s pop culture???" jokes; went personal and ambitious after their initial success (with polarizing results); and they both have rabid, nerdy fanbases. Also, in this decade, both have shamelessly returned to the well (Clerks II, countless Weezer singles) in an attempt to stay relevant. Um, their appeal is understandable but the idolatry they receive from some inconceivable?

This is probably my favorite ILM thread that I've created btw.

Jack Smtih = Crash Worship

for sure

Peter Bogdonavich = Todd Rundgren

bela tarr = godspeed you! black emperor

and Cronenberg is definitely way more Skinny Puppy than Nick Cave

I've definitely drunkenly espoused the Blue Album=Clerks, Pinkerton=Mallrats theory before.

there are some holes in this, but scott walker feels like a david lynch. the whole schmaltz mixed with the grotesque.

tarantino is kinda serge gainsbourg. or a more rock n roll stereolab.

Anyone read the recent Sunday NYTimes piece where QT talked about his new Nazi hunter movie? I thoguht he canme off as a Holy Idiot whose success is likely due to a set of congenital quirks and deficiencies -- making him the Wesley Willis of filmdom.

Tarantino can get really excited and come off as sort of aspie or even idiot savantish at times, but I think calling him the Wesley Willis of film is a little extreme. I mean, as weird a dude QT is, he's not really on the same level as a schizophrenic outsider musician who belts out songs about sucking animals' dicks over Casio beats.

(not intending to slander Wesley Willis, just illustrating a point)

I think David Lynch = Jesus and Mary Chain

The first similarity is that their most revered work came out within a year of each other, then there is the way they both took traditional genres from yesteryear (both used innocent 1960s pop, and in BV the all-American boy's mystery case) and subversively warped them beyond belief - influencing legions of others. Lastly, there's the intentionally bad production (the feedback throughout Psychocandy, the fact that Blue Velvet's washed-out look was achieved by not developing the film footage correctly. In both cases people wondered whether these things were mistakes or aesthetic choices).

Psychocandy would actually soundtrack quite well to a few Blue Velvet scenes imo.

Don't really agree with Mary Chain for Lynch. They just arent wierd or baffling in any way really whereas Lynch is a lot. He seems to be all about the sub concious and dream states- Mary Chain just foggy, dark, noisy pop songs. I would go with Sun Ra for Lynch or maybe Sun City Girls.

My comparison works better if you just single out Psychocandy and BV, now that I've thought about it.

michael bay = the prodigy
― the bourgeoisie and the rebel (Stevie D),

Michael Bay:Dragonforce
― 8 HOOS Dog (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver),

Michael Bay - U2

michael bay = the prodigy
― the bourgeoisie and the rebel (Stevie D),

Michael Bay:Dragonforce
― 8 HOOS Dog (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver),

Michael Bay - U2

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― meisenfek, jueves 3 de septiembre de 2009 06:29 AM (25 minutes ago)

Michael Bay - KISS

Jim Jarmusch - The White Stripes

gaspar noé - genesis p-orridge

Walt Disney - Phil Spector

guy ritchie - bloodhound gang

If I said that Kevin Smith were Weezer, does that make Judd Apatow a kind of Blink 182?

roland emmerich - liberace

abel ferrara - iggy pop

werner herzog - moondog

Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman (troma) - Sam Sacks

Sonic Youth is totally fucking Godard.

this came from a conversation tonight that placed Herzog as SWANS and Godard as SY, btw.

did jefferson airplane REALLY have a maoist phase??!!

godard prolly more like dylan

discounting the politics, SY and Godard totally hipster name-checking sorta shtick. also pretty radical, fucking shit up approach to their craft.

also all decent work done in first decade of career

(joeks, like some later Godard)

> Sonic Youth is totally fucking Godard.

Bad mental image.

Michael Bay is Pendulum of course.

Sofia Coppola = Phoenix.

Sort of uninspired considering they're scoring her next film, but they work perfect for each other.

Yep, Sofia Coppola is totally fucking Phoenix.

Oh wait.

Sonic Youth is the new Jefferson Airplane

David Lynch = The Raveonettes?

(Actually, whoever said Lynch = Scott Walker is probably right.)

Don Siegel - Link Wray
Clint Eastwood - Eric Clapton
Nicolas Winding Refn - Trent Reznor
Roman Polanski - Betrand Burgalat

* a very dark burgalat *

david lynch - david lynch

John Milius - Motörhead

Sam Raimi - Perez Prado

Joe Dante - The Misfits
David Lynch - David Lynch
Guy Ritchie - Lenny Kravitz

Claude Lelouch - Jay Kay

Jacques Rivette - Can

Darren Aronofsky - Rollins Band

David Lynch = Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works (Vol. 2)

yes, yes, i will sign autographs later.

spike jonze - pavement
i get double points b/c he's already directed a music video or two for them.
god i'm great.

terrence malick - godspeed you! black emperor

tony scott - theoretical girls
apichatpong weerasethakul - the united states of america
yasujiro ozu - owl city

Abel Ferrara = Suicide
Michael Bay = Black-Eyed Peas

Russ Meyer = Sex Pistols?

Frank Capra = The Carpenters

Tim Burton = The Cure

Shane Meadows = Sham 69

Billy Wilder = The Kinks

late adopter, you fucking nailed it w/ burotn.