Vincent Gallo in being-a-right-wing-asshole shocker

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"In my whole life, no one’s ever invited me or included me in any Republican event. As a matter of fact, I used to go to the Rush Limbaugh show with my best friend Johnny Ramone and a couple of other friends, and Rush never … acknowledged us. So I’m thrilled to be here."

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(Maybe for Michael Moore's next movie, he can stalk Vincent Gallo. That'd keep them both busy for a while.)

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Still," he said with a chuckle, "the Republican Party needs hipsters. If it wants to
broaden its base, it needs hipsters."

Momus, you still sure you want to write for Vice?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

you, in taking the bait shockah

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I love bait!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Gallo stalked a girl I know into going out on a date with him a few years ago...she says that he spent the entire evening proving himself to be an utter wanker (by alternately spouting racist horseshit and decrying the worlds inability to comprehend his genius) who expressed total disbelief when she declined to go out with him again.

If the 'Vinnie Gallo: Right-Wing Asshole' schtick is, in fact, schtick, it's something he's been perfecting for six or seven years now.

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

he ain't the first, and he ain't gonna be the last.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder if gallo was the one who introduced limbaugh to pill-popping and full-time drugging.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I love bait!

But chum is much tastier!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

gawker.com mentioned his ranting other day. he was criticizing "special interest groups," like the disabled, for hogging a disproportionate share of public resources.
i've heard more than story that pegs him as a stalker.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he's totally, ludicrously wrong when he says Bush is a great president. But I could probably find some common ground with him on the question of art as reparation:

"The films that won a lot of prizes were Smoke Signals, because it was the first film by a Native American, and High Art, because it was the first independent film dealing with the complexities of a lesbian relationship. You know, if I had made a film with left-wing concepts—Boys Don’t Cry, for example—I may have been nominated for an Oscar that year!"

I'm very much against AAAAA: art awards as affirmative action. That said, I haven't seen these films and don't know if they deserved to beat 'Buffalo 66' -- which I also haven't seen.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

High Art was okay, Boys Don't Cry was great. Buffalo 66 was pretty good, the trailer using the Yes song was better.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I would say that those films are for the most part boring and bland, Nick ... but I like Gallo so the world probably thinks my opinion is not valid. Also, those films weren't aimed at me, so how can I understand them? (that's the other criticism against me in this situation)

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

'Smoke Signals' was quite good, IIRC. I also think he's being selective in his examples.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Boys Don't Cry was far better than Buffalo. And then there's the Brown Bunny...
Boys Don't Cry and Brown Bunny have something in common, don't they?

― sym (shmuel), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

high art is great

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Lesbians!

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

And pretentia!

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

and one great movie!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i haven't seen either of these 2 films. but it seems that gallo is doing what ideologues of all persuasions do ... i.e., b/c HE doesn't like a given work of art, or at the least think that it's as good as something else, then of course there's no GOOD REASON AT ALL why someone else would think that it's superior to whatever he likes. esp. when said piece of art has a political agenda that he doesn't like.

it's the dirty right-wing hipster/film-nerd version of "i woulda gotten into Harvard if it wasn't for all those Negroes!"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The way his persona undermines his message is highly reminiscent of Kathleen Hanna's tirade on the Mike Watt record.

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

what's that?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What's what? (exp pls)

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

what's that tirade of which you speak?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder if hanna ever got her annie soundtrack back.

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/pudietadow_sushi/rowr.html

She says that at the end of "Heartbeat" (I believe) on Ballhog.... it has to be heard to be truly appreciated.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Smoke Signals. I liked Buffalo 66 quite a bit too - shame it was made by an asshole.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah 'High Art' was great. I was depressed when I realized, during the awful 'Phone Booth', that this was the first time I'd seen Radha Mitchell since the aforementioned HA. She looked a little tore up, too.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 27 January 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh look out he's trying to be controversial!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

gawker.com mentioned his ranting other day. he was criticizing "special interest groups," like the disabled, for hogging a disproportionate share of public resources.

You have to admire Gallo's dedication to his principles. It takes a certain amount of egolessness to stand up and say that too much money goes to the developmentally disabled when you yourself are completely fucking retarded.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The trouble is that when you're as goodlooking as Gallo, you can say any old rubbish and people still think you're cool. I'd like to see the painting in his attack, though.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, the label on it says Vincent Gallo, but the painting looks like Dick Cheney!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The trouble is that when you're as goodlooking as Gallo

Someone please post that fucking scary picture of bearded Gallo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

vg: I AM AN ASSHOLE
gop: YAY

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

haha the paul schrader factcheck is hilarious.

predictably, he doesn't say anything particularly conservative; they do just love their 'persecution' on that side of the aisle don't they?

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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