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post-hippie visionary or boho notalent?

how is far north?

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i played the lead in "fool for love" for acting class (ahem "intro to performance") once!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

also my friend was in a movie with him and she said he sleazed on her

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

also how great is he in the right stuff

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. When I was in acting class, I did the Old Man from "Fool For Love"!

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

he's from suburban chicago, it turns out

he makes a great hamlet's ghost

he wrote the new wim wenders movie (which has the worst title ever)

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

WORSE than the million-dollar hotel?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

wim wenders sucks

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

it's called (wait for it) don't come a-knockin'

as i've mentioned before, wim wenders was once great. i mostly feel kind of sorry for him now.

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't know if that's worse than "the end of violence"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

to be honest sometimes i question how great he really was (haven't revisited the early stuff in a while tho)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I just read his rock-o-logue of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. It was just so-so. Everyone came across as pretentious and annoying, including Shepard.

― andy, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm sad i missed that production of true west that was on broadway a couple of years ago

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

to be honest sometimes i question how great he really was (haven't revisited the early stuff in a while tho)
-- s1ocki (slytus...), September 9th, 2004.

he was great through wings of desire...

have you seen kings of the road? the state of things? alice in the cities? the goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick?

(wow he ALWAYS had bad titles huh?)

(that's an amazing film but the seeds of his downfall are present in abundance). and i think until the end of the world is a really interesting failure. faraway so close is definitely where he jumped the shark.

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i think some of those early titles just translate awkwardly... maybe... on the other hand "faraway, so close" sounds like badly translated title even though it wasn't translated from anything

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"(that's an amazing film but the seeds of his downfall are present in abundance). "

-- talking about wings of desire there

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually like some of those early titles! tho i haven't seen too many of them

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm a flip-flopper on wings of desire to be honest, consequence of seeing it as a pretentious teenager

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i loved it as a pretentious teenager, hated it as a wizened college student, and now i'm somewhere in the middle. it's beautiful, that's for sure.

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

amateur!!st OTM

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

about what?

(that's right baby flatter me one more time oh yeah)

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

RIP. Didn't know he had ALS.

I know only a few of his plays, mostly through variable TV/film adaps, but the '96 Broadway production of Buried Child was formidable, haunting.

Really liked his screen presence in those last couple Jeff Nichols films he did.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 July 2017 15:18 (nine years ago)

damn, rip - always a pleasure to see him pop up onscreen

i've been meaning to rescreen the right stuff for a while, i should get on that

― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2017 15:19 (nine years ago)

summary execution for headline writer calling him "Notebook Star"

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 July 2017 15:21 (nine years ago)

cosign

― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2017 15:23 (nine years ago)

should have been stealth obv

― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2017 15:24 (nine years ago)

http://www.stevenpressfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tumblr_m8lspkWmyr1r0iqavo1_500.png

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 July 2017 15:29 (nine years ago)

Went to see him read, sing, talk about his stuff at trinity last year

I did not leave thinking that he was a great writer and certainly not a great singer but definitely would have stayed all night just watching him be Sam Shepard

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 31 July 2017 16:28 (nine years ago)

Sam on drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvX9yPZvFgQ&app=desktop

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 July 2017 17:04 (nine years ago)

RIP, love him :(

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 31 July 2017 17:08 (nine years ago)

that link doesn't work for me :(
i googled "sam shepard" + drums and couldn't find it

he had a good life, right? i don't know much (anything?) about his personal life

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 31 July 2017 17:16 (nine years ago)

Jessica Lange.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 July 2017 17:29 (nine years ago)

xpost: holy modal rounders + laugh in should work

unfortunately "pledge" from moray eels is nowhere to be found on youtube (rip)

― no lime tangier, Monday, 31 July 2017 17:31 (nine years ago)

Was the drumming clip him w/The Holy Modal Rounders? He was with them for Indian War Whoop and The Moray Eels Eat...", the latter of which included this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vmvmxpDp-Q

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 31 July 2017 17:40 (nine years ago)

Jessica Lange.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 31, 2017 12:29 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark

<3 <3 <3

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 31 July 2017 17:41 (nine years ago)

He was an intermittently great playwright. I'm fairly sure True West, Buried Child and Fool for Love are part of any contemporary American theater repertory.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 July 2017 17:49 (nine years ago)

Saw this '96 production of Buried Child, first one on Broadway

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/buried-child-4792

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 July 2017 17:53 (nine years ago)

Jeez he was so good. He was my earliest idea of a movie star, bc of seeing his performance in The Right Stuff at age 8. He had this really effortless charisma in that movie, he felt like a John Wayne-level star in that role. Not sure many people could possess the Yeager role and pull it off at that level.

― nomar, Monday, 31 July 2017 18:00 (nine years ago)

He wasn't acting much in those early film appearances, but who would want him to? Yeah, he was an extraordinarily handsome man. His best movie performance is in a little known thing called Voyager

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 July 2017 18:02 (nine years ago)

Also, he co-wrote Dylan's best '80s song.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 July 2017 18:23 (nine years ago)

"Brownsville Girl"?

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 July 2017 18:29 (nine years ago)

had forgotten

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 July 2017 18:30 (nine years ago)

Road to hell

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 31 July 2017 18:31 (nine years ago)

My god, that ALS must've hit hard and fast. He looked perfectly fine in Midnight Special. I'm seeing firsthand the toll it's taking on my uncle, though, so I'm sadly unsurprised that it was such a quick decline.

― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), Monday, 31 July 2017 18:37 (nine years ago)

Dude co wrote Paris, Texas

― calstars, Monday, 31 July 2017 20:31 (nine years ago)

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/jessica-lange-and-sam-shepard-have-a-word-at-the-screening-of-the-picture-id97295571

― nomar, Monday, 31 July 2017 21:00 (nine years ago)

https://media.giphy.com/media/McLGHl3uZ2A0M/giphy.gif

That face, that hair.

― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Monday, 31 July 2017 22:01 (nine years ago)

obit roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4780-the-daily-sam-shepard-1943-2017

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 July 2017 22:59 (nine years ago)

<3 his old teeth <3

i don't begrudge him his refurbished teeth but i loved his old teeth (and his face)

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 00:29 (nine years ago)

sam shepard's dead and chuck yeager's on twitter, what a world

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 09:41 (nine years ago)

chuck yeager's exposure to ionosphere radiation during his test-pilot years has rendered him immortal iirc

― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 09:43 (nine years ago)

The Holy Modal Rounders 1968, Stampfel, Weber, Tyler, Annas, Shepard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvX9yPZvFgQ

And yes, even if it's already on here somewhere, leave us not forget the xpost BD-SS expressed "Brownsville Girl"----"I wish I could remember the name of that movie a little bit better"----

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxs-LzcAFT8

― dow, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 01:37 (nine years ago)

No visual in the post, but I just now played the audio again

― dow, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 01:39 (nine years ago)

Patti Smith: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/my-buddy-sam-shepard

― dow, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 02:17 (nine years ago)

late to thread... love him! so multi-talented & just infinitely interesting, thoughtful, creative, curious... and god what a beautiful looking man, decade to decade

in the end he'll always be chuck yeager; i get teary thinking how effortlessly he brought him to life on screen

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 03:55 (nine years ago)

Kind of fascinating how the two most recognizable playwrights of our lifetime, Sam Shepard and Wallace Shawn, have such weird and purely theatrical plays that are pretty much impossible to adapt (Fool for Love and The Designated Mourner excepted).

― Eazy, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 04:17 (nine years ago)

three months pass...

He's probably the best big-name interviewee in California Typewriter--although Tom Hanks (not much of a fan) is really good too. The whole time I was watching David Mccullough, I thought it was William Styron (no names are provided).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgJ3kSOHMiU

― clemenza, Sunday, 5 November 2017 18:48 (eight years ago)

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