The title is what might happen if Fela collaborated with Kate Bush, the music is the best one-chord stomp ever! The kind of thing that makes you want to leave Jason Pierce on his own in a rough Texas bar while he's going through withdrawal again and feeling sensitive
― dave q, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Also, ifyou want 'affirmation' to do every morning you could do worse
than use "Love To Watch You Bleed"
― dave q, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
one year passes...
Jack Black hits the roky road
Thursday, July 31, 2003
Jack Black as Roky Erickson. Let that sink in for a moment. It could happen. Read on.
Sumner Erickson asked his brother Roky what he wanted for his July 15 birthday and the answer was a simple "movie deal." The Rok must've blown out all 56 candles, because his wish has come true. As Roky's guardian, Sumner has optioned the rights to the life story of the one-time 13th Floor Elevators frontman to Los Angeles-based production company Flea Circus Films. And Mike King of Flea Circus says Black is very interested in not only portraying Mr. "Two-Headed Dog," but producing the film. "Jack called Roky on his birthday and said he wanted to play him," King says.
Roky approves. "We were watching a rerun of 'Saturday Night Live' with Jack Black as the host and I told Roky, 'That's the guy who wants to play you,' " says Sumner. "And Roky just became glued to the set. Didn't say a word the whole show, but when it was over Roky said, 'I want him, 100 percent.' " Negotiations between Black, the Ericksons and Flea Circus have been under way for about a year.
Flea Circus' principals King, his wife Laura Milligan and Emmy-winning writer (for "Dennis Miller Live") Mike Gandolfi will start working on the screenplay soon. After the script is done and the tenacious Mr. Black is officially aboard, Flea Circus will shop for a deal with a major studio.
Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker Keven McAlester, whose Rok-umentary, "You're Gonna Miss Me," should be completed in time for the Oct. 3 Sundance submission deadline, says Hollywood's interest in the Erickson story can only help attract attention to his film. McAlester's camera followed Roky from July '99, when the psychedelic icon was in the depths of mental and financial despair, through June '02, when the singer made an astonishing rebound thanks to medication and the care of his brother. "Any three years of Roky's life would make an interesting film," says McAlester, "but I feel that we were lucky to film him over the period that we did." Indeed, McAlester got the ending that would be considered too corny, anywhere but Hollywood.
http://www.statesman.com/xlent/content/xlent/corcoran/0703/073103.html
― duane, Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)