Please join me in thanking SXSW’s Matt Dentler for the above. Earlier today, Matt posted a video on his blog titled “How Mumblecore Saved My Life.” In it, a young, female filmmaker named Erin (peruse her full YouTube oeuvre here) explains at some length how films like Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation have restored her faith in independent cinema. If you’ve got seven minutes to kill, it’s great, but oh–there’s so much more.
Matt pinged me this afternoon to draw my attention to another of Erin’s videos, and this one shot to the top of my list of potential Clips of the Day. It’s Erin’s version of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl … rewritten as a tribute to one Lindsay Lohan. As you’re surely aware by now, Ms. Lohan was busted yet again this morning for driving with alcohol in her bloodstream and coke in her pants (for more details, go to TMZ and read their 60 or 70 updates from the bottom of the page to the top).
Allen Ginsberg is okay, but Erin’s poem is really, really genius. It begins: “I have seen the best actresses of my generation destroyed by madness–starving, hysterical, drunk, driving through Beverly Hills at dawn looking for a place to crash.” My favorite is verse is probably, “Who got busted in their thong from a night of parting with a belt of cocaine, headed to the Coffee Bean.” Either that, or “I am with you at Promises, where your condition has become serious and is reported on the internet!”
This clip was posted on on YouTube on June 7 and as of this writing has only been watched about 150 times. Won’t you join me in making Howl (For Lindsay Lohan) the internet phenomenon it deserves to be?
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I’ve added it to MySpace. It’s a very good variation, and a warning for all the all-too-infamous starlets out there.
great! will watch it w/ my ‘FREE LINDSAY LOHAN’ tee!
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