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Jonas Mekas To Direct Iron Man 2 | Bad Lit — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:58:31 +0000

[...] the summer called “MTV Movie Awards Snubs Director Jonas Mekas Yet Again.” In response, Karina suggested — accurately in my opinion — that MTV should give Mekas his own show. Back in [...]

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:17:24 +0000

*This is all motivating me to waste my time making a mash-up You Tube video of Caouette’s video with Cocker’s video just to prove my point!*

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:16:55 +0000

This is all motivating me to waste my time making a mash-up You Tube video of Caouette’s video with Cocker’s video just to prove my point!

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:15:14 +0000

TARNATION is obscure to most of pop culture. How does that make it any less likely that someone like Cocker rented it from a video store or a online rental service, watched it, and then emulated it for his video? And there are a lot of things that are on You Tube that are about very obscure things, or imitate very obscure things.

By: Karina Longworth

Karina Longworth — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:01:59 +0000

I’m not making a “conclusion” at all. I just think you have to understand that “Tarnation” is fairly obscure in relation to YouTube culture.

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:45:55 +0000

Well, I think your making an overly pat conclusion to my observation. Yes, there’s doubt to my assertion, but what about giving it the benefit of the doubt?

By: Karina

Karina — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:43:32 +0000

I don’t actually have much respect for Caouette. My point is that dedicated YouTube pop culture diarists and consumers of experimental diary cinema tend to not practically overlap, mostly due to vagaries of distribution, even if they probably should.

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:38:51 +0000

Or: disregard for Cocker is what I mean.

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:38:26 +0000

I don’t know– just because your respect for Cauoette doesn’t match your regard for Cocker doesn’t mean I may not have a point. Take a look at those scenes in Tarnation and you’ll see what I mean.

By: Karina

Karina — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:47:38 +0000

I think suggesting that Chris Crocker is familiar with ‘Tarnation’ might be giving him too much credit.

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:45:52 +0000

Because I’m surprised that no film blog or commentator has made this connection, I need to point this out– Chris Crocker probably stole the whole look or feel of his “Leave Britney Alone” vid from Jonathan Cauoette. In Cauoette’s personal documentary Tarnation, there’s a series of videos that Cauoette made as a kid/teenager, and many of them are ‘direct confessionals’ of imagined, hyperbolic characters that look exactly like Crocker’s infamous video.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:02:33 +0000

Agreed. Mekas has more charisma than most pop culture pundits, and he’s hipper than all of them combined.

By: Jonas Mekas, Ray Carney Embroiled in Onion Joke - Celebrity Gossip pictures and news

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:20:07 +0000

[...] Rorro wrote an interesting post today on Jonas Mekas, Ray Carney Embroiled in Onion Joke…Here’s a quick excerpt:On Day 52, he layers a full-page shot of Britney Sticks mid head-shear and asks, “Why don’t they depart her alone?”––beating Chris Crocker to the same sentiment by seven months. The films were available for download for gratis on the day … [...]