Anybody seen “30 Century Man,” the film about Scott Walker?
And does anyone know if he’s living in France, or elsewhere these days? Graham?
I have my reasons.
Anybody seen “30 Century Man,” the film about Scott Walker?
And does anyone know if he’s living in France, or elsewhere these days? Graham?
I have my reasons.
5 Responses to SCOTT WALKER
We all have our Scott reasons, Kris. Last I heard, Mr. Enigma was still a resident of London town. I saw 30 Century Man, yes. It’s pretty good. What I remember best of it is Scott bashing a piece of meat (not code for onanism, by the way… he literally used a side of beef as a percussive instrument… Tom Waits eat your heart out!)
It’s worth seeing Kris. The “metal” orchestra sequence was my particular favourite.
Hi, guys–
Saw it last night and have SO much to say, my brain is still spinning. Might have to send in a review.
The film deserves a prize if only for FINALLY explaining Scott Walker (or just what I previously thought of as yet another peculiar, unfathomable slight British perversion) to me. It stands on its own merits as a wonderful piece documentary, the subject of which just happens to be a completely unique character whose obsessions- aesthetic and otherwise- could not neither be explained or contained by Pop, musically or otherwise.
And then I listened to The Drift and my brain cracked open. There are jokes in there, too, folks. Try word association; it’ll get you from A to Z step by step, not the way he leaps tall buildings in a single bound.
It’s also nice to hear from a musician who can READ.
And I don’t know what the BFD is about the slab of meat. It’s hilarious. Pink Floyd did all kinds of experimenting with non-musical instruments to get the sounds they wanted; so do filmmakers.
Okay, so I may have to write more than a review of the documentary.