One of the challenging things about writing for the WFMU blog is that everything's already been written about before. Most everything. I just caught up with part two of the Kenneth Anger DVD and was moved to go back and revel in Puce Moment, a film he recut in some indeterminate time in the late sixties to an awesome score by... Actually screw it, Brian Turner wrote about it here.
The least I can do is to provide a functioning screening of it:
I thought that I'd get my two cents in for posterity after finding a copy of Kustom Kar Kommandos but I swear that I only just realized that Mike Lupica dropped mention of it even before Brian's post.
The only thing I can think to do is to reflect upon the anxiety of influence and the difficulty in getting out from behind what has come before us. But you don't want to hear about all that, do you? Me neither.
Kustom Kar Kommandos is still Rawkin! It blew my mind the first time I saw it (about 15 years ago now, yikes!) & still does today.... Anger is the godfather of the Jukebox soundtrack in film.... so ahead of his time... Helluhcool!
Posted by: Phil RetroSpector | April 01, 2008 at 02:09 PM