Heres a clip from the Last American Freak show – you should try this at home ….
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Kung Freak Gardens….
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So I arrived in LA, picked up in a blacked out Lincoln town car by an Algerian guy who had a host of LA stories that I didn’t want to hear. I turned my ears off. Dragging through the LA rush hour traffic the journey was interminable. After the hour wait at immigration it was as if I was in a really boring Fassbinder movie (they are all really boring – if you don’t know them – don’t bother). I arrived at the apartment that I am sharing with J and N from the band Little Fish. I was met by Ben from their record company surprisingly he was not 2 feet tall, but a normal human being – somehow in my head he had been morphed into a dark suited blackberry wielding dwarf. Not so….Inside the building reminds me of Resident Evil.
In the apartment there’s a note from J and no food, no bedroom, no nothing. Well it’s ok I can sleep on a sofa, after 10 weeks of freaks on a bus this is gonna be a cake walk. There’s nothing to do. I am jet lagged and have no car, can’t rent one till the morning – I find a bar – the Universal Bar and Grill, inside there’s a barely live band comprising of a fat Japanese girl in a tutu, a mullet wearing a guitar, and an invisible drummer hidden behind a gigantic drum kit. Everyone in the bar is like a failed extra from the Rockford files. I settle on a bar stool to sip a few beers and be told that I’m cute by the bar girl. Tired, my head spins from the beer and clockwrongness and I have to sleep. I retire hurt to the sofa, some hours later J and N burst into the apartment like clowns at a funeral. It’s a good start….Tomorrow I would meet growling Linda Perry at her studio – Kung Fu Gardens…
city of freaks …..
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Listen up, I am going to the city of freaks – Los Angeles. I’ll be there for the whole of October and I will blog almost daily to tell you where I am and whats going on – I’ll be filming at Kung Fu studios where Little Fish will be recording their debut album with Linda Perry. I’ll be doing a video blog for the band on their myspace site and stuff like that – but for a more candid view on the shark infested waters of the LA music scene then check here – cos here it will be !
Linda Perrys studio....can't see no fish though
Apparently the fishes have been out drinking with Christina Aguilera….Drinking what? That’s what I want to know – Watch this space
And watch for the cover article on “The Last American Freak Show” in Mud magazine
Tags, Freaks and Fish
Posted in that film, the last american freak show, Uncategorized, tagged american idol, awards, bafta, barak obama, blind, borat, Brittany Spears, cannabis, circus, culture, disability, entertainment, film, freaks, freakshow, humour, larry charles, life, Mcain, media, men, movies, music, Obama, Paris Hilton, politics, Sarah Palin, snow, social justice, stoners, struggle, television, that film, the last american freak show on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Me and fishes - the one in the hat, is J from the band
Bet you didn’t know (or maybe you did…but it’s new to me ) that Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears and American Idol are the most searched for items/things/people on the net. No, neither did I, and as Paris and Brittany, we are on first name terms, are most certainly freaks and anyone that goes on, or watches American Idol is a freak I have decided to add them as tags on this blog and the Youtube clips in a blatant and exploitative attempt to bump up the hits and I am not stopping there. Oh no I am going all out to get hits and I am sure I can come up with some kind of a plan – not sure what – perhaps every time you tap Obama or Mcain into the search engine “The last American freak show” should come up it would certainly be appropriate. Anyone know how to do that?
Recently I have been spending a lot of time with my friend J from Little Fish. Little Fish are a band and a very good one. I think I might make a film about them and their attempt to make an LP in Los Angeles (you see everywhere is a freak show, once you start looking) It would be a funny film and a great way to look inside the star making machinery and then I’d meet Paris and Brittany and the circle will be unbroken… If the idea goes ahead we will make a video blog from LA and post it weekly maybe even daily. The album is being produced by Linda Perry, apparently she’s famous to those who know about these things.
To me it’s more about someone really sweet from the sticks being dropped headfirst into a vat of hungry crabs… I’ll let you know what happens…
