For those of you who missed last night's odd, rambling and often unitentionally funny kickoff to Camp Nutria, here are the crib notes:
And yes, per the comments from yesterday's post, late singer and ladykiller Tim Buckley was also an actor and starred in a brief, experimental film about group therapy called Why with Nordberg himself, O.J. Friggin' Simpson. Think about that for a second and try not to pass out. And, jimmeny crickets, if you can dig deep read the following and have your brain properly melted - it actually features the quote "OJ was like a black Al Pacino". Whoever can acquire that movie for a viewing will be crowned Camp Monarch.
The Lovely Sparrows were awesome as usual, and Camper Jeb ate something called a 'bacon pizza' that's best never discussed again.
Not sure where we go from here...
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Yikes, I'm glad I dodged that bullet. Anyone up for some daytime activities?
Marco....?
The movie "Why?" was never released. "Fully Air-Conditioned Inside" was never made. Anyone else see an opportunity here?:
The unreleased 1971 cult film Why? starring OJ Simpson was shot during this period. "It was their first film but both Tim and OJ were incredible actors. The camera loved them," remembers co-star Linda Gillen. "Tim had this James Dean quality. He's so handsome in the movie and yet such a mess! You know those Brat Pack kind of films, where people play prefabricated rebels who see themselves as kinda bad but they have a PR taking care of business? Well, Tim was the real deal. He didn't give a fuck how he looked or dressed. He had no hidden agenda. He had an incredible naivety.
"We used to improvise in the film. Tim's character talks to the effect that you can't commit suicide. You can't amend your feelings for other people; you have to find that thing that's good in you and keep that alive. A lot of the group had been onto my character about taking heroin but Tim would always be the sympathetic one. But that was Tim. He'd understand where they were coming from, why they would do what they did.
"On the set, I used to hum to myself to fight off boredom and Tim would pick up on what I was humming, like Miss Otis Regrets, and we'd end up harmonising together," she continues. "I loved Fred Neil, and asked if he knew Dolphins, which he sung for me. He'd say, 'They got to Fred Neil, don't let it happen to you'. He'd talk in this strange, paranoid, ominous way, about 'the man'. That night, we went to buy Fred's album and bypassed Tim's on the was! He never hustled his records to me; he wasn't a self-promoter.
"I wondered why Tim was working on this schleppy movie, because I knew people like Roger McGuinn who were making millions, and he said, very silently, 'I need the money'. We were only earning $420 a week on the film, and I said, Is that all the money you have right now? and he said, 'No, I'm getting a song covered,' which I think was Gypsy Woman which Neil Diamond was going to do."
Meanwhile, the comedic plot of his unfilmed screenplay Fully Air-Conditioned Inside was based on a struggling musician who blows up an audience called for old songs and makes his escape tucked beneath the wings of a vulture, singing My Way...
I also now believe the best line of the movie was: "we were going to release a 'best of..' album which was going to be a little different because Tim didn't have any hits"
"I never kept in touch with Tim afterwards. I did a movie in Santa Barbara about cannibalism. OJ went to Buffalo. I've no idea where Tim went."
Holy crap is Camp Nutria ever off to a fine start...
Mario, just wanted to say that I loved you in Heartbreak Ridge and New Jack City.
clips from Why?:
http://timbuckleyroom109.homestead.com/Videoclips.html
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