I Remember You Well
at the Chelsea Hotel you were talking so brave and so sweet. — Regina Spektor
The movie was terrible. It was obviously for people who had already experienced the drugs/sex/scandal– the elite few who pretended to revive Baudelarian angst, but were left with a cheap facade and addiction.
For one– none of the interviewees were introduced; it was assumed the viewer knew (or at least, should know) who was speaking, their cultural relevance, their story… I had expected a story to unwind, not an exclusive secret club of doped up wash-outs who existed to live in their past.
My disappointment knew no bounds.
The payoff? Didn’t have to do with the movie, but a preview of a different film.
"We Live in Public"-- Josh Harris's human experiment
“We Live in Public” is about the “greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”: the story of Josh Harris, a dot.com millionaire who, in addition to creating psuedo.com (the first internet television site), conducted studies of the effect of internet technology and live streaming TV to personal identity.
The movie documents part of Harris’s experiment with a life human terrarium (located under New York City) designed to house a hundred or so artists who live under complete surveillance.
While this experiment has more to do with personal identity and behavior, I can’t help but think of Foucault’s famous panopticon concept– of complete visibility, the effect of surveillance (or supposed surveillance) on prisoner behaviors… well, we’ll see. If it doesn’t suck as much as Chelsea on the Rocks.
Happy Tuesday!
I like it. via fffffound.com
Graceee
Tags: artists, chelsea, ferrera, harris, hotel, in, josh, live, movie, new, public, rocks, we, york
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I was going to see that movie-we live in public–at a nytech event. Was it good?
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Haven’t seen it yet; it starts next week at the Varsity Theatre near us. I’m really excited for it… !
Don’t see Chelsea on the Rocks. Ugh
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:10 pm
That lyric you attribute to Regina Spektor was written and initially recorded by the great Leonard Cohen. In it, he describes a particular sexual experience with a woman , and all his fans know that the woman was Janis Joplin. Regina would be embarrassed to see it attributed to her.