Vincent "the Republican" Gallo to host ATP
First he talks Chloe Sevigny into blowing him. Now, he's been asked to curate the UK's celebrated annual All Tomorrow's Parties music festival. What is the allure of this self-absorbed Jesus-wannabe? Maybe next year they'll ask egomaniac runner-up Colin Farrell to curate.
From the ATP website:
VINCENT GALLO CURATES ATP APRIL 22-24 2005
"Vincent Gallo the actor, director, musician and general talented bastard is curating All Tomorrow's Parties on April 22-24, 2005.
He has probably the biggest and one of the best record collections of anyone I know and I know from what he is planning, this ATP is gonna be fucking great.
The line up for this event is being worked out as I write this and tickets have already started to sell so look out over the coming weeks for new confirmations for the event."
[for the record, Buffalo 66 is a great movie.]
Comments
Note: "ian" is Vincent Gallo.
Posted by: Coney | May 7, 2006 06:14 PM
Gallo may be a naive republican, but the man's a fucking genius. I don't really dig modern art, but his music is great, and Buffalo 66 is easily one of the best films ever made. The strip-club scene is THE best scene in cinematic history. The direction, the writing, the acting, the music, the lighting, the sound; everything is beyond perfect. I can't wait to see The Brown Bunny now that it finally got released on DVD.
Posted by: ian | December 21, 2005 11:58 PM
I find it incredibly ironic the way Gallo's words -
"Psychedelics, heroin and alcohol awakened sensibilities years ago. Nobody whose art was influenced by drug encounters has created a sensibility or a language that has been important to the development of culture, or the evolution of mankind."
- contrast with the shirt he's wearing at the top of the page. Nobody in Yes ever took drugs...
Posted by: m | October 9, 2005 01:13 AM
I think all of you including sir vincent gallo are missing a huge point, drugs and its influence on art is not a problem art has a problem, it has a problem with all of you who have time to sit around and talk about Vincent fucking Gallo, can brother take a rest from the pollution coming from mouths to fingers, just make something else for people to talk about I dare you. And as for every one else, just get a fucking job even if you do smoke or drink do something for this place and throw your trash in the right place cause I am sick of looking at it.
Posted by: Laura | June 13, 2005 03:08 AM
Prove it.
Posted by: The Genius | January 26, 2005 04:30 AM
"Psychedelics, heroin and alcohol awakened sensibilities years ago. Nobody whose art was influenced by drug encounters has created a sensibility or a language that has been important to the development of culture, or the evolution of mankind."
That is so false. I'm still trying to think of an appropriate adjective to describe 'false'. Patently? Outrageously? Ridiculously? Wicked?
Posted by: boghead | January 25, 2005 02:13 AM
Magazine is re-uniting? That is news to me. I think our guitar player died last year.
Posted by: Howard Devoto | January 22, 2005 03:04 PM
"One of the reasons I have such a negative reaction to pot is that most of the ways people take it. They smoke it. The side effect is that there are fumes. Since it is a narcotic, I find it quite rude that people smoke it publicly. The same fuckin' hippy cocksuckers who protest a plastics plant: it is okay that they dose me with this evil narcotic. The real problem I have with drugs is that it is incredibly mainstream behavior. All the drug addicts who think they are so interesting, they remind me of television. That's how prime-time they are. There is no aesthetic to taking drugs. There is no cultural movement that is attached to it except some of the dancing around ecstasy.
Psychedelics, heroin and alcohol awakened sensibilities years ago. Nobody whose art was influenced by drug encounters has created a sensibility or a language that has been important to the development of culture, or the evolution of mankind."
--Vincent Gallo
Posted by: Prince Vince | January 22, 2005 03:03 PM
The Brown Bunny is a major artwork.
Posted by: The Complainer | January 22, 2005 02:57 PM
has anyone seen the Brown Bunny?
Posted by: Anonymous | January 21, 2005 10:11 PM
Vincent Gallo for president!
Posted by: God | January 21, 2005 09:42 PM
bard pitt, its the drugs that make me able to tolerate ignorance like yours.
Posted by: h. rex | January 21, 2005 06:28 PM
Vincent Gallo is a visionary filmmaker. I agree with him. Drug use has led to nothing creative or important. The drug culture is a fraud.
Posted by: Bard Pitt | January 21, 2005 05:41 PM
oh, and that photo is traumatizing.
Posted by: H. | January 21, 2005 05:25 PM
actually, he did a good job picking the bands:
PJ Harvey
Magazine
Yoko Ono
Black Dice
Gang Gang Dance
James Chance and the Contortions
The Blues Explosion
Magik Markers
Autolux
Peaches
Olivia Tremor Control
politics and brown bunnies aside, i'd trade records with him.
Posted by: H. | January 21, 2005 05:23 PM