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.]
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.
oh, and that photo is traumatizing.
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.
bard pitt, its the drugs that make me able to tolerate ignorance like yours.
Vincent Gallo for president!
has anyone seen the Brown Bunny?
The Brown Bunny is a major artwork.
“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
Magazine is re-uniting? That is news to me. I think our guitar player died last year.
“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?
Prove it.
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.
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…
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.
Note: “ian” is Vincent Gallo.
I think Vincent Gallo is extraordinarily talented, but I think he’s kind of misguided when it comes to drug use. Drugs CAN in fact inspire creativity in people, to say that this isn’t true would be missing the point. But consider this, although drugs do make people creative, think about all that could have been done had all kinds of artists spent their time creating, not getting fucked up.
Another thing that he seems to be really full of shit about is that ecstasy comment. Ecstasy is a very one dimensional and boring drug. The “culture” surrounding it has to do with a bunch of people in complete delusion. If you roll hard enough, you won’t even be able to understand what bad means. Its a FALSE GOD.
On the other hand, think about DMT for a second. That is one of the most naturally occurring psychoactive substances known to man, its in all of our brains even. It’s the chemical that causes us to dream at night. Now, whether or not you choose to smoke synthetic DMT is up to you, but I don’t think that anyone can deny that when you’re being visited by spirits that represent different things relating to your life, its pretty fucking intensely spiritual and very real. After all, everything that happens comes from your imagination, not a rush of serotonin.
In all honesty, I think vinnie probably couldn’t even handle some of the stuff thats out there. I’m pretty sure that if he were to have a psychedelic experience, it would probably soften his HUGE ego too much.
come on…can’t you hipsters see that Gallo’s thing is just to fuck with everyone??? with regards to his words on drugs…you can look at something from so many angles…2 conflicting statements can both be true.