As the two, maybe three people who visit this blog might have noticed, maintaining a timely Fall Video of the Month series sometimes proves too tall an order for one Chris Svensson. As such, I have reached out and asked dear friend and fellow Fall enthusiast Frances Stark to guest curate.
If any of the aforementioned 2/3 visitors to this blog happen to find themselves in the Southern California area this Sunday, I would implore them to them to head to the Mandrake Bar to hear Frances’s presentation, entitled, “The Sycophancy of the Contemporary Artist and the Impossibility of Reaching Out to Mark E. Smith.” Visit Oslo Editions for more information.
Now, without further ado, Frances’s first selection. Watch the whole clip, but please bear in mind her selection concerns the segment between ~ 6:38 and 7:37.
My singing’s getting very good, actually. I don’t want to boast. I’m getting really good at singing, actually. After twenty fucking …*
(* = scrambled)
Isn’t this a great documentary? LOVE the Fall. I was lucky enough to hang out in a bar in LA with Scanlon and Hanley and Burns once. So fun! Mark, of course, didn’t join us, and that was probably a good thing. But still!
Haha, did they have any good Mark stories??