Edie Sedgwick and others, choice pieces accompanied by chill-axing music courtesy of Air, part deux. The songs are called New Star In the Sky and Casanova 70.
Absolutely Bloody Magical .....!! Such a wonderful pairing of Film & Music... I've wanted to see this Movie for so long but can't seem to find it anywhere... :-( Any Ideas? I'll be coming back to view this again & again... It just takes you away to another place.. A place i'd love to go... Thankyou.. :-)
Thank you! Yeah, I got it just right for once. It happens sometimes. Once a year maybe. (I am not a genius like David Bowie or someone. Some of his albums are masterpieces for ever. I love “Low”, “Heroes” and “Station To Station”. The stuff he recorded in West Berlin. When I got word that Bowie had died I couldn’t say anything for two days.)
this one is really neat. who's the band of the 1st song, very poignant & french-sounding (?) -- the Air song is very magical as well, and syncs very nicely 0.o
Your not going to be around very long if you're doing speed for about ten years straight. You have to sleep once in awhile, etc. The last few years of my addiction when I'd basically become an alcoholic who also uses drugs {instead of vice versa....that "transition" is very common} I'd sometimes snort speed or snort coke and be up 48-72 hours straight and drink continually. You can feel at some point that "I'm not just burning carbo's. I'm not just burning fat. I'm burning bone here. I'm starting to get into my vital organs." There were some speed freaks I knew who'd be up 5 or 6 days at a time. Their teeth were all messed up. What do you think that does to you? I read somewhere that Paul America {Edie's best "friend" for 3 or 4 months would "trip" and do speed every day. The piece I read said he slept twice in two months. Sounds crazy to me. Who knows though. Keith Richard was known to have gone without sleep 7 or 8 days {look at him now.} Edie's death wasn't a tragedy. She lived a very fast life and died. End of story.
+kentucy9999 You don't think that kind of stupidity is tragic? And who are you to say what and what isn't tragic? Personally I think the death of a very young person who was chewed up and spit out by Warhol's fame machine is a pretty sad story. I don't care how many former junkies tell me otherwise, thanks.
+kentucy9999 My point is that it isn't for strangers to decide whether someone's death is a waste or not. And its pompous and meaningless and dreary and fucking rude to do so yeah? It would be like someone saying of you, upon your death, "he was just a junkie". Like boiling down someone's humanness into one dreary denominator. Just because someone uses drugs doesn't make their death somehow untragic and not-sad.
+The Mystery Machine I would say I've probably "studied" the Warhol years and Edie Sedgwick's life more than most others. I also went to fancy prep schools like Edie and am fairly familiar with the elite Santa Barbara, Greenwich, Connecticut, New Canaan, Connecticut world she grew up in. You could accuse me of being a lot of things. I'm not a superficial person though. Analytical? I'm overly analytical if anything...............Her death was sad. I agree...........TRAGIC is a big word. People use it a lot. I had the same discussion with a number of people after the last K2 tragedy where 11 climbers perished. Sad? Yes. Unfortunate? Yes. Tragic.............my opinion is "no." Not tragic. 1/3rd of those who make it to the top of K2 perish. 1/3rd. You know that before you climb the mountain. Most of those climbers also CHOSE to start the final "push" late in the day..........which is extremely dangerous. Sad? Absolutely. Tragic?...........I'm sorry. Tragic is when you go out early in the morning to get the New York Times at the end of your driveway and a drunk driver runs you over killing you instantly. That is tragic......If 25 basketball players are "great" {instead of "very good"} then what are Michael Jordan and Lebron James and Magic Johnson {super-duper "great?"} If 97 "pretty" girls are beautiful then what are Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell {"Incredibly beautiful beyond belief"..........is there such a word?} What do words mean if they are so watered down they are hard to distinguish? If I say to you, "he's a good golfer".............then you can take it to the bank that "he IS a good golfer." If I tell you "she is a beautiful girl" then you can take it to the bank that she IS a beautiful girl."..................It is my opinion in our celebrity, headline driven culture today words mean nothing................"So and so looks fabulous at this Red Carpet event" {Fabulous???? Fabulous????........Fabulous is a BIGGGGG word....................Unfortunately I think if you know much about Edie's life her death was pretty predictable and frankly after the way she'd taken care of herself and with the likely prospects for her future {in relation to her past} probably a godsend........................Her LIFE {father, family etc.............brothers 2 suicides} WAS tragic. I don't think her death was.
+kentucy9999 Yes words mean less the more they are used, but I think tragedy as a definition is something that evokes an idea of someone whose time ended too soon. Its not tragic when a 99 year old woman dies in her sleep surrounded by loved ones. But its tragic when someone far too young with still loads of potential dies in a way that didn't have to happen. That's all I am saying. Ultimately we decide what meaning we infuse words with. Look at slang. "Sick", "bad", these are adjectives used in place of "amazing" and even words like "fortuitous" are misused constantly. Its not like an inch where everyone agrees how much that is. Personally Edie for me symbolizes all the friends I lost to the "live fast die young" ethos which is the stupidest tragedy of all, but nonethefreakingless, still tragic.
❤ RIP EDIE
lOVE HER DRESS AT THE END
I posted this 13 years ago. But yeah, it works even today. The music, if I may say so, is perfect, ideal.
They are all gone now. RIP.
Pat Hartley is alive
Baby Jane Holzer is still with us.
Pat Hartley, now that's good news. John Palmer is also still around🙏
Jeffrey and Michael Post, he's an extra in the clinic scene.
Absolutely Bloody Magical .....!! Such a wonderful pairing of Film & Music...
I've wanted to see this Movie for so long but can't seem to find it anywhere... :-(
Any Ideas?
I'll be coming back to view this again & again... It just takes you away to another place.. A place i'd love to go...
Thankyou.. :-)
Thank you! Yeah, I got it just right for once. It happens sometimes. Once a year maybe. (I am not a genius like David Bowie or someone. Some of his albums are masterpieces for ever. I love “Low”, “Heroes” and “Station To Station”. The stuff he recorded in West Berlin. When I got word that Bowie had died I couldn’t say anything for two days.)
Criterion has it now
this one is really neat. who's the band of the 1st song, very poignant & french-sounding (?) -- the Air song is very magical as well, and syncs very nicely 0.o
desertshore new star in the SKY - air
good idea to remove the audio great idea!
Your not going to be around very long if you're doing speed for about ten years straight. You have to sleep once in awhile, etc. The last few years of my addiction when I'd basically become an alcoholic who also uses drugs {instead of vice versa....that "transition" is very common} I'd sometimes snort speed or snort coke and be up 48-72 hours straight and drink continually. You can feel at some point that "I'm not just burning carbo's. I'm not just burning fat. I'm burning bone here. I'm starting to get into my vital organs." There were some speed freaks I knew who'd be up 5 or 6 days at a time. Their teeth were all messed up. What do you think that does to you? I read somewhere that Paul America {Edie's best "friend" for 3 or 4 months would "trip" and do speed every day. The piece I read said he slept twice in two months. Sounds crazy to me. Who knows though. Keith Richard was known to have gone without sleep 7 or 8 days {look at him now.} Edie's death wasn't a tragedy. She lived a very fast life and died. End of story.
+kentucy9999 You don't think that kind of stupidity is tragic? And who are you to say what and what isn't tragic? Personally I think the death of a very young person who was chewed up and spit out by Warhol's fame machine is a pretty sad story. I don't care how many former junkies tell me otherwise, thanks.
+The Mystery Machine She was a junkie too...........so I guess I don't get your point?
+kentucy9999 My point is that it isn't for strangers to decide whether someone's death is a waste or not. And its pompous and meaningless and dreary and fucking rude to do so yeah? It would be like someone saying of you, upon your death, "he was just a junkie". Like boiling down someone's humanness into one dreary denominator. Just because someone uses drugs doesn't make their death somehow untragic and not-sad.
+The Mystery Machine I would say I've probably "studied" the Warhol years and Edie Sedgwick's life more than most others. I also went to fancy prep schools like Edie and am fairly familiar with the elite Santa Barbara, Greenwich, Connecticut, New Canaan, Connecticut world she grew up in. You could accuse me of being a lot of things. I'm not a superficial person though. Analytical? I'm overly analytical if anything...............Her death was sad. I agree...........TRAGIC is a big word. People use it a lot. I had the same discussion with a number of people after the last K2 tragedy where 11 climbers perished. Sad? Yes. Unfortunate? Yes. Tragic.............my opinion is "no." Not tragic. 1/3rd of those who make it to the top of K2 perish. 1/3rd. You know that before you climb the mountain. Most of those climbers also CHOSE to start the final "push" late in the day..........which is extremely dangerous. Sad? Absolutely. Tragic?...........I'm sorry. Tragic is when you go out early in the morning to get the New York Times at the end of your driveway and a drunk driver runs you over killing you instantly. That is tragic......If 25 basketball players are "great" {instead of "very good"} then what are Michael Jordan and Lebron James and Magic Johnson {super-duper "great?"} If 97 "pretty" girls are beautiful then what are Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell {"Incredibly beautiful beyond belief"..........is there such a word?} What do words mean if they are so watered down they are hard to distinguish? If I say to you, "he's a good golfer".............then you can take it to the bank that "he IS a good golfer." If I tell you "she is a beautiful girl" then you can take it to the bank that she IS a beautiful girl."..................It is my opinion in our celebrity, headline driven culture today words mean nothing................"So and so looks fabulous at this Red Carpet event" {Fabulous???? Fabulous????........Fabulous is a BIGGGGG word....................Unfortunately I think if you know much about Edie's life her death was pretty predictable and frankly after the way she'd taken care of herself and with the likely prospects for her future {in relation to her past} probably a godsend........................Her LIFE {father, family etc.............brothers 2 suicides} WAS tragic. I don't think her death was.
+kentucy9999 Yes words mean less the more they are used, but I think tragedy as a definition is something that evokes an idea of someone whose time ended too soon. Its not tragic when a 99 year old woman dies in her sleep surrounded by loved ones. But its tragic when someone far too young with still loads of potential dies in a way that didn't have to happen. That's all I am saying. Ultimately we decide what meaning we infuse words with. Look at slang. "Sick", "bad", these are adjectives used in place of "amazing" and even words like "fortuitous" are misused constantly. Its not like an inch where everyone agrees how much that is. Personally Edie for me symbolizes all the friends I lost to the "live fast die young" ethos which is the stupidest tragedy of all, but nonethefreakingless, still tragic.