The March issue of Believer has an interview up with Kumar of Bottle Rocket and Royal Tenenbaum's fame. It is interesting. Of particular note is the detail that he lets out about his role in the new movie. Kumar will play an international money changer.
Posted by matt at July 8, 2003 10:24 AM | TrackBackMatt:
On your recommendation, I just read Kumar's interview which you found "interesting". What is it about this man that interests you? I'm curious.
SK
Posted by: SK at July 8, 2003 11:26 AMWhat a nice read to start my time at work. Let's make a bigger circle.
Posted by: mesh at July 8, 2003 12:05 PMHe's a recurring actor in films by a director named Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson is hailed by many as being the filmmaker of our generation. He directed Bottlerocket, Rushmore, and Royal Tennebaums. Kumar's parts are always rather silly and campy. An interview with this man, by one of the up and coming literary magazines of our culture stretches the kitsche even futher.
In the interview, Kumar's lack of any sense of his own standing in the collegiate culture's pantheon of cult figures, bears particular note. In the interview he seems totally willing to talk about all this hare-brained notions he has of his.
I was reading a review of THE EFFECT OF LIVING BACKWARDS- a new novel by Heidi Julavits, the woman behind of The Believer. It's a THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS TAKE on a young woman searching to find reality and stay sane in a post 9/11 world of terrorist threats and relational conflicts. Sounds pretty interesting. Oh, her name is (surprisingly) Alice. The Buzzcocks put on a powerful performance sunday night at the tweeter center in camden nj. I was surprised to hear these lyrics come out of the all the glorious noise: "I believe in original sin; I believe in absolute truth; I believe in the savior of men." You just don't hear punk bands (aside from fire iron fuzzy) uttering those words to often anymore. If they were meant to be sarcastic the joke is on me. Pavilion's really disgust me.
Hmm, you've piqued my interest. I may have to check it out. I just read this great book about the Talking Heads, its called This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of the Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century. It does a great job of not just chronicling the Heads, but also playing them off of New York cultural trends of a whole decade. The book is as much about art in the 80s as it is one particular band. I found it great.
Posted by: matt at July 8, 2003 11:41 PMYou guys keep this up and you'll be smart someday, I promise. You can be like Elvis Mitchel and Mark Richardson.
Posted by: JosiahQ at July 9, 2003 9:59 AM