1. You will sit down and have a two hour experience. It will make no sense. Do not watch the trailer. The trailer is a lie.
2. Ewan McGregor as Iggy Pop as filtered through Kurt Cobain. Naked.
3. Jonathan Rhys Meyers as David Bowie with the wigs and eyeliner. Naked.
4. Baby Christian Bale as confused young homosexual. Naked.
5. 2 and 3 occur together. 2 and 4 occur together.
6. During production, the film crew neglected to tell Bale and McGregor that the scene was over and they kept simulating a gay sex scene for ten minutes longer than they had to….that’s not a reason to watch it, I just think its important to know.
7. Glitter rock. Punk rock. Music videos inserted seemingly at random. I still listen to the soundtrack.
8. There’s a scene with Barbie dolls that’s actually an obscure reference to one of the director’s other films, but even knowing that it’s just fucking weird and amazing.
9. Half the dialogue is Oscar Wilde quotes. Even when they don’t really make a lick of sense. Oscar Wilde would approve of this film, imho.
10. When you peel all the naked glitter rockness of it away, there’s actually a fascinating story about fame and how pop culture can control politics and you’re never too old to change the world.
To sum it up in two gifs:
I tried to explain why people should watch this and I started by saying “It’s not a great film” and finished by saying “It’s a great film” and that about sums it up
Well it’s not an album from this year, clearly, but Anthems For Doomed Youth is my personal album of the year, no surprises there lol. I genuinely love the album and it’s always going to be important as a marker of the start of a new branch of my life and a reminder of those couple of weeks where I could barely eat or sleep because FEELINGS. Yeah, I measure my life stages by my obsessions, haha, and why not?!
12. Talk about a new friend you made this year
Hehe, welllll funny story~ Completely by coincidence me and a certain sender of this ask were both at Tramlines in July and saw the Libs there and decided this was something we wanted in on, haha. And through the magic of Tumblr I saw that Jess wanted to go see them on tour as well and it just made natural sense for two Sheffielders to go together~~ And I’m so happy to have met someone so lovely and funny and smart and who’s so much fun to be with, who lives just up the road! I can’t actually believe how lucky that is and I hope we can have a lot more fun adventures into the new year~~
19. What’re you excited about for next year?
First up I’m going to Portugal in January so that’ll be nice~ And then in August there’s the Libs at Victorious festival in Portsmouth but that seems a very very long way away rn, haha. Hopefully we’ll have more stuff to look forward to from the lads as well but I’m taking everything as it comes, lol. I don’t really plan the future cos I know how changeable I am haha, I prefer the spontaneity of doing things RIGHT NOW!
“When we got on stage we were both terrified of getting up there. I never understood people who don’t get any stage fright. We still do to this day. There’s you and your mate on stage and also the feeling of blagging it. And we’d find solace in each other, a bit of comfort in each other”.
“Pete was big on the performance poetry scene. I was always really impressed with Pete for doing that. I still recite his poems.”
“It was a dream. It was like something else. Waterloo (station) was the gateway from where I’m from into London, and it’s been in loads of my songs and album titles…That was the place. It held such assignment for me. I felt this kind of weird distant belonging. Every inspirational character in my life had a place in there…It just had everything that life and literature and culture and music and art had ever presented to me.”
“Once Pete nicked my shoes. We had the same shoes, and I had to be barefoot. And it seemed like the worst thing in the world. It didn’t occur to me I could probably get away with wearing someone else’s trainers. I could have found some shoes!”
“We were kids then. The reason we’ve been able to come back together now is that we accept each other for who we are a bit more. Being accepting that you’re like that, and I’m like this, and that’s alright.”
“Our differing choices in drugs came between us in quite a big way. The drugs that make you die or homeless…I wanted to avoid and I wanted my friend to avoid, my friend who I cared desperately about. I couldn’t accept it or work on a clever way of corralling or convincing or counselling…I just went batshit crazy every time.”
“We did Top Of the Pops. And Peter did that classic watching Top Of The Pops at home seeing his band singing his song without him in it and someone else there. And it must have been horrendous for him, man. It didn’t occur to me at the time. It must have really broken his heart and I feel horrible for that.”
(Discussing Peter breaking in to his flat). “It wasn’t our finest hour really. But it’s a testament of our love…our love for each other as brothers and friends that we manage to overcome these things.”
“When he was coming out of Wandsworth (Prison)…I had to get there at the crack of dawn…I just wanted to get to the prison gates and say, “It’s alright, and I’m sorry, and you’re sorry”. When we saw each other… it had always been so highly charged our relationship, ever since we made a pact together back in the days when we first met saying, “It’s going to be all or nothing”. It’s been so emotionally charged, we’ve such a deep investment in each other, that it was par for the course.”
(About Dirty Pretty Things) “I was happy to have a few things off my own bat which people responded to…And we did have some good times. But essentially I got a lot of my energy for songwriting and performance from the heartbreak and the staggering turmoil that I’d endured, and it was staggering…Just when I felt like I had a bit of closure, we got back together again.”
“We’d spent years communicating through the press, writing little bits in songs to take a dig at each other, or say that we love each other. Just knowing each other would hear them and pick up on them.”
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