#Jo Harvey Allen

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True Stories

1986. Satirical Musical Comedy

By David Byrne

Starring: David Byrne, John Goodman, Spalding Gray, Annie McEnroe, Swoosie Kurtz, Pops Staples, John Ingle, Tito Larriva, Jo Harvey Allen, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison

Country: United States

Language: English

#True Stories #David Byrne #John Goodman #Spalding Gray #Annie McEnroe #Swoosie Kurtz #Pops Staples #John Ingle #Tito Larriva #Jo Harvey Allen #Chris Frantz #Tina Weymouth #Jerry Harrison #United States #English #1986 #1980s #Musical #Comedy

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David Byrne with Jo Harvey Allen who played the Lying Woman in the film True Stories, 1985

#i need to rewatch true stories soon #david byrne

[dilfenthusiast]

My biggest irritation with “oh my god Jo Koy wasn’t even funny” name one awards show entertainer/host that’s ever actually been funny. They NEED to stop having comedians host award shows because either no one laughs at their watered down and widely palatable jokes, or they try to turn it into a roast which is never funny because the celebrities aren’t expecting it and don’t want it, plus it’s just wildly inappropriate to do a bit making someone feel bad or small at a show that is meant to celebrate their achievements.

The only time comedians have done a decent job is when they take a moment to skewer the wealth inequality, out of touch-ness, or predator harboring of Hollywood, and even then all they get is a bunch of smarmy Hollywood elites clapping their hands and fake smiling in agreement going “omg he’s right it’s so bad we let Harvey Weinstein do all that” and then turn around and give an award to Woody Allen and nothing ever changes

#sorry I’m just kind of tired of people being surprised every year when a comedian bombs on an award show

[morrak]

Terry Allen, Road Runner (MemWars). Exhibited in MemWars, 2021-12-18 to 2022-07-10.

The song in question is 'Blue Asian Reds (For Roadrunner)', originally released on Lubbock (On Everything) (1979).

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ROADRUNNER

In 1967 my friend Stanley was killed in Vietnam by a landmine. He was from Hobbs, New Mexico, had crazy pin-wheeling eyes, loved Coors in the can and dipped snuff. We'd gotten to know each other when he'd come over to Lubbock to get drunk and raise hell on the weekends or a bunch of us would go over there. He was in Jo Harvey's and my wedding. The only time I ever say him in a white shirt, sport coat and tie.

Stanley held the record in track for the Schoolboy 440 in New Mexico. They called him THE ROADRUNNER. I think he still holds some kind of records there.

After high school and one tragic semester at Texas Tech, I got married and left for LA. I was going to art school. Stanley went on to a full-ride track and field scholarship to Texas Western in El Paso to run track and study forestry. That was his dream, to be a forest ranger, live out in the woods and drive around in a jeep all day drinking beer.

Four of us had stayed up all night out at Buffalo Lake. We say on the hoods of our cars, drank whiskey and smoked cigarettes and talked about what we wanted to do with our lives. It was a melancholy bachelor party. I was leaving for LA the next day as soon as the ceremony was over and whatever bullshit I said the reason was for going, the main reason was to save my life. Other than that I had no clue what was going to happen, but at least I know I had a chance if I was in it with Jo Harvey. We always had a lot of nerve together.

After everybody went off in different directions, Stanley and I never saw each other again. We did talk a few times on the phone. One weekend he called and said he'd just gone over to Juarez and got totally wasted and had a roadrunner tattooed full length on the calve [sic] of each of his legs. The little bleep bleep fuckers from the cartoons he said. But Mexican style. That was our last conversation.

Jo Harvey's cousin called and said Stanley had been killed. He said the roadrunners were the way he was identified. I didn't even know he'd been drafted. It was the first time it actually occurred to me how stupid and awful the war was. Blown up. Stanley?

He'd gotten married a few weeks before he shipped out. Some girl from Hobbs. Several years after he died, I wrote a song thinking about him, but from the point of view of an old girlfriend I remembered him talking about. Many years later, the woman he'd married, his widow, wrote me a note thanking me for the song and said how much it meant to her. I never know if she was the same woman I was thinking about when I wrote it. But it didn't matter. I was glad it meant something to her.

#images #MemWars

[byneddiedingo]

Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in Youth (Paolo Sorrentino, 2015) Cast: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda, Alex McQueen, Ed Stoppard, Paloma Faith, Madalina Diana Ghenea, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Sumi Jo. Screenplay: Paolo Sorrentino. Cinematography: Luca Bigazzi. Music: David Lang. 

Is it just accidental that in Youth, wearing a slouchy hat and dark-rimmed glasses, Michael Caine often looks like Woody Allen? Or is Paolo Sorrentino suggesting some kind of connection between Caine's character, a reclusive composer-conductor trying to drift into retirement, and the prolific but scandal-plagued writer-director? The resemblance might have been more on point if Caine had played Harvey Keitel's part, a writer-director trying to put together what turns out to be his last film, meanwhile obsessing on the lost past and approaching death. But then nothing quite fits together right in Youth, a somewhat scattered and occasionally enervated film. Caine's Fred Ballinger and Keitel's Mick Boyle are old friends -- there is even a suggestion, not followed up, that they may once have been lovers. They are also tied by the fact that Fred's daughter, Lena (Rachel Weisz), is married to Mick's son, Julian (Ed Stoppard). Fred and Mick have come together at a spa in Switzerland, Fred to undergo medical examinations, Mick to work with an entourage of screenwriters to put together the final touches on a script that's meant to star one of his longtime collaborators, the actress Brenda Morel (Jane Fonda). Also on hand, as a kind of confidant for both Fred and Mick, is a young actor, Jimmy Tree (Paul Dano), preparing for a film in which he would play Adolf Hitler, an attempt to counter his popular image as the star of a sci-fi movie in which he played a robot. Sorrentino tries hard to bring together all the threads of each character's plot, including the breakup of Lena and Julian's marriage, Fred's resistance to a command performance for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and Mick's difficulties in coming up with a final scene for his film. But the pacing of Youth is too slow, and the manipulation of the themes of youth and age, past and present, too superficial. Caine and Keitel are two of the most dynamic actors ever, and  Weisz and Dano are certainly worthy of their company, but Sorrentino tamps down their energies. The only time Youth ever comes to life is when Fonda finally makes her appearance as the aging, rather blowsy Brenda, in a performance that reminds us how good she has always been. She delivers the worst news Mick could imagine: that she has decided not to appear in his film but to do a TV series. But Sorrentino follows up her scene with one that feels ripped off from Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963), in which Mick, like Fellini's Guido long blocked from completing his film, finds himself surrounded in an Alpine meadow by the women from his earlier movies. It's not so much shamelessly derivative as it is pointless. Sorrentino is a formidably imaginative writer-director, as demonstrated by his dazzlingly off-beat TV series The Young Pope and his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty (2013) -- also indebted to Fellini but with a more inventive twist. Youth has touches of inspiration, but too often gets snarled in its own plots.

#Youth #Paolo Sorrentino #Michael Caine #Harvey Keitel

[unicornery]

Finally watched True Stories!

#Iowa #we had a Sesquicentennial #no one could get their ass over here and make a movie? #sidebar i love this meme #it's so honest

[petersheltonblog]

Malinda Wyatt, Jo Harvey Allen, Peter Shelton at my installation of "NECKWALLfootscreensleeper" 1981 Malinda Wyatt Gallery, 78 Market Street, Venice, CA. 78 Market Street was formerly Larry Bell's home in the 1960-70's. https://www.petershelton.com/Installations/NECKWALLfootscreensleeper/1/caption @joharveyallen#malindawyattgallery #abstractsculpture #abstractart #sculpture #sculptor #contemporaryart #contemporarysculptor #contemporarysculpture #petersheltonsculptor #petersheltonsculpture @petersheltonsculptor @petershelton.com @petershelton @sheltonbigart #petershelton #bigart #sheltonbigart (at Venice Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpeKEC4LGFz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#malindawyattgallery #abstractsculpture #abstractart #sculpture #sculptor #contemporaryart #contemporarysculptor #contemporarysculpture #petersheltonsculptor #petersheltonsculpture #petershelton #bigart #sheltonbigart

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13 May 2022: Lubbock (On Everything), Terry Allen. (2016 Paradise of Bachelors reissue of 1979 Fate release)

I first wrote here about Terry Allen when I bought his anthology of radio plays Pedal Steal + Four Corners back in February of 2020. If you need a primer on who he is, check out that link. Allen does regular music, too, not just radio plays, but he does a lot of things: sculptures, art installations, and so forth. He’s truly a renaissance man. Lubbock (On Everything) was his second album, before he started using the name Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band on most of his releases. Lubbock is a hefty double album and one of five existing reissues, to date, by the Chapel Hill boutique label Paradise of Bachelors. This thing feels like it weighs five pounds. The jacket is a sturdy tip-on, hard-board jacket, the vinyl is no doubt heavier than it needs to be (curse you, 180-gram vinyl), and there’s a sizeable booklet. Originals of these early Allen albums can be nearly impossible to find, so Paradise of Bachelors is really doing the lord’s work by putting these out. I bought another one, Juarez (originally 1975), when this blog was on hiatus for 18 months.* Two more just got released (Smokin the Dummy from 1980 and Bloodlines from 1983), and while I have an original of Bloodlines I would still like to get the reissues of both. I know the label will do an impressive booklet or some other special touch that’s not part of my original Bloodlines.

Above we have the front cover, the characteristically verbose Paradise of Bachelors hype sticker (I wish I used a tumblr theme that allowed enlargement of pictures), and the back cover.

Below is the gatefold. Underneath the text is a photo of Allen and his wife Jo Harvey Allen. They’ve had more flattering photos taken.

Next are both sides of the two inner sleeves.

Next, all four labels.

Last, here we have the front and back of the booklet.

*Update: Hell, I didn’t buy it when this page was on hiatus after all; here’s a link to the Juarez write-up.

[swampflix]

Movie of the Month: True Stories (1986)

Every month one of us makes the rest of the crew watch a movie they’ve never seen before and we discuss it afterwards. This month Boomer made Britnee, Brandon, and Hanna watch True Stories (1986).

Boomer: “Look at it. Who can say it’s not beautiful?”

On tour, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne used to keep clippings and cutouts from various tabloids, and imagined a place where all the stories…

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#alix elias #annie mcenroe #brandon ledet #britnee lombas #david byrne #Hanna Räsänen #jo harvey allen #john goodman #john ingle #Lists & Articles #mark boomer redmond #spalding gray #swoosie Kur #talking heads #texas #true stories

[pigeons-sitting-on-branches]

True Stories (1986) David Byrne

13-08-2019

Inventive and experimental film following the strange and musical citizens of a growing Texas town.

#true stories #1986 #david byrne #usa #john goodman #annie mcenroe #jo harvey allen #spalding gray #alix elias

[ferretfyre]

#true stories #film #review #criterion channel #criterion collection #david byrne #john goodman #annie mcenroe #jo harvey allen #spalding gray #alix elias #pops staples #tito larriva #john ingle #matthew posey #swoosie kurtz

[countryhixes]

Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band - "Death of the Last Stripper" ...

Iconic and iconoclastic Texan songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen’s heartbreaking, hilarious new album, his first set of new songs since 2013’s Bottom of the World, features the full Panhandle Mystery Band, including co-producer Charlie Sexton (Dylan, Bowie, Blaze), Shannon McNally, and Jo Harvey Allen; mainstays Bukka Allen, Richard Bowden, and Lloyd Maines; and co-writes with Joe Ely and Dave Alvin. The connections to Melville’s masterpiece are metaphorical and allusive, as elusive as the White Whale. The masterly spiritual successor to Lubbock (on everything), Just Like Moby Dick casts its net wide for wild stories, depicting, among other monstrous things, Houdini in existential crisis, the death of the last stripper in town, bloodthirsty pirates (in a pseudo-sequel to Brecht and Weill’s “Pirate Jenny”), the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (in the “American Childhood” suite), a vampire-infested circus, mudslides and burning mobile homes, and all manner of tragicomic disasters, abandonments, betrayals, bad memories, failures, and fare-thee-wells.

[bich-the-moss]

Jo Harvey Allen is in True Stories and Fried Green Tomatoes and I like to think she’s playing the same character in both

#‘Mark Wallace wants my body’ and ‘Evelyn do you have a PROBLEM with your vagina’ have similar energies and I can’t articulate why

[morrak]

Terry Allen — of the Panhandle Mystery Band and so on — recently and finally exhibited some new(ish) projects in Austin. The centerpiece was 82 minutes of music and dialogue performed with his partner, Jo Harvey Allen, but much of the exhibit was in text and collage. Many whiles ago I made mention of my affection for David Byrne’s 1986 True Stories (in which Jo Harvey acted and to which Terry contributed music). This collection shares a lot of ground with that film in my head, geographically and otherwise.

Thanks to some scheduling luck and the company of the long-suffering @krieper, I was able to catch it (again) on its last day open and get pictures of what’s not available online. As I clean up those as need cleaning and transcribe what needs transcription, I’ll also post what seems postable under #MemWars. Seems like stuff my followers would like or at least appreciate.

I can’t make you read them in a Terry Allen voice, though that’s really how they should be appreciated. Just imagine me doing an impression of him instead.

#MemWars

[byneddiedingo]

David Byrne in True Stories (David Byrne, 1986) Cast: David Byrne, John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Spalding Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, Jo Harvey Allen, Alix Elias, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, Tito Larriva, John Ingle, Matthew Posey. Screenplay: Stephen Tobolowsky, Beth Henley, David Byrne. Cinematography: Edward Lachman. Production design: Barbara Ling. Film editing: Caroline Biggerstaff. Music: David Byrne. Does David Byrne's film about Texans celebrating the state's sesquicentennial reflect the condescending view of a hipster or is it a good-hearted tribute to human eccentricity? It's probably a bit of both, I suspect, having done time in Texas, where a non-native can find a good deal to smirk about but can also be worn over by something warm and genuine. There's a good deal of the ludicrous in the "Celebration of Specialness" mounted by Byrne's Texans, but allow yourself to rise above ironic distancing and get swept up in the variety of human individuality in True Stories and you can sense that Byrne isn't really there just to poke fun at his characters, that he kind of loves them. Some of the film falls flat, but it's usually picked up again by performers like John Goodman and Swoosie Kurtz, and of course by the music of Byrne, Talking Heads, and others.

#True Stories #David Byrne

[weirdletter]

Phantasmagoria Magazine, Issue #14, edited by Trevor Kennedy and Allison Weir, Phantasmagoria Publishing, Spring 2020. Cover art by Allen Koszowski, internal illustrations by Dave Carson, Mike Chinn, LMR Clarke, Stephen Clarke, Allen Koszowski, Jim Pitts and David A. Riley. Info: Facebook.

Interviews with Laurence R. Harvey, Adrienne Barbeau, Jo Zebedee, LMR Clarke and Marc Damian Lawler! Also: Dracula, Star Wars, Ramsey Campbell's The Influence, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Batman sequels, 1950s horror films, Belfast's Film Devour festival, Parasite, Doctor Who, Star Trek: Picard, The Witcher, Birds of Prey, fiction, reviews and much more!

Contents: Editorial: "Game of Thrones Hipsters and the Northern Irish Literary Scene" by Trevor Kennedy Jo Zebedee interview Laurence R. Harvey interview The Many Faces of... Dracula: feature by John Gilbert (followed by a review of the recent BBC miniseries Dracula by Sarah and Michael Stephenson) Ramsey Campbell's The Influence: review/feature with Trevor Kennedy and John Sowder Adrienne Barbeau interview (interviewed by Owen Quinn) LMR Clarke interview and story "Bloodskill" The 31st Film Devour Short Film Festival: feature by Brian Mulholland Batman Regresses: How Corporate Greed Almost Killed the Batman Franchise: feature by Nathan Waring Phantasmagoria Fans' Euphoria (readers feedback and comments including a short story by schoolboy Ethan Horner) Phantasmagoria Fiction: - "Terror on the Moors" by David A. Riley. - "Chasing the Dragon" by Mike Chinn. - "Cauldron of Satan" by Barnaby Page. - "Body Alchemy" by Malachy Coney. - "Disposable Commodities" by Kevin L. O'Brien. - "Isla's Island" by Andrea Bickerstaff. - "No Dentures Zombie" by Owen Quinn. - "Charlotte" by Helen Blaney. - "Many Colored Glass" by Emerson Firebird. - "Vampire" by Con Connolly. - "The Dark (Part 1)" by Trevor Kennedy. Luke Skywalker/Star Wars feature by Owen Quinn. 1950s Horror Films: feature by David Brilliance. Marc Damian Lawler's Before You Bloe Out the Candle... Introduction/interview with Marc Damian Lawler, exclusive extract ("The Ghosts of St. James' Cemetery") and review by Trevor Kennedy. Reading R. Chetwynd-Hayes with Marc Damian Lawler. Phantasmagoria Reviews Acknowledgements

#magazine #phantasmagoria #weird fiction #horror fiction #science fiction #fantasy fiction #dark fantasy #horror reviews