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‘Beautiful Losers’ Features Cat Power, Air, Tom Waits And A Whole Ton Of Money Mark

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:25:00 +0000

Ask and ye shall receive. Earlier this month we did our review of the very excellent art-collective documentary “Beautiful Losers,” and we started asking around our pals for a list of the excellent music in the film.

But to back up a sec… Directed by Aaron Rose, the film features a loose-knit group of like minded underground/DIY artists and features appearances by agit-prop designer Shepard Fairey, professional skater, turned artist Ed Templeton, San Franciscan folk artist Margaret Kilgallen, graffiti artist Barry McGee, childlike painter Chris Johanson, filmmaker and graphic designer Geoff McFetridge, director Mike Mills (“Thumbsucker”), outre film director Harmony Korine (“Kids”), painter Thomas Campbell and many more.

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The Guiless And Innocent ‘Beautiful Losers’ Is Genuinely Inspiring

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:15:00 +0000

Another movie coming out this weekend that we sadly didn’t have the time to write much in advance about: the documentary, “Beautiful Losers,” which was lovingly scored by sometimes Beastie Boy collaborator/keyboardist Money Mark, utilizing many songs from his very sweet, and childlike 1998 pop album, Push the Button, that fit the mood and tone rather winningly (Cat Power has a few songs in the doc as well).

Directed by Aaron Rose, the film features a loose-knit group of like minded underground outsiders artists and features appearances by agit-prop designer Shepard Fairey, professional skater Ed Templeton, San Fransican folk artist Margaret Kilgallen, graffiti artist Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, childlike painter Chris Johanson, filmmaker and graphic designer Geoff McFetridge, director Mike Mills (“Thumbsucker”), Stephen Powers, director Harmony Korine (“Kids”), painter Thomas Campbell and many more.

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ShortCuts: ‘Sex &The City’ Soundtrack Gets Fergie, Hudson; Thurson Narrates Straight-Edged Documentary; Alicia Keys Homages Spike Lee

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:03:00 +0000

Sonic Youth elder Thurston Moore recently narrated National Geographic‘s “Inside Straight Edge” TV documentary. For those not in the know, “straight-edge” is the strangely zealous punk phenomenon usually adopted by wildly naive and idealistic teenagers whose natural (and correct) inclination to dull their self-loathing senses with copious amounts of alcohol and cheap drugs is superseded by a hilariously contrarian and militant desire for clean, unencumbered living. The phenomenon was popularized by the militant Washington D.C.

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