Friday, March 28, 2008

Harmony Korine

Q: Hey, you know that story about how you lost a whole movie script when all your stuff was burned in a house fire. Is it true that you paid people at NASA to retrieve the hard-drive off your melted laptop?

HK: It cost me close to $15,000 and all I got back was a single sentence that said: "The speech is pointless; the finger is speechless." That was the entire thing. It was the most money ever paid for a sentence.

(rest of interview in Vice)

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his video for Bonnie Prince Billy

4 comments:

p said...

i love that video

BLAKE BUTLER said...

yaz'm. his cat power video is pretty good too, though not quite as this'n.

Brian Foley said...

Crackup at the Race Riots is an inspiring book. I like the mock suicide notes.

BLAKE BUTLER said...

agreed. i used to read that several times a year.