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:

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

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

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

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