Date: 26 January 2004 Summary: I like Spike but...
Man, the preview for this series looked fantastic, but
sorting
through the 333 minutes of the dual-sided DVD gave me
(and my remote) pause.
If you were considering watching this, I'd go in the reverse
order of what I did. I went mostly sequentially through
it
which meant first the videos (which were alright to see
again,
many I had seen before...) and then the commentary for
said videos, which was excruciating at times.
Then when I flipped it, the rarities just seemed like they
could have been any college kid's reel (well not any, but
you know...more aren't than art).
Then finally I hit the documentaries like a marathon runner
hitting the wall...but those were clearly the most interesting.
The awkwardness, self-deferential tone of the Fat Lip nicely
set up the amazing "Praise You" mini-history. I don't want
to
comment too much about that for spoiling it, but suffice
it
to say several times during its filming I found myself
wondering
if art is for the artists alone, or if it requires a connection
with
an audience.
To me that's an interesting and intricate question. Just
like
what grade to do you give a B-boy who has F-minus skills
and A-plus attitude?
So if you rent this, I'd definitely say watch that, and also
the
"Amarillo" documentary on Texas teens with rodeo driven
dreams first. Then the Oasis video that never was, and
then enjoy your old favorite Spike'd videos. For me those
foremost were Bjork (always) and surprisingly the
Breeder's "Cannonball." I wonder if the new Deal, er
Deals, are up to the old...
Kind of hard to rate this, so I'll just give it a point for
each
*hour* (yikes...)
company.
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