Kids
When I first watched Kids, I was 14. Someone had tapped it on the same video as Bam Margera’s CKY2K. Or at least that’s how I remember it.
Leo as Telly
They’re linked anyways because a) I was an impressionable teen and b) they both featured Leo Fitzpatrick, now Johnny in The Wire
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The Wire
Anyway, I haven’t seen Kids in a while – it left such a major impression on me that I don’t think that I could objectively tell if it had stood the test of time. Check out this Guardian blogger’s similar thoughts on the movie.
Harmony Korine
I think of it a lot – but today particularly because I was heading to the third and final day of courier-led cycle fest, London’s Calling. Lost, we had stopped on the pavement of the Walworth Road. Then I saw this homeless-looking guy jumping around in front of cars, playing harmonica. Just jumping around, kind of trying to entertain people but mostly just in his own bubble.
Gummo
it was like a scene straight out of a Harmony Korine movie – an urban Gummo minus the cats. Or that NYC subway guy from Kids, but with legs. I remember the day I first saw Gummo too. My first year of university, visiting my then boyfriend at his parents’ house, we went to Prime Time in Blackheath, London and I saw Harmony’s name on the Gummo box.
Gummo
I totally thought Harmony was a female film-maker, I hadn’t realised the nut-job man he was. Check the disconcerting Letterman interview of him, aged 19, just after he wrote Kids, if you want proof. He’s tiny!
Tags: David Letterman, Gummo, Harmony Korine, Kids, Leo Fitzpatrick, London's Calling, The Wire
