I'M DOING A SITTING DOWN JIG I'M SO EXCITED (then I got kind of faint)

YOU ARE THE BEST AND SO ARE THEY

IF YOU PASS OUT THEN YOU CANNOT ENJOY THIS FANMIX I PAIN-STAKINGLY ASSEMBLED FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL.

FINALLY, MY GENIUS IS APPRECIATED!

I HAVE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS TO THE ROOMMATES TO PLAY THE FANMIX IF I DO PASS OUT TO RAISE ME FROM MY FEVER-INDUCED COMA

"I'm watching TV! And you need to nap!"
"BUT BUTCHIE MADE A S/F FANMIX!"
"..."
"*criez* *gets earphones*"

SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK. YOU SHOW THAT FEVER WHO'S BOSS.

ULTRAVOX WILL SAVE YOU BECAUSE NEW WAVE HAS MAGICAL POWERS.

I AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT

AND MATTHEW GOODE, WHO SEEMS TO BE WILLING ME TO A) FIGHT THE FEVER AND B) STRIP

THIS IS ALL SERIOUS TO HIM. NOW HE'S CONTEMPLATING FREE NUDITY HE CAN GET FROM GIRLS ON THE INTERNET. BUT YOU SEE, HE'S CLASSY, SO HE'LL KINDLY COMPLIMENT YOU AND DRINK TEA.

ALSO, I HOPE YOU ENJOY HOW I SET UP THE LYRICS. NO LINKING TO SHODDY LYRIC SITES FOR THIS FANMIX, NO SIR.

WHEN HE READ ABOUT ELI ROTH, HE JUST SHOOK HIS HEAD AND READ THE GUARDIAN. ~CLASS ACT~

OOOH No, I didn't see that with the lyrics! Man, you have gone to so much work, it's just amazing. JOHN FARNHAM

HIS MONOCLE FELL OUT IN HIS TEA CUP.

I'm so stupidly enamored with them and it's all QT's fault. He's laughing that wonderfully obnoxious laugh of his and rubbing his hands with glee over ruining my brain. It was a good brain, too.

JOHN FARNHAM TOURETTES. YOU ALSO KNOW QT LIKES TO LISTEN TO THE SAVAGE STREETS SOUNDTRACK AND PRETEND HE'S LINDA BLAIR.

He's an Australian ~national treasure~, you know. A larrikin!

If he's ruined your brain, he's after mine next. Because, seriously? I have not been so into something in a LONG time.

I'll forever love John for writing songs specifically for a grindhouse film and then singing the hell out of them. Exploding Bullets is from Savage Streets, too, but I wanted John to have all of that glory.

Shosanna and Fredrick are my favorite Tarantino characters and I haven't loved characters of his like this since obsessively watching Reservoir Dogs when I was 17 (and then going as Mr. Orange for Halloween that year). And as far as women characters are concerned, I haven't been so impressed with one since Beatrix Kiddo and GoGo Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama is basically my muse).

And Fredrick reminds me so much of Steven Shorter that I just love him to pieces.

I'm guessing you know the Farnham song, "You're The Voice"? There was a call for that to become our national anthem a while back. I'm completely serious.

Wow, Chiaki has grown up (that sounds more patronising than I meant it - you know what I mean)! She's beautiful - I love this photo here. Her hair! I'd kill for it.

I know we talk a lot about film in our emails, but yeah, Shosanna and Fredrick are the first characters I've given a crap about in a long time. QT has such a way with relationships, and women in particular. I JUST LOVE HIM AND THEM, OKAY

That's actually kind of awesome. It's such a "FUCK YEAH, AUSTRALIA!" attitude.

Chiaki turned 25 on October 10. She has such stunningly unusual features that get better and better as she gets older (sort of weird, but I can generally pin-point her age in photographs based off of her facial features). Her acting career hasn't been terribly stellar and she's not considered very attractive or marketable in Japan, either. She wants to work more in America, but her management agency sucks. I need to get a copy of GS wandârando, which takes place in the '60s and focuses on the Japanese mod scene; she plays a girl who poses as a boy. And other than smut posts, I could also post pictures from her Princess photobook where she posed as princesses from European and Japanese fairy tales. I could ramble about her for ages, but I'll refrain for now.

YES. Before Fredrick came strolling in, Adrian Veidt was the only awesome German character in my life (though I do like mimicking Hans Grubers' "OH GAHD!") And cinema has been lacking in great women for a long time and Shosanna fills that void spectacularly.

I never did tell you about an acquaintance of mine who is friends with QT. Said person runs an annual horror film marathon at this little theater (original film prints and everything) and QT has helped him and the organizers out many a time. Long before meeting this fellow, he escorted QT around the city and QT then proceeded to max out his credit card on vinyl records and laserdiscs.

I saw that she was 25 - why did I think she was so much younger? Maybe the hype surrounding the character, maybe? Her nose is very Western - if I can say that - but yeah, going through some sites today, I noticed her features did change a lot in her late teens-twenties. Which I suppose they do - I hope she gets more work, because she looks like a really versatile actress/model. (Like Diane, I think)

I really have to rip Richy Guitar for you (the sort-of Die Ärzte film), because Fredrick reminds me of Richy, and not just because a) they're both German and b) I want to do them both.

See, we need to escort QT around a city (any city) and have tea and max out credit cards. How good would that be?

And I just finished watching Privilege - yes.



YES!

Chiaki has such a unique beauty to her and in general, I don't think people know how to deal with someone who doesn't fit the typical mold. She was 17 when filming Kill Bill and 19 when it came out in 2003, so it is strange to think of the film being 6 years old (and because I was a teen in the late '90s, 1998 doesn't feel like it's 11 years ago).
She really is quite talented, but has been cast far too often as a tragic character; at this rate, I'd love to see Chiaki in a romantice comedy. She and Diane should team up together and QT should write something awesome for them.

We should! I'd talk his ear off, even though according to Daniel, you just can't win in a film discussion with QT. However, I'd love to have QT and my dad talk about spaghetti westerns and other film oddities from the late '60s - early '70s. My dad has seen many films from that period when stationed in Okinawa, but has forgotten titles; many film nerds have been stumped by him.

HOW AWESOME IS PRIVILEGE? Oh, Steven ♥

I cannot get over Privilege, seriously. It was EXCELLENT - the way it was filmed gets me all picspammy and excited. I think I capped about three hundred caps while watching it - like a twitch!

It's almost spooky how relevant it is, considering the Disney kids. And the music! *downloadz*

(I just checked your profile [~stalker~] because you said you were a teenager in the 1990's, and we're the same age. The More You Know!)

Nearly every frame of the film is worthy of being framed. And Paul Jones was so heart-breaking (some critics actually thought he couldn't act).
I had quite a few bootleg dvd sites bookmarked a few years ago and I loved going through them and seeing what would catch my eye; it was this still of Steven Shorter, followed by the film's description that intrigued me:

After getting a copy from videobeat, I watched it twice in one day and I could not and still cannot believe that there isn't a wider audience and more acclaim for Privilege. Whenever I talk with other filmbuffs who adore the obscure, this one still stumps them; Privilege is still too obscure (and there's only one surviving film print, which can be rented for showings, so that means that not even QT has a copy).

Audiences back then were horrified by and I looked up the ridiculous review for it in Time, as they found the premise absurd. Seventeen magazine hated it because their demographic was ridiculed in the film. Privilege came out right on the verge of Beatlemania and if it had perhaps come out in the early '70s it may have done better (though people found Brian DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise ridiculous in 1973, too). For years Privilege was classified as science-fiction because the notion of celebrity-worship was considered ludicrous.

What really inspired Watkins to make the film was the short documentary Lonely Boy with Paul Anka and something his friend and actor Terrence Stamp said, "All celebrities think they're God."

As for music from the film: http://www.box.net/shared/7lz5qgnnf7

Also, note to self: Must make double-feature out of Privilege and Phantom of the Paradise.

One last note; my dad recommended the film A Face in the Crowd starring Andy Griffith, similar to Privilege but the character becomes the opposite of Steven: he instead becomes drunk on the fame and power.

OH OH

AND

THE MIX IS AMAZING AND YOU HAVE TO EMAIL ME SO I CAN EMAIL BACK AND BE EXCITED ABOUT THIS MIX BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A CRAZY ALTERNATE ANACHRONISTIC AWESOME AU MIX THAT'S JUST PERFECT.

PERFECT!

I AM TYPING RIGHT NOW ♥