Re: MTV raw footage interview

[gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert)]

Ed says:
> [Ron says:]
>
>>[K:]  So it was really designing something that was a
>>cross between an Akatan [???] gun and a pipe organ.
>
>She used the British term for an anti-aircraft gun, whatever it is.
>

ack-ack gun.  from the noise it makes.

BTW, the designer who had worked on _Alien_ was (as most of you know)
H.R. Giger, a german artist with reclusive habits and a tendency to
use real animal parts in his scultures.  Mr. Giger also designed the
poster that got the Dead Kennedies brought up on obscenity charges...

>>[K:]  In fact, the only well filmed piece
>>of dance I think I've ever seen was [?anybody know who she's talking about
>>here???] and I think that's because she was so involved in it that it was so
>>good.
>
>Kate says, "Twyla Tharp's 'Catherine Wheel'."  It took me a while to
>figure this out, too!  "The Catherine Wheel" had music by David Byrne,
>and, as Kate says, choreography by Twyla Tharp.
>

the album from "The Catherine Wheel" is a favorite of mine;  IM-never-
very-HO, this is the best work David Byrne ever did.  of course, he is
greatly assisted by Eno, Adrian Belew, David Van Tiegham, etc.  i didn't
know that there was a film -- i'll have to go track it down...

many thanks to Ron and all for the interviews!  i'd love to see an
interview-ography, at least an index for those interviews in the archives;
though maybe i should wait 'til Ron's Cloudbusting project is on line...

footah!
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