Busby Berkeley Dreams

topic posted Thu, July 28, 2005 - 11:43 PM by  Jenny Jo
Hey folks, if you want to see what Stephin's on about with this Busby Berkeley thing, come to UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive this Sunday at 5:45, where Mr. Berkeley's incredible movie, Golddiggers of 1933, will be playing. In case you haven't seen it, this is an amazing movie--Ginger Rogers singing "We're in the Money" in pig latin, Billy Barty dressed up as a baby, beatiful girls playing neon violins, campy thirties dialogue...so fantastic.
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Jenny Jo
SF Bay Area
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    Re: Busby Berkeley Dreams

    Fri, July 29, 2005 - 12:34 AM
    it sounds lovely, and i love an endlessly unfolding fractal mandala of showgirl gams as much as the next man, but, unless i'm very much mistaken, the song clearly leads us to believe that it's DANGEROUS to have busby berkeley dreams, yes? as in filling the dreamer with utterly unrealistic romantic expectations, certain to be ripped to scarlet ribbons by the grim vicissitudes of what goes down between love-hungry humans in genres/realities other than the musical. busby himself ended up drooling and shrieking and hallucinating generation after generation of ziegfield girls collapsing into transeuclidean geometry in the weave of his asylum-issue bathrobe, around the rim of a rip, just above the pocket. i'm told, before the breakdown, he made a few trips to mexico to take mescaline with uncle walt's fantasia animators. i don't know if that's true. it couldn't have helped. but that's neither here nor there. jenny jo, how can you, with a clear conscience, invite people to see a film that will surely plant these dreams deep inside them, fraught as these visions are with psyche-shredding hysteria?
    • Re: Busby Berkeley Dreams

      Fri, July 29, 2005 - 12:17 PM
      I am sorry to have to tell you this, but if you are listening to Stephin Merritt, you are probably having these dreams already, dangerous or not. A glimpse into the churning psyche of this madman might, in the end, prove therapeutic.

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