Lizzy Goodman and Adam Green on Stacey Abrams Novels, Caron Dache Neocolor 1 Crayons, The Joan Didion exhibition at the Hammer museum, Beck’s “Mutations”, and more.
November 2, 2022
Lizzy Goodman is the author of Meet Me In The Bathroom, a must-read book that chronicles the music rebirth of New York City in the early aughts by covering iconic bands such as The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Adam Green’s influential anti-folk band with Kimya Dawson, The Moldy Peaches. If you’re a sucker for this era like I am, you’ll be excited to hear that they made a documentary based on the book with nearly two hours of mostly unseen footage, and it’s really fucking good. The film will be in select theaters starting November 4th and tonight Lizzy is doing a reading + signing at Rough Trade that’s moderated by friend of the newsletter Naomi Fry. Lucky for us, Lizzy and Adam are here to tell us what they’ve been into.
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People had been telling me to watch this movie for years, I finally gave it a shot and it’s mindblowing. The film is a total artwork that takes place in an interior landscape of the human soul, called “The Zone”, with deeply felt apocalyptic evocations of Christianity. Tarkovsky provides us with aesthetic mastery of all the filmmaking elements, from set-designs both naturalistic and sculptural, breathtaking cinematography, deely psychedelic music, and brilliant portrayals of raw human emotion. With all these filmmaking elements in place, he conducts them all like it’s a Beethoven symphony. This film might contain the most aesthetic merit of any movie I’ve ever seen. Another thing is that the movie actually killed them to make it - some of the cast and crew including Tarkovsky and his wife were poisoned while filming scenes on a river near a chemical plant, and they died as a result. Essential viewing!