THE WHITE STRIPES broke up.
This was in the back of my mind this week. Somewhere stuck in between family tragedy and rekindled love affairs.
Weren't they a couple that pretended to be brother and sister that produced some of the most unabashedly powerful music ever put together by a duo? (they were brother and sister) I forget.
Why didn't I see them live? You idiot RICK, procrastinating mule. Bad move.......
Wait, lets forget about the Beiber concert movie sweeping the country endorsed by`
cousin Drake. Options.
Wait..there is hope...The music lives.......There was a White Stripes documentary made a little while back, filmed in Canada I think? Hmmmmmm.
Put Y Tu Mama Tambien on pause and watch this thing online immediately.
This is the type of thing people like me do when they need a quick shot of something. Something to make them get up and scream.....I am fucking alive....Aren't I? Vicariously alive in this case, but alive. "I am going to Wichita".
So I found it!...........It is a wild, intimate, fantastic romp that ultimately rips you apart.....I loved it. Meg White is simply....kick your ass ethereal.(she barely speaks but I think everything she utters is an esoteric pearl)...I don't really know how to describe her......watch the film.
It is called.."UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS" and is their celebration of their ten years together. Filmed on tour throughout Canada in all types of Northern Towns. From the Yukon to Yellowknife, great black and white footage.
DAVID BOWIE SAID..... "OFTEN, THE JUXTAPOSITION OF TWO OPPOSITES CREATE A THIRD KIND OF STATEMENT”. He was speaking of a set that he designed for his Serious Moonlight tour, but it really was a mechanism he often used in his most successful and profound lyric writing.
When you think about it, some of the best art emerges through this kind of process, in film, photography, paintings and poetry.
That is my own idea, perhaps you disagree, and you believe that it is all about the similarities and the intricacies in similarity. Tough one to call. With the WHITE STRIPES there is a definite juxtaposition of opposite energy thing going on though.
Jack and Meg White are irresistible, prolific and shyly incomprehensible, any way you spin their live persona and personal life. You really do want them to come over for dinner.
You want to know more about their relationship. How does it work? Bowling in every country around the world, what? How could it ever work?
There is some sort of secret pact going on, is there not? Is this Love? Sibling love never looked quite so.....hot.
Let me just say it, their music is kind of like some sort of sexual animal being ripped apart, slowly......
Have they made some sort of clandestine deal with the devil? And now.......they break up...What does that even mean?
Also......How does he USE REVERB LIKE THAT. COMPLETELY INSANE! (Juxtaposition)
Before you lose interest in all these words. I understand, words take alot of effort to move through your brain. One after the other. Move through this little film.
Put aside some time to watch these two GENIUSES (and I don`t use that word lightly)
RIP IT APART with honesty and with style.
It`s a great way to spend an evening. Throw in some ice cream, a thermal blanket, a fellow conspirator, and a bong or two, if that is your desire. Enjoy.
For me, the only reason to not watch this film would have been if I was busy creating some piece of work myself in that moment that was so inspirational, I really couldn't afford to stop the momentum. That was obviously not the case.
Maybe tomorrow.
Rick
No comments:
Post a Comment