I re-read Harry Crews‘ A Childhood: The Biography of a Place a few months ago, and this clip is a radically shortened re-telling of a story in the book. I don’t know why I didn’t post about it at the time. I must have been preoccupied. It’s a terrific book, a crazily generous memoir which tells more about poor rural living than you might think you wanted to know. Amongst the other clips from Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Crews makes another appearance in the Bar Scene, which also contains a fairly spine-chilling rendition of Knoxville Girl, towards the end of the clip…
(via MeFi, thanks nola)
Ever read Crum by Lee Maynard? Always thought it would make a good film. Which reminds me, Van Sant’s new one is worth seeing.
Heh. No, somehow that one passed me by. On the Amazon page, I notice the following picked out of the text as Statistically Improbably Phrases:
“fodder shocks, pig fuckers, meat truck”
Not quite the Farrelly brothers, then?
Heh, heh, heh… if you click on pig fuckers I think the other authors are notable. You can then click on the phrase and see exactly where it’s used in their text. Heh, heh, heh…
Mmm. My “heh” was poorly positioned in my first comment. It was intended to relate to the Statistically Improbably Phrases, not intended to snort at your suggestion, which is kind of how it reads. My bad.
Didn’t take it that way at all, pilgrim. No slight noted. Heh, heh, heh…