was on Adam Carrolla this morning. He's such a kook! He's made a movie cast entirely with actors with Down's Syndrome, but the movie isn't about Down's Syndrome.

They also replayed his incident on David Letterman where he nearly kicked Dave in the face and challenged him to an arm wrestle (he neither confirms nor denies that this was actually him). I remember that very well. I can't believe it was 20 years ago!

They played his spooky version of These Boots Are Made for Walking.

George McFly has nothing on this guy!

i saw him read from his books in person, saw his movie and met him last month. he's actually a very sweet person, and SUPER appreciative of his fans. though the "persona" he does...i'm convinced it's not an act. that's HIM.

He frightens me.....

in a good weird way....


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I don't think it's entirely a persona, but he did admit that his desire as anartist is simply to get people to think. To me this says that he knows he's being confusing, and he doesn't want to be run of the mill.

This is not an insult in the least, however. I'm very grateful people like him exist.

He was also laughing at himself and acknowledging his oddness. A cool, very interesting person.

I love it! That new project sounds just like him. Plus, he's pretty friggin' hawt.







"Crispin Glover" by Scarling

Loose lips
Sink ships
Dennis Hopper

They don't love you anymore
Blood trails blacknails
Leave a light on
And put a key in the back door

Yeah, they're laughing at you
They're not laughing with you

It's another guilt slip
On my Freudian trip
And I think the jokes on me

Bad seeds grow weeds
Crispin Glover
I wish you were on my TV
Girl Bruise Sad News
On her birthday
Turn the channel and you'll see

That they're laughing at us
They're not laughing with us
And I think the jokes on me

Just another guilt slip
On my Freudian trip
As we choke on the irony

Yeah, they're laughing at us
They're not laughing with us
And God damn the jokes on me

Just another drug slip
On my Pagan field trip
Are you saint or celebrity

Crispin Glover save us all

This dude is weird as hell. Awesome.

NDRU said:

I think that's great. Do you think that their entire lives revolve around the fact that they have Down's? That might be part of the point he wanted to make.

FunkMistress said:

Right, it could be only incidental to the movie that they have it.

I guess I heard it as they weren't playing characters with down's syndrome (rather they just had a certain quality as actors that he liked, so he used them exclusively), but that's probably not the case.

NDRU said:

I'd be interested in learning more about it in any case.

FunkMistress said:

Yeah, either way it's bound to be an interesting movie.

FunkMistress said:

when he screened it here in chicago, he talked about it afterwards. and he talked. and talked. and talked. and talked. and talked about it.

the dude seriously needs an internal editor, cuz he will go ON AND ON.

but it was crispin, and it just meant i got to look at him longer.

ANYhoo, the film did not feel exploitive of the downs syndrome actors at all. it was incredibly surreal and abstruse and intentionally offensive, but the buttons glover pushes in his film are there for a purpose, and it's not to hurt any group of people or to "make fun" of anyone.

in his explanation, crispin said that mainstream film studios go to such ridiculous extremes to delete ANY taboo content from movies before we see them, that he wanted to make a film that was 100% taboo, because he believes that a society that views its taboos thinks about them and talks about them, and that's ultimately a good thing.

he also said he loved working with a cast of actors who have downs syndrome because they brought a playfulness and a spontaneity to the performances, plus they weren't 'self-conscious' about performing in an avant-garde film.

Anx said:

so were they playing characters with down syndrome, or did the subject never come even up in the movie?

Thanx Anx!

NDRU said:

it never came up. it was like some alternate universe where everyone happened to have down's syndrome. i think crispin was the only actor in the movie without a visible affliction of some kind.

Anx said:

cool. see that's why I thought it was so interesting. for him it was just a casting choice, not exploitation or typecasting. just a quality he was after

NDRU said:

exactly - he wanted a dreamlike, kind of ethereal feel, and he also wanted to work with a cast who would never get leading roles in hollywood. the film, more than anything else, is a big FU to the mainstream hollywood film industry...but it's also really complex and meaningful. it's not weird for weird's sake, though there IS a bunch of absurd shit in the film that only someone like crispin glover could get away with. like, for example, a puppet show in the middle of the movie.

But he'll never change his hairstyle, will he?

minneapolisgenius said:

i hope not.

Anx said:

you'ld do crispin glover, but Prince doesn't make your lollipop hard.
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NDRU said:

WILLARD!!!

purplerein said:

because crispin has never tried to renounce his past freakiness, because he has a sexy weird shaped nose, and because he can make a mental fit look HOTT.

Anx said:

Anx said:

He makes anything look hot...omg...

applekisses said:

purplerein said:

Yes, even that red X.

ewwwww

purplerein said:

"It's time for the puppet show."

i always have to post this whenever a thread about this guy comes up.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...LapHYNSmoA

applekisses said:

magnificentpentatonic said:

I love it

"I'm forty, I went to college, I don't want my life to end like this, some dork from wherever"