tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4767719024051592524.post909513170649349566..comments2024-03-26T11:14:33.896-07:00Comments on Seattle<br> Film<br> Blog: Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidentialmwhybarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02877398873047521007noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4767719024051592524.post-68422296726305869832006-05-09T02:55:00.000-07:002006-05-09T02:55:00.000-07:00When I interviewed Panter, Jimbo was published. H...When I interviewed Panter, Jimbo was published. He had already worked on the stage version of Pee Wee's Playhouse [which was subsequently broadcast on HBO] and he and Rubens had also collaborated on an early version of the Big Adventure script. So, yes, it was an interesting time for him. He was still living in LA, but within a year he would be divorced, living in Brooklyn and working on the Pee Wee's Playhouse show we all love and remember.<br>I'll see if I can find the tapes somewhere. I was a painfully bad interviewer then, but Panter was a good talker. Among other things, he related his disappointment over Zappa's hatred of the album covers he designed for Sleep Dirt, Studio Tan and Orchestral Favorites.<br>I heard about Clowes's script for the Raiders remake when I saw it at NWFF. Look forward to seeing the final film.<br>BTW, on a unrelated note, it was on that visit to LA that I spotted Robin Zander in a mongolian barbeque joint.<br>E. Stevennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4767719024051592524.post-41501615405560694562006-05-09T02:29:00.000-07:002006-05-09T02:29:00.000-07:00I'd love to hear those tapes. '85? right about whe...I'd love to hear those tapes. '85? right about when the first Jimbo collection came out, pre pee-wee. Must have been an interesing time to talk to him.<br>I did the Clowes interview for a feature in a mag I write for, Now Playing. I didn't transcribe the whole thing, as I recall.<br>My movie thing is fan films and you may recall that kid-shot VHS recreation of Raiders of the Lost Ark at NWFF last fall. Clowes is the initial screenwriter on a currently preproduction adaptation of the story of the kids' shoot.<br>mikehttp://mike.whybark.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4767719024051592524.post-80595003899990360782006-05-09T02:10:00.000-07:002006-05-09T02:10:00.000-07:00You have an interview with Clowes and you didn't p...You have an interview with Clowes and you didn't publish it? For shame!<br>I also remember the original Art School Confidential from Eightball. The film definitely draws from its humor, but I don't think it adapts many of the jokes from that strip.<br>BTW, in the department of interesting coincidences, I also studied art history. One of the projects I tried doing was a paper on Gary Panter, for which I interviewed him for a couple of hours. This was back in 1985, but I might just still have the tapes somewhere.<br>E. Stevennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4767719024051592524.post-18312058154476317182006-05-08T15:02:00.000-07:002006-05-08T15:02:00.000-07:00Say, I have an interview with Clowes from last fal...Say, I have an interview with Clowes from last fall floating around someplace in which I was trying to get some previews of the film out of the fellow - lemme see if i can dig it up. Worst comes to worst, I can post the audio.<br>The original Art School Confidential came out while I was finishing my art history degree, and it was an instant and white hot hit in the balck-turtlenecked hallways of dear old IU.<br>mikehttp://mike.whybark.comnoreply@blogger.com