Engine Summer

Lord have mercy. Just shoot me now, please.

Then again there are other reasons to go on living. For instance, having the entire dance sequence to Mohammed Rafi's outrageously infectious fractured-funhouse surf guitar Bollywood hit "Jan Pehechan-Ho" from the 1966 film Gumnaam, parts of which I first saw during the opening credits to the equally excellent Terry Zwigoff movie Ghost World. For some idea of what I look like what I'm dancing around in the privacy of my own room when it's nobody but me and my P-Funk records, keep your eye on the woman in the gold lame' dress.

Thank you ever so much for finding this, Spidra! Damn girl, I owe you another CD, or sumthin'.

So anyhoo, in other news, mein freund Papa is on the cover of a new book coming out about hardcore porn:


Or at least his eyeball is, up there in the corner. I remember last May he told me he was doing a movie shoot in Italy and I think this is where the photographs for the book were taken. I think the book is already out in Europe but Amazon only has a pre-order page set up for it, so I suppose I'll wait until it's released in the states.

Also yesterday during a discussion about Brokeback Mountain he brought up a 1977 German flick directed by Wolfgang Peterson called Die Konsequenz starring Jürgen Prochnow. Has anybody out there seen this, and know where I can get my greasy mitts on a copy?