A Few Random Notes Loosely Related to David Cronenberg

• After the success of 'The Dead Zone', asked to direct "Flashdance', 'Top Gun', 'Beverly Hills Cop'. It is the world's great loss that he declined.
• Allegedly now directing London Fields
• Canadian. Per capita, disturbing lunacy is higher in Canada than any other nation. Except the Vatican City State, obviously.
• 'Dead Ringers', though - bloody brilliant
• I saw 'Crash' when it came out, but i'd drunk a pint of vodka immediately beforehand, so i have absolutely no recollection of it, apart from that it was quite dark, and span round a lot
• In 'Call of Cthulhu', David Cronenberg would cost you 2D8 san
• 'Shivers' was partly funded by the Canadian government. Canada has no nuclear weapons programme. Canada needs no nuclear weapons programme.
• Plays a mentaller doctor serial killer dude in Clive Barker's move 'Nightbreed' - is pretty good. The lead 'actor' in this film is Craig Sheffer, who, a housemate (ironically, my only straight male housemate) informs me, is now in One Tree Hill, where he is apparently shorter and fatter (the housemate in question is not noted for his reliability). Had any of my female or gay housemates been watching, they would surely have appreciated his cheekbones, which appear to actually extend above any other parts of his face; this disturbing anatomical curiosity is exploited to cast him sa Brad Pitt's brother in A River Runs Through It. I reckon he looks more like Kevin Bacon, personally. Colossally more importantly, he is very obviously the prototype for Angel in the television series 'Buffy, the Vampire-Slayer', what with the cheekbones, face going a bit funny when he's cross (like a cosmetic-surgery Hulk), being a undead/demon/whatnot but still a good guy or something, etc.
• Cronenberg vs Rushdie; note that the cop's name is Sinclair. Chance? Or SINISTER LITERARY CONSPIRACY? Cronenberg attempts to head me off at the pass by opening the interview with the line "one of the things I despise about journalism is the desperate need to make connections at all costs.". Ha!
• Amis vs Cronenerg; contains the useful phrase "a neo-Sixties avant-garde associated with confrontational theatre, conceptualist painting, installationist sculpture, experimental fiction, and the ICA".
• A biog out there contains the useful phrase "institutionalised disaster areas", and is a googlewhack for it (although obviously not for long).

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