Sugar: The Other White Meat, a recently released record by Dylan Nyoukis and Alvarius B that features two brief cameos from Korine, is sold out at the label’s store, linked before, but can still be bought from midheaven.com, yod.com and pinktoes.net. Mr. Nyoukis, too, has a book of art out now. You can read more on Repeat After Me, Mud! Mud! Mud! here and here.
There is a new interview with Korine on The Guardian website (Danger, Man At Work). Thanks to Chris Lusher. Last September, The Guardian spoke to Korine for the article here (“The Odd Couple”), an article about his involvement with Above the Below. Korine’s father, Sol, it seems, later wrote to The Guardian to say, “After hundreds of articles on the David Blaine event someone finally got it right! Thanks.”
This is the date that the site has officially come online. All news prior to this day was added before the site was active. For information about Harmony-Korine.com, including contact details, see the page here. Before registering this domain, the site was hosted by angelfire and before that it existed as an MSN Community, which continued until not so long ago. One of the last posts on the MSN Community included the following piece of news, which is perhaps worth preserving here:
a year ago at the screening of a movie I & a friend made about Jonas Mekas, who told me he had more than 100 hours of Harmony Korine fooling around on film. He said he needed a year to put all that together, so i guess it’s gonna come out soon in festivals somewhere.
Above the Below was released on PAL R2 DVD in the UK on December 1. Included on the DVD is Harmony Korine’s film, additional footage of Blaine’s hospital recovery and material by Korine and a 45-minute program about the Vertigo stunt, which saw Blaine balancing on an 80ft high pole for 35 hours. The DVD is currently available at amazon.co.uk for £14.98.
A remake of R.W. Fassbinder’s Why Does Herr R Run Amok (1970), directed by Korine, has long been rumoured. Brian DeGraw, one half of Korine’s musical project SSAB Songs, said in an interview in early 2000 that Korine’s next project would be Fassbinder’s film remade with the title ‘What Makes Pistachio Nuts’ and that Johnny Depp, who called Gummo “One of the most truthful pieces of filmmaking in a long time,” and has professed a desire to work with the director, will star. We have no more information concerning this.
According to the press release for Gus Van Sant’s new film Elephant (2003), Korine was originally commissioned to write the screenplay but failed to deliver even a draft after two years. In the October issue of i-D Van Sant explained how he came to involve Korine, saying, “HBO said they couldn’t do Columbine but could do Elephant. I had never seen Elephant, which was an Alan Clarke film made in ’89, a 35-minute short about violence in Northern Ireland. But I happened to know about it because Harmony Korine had told me it was his favourite film. So I thought maybe Harmony could write the script. But we never got a script from Harmony. That’s when [JT LeRoy] and I started talking and then [he] wrote the script.” In the end Van Sant didn’t use LeRoy’s screenplay. For more information about Elephant visit the official website here.
Momus (AKA Nick Currie) wrote about The Mistakers (AKA The Mistakists) for a recent issue of Vice (a href=”http://www.viceland.com/int/v10n9/htdocs/where.php?source=db” target=”_new”>here). The Mistakers, Momus says, are “kind of an art gang” and all have the same trident tattoo on their hands as Korine, who is a member himself. An extended version of the Vice article can be read on Momus’ website iMomus.com.
In an interview with Chloe Sevigny that appeared in the an August issue of the New York Post there is some detail about Korine and drug-use, with Sevigny saying at one point, “He was my boyfriend and I was in love with him and he was a drug addict and it was a horrible thing to have to deal with. I mean, what do you do about it? You know, the lies, and everything else.” The interview can be read in full here.
Last March, street artist PMH sent a package of stickers and other items to The Wooster Collective. Among them was sticking bearing a cartoon image of Korine (here). The sticker is now pasted someone in the streets of lower Manhattan, they say.
On Blastitude there’s a conversation between Dylan Nyoukis and Alan Bishop, available here, in which they mention Korine several times. Bishop mentions being asked to create the soundtrack for a future film by Korine, “guy who gets hit by lightning 3 times and becomes obsessed with growing the world’s biggest pig.”
