For me, the story of "Pie Fight 69" started one evening years ago (2008? 2009?) as I was walking home from my so called “office” down on Howard Street and ducked into the Harvest Market. At the time, “The Harvest" was one of those organic friendly places with a salad bar and twenty-seven different kinds of peanut butter. This was before Jeff Bezos co-opted these places and flew blueberries in from Mars round the clock. I was probably grabbing a coffee on my way home. I usually didn’t hang around that place. It probably had something to do with the fact that it piped in the most wretched Muzak I never understood. Disco but none of the good songs. Don’t get me wrong. I'm no purest weirdo. I can dig disco. I can dig Giorgio Moroder, the Bee Gees, Chic, Ring My Bell, Bette Davis, James Brown. But this stuff was weak. Hang around in there long enough and you couldn’t help but get a little cranky. It would get to the point where if something like "Listen to the Music" by the Doobie Brothers came on you'd almost feel grateful.
This was quite funny and read so much like a Size Queens song/video that I immediately sent it to Michael Mullen and Adam Klein. They both loved it as did I. The photo of you at Closer made it all the more perfect. Tim did some great work there, he was a great drummer and an excellent producer. Thank you for making us all laugh. Hope you are doing well with your treatments...xx
I knew Glen, Lucy and Peter back in the day! One of my very first gigs as a young gaffer was "Steal America", in 16mm B/W. Glen went on to be a big time Hollywood editor. The Bay Area was fertile ground for movie collectives coming out of the sixties and early seventies. The Cine Manifest and American Zoetrope (especially!) produced some of America's greatest modern filmmakers of the late 20th century.
Thanks for sharing this great story, Chuck! What I love the best is at 2:56, when a white Ford Econoline makes its appearance. Coincidence? I think not.
It was interesting to see the name Sam Green in the credits, I just saw "32 Sounds" (32sounds.com) last Sunday at The Castro Theater, it's part of this year's SF Int'l Film Festival. Really an amazing experience!
OK, that was weird ? but kinda Cool ? maybe even a little slice of Heaven ?
This was quite funny and read so much like a Size Queens song/video that I immediately sent it to Michael Mullen and Adam Klein. They both loved it as did I. The photo of you at Closer made it all the more perfect. Tim did some great work there, he was a great drummer and an excellent producer. Thank you for making us all laugh. Hope you are doing well with your treatments...xx
I knew Glen, Lucy and Peter back in the day! One of my very first gigs as a young gaffer was "Steal America", in 16mm B/W. Glen went on to be a big time Hollywood editor. The Bay Area was fertile ground for movie collectives coming out of the sixties and early seventies. The Cine Manifest and American Zoetrope (especially!) produced some of America's greatest modern filmmakers of the late 20th century.
Thanks for sharing this great story, Chuck! What I love the best is at 2:56, when a white Ford Econoline makes its appearance. Coincidence? I think not.
I hope you make a movie someday, Chuck. You are one of the great storytellers.
It was interesting to see the name Sam Green in the credits, I just saw "32 Sounds" (32sounds.com) last Sunday at The Castro Theater, it's part of this year's SF Int'l Film Festival. Really an amazing experience!
When you make your film Chuck…count me in. I’m the real Kominsky. An “unfamiliar older face”
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