Thursday, October 5, 2006
double cocked
Posted by Jim Ridley on Thu, Oct 5, 2006 at 2:52 PM
Want a snapshot of the Nashville indie scene circa 1994, as well as a visual record of the legendary Lucy's Record Shop? Turn out 9 p.m. Monday night at The Basement for a free screening of Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky's Nashville-shot cult movie Half-Cocked, featuring members of Lambchop, The Grifters, Ruby Falls and June of 44 along with local scenesters in the background as extras. (Ian Svevonius from the Make-Up has a scene-stealing supporting role.) Shot partly at Lucy's, the punk picaresque follows a girl who steals her brother's van and instruments and sets off on a "tour" of the Southeast's underground scenes, from Louisville to Music City.
The Half-Cocked DVD is coming out on Rumur, Galinsky's distribution imprint, in a double feature with the filmmakers' 1998 film Radiation—a so-real-it-hurts slice of indie-rock verite in which a broke Spanish music promoter leaves a touring band hanging while he tries to hustle up some scratch. Hawley and Galinsky went on to make the acclaimed 2002 doc Horns and Halos, about the discredited George W. Bush biographer James Hatfield and the forces that aligned against him.
The Half-Cocked DVD is coming out on Rumur, Galinsky's distribution imprint, in a double feature with the filmmakers' 1998 film Radiation—a so-real-it-hurts slice of indie-rock verite in which a broke Spanish music promoter leaves a touring band hanging while he tries to hustle up some scratch. Hawley and Galinsky went on to make the acclaimed 2002 doc Horns and Halos, about the discredited George W. Bush biographer James Hatfield and the forces that aligned against him.
