All right. Let's do this, how are you at the fuckers what the fuck bodies, what the fucking years, what the fuck's yours, what the fuck a delicate what's happening, mark man. This is my podcast w tia. Welcome to it pretty citing for me today, oh by the way, I record this yesterday's. I have not watch the debates. Yet there was a strange and I don't know that works mac. adequately but me I should say that another way this this was recorded before whatever happened last night, so I'll be taking that in with you in terms of what Monday's news looks like I'll be I'll be taking. And, as you do today, by I got no comment on it because it has

happened yet when I recorded this boy, today on the show, excited to talk to Larry Clark, the photographer artist and filmmaker because he looms large in the in the dark corners of the earth, a graphic our world and also in film india he's either dude he's the real deal hazy, the l a photographer real artist, who did some pretty amazing works, be talking to him in a little while I enjoyed the film kids, which he directed in harmony green, scripted, but I really love the film bully. I think a raw visceral stir piece of a movie, but also you know, Larry's books, teenage lost and the first book tulsa which was a basically documentary photographs of him, not not really him, but his friends tulsa involved in

drugs hang out shooting guns just I'll, be in being the sort of oklahoma criminals they all were at that time. In the early seventies, wait sixties and the This time I really came in touch with his work was when I was at boston university and I was very indifferent argovie. I thought that's what I to do with my life. I was very, very pregnant, for photographer in high school. I will dark room rat and I did two photographs, and I and I really love doing it, but start to realise that the technical side of it was not my bag, theirs chemistry involved and to control that part of the art you needed a lot of it required some fermentation in some knowhow and some chemistry, and I it was not. I didn't like that part. I'd like I like, shooting and making picture and watch it come to life in the fixer

or in the developer. I like watching the image appear. I liked it. focusing the in larger and seeing the negative in, but you had the terms than yet. When it comes down to mix mild chemicals figure now papers figured out a percentages of chemicals, In fact, in all that stuff was in my bag. Just yeah. I don't have the discipline focus on that. I let it get away from me, but when in college. I took a. I was a an artist What is it a film criticism minor, which involved, which was part of the art history department and just by a fluke took a history of photography class with a guy named Carl Corazza, who was also a photographer was a b you for years, and it was within our history. Department was the history. Photography was a year long survey class He started the first semester at the cave paintings

and he moved up and you have the second semester began at the introduction of photography, which I thought was a brilliant way to do. It changed my life that class, but during the second half of the class, were full goofy yo sought to be established as an art form, which was difficult once everybody was able to take pictures and these two schools of thought in my recollection of the class, were you had documentary photography and you had art photography, and these were the two contexts under the umbrella of photography is art. Those are the two intentions: the two modes and they crossed over. Obviously at some point. But there was there was a long sort of discussion. Is about whether you can manipulate the image or me nippy await the negative and does it maintain its integrity? You can't do that with document We thought it gradually. All these conversations, I imagine have been announced

waited now to some degree, given that digital photography and has almost completely advocated here the process and given everybody a certain amount of control over manipulation and all that, but I I'm not in that circle, but in those in the year in that survey classy, we were introduced to larry clarks tellson wary clarks teenage watson. I saw some of those images when I go down to new york and now you know, Larry's got a big big show, an expert, of his work at the new uk artist space at six. Seventy south anderson street here in LOS angeles, it's up until october. Twenty ninth I have not gone down there, yet I need to get down there because his work he's very varied this oh very raw, very am you can feel it So let me just say this: the the now here. This festival is less than three weeks away. Come hang out with me and my producer, Brenda mcdonald we're doing a special w p s

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in dear mark as a loyal listener, I rarely miss an episode, but this week I realized. I skipped your labour day conversation with Joseph arthur, I'm so glad I went back and listened because, in the part of discussion about miles Davis ginger love for jack Johnson, which is an album which is indeed- the soundtrack for a documentary about the first black heavyweight champion of the world which my father Larry. Geringer directed album, pronounced in that right geringer. It's right, guaranteed, I called him up to let him know, and he gave me all the details. It was nineteen. Seventy, my dad was a student colombia. Film school in the documentary was his thesis project, the produce We worked for later stole director credit, but my dad still got credit at columbia. Show business you already enlisted. The great actor brok peters to narrate the film, but he wanted miles is trumpet to provide version of johnson's voice sea like that already jazz, thinkings, beautiful

first recording sash miles in his band came into the studio. My dad ran his movie and miles just played reacting in real time to what he was seeing on screen later, additional cuts from the passions were added to augment the initial recording, which is how that five dispersion of the complete sessions that you own came to be it's one of miles is overlooked, albums, but a great one in your mentioning it put it, smile on my father's face and mine by the The documentary went on to be nominated for an academy award but lost to a little movie. You might have heard of golf woodstock again for the mention and let this be a reminder to all your listeners to never skipping episode. Ah, Alex geringer, I'm open, I'm saying a right thanks, love that email body- and I love that record and now. I gotta see that documentary larry clark in this precision. I think what is what stands out outside of mean being able to get a wording is your his committee to the craft and what it means

to be a printer and what it meant to do. You have roll over that element and what it meant to live in your art. I mean a lot People have a lot of feelings about about larry's, film work, certainly, and I think even less people know about his photography work, but the self publishing of the and the book being an object of art in and of itself. I mean I just I moved in any sort of astounded went in when I talk to real artists, who were possessed with that spirit of of care aiding ard, and sometimes you can't reach, it is adding exactly in the moment. But the more you is in a very you realize that yeah his his vision, and his compulsion, your outside of drugs was was art and living within it. So this is me and the photographer filmmaker artist, clark here in the garage yeah. the

so very clark. los angeles, what a pretty comfortable out yeah. You know. I've made a number of films. Hurried wassup, rockers here, yeah by the kids from south central l, a another day in Paradise in Paradise? Can park the first time. I heard a view I always taken. I took a year long survey of photography at boston universe. Yeah and you have for some reason the guy spent the entire first semester, starting at the cave paintings and moving up till the introduction of photography. and then we got into your differently. Document during our photography- and that was the first time I saw the images from tulsa. And the the you know the other book. The teenage wow experience last year right second book right, but you were shooting because I'm working at the catalog for the show that opens here now laced in what galleries data of the gallery at is at t a outer space

in l a and, and you got there are images in their back that go back way before even tulsa. Go back are the first images of the first serious images I ever took, the cobbler of pictures from nineteen sixty one and white. How old are you I was born in forty three, so in sixty one I was what nineteen, where are you grew up in all home. I grew up and tells us lama, and My golden life was again lama So when I was eighteen, while my and my mother and father has mom and pop, maybe photography, business really photographing baby. I write and my mother was graded, photographing babies right here and what will shrink the trick was she was just great as rapporteur. I am wary of toy with everything, everything everything you know she knew every every trick in the book a process on their own? Well,

happened was my my father, the travelling salesmen right in this. How I met my mother? What is selling books? what a door magazine scriptures china for the readers press bureau in chicago and like back then father was a manager and he would go around the country from town to town and higher crews of young people, to go knock on doors, and sell these magazine scriptures and people by the magazine subscriptions and anyway, that's that's how they live It was very, very big back in the fifties when you were in tulsa, where you like. Were you reading the beatniks? Were you looking for that kind of life when I was in tulsa? I didn't know nothing Where did you learn how to shoot at your mom's place, my mother and my father, as I said when he came back when I was twelve in my mother and he got a job

just why selling furniture and then I think, selling cars here for a year and my mother took a job with lloyd, robys, routine professor, who did river target right, and they some door to door photography where you go under these small town, yeah and on noise. It, Sir a photographer, a collar the collar so noise here and us. Is. Oh, you have a new baby. I think her name is Deborah. Could I see her please yeah and the husbands who I working in the call it talks his way: into the house right and then the photographer my mother goes and make photographs, and she had a roller flax with a flash on it and then, like us, green, like a little movies, gonna pull down cn, they saw a cause of thought blanket. Recovery table, put the baby on it and have the mother standing at the edge of the table. Writers had a camera range and said the maybe up and said

in matrimonial avenues out a picture before the baby fell by regret the mother would address, and then there was second just job a slave unit pointed at the background with job. love when the when my mother took the picture with the flash and neroli yeah and it washed out all the shadow right. So you got this. It looks like a studio portrait photography, and so when I was fifteen, I was forced into the business I was knocking on doors, my mother and making call here and then when I was sixteen almost sixteen started making of doing baby photography and driving around with his collar frank spargo, who was quite a characteristics? and everything your real. I will we're on our housework and but a great guy, the alarm in the whole linger yea, and so I was like fifteen is Annie and a real light. Bloomer and I started.

I can hardly talk and I hated myself and I had to go, knock on diversion and taught my way in and then they had to go and in the end, have be the photographer and makes the baby's laughed and said the baby on the conflict. I like it and put down. also in my head and they fall out and I'd go oh and make the baby laughing the picture man hey. I hated what I was doing. I wish for in the working for my parents in a moment, business? You aren't areas a mayor videographer, but Karen my ear, I didn't, sure, because this is a a into flash of flash it right and I never thought photography was anything but photograph maybe I don't know anything, but I we had a camera, always had a camera, in my hand, If I didn't have a camera, because I would go to my friend's house after after work,

and shoot amphetamine here and when you are my fifteen and almost sixteen, so I shot amphetamine every day for three years and I graduated from high school when I was eighteen and I knew I had to get a tall sir, who started the shooting ikea like winded, that like when did it go from like taken bends, drained it to shoot? No wonder that, because after the war here were war, too where they give all the soldiers speed amphetamine. after the war- so making this nasal halo called bailout and it was made by the five or a company which is a famous governing anaemic, niagara, visor, Yeah hundred defies area. And I made this little nasal inhaler called veilleux for seventy five cents right and you opened it up and it was a plastic tube inside you stuck it up your nose third of your scientists rivals followed amphetamine, so some

discovered that some ex cons are somebody's. You know older brother right and, and are you would twist off? The top of me I could open and inside was a piece of cotton. Menthol in other shed, random and amphetamine, and we would put the cotton and copper, something and I drop her food, water and workers. and the would float to the top and the grief. pure amphetamine made from menthol me up and we would shoot in a jacket. The other men following your veins- and you would get this incredible russian- this incredible flash here and some people would das across the room. Again, we were with this

in their mouth and like fall backwards on the bed- and I you know all different kinds of reactions, but I was just hyper kid that stuttered, like mad mia- and I had like I I I mean I- must have had a terrible and a d d right right, but then no one knew what that was so mad that I mean calm. You down to kinda amphetamine made me not like my friends, totally calm I went from this hyperactive who couldn't are right to this? Most common person in the world and and I started photographing my friends when I was eighteen left Oklahoma. Luckily wait I shot dead when you left at you shot tulsa. Meanwhile, not only I'd I'd. I'd taken a few pictures of my friends where's my mother's roller flags and you'll, see two of those pictures in the show. My first too serious

yes, because I always had my power So I was it a secret well because it was busby, drugs back their eyes and eisenhower president. It was supposed to be moms papa pie and wiping his fetches. There was no drugs have alcohol, there was no child abuse There was a mother and father the alcohol extra organics There were no is nothing new about it. That point. You already come in contact with it with a few housewares and you knew there was a rational man. I knew everything you know and I was hip to remember and knew there was a box station I am also gaining frank- bury- would come on the radio, like eleven o'clock at night, play muddy waters, halley worth any real. You know lightning slam year, everything When I was twelve years, all unlike under the covers at night with a radio. Listen, enjoy all this music man and his folly along this music. So I was here

like rowan and blows along you. There is in our rural guy ass, you now and when I was about twelve. I read this book by louis Armstrong. Sacho might be a witch his first autobiography written. You know, like fifty sixty years ago, sixty years ago, I got the end and I read it and it was all about him growing up like a new orleans and like a red light district yeah and like a black woman chasing black men down three with a razor slice, an incisive amelia hands up, and I was fascinated This is a new. There was another world out there and that book just changed my life the by lorry Armstrong man, where do you go in your eighteen, so as so anyway, so luckily my mother, be as was ambitious,

and there was this association, call the professional fatigue rose of america. The p p a p away and it was all these corny portrait photographers. They had these points, if studios where families occurs, would come in now pictures of human rights see every line of their face and then hand colored them all of the hand. Colored yeah yeah, and you see some of them now even like the old pictures, will be posted, whereas some girl in high school, all dressed up in retesting, colored, gallina rifle right, you're, the rosy faces the idea and salvation so they're gerhard barker again turkey was the Milwaukee came through tat gave the shock. he was a really charismatic guy here and he had this school and no milwaukee, so

total amanda hate it. It was a bit ivory, scalia commercial corn, ball here of a diary school in the basement of an art school and the high school tolerated it because it made brought brought money into the school yeah so they sent me to this girl thanking and I was gonna come back take over the family, business right and so our abilities. I was already like a gigantic and was hip to the music. looking wade ensuring every drug because at the time I was eighteen years I had set for three years, So my nineteen signal this is like fifty Fifty eight sixty was out to Milwaukee and- and I had to Milwaukee to this con ball of her diarrhoea with always call needle soon's garrard barker was was this ep teacher,

and so I started hanging out immediately with a large scale suit right with the sculpture. An painters and My first and my first girlfriend in Milwaukee, my first real girlfriend ever a real dolphin, This girl named shirley louis, was a painter. And then change your life. my life and I have another girlfriend. At the same time they didn't now about each other car. Chris outfit leah, passed away now with the council, unfortunately the very good painter, are you still swam and speed at this point only The ties because our original in and I want to get away from animals right Then they quit making very low, and my friends in tells had grown to agree in their criminal

well and they already were, but I mean like we all were but dope and they went on to do at the penitentiary and all that became prostitutes really end. They question making a very long and an unfathomable available for a few years and then the dream head. He asked his auction, which was pure amphetamine on these little yellow pills, that you could soakin model russia. Now then pull up a shot. Macedonia does anyone hull and all all of his people were taking the back in the sixties, crises, sixty eight about lying there, and so that was all over the place and it was a farmers Nicole you had to get up. If you have him from a doctor right right, sire ass I got him a walkie hang out with all the painters, a sculptor, yes and in all my friends, repairs sculptors and room with a friend, great painter, genk housekeeper.

so I realise the idea that I can't with something that you could use other than to make these very picturesque, and it never occurred to me right. I can use my camera as a tool for me express your right as an artist did you had you seen like. Did the teacher show you like the americans or any of that stuff, dorothea lange? Did you or you get taken any of that in no? No, no and I learned but every western, Adam yeah, and luckily I There was one of those sooner than ever. That was happy and he showed me walker, Evans right who is, favorite of of all time, I can see a coup antlers robert frank and everybody right. What an amateur human human dorothea did the dust bowl shot right and in working time is ever to determine whether such right so eyes. Dorothy, aligns pictures nice all the veto. If is there

for the government, because Roosevelt's out of this programme I said photographer doubt around america to photograph there's only one voice on dustbowl. What was the ones before that, like Sullivan, was as navy did the indian photographs of big indian propaganda. His name was celebrated as a famous name, but I'm like yeah me too, but he worked for the government. I think right anyway, yeah it'll come a he'd, be a great photographer, photographed all the indian here he photographs, geronimo. All those people write a great. Votes and yet a bigger bosh camera. Untried podgy. I gather was making like I ate ten photographs are for by five or something big plates, big big play, and so you are that saves. I'm lucky that, and I have seen Robert frank but I had seen photographs by rapid frank, imitators town of my right, so I saw

Couple of those allies, w eugene smith who worked for life magazine right back then like magazine great photographers working by them and ryan, courageous joys and I, like you, I like a J smith the best here and he worked for life and he What do these assignments in here we go out and spend a month or two or three photograph feel as something some people and he the famous series call the country doktor and he did one about that now. He did one great went about a black nurse in the south document like it. I am a midwife documentary saw, but he was this great. Dramatic printer where he printed dark in that he brought up the high lies in the faces

ferris cyanide, which was a bleach. Did you learn how to apply milwaukee in Milwaukee? Well, I did for two years in school was all I did was practice and take pictures. I took more pictures by the thousand, than anybody else in the climax you got the vision that you asked bryce yours, I mixed all my own chemicals. I learned how to mix them developer everything and I make no my chemicals. I tried out every kind of found known to man. Would you land you try ex yeah? I accept four hundred. Yes, we have as its the fastest film married, wide right, grainy up to box from. School, the article was witches and there anymore school of thought it was called alleyway theo in nature down an animal is on on the drive and the like was behind this beautiful, beautiful

way ahead of its time: contemporary building yeah. They tore down because put a highway through it that never happened rise, yes of his torn, never nothing tat. I was a bit of a belgian but to blush The building was this movie theater and they showed movies, We're home I'd. I'd only see like John wayne movies is archives and endorse the john for I write and I'd never seen a foreign film in my life, but they showed all these foreign firms. I added one day when I was eighteen, we're and went back for two years as are every found they showed, and I saw all Furthermore, the hull of ago dar es ruffolo right, all everybody, all the french, your great otter, eyes or hand. and then- and I use sixty two- there was a machine by edison shadows near and I went in and it was John cassavetes first fell right in black and white.

and there was and there's never been anything like it. Nothing and never met a film made like it in a ever in the history of cinema and I shot in sixty two when they amount in this. I fear a big screenwriter on his green right and added changed. My life canterbury changed my life because I walk and I said, shit man, someone cs the way I get somebody else the way I see ended. our dated the way I saw right and I went back to Oklahoma and by them did it plant the seed that you are going to. Maybe do film at some point cause I always wanted to make films. I always wanted to be a storyteller. I always wanted to be a writer yeah. I always wanted to be a filmmaker. I always wanted to be a sculptor always wanted to a painter. I'd be anything but a photographer, but I had a camera. It was

till I had so. I guess I save my money. I bought a thirty five millimetre camera cod. No, no, no, not, and not a reflex camera here where the merest crash together right, sound but about a little like it s, p return, which was arraigned, find a camera here and you have you don't look through the limbs follow us rectangular a little rectangular on the side which, as I calibrated to see through the lens, but you're not looking at the lens right, and so when you click the shutter, it's various islands yeah. You know it hardly makes any noise at all, and so I went back to tulsa answer and I couldn't afford liker yeah which

also arranged found a camera extremely quietness, barely the click of here and I started a photograph. My friends, as you know, sir, which was a secret world and have always one the kids They are you, they were company and they were so comfortable that if I didn't, have my camera, when I walk in they'd, they say Larry where's your camera, We're radio goes on your part of right yeah. You know it was, part of me, so they knew me with a camera, and if it wasn't. I camera hanging from my shoulder for my early days with my mother's all like after work. It was unusual I looked naked or someone where's, your counselor, and so I started forget her, my friends in this the world, that nobody else could have possibly coming in right and done except someone from the inside. Like me, I was just one of the guys,

and and there are no plans ever- shall these photographs to anybody. There was never any plans to do a book. Those ever the plans for anything I was just practicing. Right in these guys. At that time they were, they were shooting up speed, one guy shot himself. I think right was there to seventy one year. I so in these are in your just. They are taking pictures. This is their life. This is that of our self. By accident. I want exactly reading was incoming suicide of it, since this was my life and my life you gonna you'd, had a break from it, in a way that we like. So so it's my life one the guys and the azores. Casual about. Man is one of the guys, except I had been away and full of art and Gotta headphones are vs or, as I'm there may sylvia and interact with my friends naturally

at the same time, I'm up here corner another may lie in down and seen the scene. That I'm in some sign, We have in my friends very as we were in very small rooms and fifty millimeter limbs nasa I'm like a foot from him to feed problem is very small, very tight base, my camera so quiet after a couple of minutes, you never heard of any more rigid and accurate report we issued now then too. Of course yeah, of course, and so everybody's all jacked up. Yes, so- and this is all early that it was, you may call speed. Then it was amphetamine. It became a spade and six later in the sixties, sixty seven

method, dream started your sudanese and sixty three sixty four. Now sixty two and sixty three: that's when tell so, we shall use users exceed three, and that was that there was no, where no one knows where no one knew about it, right and, and so then, I went away and go to new york right when he met in new york city with food, and I got a job such a great dark room in a great printer yeah and knew everything backwards and forwards care about chemistry, and yet our european all this stuff, because all I for two years, was work year was work and I ve gone through gone to a few schools. I'm I'm not a good teacher, but I've gone to a number of girls through the years as a guess. Baker right- and I see these kids there-

I'm going do like four years of a diary school in college, yes and no daddy's dime writer and just around a new our hand in hand, and I'd tell I would say: look man, you can win photography and six. you: don't need to be banned. This girl, you're wasting your time. You're wasting your time. as many as you want. really wanna be a photographer. Quit school and got into my father ground is no reason for them to know about chemicals anyway. There's no reason for those about anything, except you make the photographs from your own personal vision, right and so I wish I was invited back to very many schools, can't talk right so and so, when you got to new york, he got a gig in a lab. So when I got to new york, I got job with a big commercial photographer who who who worked with this designer fame desire. George law is here

I call fisher did all the cameras for esquire right, Barbara streisand and John Updike. Are you going on the shoots everybody while the shoes were when the studio- and I was there right- and I remember John sweet, printing or what I was? I was so dark room right you were at. I was. I was this twenty year old kid who was the darker eye and I knew more than anybody else right and I, you got the dark room, car would want to prevent right at an end. I would prevent the white I wanted to produce a better way in may and a bit of a prince, an and he will freak out and say: that's not. Do I ask you to do it and I said it's better man. Trust me. I know what I'm doing, and so he would go talk to the to the manager that hired me dwayne downpour. I shall here and,

but they wouldn't fire me. They fire me, because I was just good a printer man here and so after a year. My mother call me I and I never in my life call my mother mommy. Now never ever mile my called her mommy and phone rang. It was for me and car bizarre endow reserve and some others studios it was there. And she Tom had been drafted that they got in. The latter should because this is like sixty four. Was not vietnam, no war I Johnson hadn't since the first fifteen thousand troops, were I vietnam, over the so called a gulf of tongue tongue. I answer that so called inherent right, right,

so added and nobody I tried to get out of the draft. You know and the only way you can get out of the draft, and a couple of well in new york, did it I goin in ready address near Otherwise there is no way to get out. You were drafted, no matter what you told me redrafted. Unless you went, where an address in full make up and everything that and a couple. Anyone answer is new york city. There were a couple some of them up guys I did this rise or even an address in leipzig, grandma gelban arise and went to the draft right, which was so far out in sixty four management and

an and the army, just amazing said: go home to them where you buy the, because there was in a war outside of the lack of choice. Were you frightened or what? No? I was just part of life, everybody. When the army for two years I was drafted so where'd. You go wait. If you joined it was three years but fuck I didn't join me. I was drafted two years like everybody else. In terms of a fort gordon, Georgia for basic terrible hell hole and halfway through basic training deals how'd you walked in one morning and said: are you ready to go, kill the com is vietnam, and we and have was vietnam, because there that that day, president Johnson had sent the first fifty thousand troops there. Already vietnam, an we didn't know it. Vietnam was and so on, I spent my first year in the army in the south. I was in for Virginia,

and then I was in virginia beach near ah, and I was the most fucked up soldier. I was always getting busted and I was always like a private. He won by what, it's been busted for whatever you can imagine talking back to the sideline man, you know, every rule I could break. I broke right. Yeah I got caught. Marshall wants what I want: a wall yeah and cause I'd, be because I'd gotten leave to go visit, and I wanted to visit my girlfriend in new york and say you know for a couple of weeks and then I went back and they threw men and in the brig and then it was like a real court. Martial, it was just said- was collars someway chrome on it, so I had to see the the head of unit, the major who sent me the captain who had gone to Coronel yeah, and he sent me you think you're pretty smart, don't you!

No, he said I graduated from Coronel, I laughed at him and so on. That's me down to private anyone and took my pay for six so. I didn't get my night I'll check a month wherever it was. I had no money and premier like a kitchen details. I had to pill potatoes and scrubbed parts for a few months and then he transfer me out out of the unit two I was in a unit. Oh, why couldn't a photographer and ralph, but but interest me or that you didn't want anything to do with me, add to a transportation unit. transportation unit It was a unit where they offloaded trucks and ships and stuff, and it was ninety percent black, and it was all like hard labor and we were out working on the railroad and in virginia, and I, with you know, with pick axes and almost like prison. Yeah and, but I was

alright and and the one thing I realized in basic training, Was there that never known before that in basic train of all these guys and basic training. smarter than all of em, because seven million over eighteen, straight out of the out of hours out of their home and they were like mama's boys as though anything you know, and they were like you know, didn't know nothing right oh by chance that the company clerk had measured out the army. His time was up right So they needed needed, like like a company clark and When I got a basic, I had volunteered what you never bound here. The rural is never dared, but there was a typing class

I am and jewels. How did we weren't formation that attention of it came out of it? I need a volunteer for typing last year and I raised my attitude. May may me, so is it ok? so I got to go to typing, has every afternoon for six weeks or something, and I learned to be a great type ass. I typewriter I I could speak type. I andrew like a hunter words a minute or something. I was really good, sir, even though I was a privately one industry. detention units They need to accompany carcasses. I should type could type so well, maybe company clerk. So now I'm in the catches office, right now, dry clark and I'm the captain's man right and everything that comes in the orders at all information and allow the correspondence I'm tired.

It'll, be in the company. Clark nodded the cornell guy. The cat was not another different, different guy, as, as a matter of fact, he wasn't. A captain in the second year was a major yeah and- and I got along with him, but I didn't get her cousin, average shaggy and and my form. It was felt to be ideal, oppressed, and yet I know that I would just like my uniform and throw it in the laundry into the dryer and put it on all wrinkled and go in the captain's office. I mean the majors and I would- and I was the company clerk and typing- and I was so good that they couldn't really get ready to make those nobody else qualified, but the first chance he got I've been the south for one year. He sent me to vietnam. Signed, or is this a mini vietnam so my Second year in the army I spent in vietnam,

as I in vietnam all over ninety sixty six thousand south of sixty five and in vietnam, all nineteen sixty six thousand vietnam. Early and I must it out an outline california december, ninety six member way, and this is two years before the first head offensive. So you can see- you I didn't, I didn't see any any- real action. I got shot it a few times bigger. Through every interpretation is right. We used to take them out up to the soldiers in the jungle. back then, if you saw like ourselves, film latour, they use it. The soldiers up into the jungle weigh up north and northern vietnam drop him in the jungle and they would fight and I was stationed in tournois, which later

became like a fire in place to budget, but it was fairly safe. When I was, because all the failure was done up in the jungle the war has expanded, get at it had an expanded just so, but I would see these truckloads of soldiers back from the jungle ya, like a truck open track with both sides, the soldiers setting like thirty soldier yeah and everyone was like staring blankly ahead: men, I never said anything like I'll. Never forget the image of these soldiers coming back man from the jungle fighting in the jungle now camera, though huh yeah. No, no! No! No! I I I! I had a calling but very few pictures when I was in the army, a few few government budgets larger, when I vietnam, what I did was marked a weed and drank warm bear every evening

and, as I say, the universe, irish black here, an eighty nine point: nine percent of them had never smug partner life, nobody small pie, you and I I would like going to the small village, and I also have to reward and cop, like up a small pillar case followed. Most potent marijuana. You've ever smoked in your life are back then hiya for like ten bucks right here and I and I bring it back, and I turned on all all my friends in this unit- life changing oh yeah yeah, so like so like one year later, when I mustered out Ninety nine percent of the squad smoked, wait right, you know and we would like some sand at night. I like drinking warm beer really like hot, warm, hot, warm or embarrassed smoking pot. Getting so fucked up that one night I was walking back my tent

and I passed out, face first in the sand, and I will, you know, like five o clock in the morning still past outface. First in the sand, reset my nose in my eyes on my mouth and you know where I was and then I welcome eleven o. I was I tried to wash the sand out of my eyes and nose and mouth here and I went into my ten and slept another hour, but that's how strong the shit was. So there was no dope around. Yet there was no I went into the village found found an opium then right and out of him then, and the chair of the chief of police of this village came in. I said hello and watched me and are the opium a dead guy was stray elegant. Then this little skinny vietnamese skinny skin and bounds where, like a loincloth,

and on the floor was a strong mad. and a wooden pillow, and it was- he's a wood. Where do I go hallo loud that was so smooth because having been there for a hundred years and about a thousand heads laid on it right and actually a piece of wood was smooth and council, because someone- People had laid on their side on smoking opium right. So myself, he had the the beggar hookah their attic three heads of opium. That's enough! No more and now the cheaper places watching me laughing- and maybe I, like you know an owl dobrynin are you know like in your fucking head as alone, I want more J, edgar gub, more hits against this guy guys and not another and so on. back in my unit heizer guide and elaborate sick as a dog for three days, man throwing up

died for three days cause. I o data on that strong and I should have stopped at two or three heads, but then I took five or six, you know and not realize what I was doing, cause I'd, never smoked before and a man I was so sick for three days will never forget the zone of cigarette. My like that it was exempt kicking heroin. Many years later I resent at yeah. But that was my vietnam experience, and so I came back I was lucky because can because We will get shot at every followed up. The river right north is to bring the ammo two years later after telephones evaluate areas around maybe a killing people killed? And then the government There was no heroin in vietnam. When I was there, I guarantee you. If there was, I would have found it. Yeah in other was opium dens. we in the villages and we'd there was just fantastic by then

after? I left? The government the government of vietnam started bringing in heroin and soon to to the american tubes because they kathy body is right there and then after that, thousands. thousands and thousands of soldiers came back to mustard out I of the army from vietnam, with incredible, led high dope have as heroin habits write me up as they can to america and started shooting heroin in america. and then have a lot of trouble, how you gonna kick in it, but that was the government vietnam getting heroin ends, send it to the droop right in and they make in may as a dollar night right, nay, strung out there, the whole fucking, contrary and so was so corrupt men, so corrupt.

then, and so, when you get back to you go back to new york and when I got I mustered allowed in December, You seven and san francisco, luckily and the next stage of my first had of acid with some friends it was a whole different world than now as a whole. If a worldwide and I'm going to vietnam reading life magazine, seeing the happy movement, starting with with long here and I couldn't wait to get out and get back Macedonia and like a dylan's record of everybody must get stone was planned and radio vietnam. You know you know end because you know we're gonna, radio and yeah sure, and I couldn't wait to get back so I got back. Merely so grand my hair and growing a mustache end up doing echelon smoking weed and during rejoice, could do when your relationship with the heroin start that, you know

and I was in frisco for a few months. San Francisco gives me san francisco I know the hey I hate we are calling for is go so this emphasis go for, a few months, and then back to new york and I was doing all the drugs a parity and everything and lsd, and back then, for just about five months at the mac six months. The very max. They had tac legally pill form legal. Yet I was like a prescription drugs right and for about six months it was legal and you could get like pure thc pills and take him and man? It was the greatest most pleasant. Ha in the whole world. Just so much fun you so happy and laughing, and just I did. I've never had again. There was that great and pleasant

and in the government's snapped, and then the log in here How is the acid As you know, the ass an early agreed to bear with me so much. I had two or three trips: thou wilt, thou lemme grey I saw god and everything you know anyway, and then I took two I had to bad trips in a row. Yeah horribly bad acid trips. Awful, for man and man and ass. It again now, when you so the wind. How does tulsa happen is a book you back from vietnam and back from vietnam and sixty eight I go back to tulsa. Most everybody in jail, and then I went back and sixty eight and I read it all sixty moment. A movie camera nea fell, my friends by man was like battened down. His daddy died. Ninety seven news: why the two too

characters in the book. It starts when, where kids and it ends with young, kids, the next generation for yahoo, six in your kids. So like a circle I was, I was saying, this- goes on non added so drawing on. If you go back to tulsa now more method drain and tells there ever was, in my whole life and tar and end of the whole country, those methods we now and they make it. How did you like you know? got through vietnam. We got through the photos and we talked a bit about the opening. But what was your delivering into the world of fine art. I mean how did tulsa give made into a book. How did that become? As you know, this notorious an important documentary photography. Well, what what happened was then all oliver its wanted

to have a book of their work right. You only a few places ebbed published. are your book and it was very, very hard to get your book published and especially, if you want your book to me, You want your book to be big they would want an editor to your book. You can imagine that if an editor at touch tulsa would have happened. Why don't I got naked and I got Dixon I get everything that was happening in the book guns, drugs and dig yeah, and so my friend ralph gibson. HU, I matters a great photographer, very well known photographer, a real fast, we offer I'm not a real photographer he's a real for me. I will Your are for love, photography and photographs every day of their life and but they do right and the real photographers or ralph gibson Lee freed landed,

Gary winograd was ipo past you. I was a real photographer thousands of photographers Would you consider yourself an artist? Ok, I had a camera, is a tool right because always going to be anything but of a diver. So and I always wanted to make films and I always wanted to be a sculptor. A painter saw in sixth sixty You could not get your book published right so so I've had a very personal book they wanted published. They wait completely himself. I call Some nebulous here and and he couldn't get a publisher and finally aperture. Peter banal? Foma bone well paid a banal who hu an average you're very area agreed to, measure rouse book yeah. But why They come over to every everyone's unite and as with them, and and and

in russia. Norway right is a very personal book ralph me in very smart, very intelligent guy, one of the smartest men that I that that I've ever met just natural. You know how do I decide to self publish his book, which had never been done, and so he actually printed up These stocks, he went to his his typewriter and printed up. These stocks here had imprinted and went around your friends and rich people that he met it actually seldom enough stocks for him book and raise three thousand dollars and flew out to california because then they were all these printing companies printed for the aerospace industry is, and that is a sob. So so they were hungry for business. So you can get a book published

for three thousand dollars and get three thousand copies, and in California of the ten percent law, where the printer good abbe timber sent over a timber sit under. So of course, You got three thousand copies. Of course you got exactly twenty seven copies, but always just that leads embers under right, legal out yet sour Sir Ralph. Further the sun reminiscing choice, abandon copies and self publish said and just the answer, I gotta think about a press, so he put lust, impress on it and so does somnambulists ralph gibson spine. and on the cover it just says, I don't think it has. It doesn't say anything or the coverage is photograph on the sizes of an ambulance So here is my body. I wanted to print tulsa. So I laid out the book put your laid out the book from sixty to sixty eight right and they were magic

also with my dummy, and to finish the book knowing exactly what was missing from the scene, knowing exact What photographs I needed I didn't have the of thanks. happening here and I didn't know when they will happen where they will happen, how they would happen, but I knew I was be there when they happen? So our magazine, you osama by two else's. Seventy one and started fiery. That method dream. the goods that matters of disasters may appear for peer pharmaceutical method, data, the pill, little plastic pelagia trash, here and then draw at with a puppet, apparently half an hour, drop our water and drop the method raining and in fact right here and asylum back and just jump back into my life and photographs? Seventy one and seventy one and finish the book in the second half of the book is all

seventy one and all his father wrath. Were made within the three or four month period, because I knew of his machine. I knew the sane and once I had all the photographs from the assembly. One arab to a new york and printed, the seventy one photographs in the dark room, I ralph jargon happened to be irrelevant, met Robert frank and robert, I had given Ralph his old eye enlarger. It was like an omega diet to get out of here. This are larger, so the seven ambulances in tulsa were printed or the other. Seventy one pictures from tulsa- were printed on our robert francs old mega, led to enlargement and gives a dark room so that might have been the enlarger used to make the americans

possibly I guess probably because you know cause I was thinking about it and I never thought about it until today that tulsa on some level, even though there were you know, maybe you have over a decade part is the next of the americans in some weird way. There's a continuity to Well, the americas was light, fifties and tells it was seventy right. So there was more than a decade but yeah the area. So the erika, the americas, photography, I ever hear and toss a change. The aggregate of reverence right I printed book, allowed the book exactly as you as you see it today, you have that great quote and at once the needle goes in. It never comes out yeah, and that was from billy man, and he said that million man said that to me in sixty eight and forget it so I think, is under his photograph. So I principle ralph comes back from europe. Less me crash with his couch for the admin

one night. Danny seema comes over because see my has this book allowed song, which was his like it's diary, that he made in he wanted published an he came over to ask ralph to public form right to go to college, and publish it form their ivory thousand bucks. The way he did down the analysed. and ralph has a second book that he wanted to publish whole days at sea and us photographer named neil flame and had a book called Paul you go that he wanted to publish self publishing me out. Ralph agreed to do that, but less impress on and he agreed to do. Daddy's welcome, put less impress on it. danny came over I'd, never daddy my life and he walked up to me and said I am danny

Robert tell me that you have these photographs. Others should be, and- and I want to pay the published a book just like that- and so ralph danny and I flew out to kill finally it together danny, was shooting heroin. And I was doing cocaine like crazy. and and so Ralph danny and I went to to the printers and we where did the loud song tulsa and no five in Portugal, and so we pointed out free books together here came back for an, and I got exactly twenty seven hundred cubic rawhide repaid reveal that the ten percent law, and he gets ways have been caught hundred copies of the loud song and now Simon got number twenty, seven and Portugal, So the first edition is a paper back inside.

Is it photocopies copies in that's? Why now you go on Ebay and itself? Four thousand. sometimes a good cherry copy, and I have actually have to copies I have one cherry copy and then one copy, still the shrink rap here it was published in seventy. One ralph gives a less impress all yet this there was less impress allison theirs. washington press was for photography books out there on the shelves and tulsa was an immediate cessation man, I mean that review were alan common in his voice, a great photography critic who worked for the new york times after the village voice. This book Larry tough comes out of nowhere. Yellow is so too is too good to be believed. That was started. The review you know

Like this array of review and the new york, I gave her baby wow here, and everybody gave a review sold out within months right. What about teenage last wanted that first come out so teenage? Thus was published, I shall publish that myself and in eighty three eighty for when we're the images taken that immeasurable were tagging through my whole life. It was kind of a scrap book style book of of images of me from a little kid all the way through my life and I went back to tell says seventy two and discontinue on photographing the kids and then tell tulsa, and my friend we're still alive, I gotta go over, there was a prostitute and we went around and you go in fact: doctors again a jamming scripts

for others oxen and for I now it for herself could use a heroine addict and wage over the whole country for a couple of years, bag and alive and mergers, liberal, outlaw life and some of this stuff from times square. Those images were pretty grand, and in that I was, it appears jittery because a poker game were resumed. I said I didn't know well and and I won, and they wouldn't pay me and one guy pulled out a gun, and so I left with my girlfriend into the car, and I got a gun and I came back and I went into the house, I shot the guy and I shot him in the arm on purpose. Think on purpose, I dunno. If I just missed, I like an burma, I I might dismiss a negative. And left and about

week later, I got busted the cup stop me ambition me virtue. The sky and my mom that was what you know the guy to me now. Why would he italian bible, is that may allow cause. Now. I m a thumb. And my friends and mila my ass, it was it was. He always was like Billy, the kid gatty James you some The opposed to gonna knew you, gotta, get, show them you and and I was actually shocked that he assisted me. So I had to go to court and I got like, for five years, I got for years. I think on one charge a year, another charge and I had nineteen months and some member per all, because my mother's rather an uncle

don't be. A newspaper writer asked why sportswriter further paper and autonomous city? I thank and he knew rebellion politicians and so my mother employed him and he pulled a few strings and- So I got to go through the pearl mud and get brawl, but they wouldn't prom major oklahoma. There I promised in new york, so pro dowd. Seventy eight was it: where are we where were you in the pen? mom and mcallister bad ones. Eight percent prototyping our time a hard time, I was in a maximum security prison and how did you hold up in the? I was fine. You know cause I had friends in there you know, and so I was fine- that people watching my back and I'm the no real, how accurate poetry? And with this I could talk about that.

I have how to act, but I saw you what's the main thing you need to know to know that you never ask anybody what their end for here and you never make jokes. Were people at you don't know here and you mind your own business. And you don't talk aloud and you never asked people like personal questions, especially what they're in for because doesn't matter what their envoy and they say. You know I murdered my family. You know my family, my brother, my sister, my mother, my father and my baby, brother. I you know, because you never know we're gonna ask you: do you gonna get Iraq so if a urine with and yourself made us someone- excel, and you ask them what they're in for a man I mean you don't want to know that yeah, you know, so you never ask anybody what they're in for us the number one rule

and and and I'm a jug around in your quiet and you stay straight ahead and, in that sense, bigger this dependent century. Man this really bad people in their ballot. but I'll, tell you one thing about the penitentiary. Ninety percent people in a minute entry? for you know you know for crime here, but ninety percent are all dragon alcohols, drug attics, knocker colleagues and in their crimes a come. From that write me. A dog act not all right. This is ten percent of people HU. I, the penitentiary that really need to be independent entry and the three or four percent of people in the peasantry that need be executed. Maybe they need to be I out and shot in the head because edges, I gotta of people just they just

no realise that way and other candidate. Today they don't have that deed. I I think scientists have proven that p. Like that who don't have a conscious, phil any guilt Messina jeanne awry something jean alive. I l, l. I owe my best friend Jack jobs like there lived a narrow deed Teenage love at the beginning and end of articles about him in his life and his crime. so teenage wise is really you at your most attic control insomnia. We have gathered. In the light photograph currently I've and and the prostitute addict and my best friend jack, and The heroin attic end and a crook so you are old and new york, yes, probably again, like jack, had no was the most

charming yoda. Well, you'd, love jack, yes, but sir jack dynamic. go here. He had no guilt felons now conscious he he could be like you and me talking, and you turn your back and he may take you out your money. Pocket and never give it. A second thought, This is a natural thing related and fell. Go yes, mother, the most charming guy in the world and by the way a homicide detectives charming, charming the most charming people I ever met because they have to be charming for people to tell other stuff so narrow charm. So any I so. Where are we now and where we're now at the the publication teenage lust and you self publish at, I sell Is she dead and I want to make film and I wanted to stop a drug addict clean my act. I was still there. Drugs like crazy and drinking like an alcoholic

for all the man. I was my parole officer, He wasn't there that day, so another guy there to talk to me. Once have a couple of weeks. I once a month and anyway and I was drunk- and I passed out in the chair. Talking to the problem officer the substitute brow loves and I woke up hank to the chair, and now the guy's what the fuck man, you know. What it was was a man Larry and- and I said god, I am shy and I'm really sorry I am you know I I'll I'll. Stop it. You not! Please, please, please, and you have an analogous me, let me go next summer, when I found my parole officer, my regular browser- and I was always preferably straight you don't make sure that I wasn't anywhere high and there were no drugs at my face them.

so. I lived on that for all and the parole officer. Others was forty, a street between eight I've avenue and I Somebody had never seen before yeah, I was completely in shock. I saw young people, there were the girl process is either by know about right. Yeah, there are people selling drugs. I know about them he's young teenage part. We can boys I with tight, say you know here and how in your decks, you know again, you come on. Looks to every man that walked down the street right and as What you have to wonder what's going on man, you know, and he explained I was going on. He a hustler and he he'd come from puerto rico family there too, like live with the relatives in new york vs, and they had, and israelis had like ten kids too. So after a couple of weeks

He was thrown out that has had to leave so he was like sixteen. dsl in new york city on his own, so long away- afraid that he could make money or find out how to make money was to go to forty secretary and all right and I hustle hustle these, like you know Oh man, middle aged man, allow everybody right let em sagas, decker Emily, give money you know as I guess, suck their dick or whatever they do. Man you know. and he found that threaten you fast. It grows ever heard of a real numbers. It never happened heard me this does happen. So I started who ever these kids and made friends with them and how made friends with them was finally, the item on the street. Here I was just saying there: hustling

and I would go home and and I had a dog ruin my kitchen, then I get pregnant nighttime. I had a blackout curtain, and and and I would make these beautifies great per annum and making if eleven, my fourteen, prince and then take him back to the kids the next day and give him too. and they would be so impressive ago, while men thanks Larry, because a great What are the alpha member? I you know, and they never seen anything like that, but yeah, it's beautiful and my fourteen prints and they would say gee thanks Larry, so I made great friends with him. And my best I about that, as I gave this this kid, this incredible I would like to have my one from myself and one for him. There was I too, of a kind, and he took your parent Jeez thanks Larry and he folded

pause and put it in his back pocket either that the greatest ever and those the pictures are engage last year it's not about it, because I think there These will masterpiece. Thank you very much. I love them movie. They got here too, of my best ones and you're in it. You kind looming in it a bit. read were improved. I play a tiny pride. Why have one lies kids, father, because the act you didn't show up, we had no actual plants, It forced him to do it now, when you approach him, because now that you mentioned early on in this conversation, the cast of eddies blow your mind that there is an element to the naturalism of how you approach film. That's like his, don't you think yeah now in a movie. You know, I see this the continuation of of yes, some of them emotional and sexual elements of probably teenage was something always done, but you know What you allowed, those that the actors to do go. It was sort of like to me

so I did your whole sort of what would do I want. He's the word over, but you earlier You know that it was all very clark, Alban leading to bully for me right. Do you think s troops were true and you know, in terms of how that movie was received. I don't remember how was received by for me The wrong is of of of sexuality, and violence in that movie was something that you know it fell. You were gone for I felt like them some one of the core of the artistic vision, but he couldn't be realised completely. the photographs exactly right, rather always want to be a film migration and fair for me, it was. I had done everything that I could do with photography, rice, visually photography. I'd done everything for myself. I could do and as I wanted to make film the eye, and so at the end, and I wasn't make film my whole life, but I was to fight it No, no I'm gonna give amaze allows no. Yes, I clean myself up and luckily for

I fell in love after after I cleaned up with this. wonderful, woman from the land to georgia, who lived, who had come to new york after college, your wife, my wife. the end and we're getting married. Having the children and we were together about thirteen years and then separated in my fault separated my father. Could I drink it again and my father but what we separated after about thirteen years, but most wonderful children you'd you just met, met my son here as a punk rock band in seattle call, while mohicans drearier while mohicans- my daughter has a my granddaughter now this and myself, wonderful, beautiful, fuller, daughter, smart kid who met.

Her high school, sweet and so wonderful. So I always when they make films I cleaned up, and then I was lucky enough to meet this moment following eleven, we got married and I said lane for years. and then I decided it was time to make a film, and I want to make a film not about my celtic is all my work had mounted biographical. They want to make a film about a whirl. I didn't know yeah so as to make a world about contemporary teenagers the term that I knew nothing about, and so I pick skateboard is because visually they were the most exciting mia. visual artists, dregs, you know my escape by this so I infiltrated traded. eight boyd world and to do that idler escape one fifty years old and new, No one knows our forty seven forty eight years. I escaped body and

because if you gonna photographs gate balls, you can't run after me, gotta skate. Yet so I learn how to skate fast eleven bomb hills and everything with my leica here and so I skating in California and then back in new york with skaters and met skating for three or four years and got I therefore kid from real life amends right. They happen, so kids is really everything. Kids is true to realise that actually happened except jenny jenny have an hiv jenny as the only made up character in in the film here and cheese there, because I didn't want to do a documentary and I need something like it. So I could make make the film major film, narrative riot- and so I just reverting back to the old, a maiden tide of the railroad tracks for the train coming behind their. I rose rush into cyber right and so that

That was the ideas so genies made up, and then I tied all the truth, stubborn of skateboarders, from that I knew with it and I this one page treatment with them, and I called a friend of my Jim Louis, whose who's a well known novelist, end, writes about art, and I tell him the story. I won the taliban. He helped me right this one page, a treatment where the story right at- and I said I twenty four hour movies ellen everything of is that I've seen happen the last three years, crammed this twenty four hour movie domingo, exciting india, and I thought of this your jenny, the hedge, a job, we ve got it from her sexual experience and then I said you know now now. I know the story, the beginning, the metal, the end, everything happens, but I'm not really a rider and decided I did from the inside. I need

he had from the inside derided, but there are no kid skateboard right as I now and then I thought here allocating a girl that me he was a rider named harmony, who told me that he written is old. Twenty minutes scream by what is a nice girl so I called him up is a year later after, Madame briefly in washington square, I call harmony. I swear it. If you told me, you wrote this little twenty minute screenplay bring it up, and let me read it so I brought it. I read it, it was brilliant and economists joy, that wooden, please adults throughout most people at age, right for the teachers, to please adults right, and this would not please adults, so I asked kids, and he said I ve been waiting all my life to write this. And he was nineteen and he just he was eighteen. When I met him, he just kind of go and then you won the n Y for a year, and I chose to quit. I made him quit school, here and he rode kids images, grandma's house,

One sheet of paper with destroy and above this brilliant, brilliant variant scream all the dialogue and, as they said, The movie as except for that one or improper. The four boys in the couch is all harmonies words that I made the kid save sighted scrap and how many wrote the brilliant script, and he also wrote the brilliant script. For ken part from my diaries and yeah and what happened with another day in Paradise, I would say what story on that another the umbrella paradise. My second film someone had sent men, unpublished, manuscript by this x, big, nay mattie level. Yet who was on his way back to the penitentiary, and here we have son valley, California, the worst rehab I've ever met in hot all this little house full of ex convict, always burly guys with tattoos. There next arms in the whole body weight indigo in front of a judge in trying to get clean. So maybe they wouldn't get some us time, and I talk you eddie

too often in his manuscript, unpublished, man, your honor, the in Paradise. And then I met a young rider christopher land and who was michael and son one here. One of his sons our youngest son, I think, and christopher wrote the screenplay close enough, the that, but I could get the money and make the movie and when I made the movie, I changed around and incorporated myself and jack just them to offer an expert that I too had my friends. It had from tools here and incorporated them into the character of melbury played by Jimmy was james. Woods and so I changed all around, and sir James words, character of mouth is any levels manuscripts and

may I knew directed it may lead to regulate and and and jimmy pneumonia Griffith and we needed like a to get the money for it, because it's like a three and a half minute movie or something so we needed a female sign here. Melody so he called melody over to his house hurried. He worked before and Jimmy and I talk melias doin it. So we made it and it was a rush shoot because Once again, I had to train the whole crew because of the hollywood crew crew right and they have all these roles and every everything I'd say: that's a nice not done that way. Does this role that one right and I said, listen pal or on our rules that we're to not going to do it that way, we're going to do it backwards right there, like I was crazy. I'm a molecule render sideways so now intelligent views so train the whole fucking crew to do it. The way I want to do because I live

The clear visual I always have a very clear vision. I know exactly what I want, how the movie is going to look exactly. Did they do it and they did it yeah, but it was a fight, but they did it and I made them do it. and they're they're there. It seems that marie that no one here ever done before that I made him do and and they would not do it and I made him, do it and I can do it where you were you using during that in Paradise. I had just come of heroin habits. I was clean during the filming claimed during the film india, but an editor I went back to heroin and as heroin and my azure was was doing cocaine so like is doing cocaine either by the bags and I'm in the bathroom narrow, but that was editing, but during the shoot I was perfectly. every move ever shot. I've shop perfectly clean,

nothing? No drugs, no alcohol about no, nothing perfectly clean, except for the last summer, if a girl to which will be next year- and I this big spinal opera jane and I was all drugged up and Japan. I shouldn't make development staggered around falling down because my knees were gone with us right- is so right. I made a martyr, to which I just finished, counting all come out early next year. In my view, taxes amendment four girl there are no mark madrigal. Do I flew back, I can have both knees replaced. I saw it shouldn't have been making the film, but the money was there. So I made it and I'm glad I made it, but I paid the price So my then I was in for so much pain for you. My knees and the authorized mona about. I had most knees replaced so the only from I've ever been the employers

directly was my forgot to all the other films evans has been strike. Attain am bully, like you know that thing you know watching that the experience of all Then. How do I was it's? Not it's on like any other movie, unlike any movie ever made visually, be as it's or visually exciting. Yet no other movie. I watches it is so visually exciting every same, because there's all these for people to talk to each other, the same I over and over and over again the you gonna make this a you know you know of compelling polly for an audience is said through it. So the so I was gonna make it visually exciting. So I so with my dp I steve gainer, which was his first feature. We, I decided because we should do so quick. We shall in twenty three days,

we ourselves have five days in thirty days. In the day we started shooting Are we only have two or three days? Can it can't be done? I said fuck you, I'm gonna, do it so see malaysia in two or three days, never dailies, I never saw a frame of until the engine room and though and shit no shared, and what we did was we shot racing single shot known to man from every movie ever made every different shot, may and and, and we ran out of every shot ever made. Then I went to shots. I would never make. I hated like Paul focus on sub like that and we did like four or five shot that I hated the ape sets wide never issued. We shall proceed with those jaws and I talk to

even ices. Is there any shouted? You ain't? You never do anything, yes, one and we did that job. So every shot known to man is in that film because such a good visual art is right and is the most exciting. Individual from I've ever seen, the actors or great and ass you re read, ran for bijou fail of michael pit yeah. Stalin near binding on us when, in I noticed in there in the new exhibition, there is sort of a peace. Dedicated brad ran fro to pieces, yet to be collage. Did you know like what? What is it about? The year you seem to like be compelled india in this sense at you, you look and photographs and you look at even the film. They shouted tell us, These guys is party or life that was out of control, but also filled with possibility This weird adolescent. There, though, that this strange that ned

if there something loaded in electro electric about adolescence, because you don't know which way it's going to go, how your wife's going to be dictating. What's going to happen that energy, that seems to be something that you're attracted to well. You know I look back at my work for fifty years. I realized that job all my work. If you look at every piece of work I've done is always about small groups of people from laser was up rockers about our central latino, kids, trying to be the self you know with all his peer pressure from the blacks, to where baggy clause and cut off their hair and aware and listen up against. Europe is more pot kids one to grow their hair wearing tight close. This loophole grog escape one, so they had to fight Eight. The bee, who they are everyday that divide it just to be who they are who they won me as an adolescent dry out different identities to be their self.

and the reason why there is such a tight clause. You can see their dicks through the genes is because they were so poor that as egg wreath twelve thirteen for in fifteen years, all their wages, clothes they had been. They were lebanon, twelve, is so poor here that they couldn't for new clothes, are there actually wind claws when they're fourteen or fifteen wearing clothes that they had when they were twelve right? And they just you know, kept growing and way the same cause to the cause so tight european fucked up. So they said- your pictures on their claws, and really making their clothes. Quite I you know, like different and unusual and compelling- and so you know- and I told them when we measure in the film the progress and we shall sell senator or no white people go. It's me I mean

for years now, as ever celebrated may, because all of attitude- I'm not scared and and and walk through gang infested neighborhoods and guys have driven by and cries and shouted the house where our next year, I'm talking to someone. I Libya's develops tog into one of the causes of the progress, the crowd, guided by solid judge, been caption do thou next door and I went what the fuck de kremer riders. What flat cream is growing eyes. Other have a dollar time here. And I saw anyway I'm, I'm always drawn took small groups people that you would not know about. Unless I made photographs her. I made the films they you never know about these fourteen year old, latino, kids, yeah they're alive, because you always potatoes in movies. Cast gangbanger drugs released. normal, regular kid

drawing up in. I happened to grow up in the worst most violent section. No, why people go all black and latino to the worst high school in america. Lock high school would happen, the new york times listed the waste cycle in america. Laughlin number one, but is there also his guide, be an energy to it? There there's something up or in vital about the of that period in was well well. Well, I my period was: was so fucked up an unhappy because father hated me, and twelve years all I was sitting we can look after school. This is great father works of art in the house in any come home around then. For me, the travelers element, for some reason he didn't like me. Maybe I reminded him of him when he was a kid. I have no idea why, but he in the house and as you walking past me,

to go upstairs to his room way. Always was the isolated air total ice later we were I said what it means that you learn shit and want to assume never spoke to me again. My whole allies. It never spoke to me again and I couldn't wait until I was eighteen years old to get out of the house Once when I was about seventeen, I mean all I wanted was my father loved me. Like me, you know once a couple of our friends of a very old friend of his from the road from the from the measure itself from the crew that we're for the reader service that rewards you for came the town, guy, pager and guy came by Pedro came son, who was a teenager and maybe I'll from my father pit play golf and so I said: hey man, you're playing

after mall in and guide you yoga women, guy, junior and wrangler along. If I got so much no choice. So so so we went out that day and play off with a guy painted a son and me my dad dad and I and and then after that day next day, god painters and left town, my father, paying godfrey guide. Every man had a bucket above. Never It's go play golf, never made ago, had a bucket eyeballs, wear them and never never spoke to me again still accept that one day one guy was in town and I have no idea why and and when he died about eighty two he went spinelli was always a leader. He was like gum He had auburn hair and really like white light. Skinny couldn't get a sun dounia who understand they get sunburn.

And he was later so he had to have like a bow reception. Not not the word, operation in the world. It was a success, but he but he kept in the committee have debated so they took him in a village more operations is up the bleeding, and finally, I just well the doctors. I should look. You know you know enough is enough. You know you know you're not going to, we know the guy can't stand. Another operation is united, keeps bleeding he's waiting he's waiting. So the doktor gone my eldest sister, and told her I was trying to kill. My father so my father passed away, stolen love, a man I shall love to this day. I don't hate him anymore, but I just don't give a fuck bout, Emilio slower I haven't done happy childhood And are always been drawn to other people's analysed there's an how beg europe because everybody goes up in a different way of situations differ.

Environment, different paris, It's all my work, mostly about a lot of my work, has meant about that. You know I love talking to you. I think we ve got a lot in, I think so too, Thank you mark. Thank you very much. Ok man! you'll, some, not absolutely Ok, you cannot take a nap now, so I thought it was a lie: There was a for me. I was honoured to talk to Mr Clarke again to check out my tour dates its emerge go to deputy pod back on power by squares, baisers anew poster from my recent boston shows air. If you're collecting. I think I will play a little guitar if I can get I'm getting so fat. She can say that out loud, but it's onset all the food that just always booed everywhere. It's like a fucking cruise ship hold on. Let me get my guitar

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