You is BAD!

On the OVERDOSE IN THE HOSPITAL OF LOVE front, just finished cutting a scene where id unleashed Dr. Fang finds his daughter Loris laying in the lap of rock washout Tommy Trykill after crashing from a drug binge. Fang is super anti-drug and loses his shit on her big time. Athena, the actress who plays Loris, laughs when the doctor (played by me) yanks her up from the table and smacks her around. I only got one take, so I had to get pretty creative with the editing. It worked nicely. Cutting around the giggles made it look like Fang has super human strength and pulls Loris off the table with lightening speed. I wouldn't have thought of cutting it that way if Athena wasn't laughing during the take. Rather than busting my ass to control my environment, I bust my ass to be utterly present in every moment, making sure the energy and the actors' sense of play is up and aroused. If that's going on, then there is always magic. Magic can't be faked. Everything else can.

Been going nuts on Jess Franco's movies. I knew about him but hadn't seen too many of his films. He appeared in a Spanish documentary about no-budget filmaking entitled TE EN VIDEO for which I was interviewed. I really liked the things he had to say, so I've been watching his stuff and loving it. The quality of his output varies greatly, but I like that. 99 WOMEN is the best women in prison film I've seen. Amazing ending and an incredible perf by Mercedes McCambridge as the prison superintendent. His most famous film, SUCCUBUS is a swinging late sixties eurotrash jetset mindfuck stunner. Karl Lagerfeld decked out the eurobabes and the vibe is pure decadence!

Also watched ANDY WARHOL'S BAD, which was like an iron glove ripping out my tonsils. How bout that scene where the baby gets thrown out the window?! Holy crap!!!