daniel johnston

finding nobody · 04.01.2006, 10:50 PM

he seems very interesting.i havent ever heard anything by him im tryng to download some of his stuff now.what do you guys think of daniel johnston?

Everyneurotic · 04.02.2006, 12:48 AM

early daniel johnston is genius!!!

the latter stuff is good, but the earlier the better

finding nobody · 04.02.2006, 12:54 AM

what about the movie about him? isnt it out now?

atari 2600 · 04.02.2006, 02:55 AM

yeah, & i just saw a clip & Steve is in it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436231/

(i suppose this could go in go in the "Sonic Gossip" section as a result haha)

now i don't feel so bad about all the posts i made today because i would have been impelled to post about this appearance of Steve Shelley in the new Daniel Johnston documentary The Devil & Daniel Johnston anyway.

(a play on the Devil & Daniel Webster & i imagine, his parents as ignorant but affable Texans & Robert Johnson as well)

Everyneurotic wrote:

early daniel johnston is genius!!!

the latter stuff is good, but the earlier the better

my early stuff was my best too.. now that I can play, it's nothing all that special...but i suppose if i ever found a like-minded person to play drums though i could put my stuff out there still because it rocks on some level...it's the age-old problem, everyone wants to play guitar. When i have played with a drummer in the past, (just jamming though) some sort of strange magic takes over & I play stuff that pours right out of me. Add to my difficulties that I am not a good singer really, but as we all know that doesn't really matter if you can write good songs. I cannot. I have severe mental handicaps when it comes to writing any kind of song lyrics. So that means that in addition to finding some needle-in-a-haystack drummer, I would also have to find a dynamic frontperson.

when Thurston was named guitarist of the year after Goo he joked that he could play "a killer version of Red House maybe by the time I'm fifty."
Kim followed that up with this:
"what's interesting is the way people compensate."

atari 2600 · 04.02.2006, 05:52 PM

a bump becuz no one is finding yr thread, finding nobody

more pics:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/stills/devilanddaniel.html
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DVXA,DVXA:2004-32,DVXA:en&q=devil%20daniel%20johnston&sa=N&tab=wi

finding nobody · 04.02.2006, 07:34 PM

the bump is appreatiated very much. has anyone seen the devil and daniel johnston? i really wanna see it. its very interesting

johnnywinternoshow · 04.02.2006, 07:36 PM

I love the song "oh no!" off retired boxer

soapbars · 04.02.2006, 07:39 PM

i just read about this in nude magazine and well i will just have to see it,

i havent heard any of his new stuff so i guess i should do that too,

!@#$%! · 04.02.2006, 07:52 PM

oh shit! i saw the trailer a couple of days ago!!

looks awesome. looks sorta like a mix between the harvey peekar movie plus that one about the insane pianist, what was his name... played by geoffrey rush.. by way of the half japanese movie

atari 2600 · 04.02.2006, 07:58 PM

it came out last Friday & is only playing in NYC & LA right now

the official site with the trailer
http://www.sonyclassics.com/devilanddaniel/

Ebert & Roeper both gave it a thumbs up; that's where i saw the clip

johnnywinternoshow · 04.02.2006, 08:14 PM

is that insane pianist movie 'shine'?

finding nobody · 04.20.2006, 10:41 PM

"good morning you" is one of the greatest songs ever!

jon boy · 04.21.2006, 07:51 AM

i think that just about everything he has done is pure gold.

Rob Instigator · 04.21.2006, 10:06 AM

danile johnston is a funny guy. I have met him several times. the first time was when I was at the Uniersity of houston and in the student program board (small and large stage) and we were setting up concerts. One of the concerts was daniel jjohnston. we wanted to get him to play. he came to play, and this is where I met him first, accompanied by his mother and two rather l;arge orderlies from the texas mental health institute where he was a patient at the time.
he played great songs, just himself surrounded by many instruments, so the songs were exactly like the tapes.
he played my favorite CASPER the FRIENDLY GHOST
he was very entertaining and odd and weird. after the show I escorted him and his "crew (the orderlies and his mom) outside of the building at U of H, and said good bye to him. later that week we heard word that he had ditched his escorts just minutes after I said goodbye and had ended up in Miami somehow,a nd that his parents had to go get him.

the next time I met him (BUY YIP JUMP MUSIC by the way)
he played a gig at rudyards in houston and he had by then been on medication and was much better spirits. he had also been playing witha full band, which was cool, but this gig was just him again. the openeer was a band that was originally from houston then austin then NYC called Drums & Tuba. I like drums & Tuba.
daniel johnston was great that night.

he is a very nice guy.

the dead milkmen's cover of ROCKETSHIP{ is my favorite cover of daniel johnston

Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski · 04.21.2006, 10:17 AM

Wowzers!

I saw the movie last weekend (it's also playing in Chicago) and absolutely loved it. I'm a documentary nut, and this has to be one of the best. His life is so interesting and wild... the kind of story that couldn't be scripted. Steve's inclusion in it (and Thurston and Lee are in a videotape) really made it special, but the best part was the Gibby Haynes interview (I don't want to spoil it).

GO SEE THIS MOVIE! IT'S THE COWS' BOLLACKS!

finding nobody · 04.21.2006, 02:17 PM

cool story rob

krastian · 04.21.2006, 02:44 PM

Jeff Feuerzeig is cool. His Half Japanese doc is top notch (The Band That Would Be King). I'll have to check out the Daniel Johnston one.

finding nobody · 05.16.2006, 09:47 PM

i know the half jap guy has a son in a band called the stinky puffs, anyone heard them?

krastian · 05.16.2006, 10:39 PM

Jad or David?

golden child · 05.16.2006, 11:45 PM

its playing here soon, ill go see it. daniel johnston is cool

04.01.2006, 10:50 PM	#1
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	he seems very interesting.i havent ever heard anything by him im tryng to download some of his stuff now.what do you guys think of daniel johnston?
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04.02.2006, 02:55 AM	#4
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	yeah, & i just saw a clip & Steve is in it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436231/ (i suppose this could go in go in the "Sonic Gossip" section as a result haha) now i don't feel so bad about all the posts i made today because i would have been impelled to post about this appearance of Steve Shelley in the new Daniel Johnston documentary The Devil & Daniel Johnston anyway. (a play on the Devil & Daniel Webster & i imagine, his parents as ignorant but affable Texans & Robert Johnson as well) Everyneurotic wrote: early daniel johnston is genius!!! the latter stuff is good, but the earlier the better my early stuff was my best too.. now that I can play, it's nothing all that special...but i suppose if i ever found a like-minded person to play drums though i could put my stuff out there still because it rocks on some level...it's the age-old problem, everyone wants to play guitar. When i have played with a drummer in the past, (just jamming though) some sort of strange magic takes over & I play stuff that pours right out of me. Add to my difficulties that I am not a good singer really, but as we all know that doesn't really matter if you can write good songs. I cannot. I have severe mental handicaps when it comes to writing any kind of song lyrics. So that means that in addition to finding some needle-in-a-haystack drummer, I would also have to find a dynamic frontperson. when Thurston was named guitarist of the year after Goo he joked that he could play "a killer version of Red House maybe by the time I'm fifty." Kim followed that up with this: "what's interesting is the way people compensate."
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04.02.2006, 05:52 PM	#5
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	a bump becuz no one is finding yr thread, finding nobody more pics: http://www.sonyclassics.com/stills/devilanddaniel.html http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DVXA,DVXA:2004-32,DVXA:en&q=devil%20daniel%20johnston&sa=N&tab=wi
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04.02.2006, 07:34 PM	#6
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	the bump is appreatiated very much. has anyone seen the devil and daniel johnston? i really wanna see it. its very interesting
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04.02.2006, 07:36 PM	#7
johnnywinternoshow the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Belfast Posts: 1,006	I love the song "oh no!" off retired boxer
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04.02.2006, 07:39 PM	#8
soapbars the destroyed room Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Teesside, England Posts: 559	i just read about this in nude magazine and well i will just have to see it, i havent heard any of his new stuff so i guess i should do that too,
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04.02.2006, 07:52 PM	#9
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,581	oh shit! i saw the trailer a couple of days ago!! looks awesome. looks sorta like a mix between the harvey peekar movie plus that one about the insane pianist, what was his name... played by geoffrey rush.. by way of the half japanese movie
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04.02.2006, 07:58 PM	#10
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	it came out last Friday & is only playing in NYC & LA right now the official site with the trailer http://www.sonyclassics.com/devilanddaniel/ Ebert & Roeper both gave it a thumbs up; that's where i saw the clip
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04.02.2006, 08:14 PM	#11
johnnywinternoshow the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Belfast Posts: 1,006	is that insane pianist movie 'shine'?
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04.20.2006, 10:41 PM	#12
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	"good morning you" is one of the greatest songs ever!
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jon boy invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: psycho battery Posts: 12,161	i think that just about everything he has done is pure gold.
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04.21.2006, 10:06 AM	#14
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	danile johnston is a funny guy. I have met him several times. the first time was when I was at the Uniersity of houston and in the student program board (small and large stage) and we were setting up concerts. One of the concerts was daniel jjohnston. we wanted to get him to play. he came to play, and this is where I met him first, accompanied by his mother and two rather l;arge orderlies from the texas mental health institute where he was a patient at the time. he played great songs, just himself surrounded by many instruments, so the songs were exactly like the tapes. he played my favorite CASPER the FRIENDLY GHOST he was very entertaining and odd and weird. after the show I escorted him and his "crew (the orderlies and his mom) outside of the building at U of H, and said good bye to him. later that week we heard word that he had ditched his escorts just minutes after I said goodbye and had ended up in Miami somehow,a nd that his parents had to go get him. the next time I met him (BUY YIP JUMP MUSIC by the way) he played a gig at rudyards in houston and he had by then been on medication and was much better spirits. he had also been playing witha full band, which was cool, but this gig was just him again. the openeer was a band that was originally from houston then austin then NYC called Drums & Tuba. I like drums & Tuba. daniel johnston was great that night. he is a very nice guy. the dead milkmen's cover of ROCKETSHIP{ is my favorite cover of daniel johnston __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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04.21.2006, 10:17 AM	#15
Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski children of satan Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Japan Posts: 345	Wowzers! I saw the movie last weekend (it's also playing in Chicago) and absolutely loved it. I'm a documentary nut, and this has to be one of the best. His life is so interesting and wild... the kind of story that couldn't be scripted. Steve's inclusion in it (and Thurston and Lee are in a videotape) really made it special, but the best part was the Gibby Haynes interview (I don't want to spoil it). GO SEE THIS MOVIE! IT'S THE COWS' BOLLACKS!
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04.21.2006, 02:17 PM	#16
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	cool story rob
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krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	Jeff Feuerzeig is cool. His Half Japanese doc is top notch (The Band That Would Be King). I'll have to check out the Daniel Johnston one. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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05.16.2006, 09:47 PM	#18
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	i know the half jap guy has a son in a band called the stinky puffs, anyone heard them?
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krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	Jad or David? __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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05.16.2006, 11:45 PM	#20
golden child expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,672	its playing here soon, ill go see it. daniel johnston is cool __________________ blind
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