“[His] crazy process is that he wants you to do whatever you want – really do whatever you want. I could start singing my ABCs backwards in a swan costume and it’s cool if I want to do that. It’s really a collaborative process. It’s anything goes, and that’s what’s fun about it.”- Despite being known as one of the most batshit loony directors in Hollywood who was veritably blacklisted for years for his bizarre and eccentric behavior*, relentlessly chipper actress Brittany Snow thinks “American History X” director and notorious fruitcake, Tony Kaye is a collaborative sweetheart on the set of “Black Water Transit.” [MTV]
(*Kaye infamously tried to take his name off “American History X” and replace it with “Humpty Dumpty,” but was denied by the Director’s Guild, his falling out with lead actor Ed Norton -who essentially fired him and took over the film and cobbled together the final edit – he also spent, $100,o00 of his own money to place ads in Variety denouncing the existence of Norton and the film. He then befriended and completely betrayed Marlon Brando a few years before his death.)
“I had access to lots of amazing American producers that I would have died to work with. And at the same time, I was able to dig out thieves with mullets and moustaches that live in a little village in India and never leave town.” – Instead of going with the usual suspects like Timbaland, Diplo and DJ Premiere, Sri-Lankin rapper MIA decided to piss off Interscope’s Jimmy Iovine by utilizing slightly less known producers for her upcoming album, Kala. And by slightly lesser we mean totally untested and unknown. [Fader] Snippets of her new album were here.
“The music has never been the most important thing. Rather there’s a general creative approach with many satellites around the music as the main vector.” – One of the robots in Daft Punk insist that their music is merely a side dish in the overall, constantly evolving conceptual art project that is known as Daft Punk. Their new experimental movie “Electroma” hits theaters via limited release in August. [Fader]
Download: MIA – “Boyz”
Download: MIA – “Bird Flu”
