“Like the cancer that is that ‘Darjeeling’ guy … what’s his name? His completely cancerous approach to using music is basically, ‘Here’s my iPod on shuffle, and here’s my movie.’ The two are just thrown together. People are constantly contacting me saying, ‘I’ve been editing my movie, and I’ve been using your song in the editing process. What would it take to license the song?’ And for me it’s like, ‘Regardless of what you’ve been doing, my song doesn’t belong in your movie.'” — Indie folky Will Oldham’s morose, sometimes spooky Appalachian folk won’t be featured in a Wes Anderson movie any time soon or ever.
We admit this makes us laugh. We like Anderson a lot despite his flaws, but like the Sloan song sang about the now defunct uber-PC industrial band Consolidated back in the early ’90s, “It’s not the band I hate, it’s their fans.” Poor Wes, it’s not his fault, but rather the generation of newbie film fans that began their cinema education with his movies and think he’s the be all end all. Them folks would benefit from being as deeply educated and dedicated a cinephile as he is, but then again, kids don’t really dig Renoir. [ AV Club via Vulture]
Cue: comments digging into Will Oldham, calling him a “nobody.” (For the record both are great artists, but have your fun).
