I agree with Steve

9/13/2007 9:46:03 PM

http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/3567/

Be Here To Love Me ranked #7 on London Time Out's 50 greatest music films ever:

Quote :

"7 Be Here to Love Me (Margaret Brown, 2004) ‘I think my life will run out before my work does,’ Townes Van Zandt once said. ‘I designed it that way.’ Van Zandt is one of those men who, because he was a profoundly talented singer-songwriter rather than, say, a bus driver, managed most of the time to pass himself off as merely ‘troubled’. But it was much worse than that, as Margaret Brown’s superb film gently illustrates. He finally ran out of road on the first day of 1997 at the age of 52, after a series of deeper and deeper rock bottoms and decades of heroin and alcohol abuse. This isn’t an ordinary clips-and-quips documentary. There is no omniscient narrative voice: instead, the story is pieced together using songs, interview audio, still photos and old camcorder footage; wise, worldly eulogies from Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, Guy Clark and Emmylou Harris; and the painful recollections of friends, ex-wives and children. Van Zandt appears throughout, arguing at one point that not all his songs are sad. ‘A few of them are hopeless,’ he grins. He juggles a bottle of bourbon, a can of Coke and a shotgun; he admits he goes through clinical ‘heart death’ once or twice or month; he goes on a bender with ‘Jimmy the Indian in a pick-up truck’; he sniffs glue through his socks so often that they eventually ‘take his socks away’. A handsome, intelligent Texan, by the end he looks for all the world like a scarecrow with a hole in the middle that his eyes – and his songs – make achingly explicit. When you learn that all his childhood memories were erased by the shock treatment he underwent as a teenager, something inescapable and defining slots into place. The pervading mood is one of unbreachable sadness, but Brown doesn’t revel in it. Instead, this beautifully underplayed film allows the story to unfold with mystery and humour, much in the manner of Van Zandt’s most famous song ‘Pancho And Lefty’. ‘Be Here to Love Me’ serves a useful double purpose: it’s a compelling introduction to the work of a man who never received due acclaim while alive. And it measures out, in unsparing detail, the price paid for pursuing a dream. Graeme Thomson Greatest hit Turning up in a wheelchair for a session with Sonic Youth after suffering a seizure."

[Edited on October 5, 2007 at 9:40 AM. Reason : .]

10/5/2007 9:39:50 AM

bump ttt

3/24/2008 11:38:44 AM

Just found this . . .

3/24/2008 11:42:35 AM

Same old song, oh baby it won't be long . . . I'll be tying on, my flying shoes . . .

3/24/2008 4:37:31 PM

http://www.seeqpod.com/search/?plid=11995b3bfa

3/24/2008 5:10:18 PM

well done sir.

3/24/2008 5:14:04 PM

i like his version more than the stones version

plus it was a great way to end the big lebowski

3/24/2008 5:14:51 PM

yeah, well, the Dude abides.

the TVZ version was the first song I learned to pick on the guitar.

3/24/2008 5:18:00 PM

teach me?

i've been wanting to for a while but i can't find tablature, and i'm too retarded to pick it out

3/24/2008 5:18:40 PM

ahh, I don't know tabs (I'm not a very good guitarist ) and I live in Fayetteville, but let me see what I can do.

3/24/2008 5:21:30 PM

ah ok

3/24/2008 5:22:32 PM

I wanna learn how to pick the guitar

3/24/2008 5:26:09 PM

I just sent you a PM, see if you can't decode my jibber jabber.

3/24/2008 5:29:50 PM

I like the lyle lovett covers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGuuOSZq-II

3/24/2008 6:01:15 PM

yeah, he performed that at TVZ's funeral.

3/24/2008 6:04:21 PM

Godammit. You can knock If I Needed You all day long for being mainstream. This thread and that song just made me text my crazy ex.

3/24/2008 6:22:16 PM

who is knocking If I Needed You? Dude wrote that shit in his sleep.

3/24/2008 6:24:03 PM

OK, I take it back. Didn't read the whole thread. Just saw the title of that song and had to find that file again. Took a listen. Shit.

3/24/2008 6:26:44 PM

Robert Earl Keen played Flyin' Shoes last night . . . fucking amazing.

3/28/2008 6:51:39 AM