Okay, the whole Scientology thing was something of a giveaway. That, and the drugs. Not to mention a history of public acting-out that suggests we might be looking at the 2020s version of Courtney Love. But no one can deny she’s serious about her music, and she remains serious even after dumping the long-suffering Licks. Serious, and utterly incoherent. Here’s Juliette describing her post-Licks sound:
Disillusionment, joy and pain, the contrast of sound — heaven and earth, really groovy big-bottom bass and drums and then very atmospheric mercurial guitars. I was trying to get my sonic soul poured out on record. It;s like heaven in a vat of lava that’s about to explode.
Juliette got some help with this soul-pouring process from producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, who has a unique approach to rock ‘n’ roll. “[H]e makes you want to make your hips move from left to right rather than bob your head straight up and down,” Juliette explains helpfully.
I’ve never seen Juliette perform, but this gonzo word salad makes me think she might be an authentic hoot to watch. Probably fun to hang out with, too, in a hi-intensity nutso way. But then she’d fix me with her gimlet eye and start talking about “getting clear” and megadoses of cooking oil, which would sort of suck the fun out of the encounter.
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Scientology…drugs…acting-out…2020s version of Courtney Love…utterly incoherent
Too bad about all that, she’s pretty hawt otherwise…
Yep, as nuts as she is, I might just let her suck the fun out of my encounter anyway.
I bid 500 quatloos for the hi-intensity nutso.
Also, she was splendid in that Cape Fear remake.
Really aside from having an unusually large forehead (what my friends and I used to call a five-head), and being psychotic, she’s total girlfriend material. Who am I kidding, the psychotic thing is practically a requirement.
Hells yeah! Psychotic at least guarantees great sex.
And an emergency restraining order followed by several court hearings…
The technical term is “nuttier than squirrel poo”
AB: sounds like you have done this too?
Nope. Just learned a hell of a lot about human nature by working for a judge. More than I ever learned in law school itself.
Nothing glamourous on my part, I’m afraid.
….. I knew that poor girl was gonna end up on drugs ever since I watched her suck DeNiro’s thumb in “Cape Fear”………
….. and now?……. she’s has become more and more freaky as the years have rolled on…….
…. it’s sad, really…… and it actually makes me quite afraid for Woody Harrelson – wherever he may be these days……….
[...] Juliette Lewis may well actually be nuts [Agent Bedhead] [...]
I’ve never had anything like that before a judge, but have had to change my phone number a few times. And… something else you might enjoy (for the psycho factor) but I’m not going to describe it here.
I’ve seen her live, it’s quite an experience. She’s crazy, but in a good way me thinks.
It’s better than going home and doing the laundry and dishes I guess?
The Licks are/were a great band. JL is really authentic RnR. I have seen hundreds of underground bands that just pretend to touch the slightly crazy, art rock explosion that she finds.
Artistic people who strive to be unlike the herd often seem weird or ‘psycho’ to the herd.
One man’s artist is another man’s poor attempt at humor and target of lame, uninteresting, mysoginistic masterbatory fantasies I guess..
I believe she is what would be know as absolute prime crazy p_ _ _y. Crazy P- for the uninitiated -is that girl you have to have, even though you know, absolutely know, she’s out of her effin’ gourd. Hell, even though you know you she’ll probably crash your porche (and do you think these women have insurance? toss your precious record collection out the window, and wake you up at 4am on the night before your big presentation…are you really going to throw her out when you realize it isn’t a wet dream or the in the suspiciously trained dog you rescued from the spca…those warm lips are real.
Crazy p_ _ _ y. Wives fear it. Men lust for it.
Juliette Lewis is the personification.
I’d date her and I’m not even gay.
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