Exploding, Plastic, and Inevitable

Was curious about this movie Factory Girl, but I seem to have lost interest in it fast. Everyone was talking about the threatened Dylan lawsuit and who plays Andy Warhol, etc., etc., and all I wanted to know was who plays Lou Reed. (Turns out it’s a guy from Weezer.)

Really I’d rather just watch I Shot Andy Warhol yet again, since there’s so much there to dig. It casts a cold shrewd gaze on the Factory scene, and has the awesome Lili Taylor playing an interesting if kind of repugnant character, and has a strong narrative throughline leading to an, um, inevitable-feeling climax, and has a soundtrack that kicks, and for God’s sake, it has Yo La Tengo in the role of the Velvet Underground. Which in my own personal cosmology is pretty much chocolate + bananas.

• The Velvet Underground, “I’m Set Free” (live 1969)

(Buy nowhere – it’s a bootleg, from “the legendary guitar amp tape.” And go here for your Velvets information needs.)