#one sheets

films from Lawrence Kasdan as Director

After doing festivals for the last few months I’m almost ready to release this film into the wild.

that moment you get 29834723894 emails from your manager all with amazing advice and info but its like I'M SO OVERWHELMED HOW CAN I DO THIS ALL ALONE

Considering how much I love the Velvet Underground, it seemed to make sense to buy a Nico album. So I ordered Chelsea Girl earlier this week and it was definitely a good decision. While very much her own work, there is the occasional clue that this was recorded in the months directly after The Velvet Underground and Nico was released, either way its a really great album. At times sounding like a film score (unsurprisingly the track Chelsea Girls is the best example of this) there's some great call and response between Nico's voice and the flute on some tracks, and some really lovely guitar playing, especially on the early tracks. As with her Velvet Underground tracks I'm a fan of the lyrics as well, always seeming very considered and concise without sounding forced. This is a particularly tragic album, with only a few of the tracks sounding remotely upbeat, and even then it seems almost reluctantly so. But that is what Nico lends herself to with her deep clear voice and her ability to sound reservedly pained almost regardless of the lyrics.

I realised today that I still hadn't read the one sheets (liner notes or whatever you want to call them) for this album, and I was pleased to find that they are a reprint from an article from the magazine "IN New York" by Pat Patterson. He was clearly very struck with Nico, he briefly describes her set and then recounts a conversation, rather than an interview, that they had thereafter, punctuating quotes from her on the subjects of Andy Warhol, Lenny Bruce and Pop art, with descriptions of her diction, mannerisms and appearance. It was a really interesting little read.