14 August 2008

Sex, drugs, rock & roll, and dismemberment

Party Monster: The Shockumentary

(1998)

OK, let me be clear about this: where does a shockumentary fall in the continuum from documentary to mockumentary? To the left of schlockumentary? To the right of crockumentary? (Of course, the jockumentary, à la Hoop Dreams, is on a whole different scale; ditto 24, the weekly tick-tockumentary.)

I just finished reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, so it's probably a good idea to counteract the impulse to begin ingesting illicit drugs with reckless abandon; this works quite nicely, thank you: sweet young boy from South Bend winds up on Rikers.

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