Harmony Korine, the goofy bastard responsible for such lovable fare as Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy (Dogme 95-approved), as well as the screenwriting for Kids and Ken Park, is set to release a neat little movie called Mr. Lonely (trailer). It's about celebrity impersonators. At one point in the film, the main character, a Michael Jackson impersonator, “comforts a nonagenarian non-actor who appears to be hitting himself with a plastic hammer."
Clearly the film needed a heavy dose of good sense, so Korine tapped the sensible, old-fashioned bedrocks of stability, Sun City Girls and J. Spaceman (of Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized), to write the soundtrack (yay!), but independently of each other (awww). This news is extra notable for Sun City Girls fans, as the band broke up last year after the untimely death of drummer Charles Gocher. The soundtrack is among the last recordings of theirs yet to see the light of day.
But here's the new news: both the film and the soundtrack have actual release dates! The film is scheduled for a U.S. release on May 2, while Drag City announced the release of the soundtrack, Mister Lonely: Music from a Film by Harmony Korine, for April 22. It will be packaged in a convenient recorded format, which doesn't require the consumer to, um, view the actual Harmony Korine movie.
Mister Lonely: Music from a Film by Harmony Korine tracklisting:
