Antony Loves "Aggro-Sincerity," Does Not Love Sean Penn In Milk
NY Mag has a good profile on Antony "The Johnson" Hegarty, paving the way for the release of his heavily rotated and rather excellent upcoming album The Crying Light. In it you'll find interesting self-descriptors of his aesthetic ("heavy sincere-ism, and aggro-sincerity, and non-cynicism, which is kind of more risky") and the new album's focus ("my relationship to the environment and the elements. The natural world."), and also the new pullquote that will grace the cover of the Milk DVD release:
"It's like blackface to me ... it's a continuing Hollywood minstrel show, co-opting queer stories and perversely building up the careers of these heterosexual bastards with the plumage of effeminacies, that they can wear this plumage of effeminacies without having to really be accountable"
He should never see Tropic Thunder, and probably not expect a seat in the Dirty Hands Caravan anytime soon. I imagine Antony would vote Mickey Rourke over Sean Penn in the Oscar race, which I would too because The Wrestler is so great, and also film-award season could use more acceptance speeches featuring shout outs to Axl Rose. Also there's that bit about Rourke calling Penn a homophobe and an "average" actor, but I don't know how Antony comes down on that one.
As far as the music goes, here's a taste of the album we're so excited about:
Antony & The Johnsons - "Another World" (MP3)
That comes from The Crying Light, which is out in the UK 1/19 via Rough Trade and the following day in the States via Secretly Canadian.
UPDATE: Antony apologizes to Sean Penn.
Posted at 11:02 AM by amrit in MP3
Tags: Antony And The Johnsons | Antony Hegarty | Sean Penn
I AGREE WITH ANTONY!
SOME GAYS DRESS REALLY GOOD!!
http://videogum.com/archives/music-related-content/kanye-west-thinks-gay-people-w_045121.html
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...that's a disappointingly old guard way of looking at it.
Looking forward to his new record, though.
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i agree. disappointed to hear that he would think like that.
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also, this: http://butnotmine.tumblr.com/post/47577635/in-which-sean-penn-ruins-my-future-viewing-of-milk-and
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I have the new c.d. and i must say it is quite scrumtrilesent
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Who the hell does this guy suggest should have played Harvey Milk? Charles Nelson Riley?
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You just made me blow a snot bubble in the damn cafe! Good point,
I haven't seen Milk yet 'cause I live in Czech Republic and we don't get those types of movies here but I've heard Penn does a good job. But anyway so only Gay actors can play Gay people?
I know there's plenty gay actors to chose from but why not get the best actors? Penn's politics are laughable (who can really think Castro and Chavez are good?) but there's no doubt he's a top actor working these days. Charles Nelson Riley would have played it much ahem "straighter."
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who can really think chavez and castro are good? a lot of people, believe me, in cuba and venezuela at least, you'd be surprised at how much support they have.
i don't think they're good either, basically because of their populism which is always a type of authoritarian/conservative politics, but it's true that marginalized and poverty stricken people have been given a voice (not to mention tangible improvements in health care, schools, living conditions for the poor, etc,) under their respective governments.
but yeah, i agree with you in everything else :)
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enough already with the gay stuff, okay?
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They're called "actors" for a reason. Sex/Race/Sexual Orientation shouldn't matter in the role played. Great musician. Bit of a dumbass though. Think before speaking, Antony.
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So Antony is gay??
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No, trans. There is a difference, believe it or not. If there wasn't, there would be not "T" in "LGBT".
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