Dead Man

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Yesterday whilst listing a sampling of my current favorite music I
unaccountably forget Niel Young's soundtrack for my favorite movie of
1996, Jarmusch's _Dead Man_ starring Johnny Depp and Wm. Blake's words,
with an interesting assortment of players, many in walk-ons (e.g., Iggy
Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum).  The costar Nobody was
another great performance but unfortunately I don't know the actor's name.
The movie and the music are both extremely unusual, bizarre even, but
great.  Surely destined for cult status.  I'll let excerpts from
Jarmusch's liner notes for the CD speak:

"DEAD MAN is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and
spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain . . . circumstances transform
[him] into . . . a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away .
. . his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the
living . . . it is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror,
and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other
side."

See it.  Listen to it.  Be blown away.

	Steve

P.S.  Any word of George Mangels, author of the fascinating _Frank's
World_, topic of a discussion on this list some time ago?