Hey everyone, I am Lars
and this is 'What's in My Bag' Hollywood edition.
I was instructed to have a minimum of five items.
I think I just made my quota here. Let's see.
'Born to Run' Bruce Springsteen
I'm not a huge Springsteen aficionado. I can't
walk you through all the songs and the b-sides and the stories and all that.
But I've always obviously had a lot of respect for him
and then I read a few excerpts
and was just blown away by his writing.
There's no ghost writer, this is all from Bruce Springsteen himself
and he's really open, and just puts it all on the table
and he writes like he writes songs.
Dread. The sense that things might not work out.
that the moral high ground had been swept out from underneath us
that the dream we had of ourselves had somehow been tainted
and the future would forever be unsure, was in the air.
This was the new lay of the land
and if I was going to put my characters out on that highway
I was going to have to put all these things in the car with them.
Now I have this for my library, thank you very much.
You're very welcome.
Amoeba is one of the greatest places to do Christmas shopping.
Charles Bukowski, who is one of my favorite writers
My wife is a bit of a cat fanatic
and she likes literature
so Bukowski and cats together should make a fine Christmas present
Don't tell her, if you see her.
John Woo. One of the all-time classic directors
of Hong Kong action cinema
These are the two first movies of his that I saw: 'The Killer'
and 'Hard Boiled.'
He did 4 or 5 seminal films, late '80's, early '90s
'A Better Tomorrow,' 'A Better Tomorrow 2,' 'Bullet in Head'
'Killer' and 'Hard Boiled,' most of which featured
Chow Yun-fat
I have all these movies on laserdisc
and I've seen all of them, numerous times
I may have them on DVD, but
now I've got more copies of them on DVD
Now I've got the double pack.
Oh! It's Christmas.
So what could be cooler
in no particular order, than a Christmas card of Tony Iommi
A Christmas card of King Diamond
When I think baby Jesus in the crib
I instantly think 'King Diamond'
So this is tailor-made for me.
Again, who are you gonna add to that list, other than The Scorpions
There's Rudolph and Klaus
in all their glory, the Flying V
and so I think we've got Christmas cards covered.
Thank you very much for this season.
I was under strict instructions from my much better half
to procure the latest Radiohead album, 'A Moon Shaped Pool'
Sort of like Springsteen, I've always respected Radiohead
never gotten really close
but my better half Jessica has...
We went to two Radiohead shows this year
just standing there watching them
do their thing and how they interact with each other
by the time the second one was done
I must say that I was starting to
drink the Kool-Aid too, and
really get into it.
Deep Purple. This is 'Graz 1975.'
Graz is a city in Austria.
I believe this was the last show that Ritchie Blackmore played with them.
They spit out live albums from back in the heyday
from '69-'75, I think there's one about every two weeks
maybe it's three, but
they come out with these supercool packages with lots of pictures
and sleeve notes and all kinds of goody
so here is Deep Purple from 1975
before Ritchie went off with the support act
lead singer, Tucky Buzzard, Ronnie Dio.
'Lords of Chaos'
It's a book I'm well aware of but I have not read
a friend of mine, Jonas Åkerlund
is making a movie based on this book
and he directed one of the videos from the new Metallica album, 'Man Unkind.'
which was in the spirit
of this particular genre
This is just an interesting story
and whether you appreciate the music, whether you don't appreciate the music
it's part of a sort of pop culture history
and now, thanks to Amoeba, I have it.
Since we like to be cutting edge in Metallica
here are two up-and-coming English bands
This is a movie of The Beatles, that's called 'Eight Days a Week'
that's directed by Ron Howard which I've been looking forward to seeing.
Ringo has a sexy nose.
A sexy nose?
George has got sexy eyelashes.
Who has?
George, he's got sexy eyelashes.
Yeah, sexy eyelashes.
That one.
And this is about the Stones' recent trek, I believe through
Latin America and Cuba.
When you hear about these two bands
just remember one thing: you heard it here first.
Ok? Lars Ulrich, thank you.
Speaking of movies, fellow Dane, Lars von Trier
this is the extended director's cut
of his mega undertaking called 'Nymphomaniac'
The one who had fucked the most men when we reached the destination
would win the chocolate sweets.
which was released in Volume 1 and Volume 2
It was easy to see that they became quite excited.
I got excited.
Yes, about the mathmatical crap.
Not about the story.
He asked Metallica to write a song for this movie.
Due to the old schedule conflict, it didn't happen
but Lars is a dear friend
He's got a pretty cool first name, by the way
has made some of the greatest films in cinema in the last twenty-x years.
This may be 8 or 12 hours long
so don't make any other plans for that night
Again, don't tell my wife this, but I got
another Christmas present for the stocking: 'Cat Tweets'
This looks at the very extra silly end of silly cat stuff
And then we'll end up in jazz world
Conversations Over Music
Ben Ratliff, who is one of the finest writers from the New York Times
Jazz is a big thing in my life, and big thing in
my kids' life and also my dad's life
Growing up in Copenhagen and being around sort of the European jazz scene
in the '50s, '60s and '70s
so this looks like a welcome addition to the library.
'Masters of Jazz Photography,' Lee Tanner
'The Jazz Image'
Some really cool atmospheric portraits
some awesome black-and-whites, lots of people smoking
Don't smoke at home kids. It's bad for ya.
I believe that the only thing left in here now is air
but I would love to take the bag with me.
We love Amoeba bags.
So now we've got an additional bag, baby. There you go.
So thank you very much for this. This has been fun
slightly overwhelming
but a nice way to end the week in LA.
Thank you.