Mayor of the Sunset Strip

If you haven't seen this movie about Rodney Bingenheimer you should. The guy knows everybody even remotely linked to rock and roll in the past 40 years. He's lived a life of poverty and pussy while everyone around him was getting rich and famous. He has lived a great story and the movie does a good job telling it.

I loved the story of Elvis showing up at the Rodney's bar, The English Disco, with his DEA badge and a bag full of percodan.

Courtney Love does know a bit about rock and roll. I think her own tale seems a bit more tragic if her story that her father was the drug dealer to the Grateful Dead who gave her acid at 4 years old is actually true. It would sure explain some things. Her comment that Rodney, "gets the joke about almost every good band," is spot-on.

How fucking butch is Joan Jett? But man, those are some seriously sexy arms. She can pin me down any day.

Rodney introduced David Bowie to Los Angeles. Bowie comes across as a pretty cool guy. He has a line that goes something like, "It was far more hedonistic back then. I only remember the sex. I don't remember anything else about LA from back then." Yeah, they lived a good life. How about hanging out at a party with both Bowie and Neve Campbell?

I hadn't ever really noticed how hot Gwen Stefani is. Nancy Sinatra looks pretty good too.

It's funny that people still mistake Rodney for Davey Jones.

Rodney is said to have enjoyed, "an extraordinary posse of pussy."

Rodney used to live with Sonny and Cher and considers Cher a mother figure.

This was a great rock and roll movie that I'm betting many of my (multitudinous) readers will have already seen. But if you haven't and if you like music, I think you'll realy enjoy the movie. I've had it for a month from Netflix so that I could watch it twice. I only got about half-way through the extras as I tend to enjoy movies in an inebbriated state that doesn't always allow for extended viewing. Still, I promise you good stuff throughout.

Jonathan 1/02/2005 05:57:00 PM