MARTY SUPREME - a Scenic’s View

​i’m a Scenic in USA Local 829 and i worked on Marty Supreme with a lot of my coworker pals who are all brothers & sisters in 829 as well.

here are most of the pics i took & a few others took, from first day of shooting in October ‘24 thru to the night of the crew wrap party in early December ‘24, on the Lower East Side (Orchard & Eldridge Streets} and at Broadway Stages in Greenpoint, BK, NYC.

i call the above photo "The Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Shere of the Film 

Making Industry" (Japan, China & The Philippines united in scenic arts)

and here's that gnarly scene, shot on iphone thru another crew's monitor, when the bathtub that Marty/Timmy Supreme/Chalamet is bathing in crashes thru the rotten floor onto the guy in the bathtub below, crushing him, but also exciting the audiences world wide:

here's how the Scenics were keeping loose their limbs & thoughts, and quieting their breathing on Marty Supreme, because like Repo Men, "scenic is always intense":

note to all the millions of super fans who always ask: Yes, i  did indeed meet Tim Chalamet - when he walked up to me and asked for a light while i was standing outside our shop smoking on Henry Ave. he was a nice dude. I had no idea who he was - i just thought he was another of the thousands of Bushwick scenester kids in their 20s working as PAs on shows in Brooklyn....

READING IS FUN DA MENTAL

been trying to find all the recordings of me reading my stuff in front of people and put them out and up them to bandcamp. it's going awright. I still have to find the recordings from reading at the Editions of You Exhibit at Oxford in the UK way back in 2011 tho.... (Lisa Busby (curator) can you help me?).

but anyway, you have nothing but time, so listen to this shit here

its still terrifying btw, to get up and start reading stuff at people, but if someone asks me i feel like i gotta at least try to get there and do it you know? when i was singer in hardcore bands (like 40+ years ago OMG!) i would get so super nervous before a show; but like a complete freak I felt like i just had to do it, had to do something, had to be more than a witness, be more than a spectator, a contributor, a show off, a participant, a target, a freak & less of a consumer, a lurker and scared...

but if you like what you hear in my stories, get in touch, fly me to yr show (or flow me gas money or airfare) and I'll read. or put out a spoken word LP on yr label or just Say Hello

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