Last weekend while escaping the New York Winter, i came across this amazing portrait and 'day-in-the-life' of the ever mysterious and peculiar Nick Cave. Knowing a bit about him i knew this wouldn't just be another artist documentary, and i was right. An amazing glimpse in a day, the 20,000th day, to be exact, and what a day it was. The film even without its easy to be entertained subject is an amazing piece of story telling, playing with our notions of time, while being a piece of real cinematic art in itself. 

Take a peak below: 

"Poetic journalism, hearing a relatively true story, but after you've digested it, and filtered it through your imagination, add it with flavor, with innuendo, with hyperbolae, it starts as a true story but it is filtered through my imagination, and ends up as poetry." Spalding Grey

Spalding Gray, was on the fringe, his monologues vivid stories of himself and his interactions with the world, or more often the worlds interaction with him. Often sitting at a desk, with a glass a water and a microphone, Spalding did not need anything else as he began his pieces as if painting his world for all of us in the air between stage and audience. If you've never seen any of his work check out "Swimming to Cambodia"

I saw Steven Soderbergh's documentary on Spalding Gray this evening, and find myself so impressed at how well Spalding was captured, and letting us past the monologues, a beautiful portrait of a brilliant man.

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