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12 October 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Underground icon Daniel Johnston has spent a lot of time slightly above ground. From Kurt Cobain wearing his T-shirt to 2005’s documentary The Devil And Daniel Johnston, many high-profile entertainers have supported the troubled Texan. Collaborators like Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers and Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse (which once covered Johnston’s “Hey Joe”) have tried to bolster Johnston’s signature aesthetic—fragile, crudely lo-fi, fractured acoustic oddities. Of course, the addition of high-profile collaborators destroyed that aesthetic and erased Johnston’s sad charm. On Is And Always Was, producer Jason Falkner avoids that trap entirely by making a ... »

23 September 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

John Wray’s latest novel, Lowboy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), released in March of this year, concerns a 16-year-old schizophrenic named Will Heller, just out of Bellavista psychiatric hospital (read Bellevue), off his meds and with a history of violence, who rides the subways beneath Manhattan trying to save the world from imminent global apocalypse by eluding capture and successfully losing his virginity.  This thriller engine— Doa meets Shock Corridor —Wray says he took from an Australian news clipping.  But knowing that he traveled to Austin, Texas in the mid-’90s, where he met the schizophrenic singer-songwriter and artist Daniel Johnston— whom he calls “the single most creative individual I’ve met”— it’s tempting to imagine the two connected, at least within the Cuisinart of the creative process.  As detailed in Jeff Feuerzeig’s acclaimed 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Johnston even had his own lost week in New »

2 articles from 2009