American: The Bill Hicks Story

[amick]

Looks really good, heard about it ages ago but forgot it was being made.

Anyone else interested???

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179947/

EDIT: LINK FIXED

[BaronVon]

Don't click on this link it tried to download some third party software on my computer. Couldn't shut it down. Some kind of email scanner was trying to access my hardrive.

[shambandito]

lol? it's just an imdb link?

[Motorway to Roswell]

Looks ace.

Hopefully they won't make the Hicks film with Russel Crowe as Hicks.

[BaronVon]

lol? it's just an imdb link?

Some fucked up shit happened when i clicked it. Nothing to do with imdb.
The op changed the link, now it's from imdb

[alphacat]

Bill Hicks is one of the few people in the last 50 years that makes me say I'm proud to be from the same country.

[parson]

i like how he starts this show by addressing the audience as "vibrations in the mind of the one true god whose name is Love."

then at the end he says shit about having a vision of exploring the cosmos forever so long as we learn how to act right.

[firky]

Bill Hicks is one of the few people in the last 50 years that makes me say I'm proud to be from the same country.

I always thought you were British, well bugger me.

[alphacat]

i like how he starts this show by addressing the audience as "vibrations in the mind of the one true god whose name is Love."

then at the end he says shit about having a vision of exploring the cosmos forever so long as we learn how to act right.

Yeah, the man was eminently quotable. That and this one:

Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition?, perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once?

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

I always thought you were British, well bugger me.

Heh. Thank you. Oh, and I'll pass on the buggery (your Roman collar notwithstanding...)

[parson]

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

i used that quote in a tune i made under an alias http://www.myspace.com/amnz14k

[heronfisher]

Looks like it will cover Bill's life/career all the way until the end. The reason I say this is because it looks like maybe the phone scene at 1:46 is when the Letterman segment producers called to say that his act had been censored from the show. I have been hoping for a movie about his life to come out for years and it's finally happened.

[wormcode]

I wonder if there will be anything on the Bill Hicks/Dennis Leary persona/joke thief rivalry. I'd assume they would concentrate purely on Hicks, but Dennis Leary was a huge part of his life towards the end.

Yeah, also that Russell Crowe playing him in a film... I've been reading that for a long time, and part of me hopes it doesn't happen, but another part of me thinks it could be great if done well. Not sure about Crowe, but it could be good. He does resemble him sometimes, but I'm not sure if that's enough.

Jim Carrey did a great job at playing Andy Kaufman. The movie wasn't amazing, but I think his performance was.

[kay]

Don't know his life history, but he would've had to be a pretty morose sad bastard offstage if Russell Crowe could play him.

[parson]

there's already a documentary about him. i forget what it's called but i have it on my other computer.

he was a pretty angry and depressed dude.

[wormcode]

there's already a documentary about him. i forget what it's called but i have it on my other computer.

he was a pretty angry and depressed dude.

Outlaw Comic? Good one too.

[parson]

the one i have is called it's just a ride. its 42 mins long.

[tacospheros]

the one i have is called it's just a ride. its 42 mins long.

do the world a service and upload it somewhere !

[parson]

sure i could do that

[magma]

the one i have is called it's just a ride. its 42 mins long.

I've got that one on the end of the VHS of the Revelations show... good doc. I love Bill Hicks.... was listening to Rant In E Minor only last week.

I'm not sure the world needs another Bill Hicks doc; I can already think of two and at least two books too. This will undoubtedly result in lots more people thinking that they're deep by quoting Hicks as if something being funny makes it profound.

[parson]

yeah people should quit reading the tao te ching too because they're gonna quote stuff and think they're wise n shit