10 Sep '07 - 587 W - + 19 - 16 Haysi Fantayzee, Smut Movies and John Wayne
I’ve just been reading over an old Haysi Fantayzee (Jeremy and Kate) interview I did for Flexipop! some time in the dim and distant past. For some reason, I seem to remember that we did this on the top floor of a big old warehouse somewhere behind Tottenham Court Road. I think that was back in the days when the top floor of a warehouse was considered to be quite a fashionable pad 
I also have vague memories of Marilyn being there too. Not sure why. Were Haysi and Marilyn on the same record label? Did they share a manager? Or, who knows, maybe they were just good friends.
Anyway, this being a Flexipop! interview, it is no surprise that it quickly took a turn toward the smutty. I think Jeremy and Kate enjoyed it, as a matter of fact. Probably made a change from all those Jackie and My Guy interviews in which they were asked to talk about school dinners and first loves (I know this for a fact – I did a whole load of Jackie and My Guy interviews myself...)
Anyway, here’s a snippet of the interview...
“The dirtiest film I ever saw was on a video in someone’s living room,” said Kate. “Nobody was watching it at first because they were all chatting away to one another, but then, all of a sudden, this woman came on — with a horse! And everybody in the room went silent and started watching the video. It was really dirty. I felt like I didn’t really want to watch it because I was embarrassed, and yet I couldn’t take my eyes off it. Actually, it was quite boring. I mean, you could see that the horse desperately didn’t want to do it. I don’t blame him either, because the woman was so ugly!”
Having established that this sort of film is not to her tastes, I wondered what sort were? Well I like ‘Eraserhead’,” she said, “And we’ve also got ‘A Clockwork Orange’ on video, which is a very good film.”
“Yeah,” Jeremy added, “But Stanley Kubrick, the director, made sure that it’s practically impossible to get hold of a copy of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and we only managed to get a copy of a copy of a copy. Kubrick owns the distribution rights, you see, and he now thinks that he said something in that film which he doesn’t like ten years on. And that’s why it’s impossible to see it.”
“It was thought to be a fairly violent film at the time it was made,” said Kate, “but it’s tame by today’s standards. These days you can actually get some video nasties in which people are killed - really killed. I’m not sure how they make those films. I mean, do people know they’re going to be killed, and do they give lots of money to their parents or something?”
“No,” said Jeremy, who appears to have considerable knowledge on the subject, “What they do is, they kidnap them, take them off into the hills, drug them and then kill them. That is what I call really sick. Those films are for very sick people. I must admit I find it intensely interesting that people make them.”
OK, enough of all that sleaze. Here’s some good, clean family fun. Haysi Fantayzee singing the very wonderful ‘John Wayne Is Big Leggy’...
