"I met him in a crowded room," Albarn sings in a deserted hall at the outset, accompanying himself on piano two fingers at a time, "where people go to drink away their gloom. I sure as fuck wouldn't want Damon Albarn hovering behind me in the bathroom while I rinsed my mouth out with wine, or while standing mostly naked in the salon strapping on a wristwatch, or magically appearing behind me in a photo of myself on the wall. Rather, what Jean-Marc Barr exposes in "Charmless Man," as much as his chest, arms, and legs, is his aristocratic side, portraying a well-groomed boulevardier getting ready for a night on the town.įunny, though, how Blur (a four-letter word) dogs him every step of the way. In his underwear.Īs I dabbed iodine on the scrapes sustained while dragging my mandible across the carpet, I reran the tape and at last began to understand how the charismatic and blisteringly intelligent leading man of European cinema (see Lars von Trier's Zentropa), who speaks a twangy Californian English and the velvetiest and most seductive French French imaginable, could find himself in bed with Damon Albarn.
Various episodes of VCR programming and breathless rewinding and reviewing later, I concluded that yes, the astonishingly dreamy Französisch-Amerikanski actor Jean-Marc Barr had somehow gotten himself mixed up with Blur. I thought nothing of it for a moment, and then sensory information store kicked in: Wasn't that.? Could it have been.? I caught less than a second of footage featuring a strangely familiar man, then the blood-curdling visage of a smirking Damon Albarn. (I can't explain them, and they come to me unpredictably, but they're always right.) This intuition bellowed Turn on the TV right now! I obeyed. I had one of my trademark intuitions one day. Just scroll down, or navigate:īlur's " Charmless Man" Jamie Thraves, director You are here: Homepage > Writing > QiYE main > QiYE article list > QiYE 58: Blur, Pulp, Rocket from the Crypt, Nada Surf, Orbital, Chemical Brothers, Luscious Jackson The Citroën CX of the Common People
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