The cinetrix wishes she had a gift for Venn diagrams, because then she could map out the weird connective tissue linking critics' darlings Juno and I'm Not There. Or, as she's more commonly known, Kim Gordon.
Consider this the circle on the left: The Sonic Youth frontwoman shows up in Todd Haynes' flick as a talking head named "Carla Hendricks," relating how it was back in the day, in New York's folkie scene.
Now, the circle on the right: Jason Bateman's Mark plays a Sonic Youth song for Juno [Ellen Page]. But not just any song. It's their cover of the Carpenters' "Superstar."
Which, of course, brings us back to Haynes and his infamous student film Superstar, about the life and death of Karen Carpenter. Voila! This is where the circles overlap.*
And a little searching reveals the conspiracy is bigger than we know. To wit:
A description of this artist's book is best summed up by Kim Gordon's own words: "Basically what the book consists of is a loopy text of me having a conversation with someone named Julia about Dylan's book Chronicles, at a Strokes gig. It's supposed to seem like an excerpt out of a novel. The text is short, only just over a couple pages. The rest of the book consists of pics of me from over the years, and the book is titled Chronicles Vol. 1."
*I think too much.
UPDATE: OGIC sends along this account of "Superstar" and its "bizarre and mysterious pedigree."
