Roman Candle Magazine

Old Stuff – A Lounge Lizard Alone, Ulli Pfau, 1990

Here’s a real gem found in the seemingly endless audio-visual
abyss of Youtube. A Lounge Lizard Alone is a short film documenting jazz-cat
and general man about town John Lurie as he prepares for a stripped-back gig
somewhere on the continent.

The performance, backed by the rhythmic din of famed subway
tub-drummer Larry Wright, is decent, but the real gold is the everyday footage
of John swanning about before the gig, buying dozens of plastic horns and
musing on acting, the music business and fishing.