Pope Stinks. From Mister Lonely Portraits by Brent Stewart, Cynthia Broan Gallery, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.

I met Harmony Korine in April of 2004 at the Coral Room in New York City when he came to see my band Sun City Girls perform. After seeing his first two films (Gummo & Julien Donkey-Boy), we’d wanted to work with Harmony on whatever project he had coming up. In 2003 we contributed a song for the opening scene of his documentary film Above the Below, about David Blaine’s 44-day ordeal suspended in a plexi-box over London (for UK television). The next year Harmony asked the band to provide some music for his latest film, which at that time was about a boy who gets struck by lightning and then becomes obsessed with raising the largest pig ever. It sounded perfect.

Sadly, that particular film was never made. But while shooting his new film, Mister Lonely, in 2006, Harmony again requested our musical services. He sent us copies of the script which we all read immediately. Sun City Girls wanted to be a part of this film in any way possible. Over the next several months we recorded a number of musical interludes to be used in scenes throughout the film. We were in constant contact with Harmony and his crew during the shooting and when he was doing post production in London, sending discs and emails back and forth, trying to match the perfect sounds for particular scenes. The wait is finally over, and Mister Lonely will be released in the U.S. this spring.

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Issue 103 Spring 2008