The only time I saw Robyn Hitchcock it was in this smallish room of the Knitting Factory in NYC. I've got one of his souveniers from the show sitting on a shelf beside my desk. Instead of shirts etc. he had all these 8" high little orange traffic pylons... and with a black felt marker he made individual works of art on them. Did he have the same kind of thing when you guys saw him? I thought it was a cool idea for show merch.
One pretty cool thing.... He made this movie called Storefront Hitchcock (shot by Jonathan Demme - Stop Making sense). It's basically a live show shot over a couple of days in a storefront on 14th st. The windows were kind of tinted so you could barely make him out from the street, and from the street he had his back to you while he played to an audience inside the store. (I've never seen the movie, btw.).
Anyways, people on the street didn't really know what was going on so it was just a bunch of passers by, pretty much. But on my lunch break I went and checked it out, scarfing down a pizza as I watched (they had speakers set up so you could hear). In the middle of a song he turns around and looks at me, then stops the song and turns back to face the audience. He then went into a (I swear to god) 5 minute rant about how I was some kind of Damien Omen type character who was mentally willing him to do **** through telepathy or some bizzarre thing. I had no idea what to do. I hated the attention but I couldn't just bolt. I had to stand there while he went off and folks were crackin' up (cuz it was some pretty funny sheeat...).
I heard it never made the movie. Have you guys seen it and was it any good?
