Actually a lot of the lyrics are mirrors from this site I’m sure, Afra is doing the contest and all…
It would be nice if Al contributed the lyrics, yes…
Got mine yesterday. I really enjoyed it. The guy from Jesus Lizard was tripping his balls off. The extra stuff on the DVD was very cool too.
Yeah, I wish I’d seen the Jesus Lizard/Laika & The Cosmonauts leg of the tour instead of the Young Gods leg.
Laika is awesome, and it’s too bad all those sad goths in the crowd didn’t get it. Jesus Lizard looked way more fun than Young Gods were.
You mean Fix doesn’t include the Jesus Lizard/Cosmonauts co-billing?
Those were some of the best side-acts touring with Ministry.
From what I recall, at the Palladium, during that tour Al was really slumming it just sitting on the amps watching the audience. Perhaps that wasn’t visually harcore enough for the film.
Holy shit, I’m previewing Fix This!!! on iTunes, All the Pretty Swindles is about the coolest industrial track I’ve heard in a long time. Those drums give it such a great Wax Trax flavor
The sound for the DVD & CD rocked on my system.
You mean Fix doesn’t include the Jesus Lizard/Cosmonauts co-billing?
No, they show those guys in the movie. When I saw Ministry play in '96 I saw them with Young Gods, who were boring.
Not to be pushy, but when are the winners of the trivia announced?
still waiting on my pre ordered copy. Sent an email to them asking about it on friday, but haven’t heard back yet. i never got a tracking number and the website page from the confirmation email i got says pending, but i have been charged for the product. Hope they get back to me soon, as i think it’s rather silly to have PRE ORDERED something and have still not received it 6 days after the street date.
…why do you guys still pre-order stuff? Just curious.
in most cases, i just like paying for stuff when i have the cash and/or remember to order. plus, in almost every case except this one, i receive the item on the street date or maybe a day after. if i were to mail order something on the street date, then i would have to wait the normal shipping time to receive it. I like having stuff on release day, and in most cases, pre ordering gets me the item on release day, and it happens to be more convenient for my entertainment budget.
Yeah that’s lame.
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Well I watched Fix the other night.
While I think it was a bit messy in its editing - at times it just seems like scenes are spliced together (I’m not sure whether the regular changing back and forth from black & white to colour could have been helped, post filming also)- it still delivered a “focus” by the end of it. And that was Al’s paranoia. It’s not so much about the reckless lives of touring musicians and all the craic they get up to (there’s a bit of that, but for the most part it seemed like everyone else was just pissed off with or had to tolerate Al’s mania) but more so about the tolls of drugs on a pivotal member of a band.
I loved the Sphinctour DVD when it came out and so much of the Fix footage was very familiar so it was very interesting to get a background to all that. It’s maybe disconcerting to see how uneasy it was and how much bullshit clogged the tour because of Al’s weirdness but nonetheless it was good to see and understand.
Most of the interviewees were good and merited, though some shouldn’t have been there (Navarro, Davis, even MJK). I had a great laugh at Casey Chaos… what a ridiculous pudding of a man.
Yow from the Jesus Lizard… what a crazy bastard. A laugh from a distance but he’d be the kind of person I’d fucking hate if I had to deal with.
Was nice to see Joe Strummer throw an appearance though I bet he couldn’t give a shit about Al, and was only there because Leary was there.
I’d guess much of Al’s stories are just bullshit or exaggerations (certainly the one about Depp and Phoenix). When he attempted to deliver deeper thought he just failed but that was probably just the wreckage from the drugs.
I liked Buzzo’s contribution. It could just be Al is one big phoney, but I’m inclined to think from scenes from Fix he’s just an asshole because he’s a smack head.
The scene with Al and Paul dancing together on the tourbus, what a tearjerker!
The other touring members, Washam, Buford, Svitek, Hukic, all seemed pretty cool. Even Hukic, or Marz or whatever the fuck he’s called now, who said why do you have to be weird, why can’t you just be normal, which is basically why do you have to act the bollocks? (but the answer may just lie in the simple fact of the drugs)
Barker just seemed pissed off most of the time. A “suffering stalwart” who tried to articulate Ministry in a minimal way (with no boundaries as such) and had to put up with Al’s bullshit most of the time. But I don’t have any sympathy for him at the same rate. If it does happen to be too bad for you, you get out. Not that that was the case for Barker.
So yeah, not bad. Maybe not what it seemed to promise from its promotion but it still has something to show at the end of it. Recommended to Ministry and non-Minitry fans.
Yeah, the best documentaries have a story to tell, so that you’re drawn in whether you initially cared about the subject or not.
Fix doesn’t. If you’re not a big Ministry fan I can’t imagine you liking it much. There’s no focus. It would’ve been better if maybe they’d put a hook on it - Al’s paranoia, the love/hate relationship between Al and Paul (unless you’re a fan you wouldn’t even catch those moments, really), the fact that Ministry was suddenly less successful than they were three or four years earlier (mentioned only briefly at the very beginning of the narration).
The Al/Paul thing was really interesting to me. Where there’s a few moments of them getting on each other’s nerves (Al telling Paul not to dis the cities they visit, Al getting pissed at Paul and making fun of his femmey mannerisms, Paul sort of rolling his eyes and looking away during one of Al’s paranoid rants) it’s also juxtaposed with some fun and even tender moments (the two of them dancing, Al suggesting with genuine concern that Paul wear a top hat to keep from getting shot). That would’ve been a good hook for the film. Shrug.
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Well I watched Fix the other night.
I’d guess much of Al’s stories are just bullshit or exaggerations (certainly the one about Depp and Phoenix). When he attempted to deliver deeper thought he just failed but that was probably just the wreckage from the drugs.
I’m not so sure it’s bullshit exaggeration as much as reflection on the event and feeling maybe just maybe some sort of responsibility for it (denial). When I first saw the scene a year ago, it struck me heavily as front-man syndrome and very very cold considering the events that unfolded that evening.
well; watched it finally
basically agree with couple of above posters.
despite it might have all its flaws, it’s was still worth watching
and come to think of it, it’s the only ministry-related release i enjoyed since 2004. glad that it got released.
Holy shit, the FIX movie is now $20 or under on Amazon/Half.com! (with the Barker album) Glad I didn’t pay the full price… the commentary from all these legendary people will be good to own as a rock-n-roll documentary!
just saw it lastnight.
it took YEARS for that? kind of underwhelming. i didn’t see much tention between band members…and i thought al would be much more of an asshole. friends joke around and insult each other. i liked the interviews with the various musicians (with the exception of dave navarro…i fucking hate that guy), especially maynard jame keenan. he always came off as a sarcastic prick, but in the documentary he came off as a down to earth guy. i guess they removed the needle injection closeup? i was waiting for it, but alas, it never came :(.
I noticed that about Maynard, too.
He has a character that he puts on a lot for interviews and public appearances, but in this movie he’s apparently just being himself.
I did find it amusing that in the extras interview he says “Yeah, I know Paul OK, and I guess I’ve met Al a couple of times. I just like their music.” I wonder why there are all these people who have little or nothing to do with Ministry in the movie? Just friends with Doug Freel?
I think it was just a case of there being a bunch of material lying around, and the director/editor wanted to use as much of it as possible.