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Just finished watching "Jam", the twisted brainwrong series from Chris Morris.
I caught a couple on C4 but got the DVD for my birthday.
Hmmm...I do know it's *not* funny. But then it's not supposed to be, it's an exercise in mood, music, sounds and visuals.
The "sketches" bleed into one another, 30 mins of pure sound and visual experimentation
And it's definitely Morris - dark, nasty, unpleasant and sails way past any lines of decency with gleeful abandon.
Some of the "sketches"?
A couple asking their friend if he wouldn't mind helping them out.
"Sure"
A local sex offender has taken an interest in their son, so father offers himself instead and mother sleeps with her son "but dressed as a younger woman, so he doesn't know it's me. I wear a crop-top and we meet in the dark", in order to keep loving son interested in women.
They'd like their friend to take over from dad for a couple of weeks to give him some rest.
"Sometimes it helps if you drink a lot, you don't feel it so much"
A woman shouting at her man for having an affair, only to discover he wasn't after all.
"I had my hand over her mouth, I dont even know her name"
"What?"
"I was raping her, I wasn't having an affair. I wont be seeing her again"
"Are you certain?"
"Yes"
"Oh darling, I'm so sorry for accusing you"
But some of it is Chris Morris doing his not-so twisted stuff.
"The Gush" - a condition where male pornstars "start the snot-shot but then they just keep flying the f###juice until they die"
Cue Morris as a Danish porn star talking about this horrible condition, "The first victim, I knew him. It was terrible, he just kept pumping out and he had the tears in his voice like a sad-faced freaky-clown, but the tears were not there"
Or the man repeatedly throwing himself from the 1st floor balcony in a prolonged suicide attempt.
Or the doctor diagnosing symptomless coma.
And then some skits that make no sense, just an audio visual experience:
The children's party filmed from a top corner of a classroom, with "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann playing as one parent throws kids off chairs so his can win at musical chairs. No sound except for the song, and the visuals distorted and pixelated. It ends with the parent throttling a kid with a blinds-chord and braining another parent before trashing the classroom.
Police combing the woods for a body, with a naked man in a thong and a fat woman dancing amongst them singing the "Ma-naa Ma-naa" song from The Muppets, making the corpse play a saxaphone. And all through this, the police don't react at all.
A home-video of two people having sex, with various Morrisims from them
"Stuff your balls up my nose"
"Thwack my Bendo"
"Tickle my Gladys"
"Make it come out green"
Or the doctor that runs a sex-phone line from his office to help pay for the practice. In the middle of talking to a patient, the phone goes:
"Excuse me for a moment....yes hello?...yes, I'm running my fist over the purple head....yes...I'm shoving my throbbing gristle into your soft warm gob...not at all, goodbye...now, where were we?"
It's not funny, dont expect that at all.
Scenes are slowed down imperceptibly, dialogue is flat and monotone and drawn out.
One skit is a man in a doctor's office
"Doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains"
"Pull yourself together"
That joke, but stretched out over 4 minutes with The Aphex Twin screaming on the soundtrack.
In fact, that's the easiest way to describe "Jam".
Ever seen that Aphex Twin video with the thing screaming at the old woman? And all the kids with his face?
Imagine that for 3hrs, that's exactly what Jam is.
Unsettling, dark and twisted, whispering hate words in your ear and running it's fingernails up the inside of your thigh.
Viscious, hateful, dark and absolutely fantastic - mostly.
I like most of it, some of it makes me scared and unhappy.
NOT for anyone easily offended or not willing to watch stuff that doesn't make any sense but has some resonance long after you've turned it off.
David Lynch meets Aphex Twin and some H R Gieger thrown in.
All together now:
"When head smashed by peach-valved intruder of your child and throw shapes of rave, only to discover music from ping-ping of incubator and bad-faced uncle tell you no, then find still warm but life-fled child of 2 days at your feet. Welcome then, ooooooooooo welcome. To Jaaaaaam"
I caught a couple on C4 but got the DVD for my birthday.
Hmmm...I do know it's *not* funny. But then it's not supposed to be, it's an exercise in mood, music, sounds and visuals.
The "sketches" bleed into one another, 30 mins of pure sound and visual experimentation
And it's definitely Morris - dark, nasty, unpleasant and sails way past any lines of decency with gleeful abandon.
Some of the "sketches"?
A couple asking their friend if he wouldn't mind helping them out.
"Sure"
A local sex offender has taken an interest in their son, so father offers himself instead and mother sleeps with her son "but dressed as a younger woman, so he doesn't know it's me. I wear a crop-top and we meet in the dark", in order to keep loving son interested in women.
They'd like their friend to take over from dad for a couple of weeks to give him some rest.
"Sometimes it helps if you drink a lot, you don't feel it so much"
A woman shouting at her man for having an affair, only to discover he wasn't after all.
"I had my hand over her mouth, I dont even know her name"
"What?"
"I was raping her, I wasn't having an affair. I wont be seeing her again"
"Are you certain?"
"Yes"
"Oh darling, I'm so sorry for accusing you"
But some of it is Chris Morris doing his not-so twisted stuff.
"The Gush" - a condition where male pornstars "start the snot-shot but then they just keep flying the f###juice until they die"
Cue Morris as a Danish porn star talking about this horrible condition, "The first victim, I knew him. It was terrible, he just kept pumping out and he had the tears in his voice like a sad-faced freaky-clown, but the tears were not there"
Or the man repeatedly throwing himself from the 1st floor balcony in a prolonged suicide attempt.
Or the doctor diagnosing symptomless coma.
And then some skits that make no sense, just an audio visual experience:
The children's party filmed from a top corner of a classroom, with "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann playing as one parent throws kids off chairs so his can win at musical chairs. No sound except for the song, and the visuals distorted and pixelated. It ends with the parent throttling a kid with a blinds-chord and braining another parent before trashing the classroom.
Police combing the woods for a body, with a naked man in a thong and a fat woman dancing amongst them singing the "Ma-naa Ma-naa" song from The Muppets, making the corpse play a saxaphone. And all through this, the police don't react at all.
A home-video of two people having sex, with various Morrisims from them
"Stuff your balls up my nose"
"Thwack my Bendo"
"Tickle my Gladys"
"Make it come out green"
Or the doctor that runs a sex-phone line from his office to help pay for the practice. In the middle of talking to a patient, the phone goes:
"Excuse me for a moment....yes hello?...yes, I'm running my fist over the purple head....yes...I'm shoving my throbbing gristle into your soft warm gob...not at all, goodbye...now, where were we?"
It's not funny, dont expect that at all.
Scenes are slowed down imperceptibly, dialogue is flat and monotone and drawn out.
One skit is a man in a doctor's office
"Doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains"
"Pull yourself together"
That joke, but stretched out over 4 minutes with The Aphex Twin screaming on the soundtrack.
In fact, that's the easiest way to describe "Jam".
Ever seen that Aphex Twin video with the thing screaming at the old woman? And all the kids with his face?
Imagine that for 3hrs, that's exactly what Jam is.
Unsettling, dark and twisted, whispering hate words in your ear and running it's fingernails up the inside of your thigh.
Viscious, hateful, dark and absolutely fantastic - mostly.
I like most of it, some of it makes me scared and unhappy.
NOT for anyone easily offended or not willing to watch stuff that doesn't make any sense but has some resonance long after you've turned it off.
David Lynch meets Aphex Twin and some H R Gieger thrown in.
All together now:
"When head smashed by peach-valved intruder of your child and throw shapes of rave, only to discover music from ping-ping of incubator and bad-faced uncle tell you no, then find still warm but life-fled child of 2 days at your feet. Welcome then, ooooooooooo welcome. To Jaaaaaam"
I enjoyed Brass Eye, but even though I've only seen a bit of Jam, I wached enough to know I didn't like it.
Brass Eye had a degree of shock value but an fundamental satirical basis, with this Morris seems to be going for over the top shock value just for the fun of it.
Brass Eye had a degree of shock value but an fundamental satirical basis, with this Morris seems to be going for over the top shock value just for the fun of it.
I remember one scene where some guy is selling a house... but the couple don't have enough money. So he suggests sex sessions with the wife.
Very weird but quite funny as the husband is alright with it all and thw wife seems angry but then
" Mr Williams can perform the oral "
hoho
Very weird but quite funny as the husband is alright with it all and thw wife seems angry but then
" Mr Williams can perform the oral "
hoho
"F**KING NODDY!"
I found some of it funny, but the style of it is really annoying. Constant music playing and really low voices, I can hardly tell what they're saying a lot of the time.
I like the lizards out of the TV sketch. "Have you contacted the cable company? They might be sending them through the cable". And the one with the parents who ruin children's reputations so their kid can get into a good school, "Yes, I'm afraid to say we've just found your son unconscious in the park, we found this can and a packet of cigarettes next to him".
The doctor sex line was good as well, "Yes, it's gone off like a spunky firework...that's okay, not at all, thankyou, bye".
I like the lizards out of the TV sketch. "Have you contacted the cable company? They might be sending them through the cable". And the one with the parents who ruin children's reputations so their kid can get into a good school, "Yes, I'm afraid to say we've just found your son unconscious in the park, we found this can and a packet of cigarettes next to him".
The doctor sex line was good as well, "Yes, it's gone off like a spunky firework...that's okay, not at all, thankyou, bye".
It's got the actor that plays the painter from "Spaced" in it, but it's written and directed by Chris Morris - the guy that did Brass Eye, Blue Jam, The Day Today.
It's unsettling, disturbing and makes not a lot of sense. I can't explain why it appeals to me at all, and not all of it does.
Watched the 1st episode again with headphones on and there's loads of slowed-down, backwards voices and sounds.
It's certainly different.
It's unsettling, disturbing and makes not a lot of sense. I can't explain why it appeals to me at all, and not all of it does.
Watched the 1st episode again with headphones on and there's loads of slowed-down, backwards voices and sounds.
It's certainly different.
This isn't the series made by the guy who was in 'Spaced' is it?
I got the DVD too,
I watched the first one up to the bit where the guy is walking down a road talking to a camera.
I just found it wierd, I'm considering returning it.
I watched the first one up to the bit where the guy is walking down a road talking to a camera.
I just found it wierd, I'm considering returning it.
I've seen a few episodes of that
Didn't know it was by Chris Morris
I found it quite disturbing to be honest
Didn't know it was by Chris Morris
I found it quite disturbing to be honest
Just finished watching "Jam", the twisted brainwrong series from Chris Morris.
I caught a couple on C4 but got the DVD for my birthday.
Hmmm...I do know it's *not* funny. But then it's not supposed to be, it's an exercise in mood, music, sounds and visuals.
The "sketches" bleed into one another, 30 mins of pure sound and visual experimentation
And it's definitely Morris - dark, nasty, unpleasant and sails way past any lines of decency with gleeful abandon.
Some of the "sketches"?
A couple asking their friend if he wouldn't mind helping them out.
"Sure"
A local sex offender has taken an interest in their son, so father offers himself instead and mother sleeps with her son "but dressed as a younger woman, so he doesn't know it's me. I wear a crop-top and we meet in the dark", in order to keep loving son interested in women.
They'd like their friend to take over from dad for a couple of weeks to give him some rest.
"Sometimes it helps if you drink a lot, you don't feel it so much"
A woman shouting at her man for having an affair, only to discover he wasn't after all.
"I had my hand over her mouth, I dont even know her name"
"What?"
"I was raping her, I wasn't having an affair. I wont be seeing her again"
"Are you certain?"
"Yes"
"Oh darling, I'm so sorry for accusing you"
But some of it is Chris Morris doing his not-so twisted stuff.
"The Gush" - a condition where male pornstars "start the snot-shot but then they just keep flying the f###juice until they die"
Cue Morris as a Danish porn star talking about this horrible condition, "The first victim, I knew him. It was terrible, he just kept pumping out and he had the tears in his voice like a sad-faced freaky-clown, but the tears were not there"
Or the man repeatedly throwing himself from the 1st floor balcony in a prolonged suicide attempt.
Or the doctor diagnosing symptomless coma.
And then some skits that make no sense, just an audio visual experience:
The children's party filmed from a top corner of a classroom, with "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann playing as one parent throws kids off chairs so his can win at musical chairs. No sound except for the song, and the visuals distorted and pixelated. It ends with the parent throttling a kid with a blinds-chord and braining another parent before trashing the classroom.
Police combing the woods for a body, with a naked man in a thong and a fat woman dancing amongst them singing the "Ma-naa Ma-naa" song from The Muppets, making the corpse play a saxaphone. And all through this, the police don't react at all.
A home-video of two people having sex, with various Morrisims from them
"Stuff your balls up my nose"
"Thwack my Bendo"
"Tickle my Gladys"
"Make it come out green"
Or the doctor that runs a sex-phone line from his office to help pay for the practice. In the middle of talking to a patient, the phone goes:
"Excuse me for a moment....yes hello?...yes, I'm running my fist over the purple head....yes...I'm shoving my throbbing gristle into your soft warm gob...not at all, goodbye...now, where were we?"
It's not funny, dont expect that at all.
Scenes are slowed down imperceptibly, dialogue is flat and monotone and drawn out.
One skit is a man in a doctor's office
"Doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains"
"Pull yourself together"
That joke, but stretched out over 4 minutes with The Aphex Twin screaming on the soundtrack.
In fact, that's the easiest way to describe "Jam".
Ever seen that Aphex Twin video with the thing screaming at the old woman? And all the kids with his face?
Imagine that for 3hrs, that's exactly what Jam is.
Unsettling, dark and twisted, whispering hate words in your ear and running it's fingernails up the inside of your thigh.
Viscious, hateful, dark and absolutely fantastic - mostly.
I like most of it, some of it makes me scared and unhappy.
NOT for anyone easily offended or not willing to watch stuff that doesn't make any sense but has some resonance long after you've turned it off.
David Lynch meets Aphex Twin and some H R Gieger thrown in.
All together now:
"When head smashed by peach-valved intruder of your child and throw shapes of rave, only to discover music from ping-ping of incubator and bad-faced uncle tell you no, then find still warm but life-fled child of 2 days at your feet. Welcome then, ooooooooooo welcome. To Jaaaaaam"
I caught a couple on C4 but got the DVD for my birthday.
Hmmm...I do know it's *not* funny. But then it's not supposed to be, it's an exercise in mood, music, sounds and visuals.
The "sketches" bleed into one another, 30 mins of pure sound and visual experimentation
And it's definitely Morris - dark, nasty, unpleasant and sails way past any lines of decency with gleeful abandon.
Some of the "sketches"?
A couple asking their friend if he wouldn't mind helping them out.
"Sure"
A local sex offender has taken an interest in their son, so father offers himself instead and mother sleeps with her son "but dressed as a younger woman, so he doesn't know it's me. I wear a crop-top and we meet in the dark", in order to keep loving son interested in women.
They'd like their friend to take over from dad for a couple of weeks to give him some rest.
"Sometimes it helps if you drink a lot, you don't feel it so much"
A woman shouting at her man for having an affair, only to discover he wasn't after all.
"I had my hand over her mouth, I dont even know her name"
"What?"
"I was raping her, I wasn't having an affair. I wont be seeing her again"
"Are you certain?"
"Yes"
"Oh darling, I'm so sorry for accusing you"
But some of it is Chris Morris doing his not-so twisted stuff.
"The Gush" - a condition where male pornstars "start the snot-shot but then they just keep flying the f###juice until they die"
Cue Morris as a Danish porn star talking about this horrible condition, "The first victim, I knew him. It was terrible, he just kept pumping out and he had the tears in his voice like a sad-faced freaky-clown, but the tears were not there"
Or the man repeatedly throwing himself from the 1st floor balcony in a prolonged suicide attempt.
Or the doctor diagnosing symptomless coma.
And then some skits that make no sense, just an audio visual experience:
The children's party filmed from a top corner of a classroom, with "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann playing as one parent throws kids off chairs so his can win at musical chairs. No sound except for the song, and the visuals distorted and pixelated. It ends with the parent throttling a kid with a blinds-chord and braining another parent before trashing the classroom.
Police combing the woods for a body, with a naked man in a thong and a fat woman dancing amongst them singing the "Ma-naa Ma-naa" song from The Muppets, making the corpse play a saxaphone. And all through this, the police don't react at all.
A home-video of two people having sex, with various Morrisims from them
"Stuff your balls up my nose"
"Thwack my Bendo"
"Tickle my Gladys"
"Make it come out green"
Or the doctor that runs a sex-phone line from his office to help pay for the practice. In the middle of talking to a patient, the phone goes:
"Excuse me for a moment....yes hello?...yes, I'm running my fist over the purple head....yes...I'm shoving my throbbing gristle into your soft warm gob...not at all, goodbye...now, where were we?"
It's not funny, dont expect that at all.
Scenes are slowed down imperceptibly, dialogue is flat and monotone and drawn out.
One skit is a man in a doctor's office
"Doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains"
"Pull yourself together"
That joke, but stretched out over 4 minutes with The Aphex Twin screaming on the soundtrack.
In fact, that's the easiest way to describe "Jam".
Ever seen that Aphex Twin video with the thing screaming at the old woman? And all the kids with his face?
Imagine that for 3hrs, that's exactly what Jam is.
Unsettling, dark and twisted, whispering hate words in your ear and running it's fingernails up the inside of your thigh.
Viscious, hateful, dark and absolutely fantastic - mostly.
I like most of it, some of it makes me scared and unhappy.
NOT for anyone easily offended or not willing to watch stuff that doesn't make any sense but has some resonance long after you've turned it off.
David Lynch meets Aphex Twin and some H R Gieger thrown in.
All together now:
"When head smashed by peach-valved intruder of your child and throw shapes of rave, only to discover music from ping-ping of incubator and bad-faced uncle tell you no, then find still warm but life-fled child of 2 days at your feet. Welcome then, ooooooooooo welcome. To Jaaaaaam"