Crispin Glover is the weirdest guy ever

Well he was the creepy guy in Charlies Angels, Andy Warhol, and Willard ...

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So I guess your summation of him is appropriate
 
Im gonna go with acid because when good actors do crazy shit, like Borat, he usualy laughs. Note, he wasn't laughing



Also, its wierd seeing Paul Schaffer with hair but wow apparently he was a dumbass 20 years ago too
 
Nah, he's a wackjob.

Here's the trailer for the movie "What is it?", which was financed and directed by him. His magnum opus, if you will.

NSFW
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNgtBweVz4Q[/media]
 
[quote name='nharmon91']Also, its wierd seeing Paul Schaffer with hair but wow apparently he was a dumbass 20 years ago too[/QUOTE] Some things never change.
 
In 1987, Glover appeared on Late Night with David Letterman to promote his new movie River's Edge and his album. Dressed as his character from the film Rubin and Ed, he wore a long wig and platform shoes. His bizarre appearance was exceeded only by his strange behavior, which was thought by some to have been influenced by drugs, while others presume it was an Andy Kaufman-style stunt. After a failed attempt to challenge Letterman to an arm-wrestling match, Glover delivered an impromptu karate kick just inches from Letterman's face. A noticeably irked Dave abruptly ended the segment and cut to commercial. Glover has later commented, on The Adam Carolla Show and Tom Green Live among others, that he neither denies nor admits any of the rumors surrounding the incident.
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What is It?

Glover made his directorial debut with 2005's What is It?, a strange and surreal art film similar in style to the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky and has been described as "The adventures of a young man whose principle interests are snails, salt, a pipe, and how to get home, and is tormented by a hubristic, racist inner psyche." The movie's budget was a mere $125,000 and took almost a decade to complete, originally intending it to be a short film with shooting beginning in Los Angeles. Most of the primary footage was shot in 12 days, stretched over a two-and-a-half year period. From the late-1990s in to the early 2000's, he toured with prints of the film, showing parts of it before it was completed, along with various slides and read excerpts from his works. Production was mostly funded by the actor's roles in Willard and the Charlie's Angels films.
The film boasts an eclectic and unusual cast. Porn stars Kiva and Zoryna Dreams, as well as several other women, appear nude wearing animal heads. Most of the principal actors are young and have Down syndrome (though this condition is not addressed in the film). Fairuza Balk lends her voice to a real snail, and Glover's role in the film is officially described as "Dueling Demi-God Auteur and The young man's inner psyche.". It features swastikas, a Shirley Temple lookalike in a Nazi uniform, songs by cult-leader Charles Manson and deals with many types and symbols of racism and prejudice. He defended his choices of imagery in a 2005 interview: "It's really a film to help start these kinds of discussions. Why are these things taboo, and what does that mean for the culture itself? A culture will die a death of stupidity if it doesn't have different points of view."[2] Glover made clear when touring with the film that he had no plans to sell it to a major studio nor release for home viewing. He also revealed his plans on releasing it as part of a trilogy at some point in the future by including the titles of the next two films in the credits for What Is It?.
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[edit] It is Fine. Everything is Fine!

The second film, It is Fine. Everything is Fine! has already wrapped on production and is now assumed to be in the editing phase. [citation needed] The film was written by Utah writer-actor Steven C. Stewart, who also appears in What Is It? and It is Fine. He died of complications from cerebral palsy in 2001, only one month after principal filming wrapped. Glover said in an online chat that "it's an autobiographical, psycho-sexual, fantastical retelling of [Stewart's] point-of-view of life." It is Fine. Everything is Fine! was shot entirely at David Brother's sound stage in Salt Lake City, Utah. Glover has stated that it is "probably the best film I'll ever work on in my entire career."[2] It is slated for release at the 2007 Sundance film festival.
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[edit] It is Mine

It is Mine, the final film of the trilogy, is an original screenplay written by Ryan Page, Mike Pallagi and Glover. Glover has stated that Stewart "wanted to show that handicapped people are human, sexual [and] horrible, and It Is Mine will be much more sexual than the other two."
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This guy is fucked up
 
I'm so old (well, not that old), I saw this when it originally aired. Thought it was the most hilarious thing ever on Late Night. Letterman even did a flashback bit the next night about how he had a nightmare about the incident.

Glover came back a year or two later and showed Dave a diorama of the LaBrea tar pits (or something) he made, with scattered 'baby doll' parts in the 'tar'. No kicking, though. Damn.
 
I'm torn. While I can't stand people who are so absurdly erratic, it's only when they go out of their way to be public figures (see Courtney Love). When they present themselves as someone deathly afraid of and purposely trying to avoid the public spotlight, it fascinates me. Glover falls in the latter category.

I saw the trailer for What is it? several years ago, and it still creeps the shit out of me. It has that "this is a movie made in hell" kind of quality (like Jan Svankmajer's "Alice"), and makes no apologies about being a loosely connected stream of points and ideas - it doesn't suggest anything resembling a plot, a conflict, or a crescendo building up to a grand finale. The conflict is in the fact that it throws taboo images and ideas in your face and forces you, as a viewer, to confront images of people with down syndrome, and cultural icons as swastikas, and try to figure out why you find them so offensive. And believe me, I'm as PC as they come so it's probably tougher for me to stomach a movie like this than it would be for many of you.

Is it brilliance? Oh, I don't know about that. I'd really have to see the movie first. I don't discount people because they are so out of the norm, nor do I immediately accept their point of view and embrace their philosophy (as many are wont to do with someone like Hunter S Thompson).

I love the fact that his celebrity bothers him (and bothers others); that he's not a "put on the black suit, stand on the red carpet next to a set of tits, and smile" kind of actor. Why should he be? Is it required? It's different, and it's refreshing. Most of all, since I'm so sick and tired of people who force their weird down everybody else's throats (be it how they dress, how they act, how they brag about the strange things they've done), it's refreshing to see someone who is genuinely weird by virtue of the fact that he doesn't seem to be trying to convince you he's weird as much as he doesn't realize you're not in his world at all.
 
It was an Andy Kaufman-esque "stunt". Even more so, he was method acting as a character from one of his films:

Rubin and Ed (1991)

Furthermore, the character can be seen in one of his music videos:

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=3iTzkhYQeqo[/media]

"Clowny Clown Clown" from his album Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution. The Solution = Let It Be. Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution. The Solution = Let It Be. (It's a great album if you're in to experimental music.)

Crispin Glover is an amazing actor -- even moreso with performance arts.

Glover actually appeared on Letterman once again, as himself. The video used to be on YouTube, but it's gone now. To paraphrase, Glover was completely normal... until he started explaining his past appearance, where he was beginning to explain that it wasn't him, but a bit of an "evil twin" that he met in grade school, while his class was watching the solar eclipse, and this "evil twin" was staring directly at the sun.

Letterman, naturally, cut Glover the Hell off, as Letterman can't stand not being the center of comedic attention and / or being made a fool of, like he was in the first interview.

I'm a big fan of Glover's work.
 
"Clowny Clown Clown" from his album Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution. The Solution = Let It Be. Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution. The Solution = Let It Be. (It's a great album if you're in to experimental music.)

I have the CD .

I prefer "Rat Catching" or "Auto-manipulator" .

My friend and I were talking about his Letterman appearances earlier this week . Wierd coincidence .
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']The voice of experience? :lol:[/quote]

Well.. yeah :) Throughout high school I was usually depressed.. not really anxious. But one night me and my friends all tripped, one of them definitely has Generalized Anxiety Disorder or something to that sort... anyway this dude had a melt down and it was up to us to babysit him. It kinda ruined the moment... :\
 
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