Crispin Glover fails to deliver weirdness for once.
So apparently the Oscar nominees have been announced. /Film has a great roundup of those. Whatever. That’s not what we’re talking about right now.
Crispin Glover. If you’re not familiar with the man’s work, let me remind you that you are:
Even if you’ve only seen Back to the Future, you get the sense that that is one weird dude. Let’s take a look at some of his other work. There’s this…
And this…
And finally, lest you think he only plays creepy lunatics in the movies, here’s what he does when you put him on a talk show:
With this in mind, you can imagine my elation when I discovered that the man had a mailing list. Yes, you can sign up to get periodic emails from Crispin Glover. All you have to do is find his freakishly stark and terrifying website. A website that consistently refers to him as “Crispin Hellion Glover”, which just serves to underscore the weirdness, even though that is apparently his real full name. Needless to say, I signed up immediately. And after three years of membership, I think I’ve earned the right to voice a complaint:
“Crispin Hellion Glover, how is your mailing list not weirder?”
Seriously, I joined expecting long paranoid screeds about the forest people that steal Crispin Glover’s mail, or detailed graphs showing which parts of his kitchen secretly resent him. Instead, it’s just some publicity blurbs about his pet project movie series and a boring list of tour dates. Don’t get me wrong, the movies themselves sound BATSHIT INSANE. I’d go see them, but I’m afraid they’d hypnotize me and turn me into one of his rat slaves.
In fact, comparing the email I got this week to one from 2008…this is the EXACT same text with only the tour dates updated! Come on, Crispin Hellion Glover! I paid (nothing) for your unique brand of unsettling behavior and I expect a return on my investment.
Either the next email’s written in the menstrual blood of an endangered African rhino, or I’m unsubscribing.
