Jordan Hoffman Dot Com

I will always give props to a work of art that is unashamedly earnest in its own beliefs despite being a flabbergasting mess. Well, it isn’t that bad a mess. The music is good. This isn’t Neil Young’s best music, but it is still pretty good — at times great. This “musical” of a lip-synched song cycle shot on Super 8 (with a little broadcast quality video during “news reports”) is kinda light on story, but gets its point across. Media saturation bad, protecting the environment good. Got it. The climax, a grainy, blurry, high school production of a choir in battle fatigues screaming about corporate greed. . .I dunno. . .something there speaks to me. It’d be easy to write this off as insane amateur hour, but you won’t catch me doing it. With the lights low, speakers up and the right kind of cigarettes, you’ve got a cult classic.