The Tragic Life of Vincent Van Gogh

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I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. And we all have bandages around our heads. out of sympathy for a truly great guy from what I can tell. Oh yeah?

Was he a good dude? Yeah, this is stuff you shouldn't know. Oh, yes. Hi, everyone.

Hi. I'm Chuck. Oh yeah? I'm Chuck too.

The deuce. What is going on? I thought you were, I thought you were Chuck de Portes. Oh yeah?

Or the Ocho? Yeah, boy. I'm trying to make ESPN jokes and it's just not happening. It, that worked.

Yeah. the Spanish version of VSP. No, no, I know. But I'm just saying it's not good.

Oh, well, I can't argue with that. Should be start over. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh.

There's Chuck, just Chuck, and Jerry's here too. And this is stuff you should know. That's right. Chuck de Portes.

Now we have to start over again. You ready? Here, we'll give everybody a little beep, beep. Can we talk about Van Gogh?

Yeah, that's what I was saying. We have bandages around our heads because we are in solidarity. That's what I meant to say with a really great guy. Yeah, have you ever seen any of the Van Gogh movies?

I watched one last night. It was a documentary, but it was the documentary, the one where David Bowie plays Andy Warhol. Which one did Bowie play Warhol in?

Boskiat. Basquiat, right, because he was also played by Crispin Glover. In the doors. In the doors.

And Van Gogh was played by Willem Dafoe. That was unwatchable. I never saw that one. It was unwatchable.

Loving Vincent? I think that's what it's called. Yeah, I'm almost positive. It's not because it's bad

or the dialogue's bad or anything like that. It's just so shaky and rapid cut in shot from weird angles to, I guess, you know, represent his mental illness

that I couldn't watch it. I watched like 10 minutes ago, I was like, oh no. I was disappointed. Yeah, I never saw that one.

I did see the one from the 90s though, the Robert Altman film. Oh, I didn't know he did one on, are you talking about Nashville? Yeah, oh shoot, that's the one.

No, Vincent Theo with Tim Roth as Van Gogh. Yeah, 1990 I think it was a good movie. No idea, I'll have to go back and check that out. Yeah, I'd like to see it again.

I don't think I've seen it since college. I feel like a total schmo, because I don't remember the name of the documentary, but essentially, the premise of it is

these documentarians went from place to place through and just followed Van Gogh's life, because he moved around a lot as we'll see and was inspired differently by the different places

he lived and they basically talked about how those places inspired him or how they beat him down or whatever. And then they would show, you know,

like paintings morphing into the structures that are still there today or vice versa. It was really good. It's documentary.

They talked a lot about his life and it was good. It was very tranquil. I think there was the same 30 seconds of very tranquil string music

that they used over and over and over again and it was not a problem. I think Van Gogh, I mean, you know, I don't know much about art history.

We've talked, we've done quite a few shows about this kind of thing over the years and my appreciation for art has grown sort of in lockstep. I've always sort of like Van Gogh's stuff for sure.

But I like him even more now that I kind of understand that, you know, he never, well, I mean, most people if they know anything about Van Gogh know he never gained fame in his lifetime.

But he certainly never tried to achieve fame as an artist by like painting what he thought people might wanna see. He always painted what he, you know, his surroundings. And like you said, depending on where he lived that varied.

And also it seems like really from the heart and his deep, deep emotions, which I have a lot of respect for. Yeah. And that sense he was a pioneer.

Same for me too, by the way. I really came to like him even more. I think we both came from the same exact spot and ended up in about the same exact spot too.

look at us. One thing I saw that kind of explained him to me at least was that he wanted to share the things he saw, the beauty he saw everywhere with the world. Because it was so beautiful. He wanted to provide that to the world, not in any

kind of egotistical way or anything like that. But just like, this is so pretty. I'm going to try my best to to express how this makes me feel and show the world. And then Very sadly, the world was like, that's not very good.

We don't want that. Thanks for sharing, but keep it to yourself.