We are good friends around here with the Film Junk folk, and always like to keep up with the work of Jay Cheel. Even if he is goofing off with his good buddy Reed Farrington by updating a decades old DIY cooking video made in the late 1980s and incorporating the signature FJ Poutine into the mix, well our attention is there. When the whole piece is edited into a Lynchian slash Norman Bates crazy show, complete with Sergio Leone close-ups of eating (see: Duck You Sucker!) with creepy zooms and unsettling music, it flirts with transcendence. The result is a solid and entertaining piece of work, and a great accompaniment to the sporadic Cantankerous podcast.
The full episode of Cooking with Gerry is tucked under the seat.
This is hilariously bizarre, especially for nerds like me who actually watch cooking shows. Love it.
Genius. It actually looks quite nice too – what camera did they use, it’s really crisp?
I finally get to see what the hell poutine is too! In the UK we do cheese on chips (fries, whatever) and gravy on chips, but I’ve never done a combo. What’s the difference between ‘cheese curds’ and plain old cheese though?
I believe Jay uses a Panasonic HVX200
Nice, it looks better than the picture I get from our Sony Z1. We’re buying a new Sony NX5 soon though, can’t wait!
This is a slice of brilliance. Love it.
I want more episodes of Cooking with Gerry – and hopefully sooner than twenty years!
Cheese curds are the first cheese removed during production, so it hasn’t aged very long and tends to contain fair more whey than most cheeses.