Corey Becker

Corey Becker who plays Joey in The Runaways with Kristen and Dakota.  He talks about working with them and how great they are.
Cory Becker, musician, 29, photographed in a mud pit by Mulholland Drive on his 1976 Honda

Top and pants Jil Sander
Boots Adam Kimmel

On the L.A. apocolypse:
I spend a lot of time on my motorcycle riding around the Angeles crest. A little while ago it burned down to the ground in a brushfire. I love it so much more, it’s a bunch of twigs and ash trees. Riding at dusk it feels like being on a Tim Burton set. In the spring it's gonna look like Mars, a burnt out landscape with fresh bright greenery running up burnt black timber. It’s unlike anywhere else.

On Living Things:
I play guitar in my band the Living Things. Our songs have a sometimes volatile, critical undertone and sometimes elecit an extreme response. Once we performed in Dallas and the singer was pistol-whipped, fired a shot at him, and broke one of his limb. It all went down in the alley behind the club while we were loading out, this homeless guy in the alley came screaming and running at the guys and they ran away. I don’t like violence, but I’m always in awe at the extreme peace to it, when you're in the moment of life and death, or pain, there's no other thought, everything stops and there's an extreme focus. There's a peace in that. Like an orgasm or a sneeze, so singular it’s peaceful.

On playing Joey Ramone in The Runaways:
Living Things were going to do the music for the runaways film it didn’t end up happening but what was fun is that we learned all the songs and jammed them for Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning when they were rehearsing. It was amazing working with the girls. We’d be playing and Dakota would go kind of nuts and start screaming the lyrics—she’s an incredible actress. She’s really graceful, would show up on set with a backpack and pastel cardigan, but as soon as the music started she became Cherie Currie, super aggressive forward powerful, owning the microphone, she really really nailed it. Kristin Stewart completely nailed Joan Jett too. She’s legendary, we played at the Roxy and Floria brought Kristen and Kristen had the full on Joan Jett haircut and she had her hood up. Anyone that’s really talented has a lot of focus—Kristen a deep peace in it, even when playing a chaotic punk.
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xoxo
Carrie