Honk If You’re Horny
Honk If You’re Horny from Joe Lonie on Vimeo.
The blurb: An enigmatic young musician becomes the captive audience for a crusty old cab driver’s dirty story on the taxi ride from hell. We’ve all been stuck with an awful taxi driver… this one is a corker.
This film has won numerous awards – skip to 0:34 to get to the start – and it’s good fun to watch. Director Joe Lonie told website Film Shortage:
Honk if you’re horny is based on a true story. Well, sort of! Back in the early 1990s, when I was trying hard to help my band Supergroove get a foothold in the Auckland live scene, I used to travel by taxi a lot. On the way to band practice one night the cabbie began bragging about a tryst he took part in recently when a couple paid for their ride with sex.
The driver was a good storyteller, but I was too young and innocent to be hearing about such things, and as he went on it all became so outrageous and over–the–top I found it hard to believe. I had to wonder why he was so insistent on telling me. Maybe the driver assumed that as a musician I enjoyed a wild, depraved, hedonistic sex life like Mick Jagger, Prince or LL Cool J, and I might be interested or impressed by such a story, but that couldn’t have been further from the truth. Instead I was just a shy, young, prudish bass–geek. I couldn’t wait to get away from this sleazy, lascivious man, and play music with my bandmates, but I never forgot the driver, or his outlandish story.
The director Joe Lonie has a cameo as a “pervert” in the film as well.
Length: 12:02
Director: Joe Lonie