Marty Beller is the amazing drummer for They Might Be Giants. Shouldn’t that be enough? Well, it’s not: Marty also composes film and TV scores, and is currently music director for a terrific play called “The Total Bent.” The fact that his creative process is so painful illustrates how high his standards are for his art: he thinks art’s ambition should be no less than to throttle us.

 

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Marty Beller’s play is called “The Total Bent” and is playing for much of June at the Public Theater in NYC.

11:50 - They Might Be Giants, “The Mesopotamians”

18:30 - R.E.M., “Radio Free Europe”

27:45 - The Who, “Happy Jack”

31:45 - Scene from Sebastian Junger’s documentary “Korengal”