This week, we continue our conversation with musician David Pajo (Slint, Papa M, Gang Of Four) as we start to delve into his music-film pick: the Louisville, Kentucky indie-music narrative film Half-Cocked, in which he also appears!

We discuss David meeting filmmakers Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky, the legendary Rocket House in Louisville where most of the musicians who acted in the film lived, Tara Jane O’ Neil's amazing performance in the film, Slint, Ruby Falls and Rodan, The Grifters being cast as wise sages of the underground music world, the fake bands in the movie including The Guiloteens (starring Ian Svenonius, James Canty and Michelle Mae of The Make Up & David himself), not knowing what your friends did for work back then, Cathy Irwin from Freakwater’s beautiful acoustic song in the film, the economics of making films vs. music in the 90s, Jon Cook of Crane and Ian’s suggestions to the filmmakers for the plot of the film, why David’s character was named Waldo in the film, David’s first tour with his band Maurice opening for Samhain, Die Kreuzen starving on tour, Soviet France, how skinheads almost destroyed both of our initial music scenes, where we think the characters in the film ended up in real life, and more. 

DAVID PAJO:

papam.bandcamp.com/

instagram.com/cestcadavidpajo

HALF-COCKED:

vimeo.com/ondemand/halfcocked

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

PATREON:

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods. It helps the show to keep going and is greatly appreciated!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'

www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens

https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest this week is musician David Pajo (Slint, Papa M, Gang Of Four), who picked the Louisville, Kentucky indie music film Half-Cocked  to discuss.  BUT…there was so much to talk about that this is only part one of the conversation before we even got to talking about the film! 

We discussed his Papa M compositions, how Slint songs were made to sound like they were improvised but were actually meticulous in their structure, how his new album was all one-take performances done without a computer, needing a cheat sheet for Slint reunion songs, the concept of "through" composing, the humor within Slint, Andy Gill of Gang Of Four playing his guitar without touching it, joining GO4 and how it opened him up as a live performer, the challenges of learning and playing the song "He’d Send In The Army", is the guitar a friend/foe/tool, Big Black, the Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail, breaking your parents’ will using the Butthole Surfers, David playing in Stereolab & Interpol, aging in indie rock, and David asks me questions about my wild times in Guided By Voices.

So let's play with our backs to the audience on this episode of Revolutions Per Movie.

DAVID PAJO:

papam.bandcamp.com/

instagram.com/cestcadavidpajo

HALF-COCKED:

vimeo.com/ondemand/halfcocked

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

PATREON:

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods. It helps the show to keep going and is greatly appreciated!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'

www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens

https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! The incredible Craig Finn on the amazing Ramones' cult film Rock 'N' Roll High School...what more can I say, Principal Togar...this episode rules...enjoy!

(Episode 51 originally aired on August 24th, 2024).

Original Show Notes:

This week, we talk to CRAIG FINN of THE HOLD STEADY & ’That’s How I Remember It’ podcast about the legendary cult classic ROCK ’N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL! We discuss how discovering THE RAMONES is a young person’s game, reading THRASHER magazine in the school library, not knowing what bands sounded like, KTEL record complitaions and ROCK 80 LP, the Summer of 1980 AM Rock Radio, Craig seeing STYX’s KILROY WAS HERE tour, vomiting at a DEVO show, $1.92 new wave shows, fantasing about where bands are getting coffee in your hometown when they come through on tour, the VHS release of the film, ROAD TO RUIN LP, Craig getting guitar lessons from punk legend Chris Osgood of The Suicide Commandoes, the singleminded yet 4 headed songwriting beast that was THE RAMONES & the cultish nature of the band, Joe Dante’s script, how producer ROGER CORMAN wanted to cut out the middle of The Ramones songs, DISCO HIGH, teaching the Ramones to walk in the film, staying overnight to get concert tickets, getting punished by your parents by them forcing you to go see a LAURIE ANDERSON concert, our big Ramones regrets, the trouble with filmming the Ramones' live footage and how it almost started a riot, learning about Chicken Vindaloo through the band’s song lyrics, getting the courage to go to a punk rock show, Violent Femmes, our first punk/new wave show we went too, clove cigarettes, The Replacements, ticket prices vs. record prices, under attended hardcore matinee shows, Clint Howard, PJ Soles & Vince Van Patton, does the movie hold up as a cult film, High School permanent records, how the soundtrack turned us on to the MC5 and ENO and the search for those records, Mudhoney & Tad, how the film smartly adds more and more Ramones to the film as it goes on, the Americana side of the Ramones, what Ramones lyric would Craig wished he had written and what lyric of his is the most Ramones, what would a Roger Corman produced Hold Steady movie consist of and what role Clint Howard would play in it and so much more!!!

So, let’s tear up our permanent records on this episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!

CRAIG FINN:

https://craigfinn.net/

https://theholdsteady.net/

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.

Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'

www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens

https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest this week is comedian/writer/actor Jon Gabrus (High & Mighty, 101 Places To Party Before You Die TV Series & Staying Alive podcast w/ Adam Pally), who chose to discuss the Mike White/Richard Linklater/Jack Black force of nature School Of Rock.

We discuss Jon’s surprising new health show with Adam Pally (his partner in debauchery), Jon and Adam visiting Portland for their TV series 101 Places To Party Before You Die, the best health advice he’s gotten so far, the music action films Miami Connection and Stunt Rock, the never ending inspiration that is American Movie, how easy it is to forget that School Of Rock was written by Mike White (The White Lotus) and directed by Richard Linkletter (Dazed & Confused), Jon being a stunt double for Jack Black, our first memories of seeing Jack Black, the Jack Black backlash in the 2010s, Mike White as an actor, how musicians, comedians and athletes all pine for each others’ careers, when did musicians start doing stage banter, Pulp, did either of us have cool teachers growing up, the experience of performing in front of your parents, long form improv, Jack Black begging Led Zepplin to use "Immigrant Song" in the movie, selling out as an artist, how Jack Black was originally going to write the music for the film, pre-show rituals and much more!

So let's raise our goblets to the gods of rock on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!

JON GABRUS:

gabrus.com

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

PATREON:

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods. It helps the show to keep going and is greatly appreciated!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'

www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens

https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week I’m joined by comedian/podcaster/director Scott Aukerman (Comedy Bang Bang, Between Two Ferns, R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME? w/ Adam Scott) as we delve into the recent David Bowie documentary, Moonage Daydream.

We also discuss Scott’s parents searching his teenage room for dangerous music, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Prince, Scott’s divisive (but beloved) U2 and R.E.M. podcasts with Adam Scott (Parks And Recreation; Severance), when we've felt like an artist has spat in our face, Dick Cavett, R.E.M.'s Dead Letter Office, The Dead Milkmen, meeting Bono, how we both first got obsessed with Bowie, getting scammed by compilations and bootlegs, the interview style of David Bowie, chaos in Scott's work, watching Bowie on endless escalators, The Sparks Brothers doc, the jaw-dropping performance of "Cracked Actor" in this film, seeing Bowie live, Nine Inch Nails, Bowie’s feelings on the Let’s Dance era of his life, The Glass Spider tour, Bowie's final album Blackstar, the occasional difficulties in continuing to follow an artist when they want to change artistically and more!

So let's watch in awe as David drinks milk in the back of a Rolls-Royce on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie

SCOTT AUKERMAN:

comedybangbangworld.com

BETWEEN TWO FERNS:

youtube.com/watch?v=UnW3xkHxIEQ

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

PATREON:

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods. It helps the show to keep going and is greatly appreciated!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'

www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens

https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to an Encore Presentation of one of my favorite episodes ever of Revolutions Per Movie, where I got to discuss the documentary Desolation Center with the creators of these legendary events (who else would put the Minutemen on a barge or Einsturzende Neubauten in the desert). Plus, I love it whenever I get to surprise my guests with more guests to create the whole picture from the inside out. Enjoy!

(Episode 33 originally aired on April 25th, 2024).

The original show notes:

This week, we talk to Stuart Swezey & Bruce Licher, who produced and worked on the Desolation Center series of shows that took bands like minutemen, Swans, Redd Kross, Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, and Einsturzende Neubauten and put them in locations such as the Mojave Desert as a reaction to the omnipresent police violence against punk rock kids.  We talked about the Desolation Center documentary that Swezey directed, the iconic visuals that Licher created for the events, having the legendary artist Chris Burden as your teacher, the healing power of Throbbing Gristle, how to source school buses to take punk rockers to the desert, fake ids, Savage Republic, Glenn Branca and the No New York LP, Redd Kross getting lost in the desert, violence coming from rednecks, the notion of selling out and not repeating oneself, the impact of D. Boon on the scene, Survival Research Laboratories, Lydia Lunch, being naive, Action News, the eventual change in the 80s music underground, psychedelics, early punk clubs like The Masque and Brave Dog, NEA grants for industrial noise music events, and we’re also joined by surprise guests, ML Compton and Skip King who are featured in the documentary and describe what it was like being a passenger into the unknown.

So party with me punker, as we head into the desert at night on this week’s Revolutions Per Movie.

DESOLATION CENTER:

www.desolationcenter.com/

STUART SWEZEY:

www.amokbooks.com/

SAVAGE REPUBLIC:

www.independentprojectrecords.com/savage-republic

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

PATREON:

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods. It helps the show to keep going and is greatly appreciated!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'

www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens

https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week I’m joined by author/photographer Pat Blashill (Texas Is The Reason; Someday All The Parents Will Die) to talk about the Texas punk community he documented, including Scratch Acid, Butthole Surfers & Big Boys, as well as the 2014 documentary The Dicks From Texas.

We also discuss punks living in Texas and how the bands from there pushed back hard against it, was Cheap Trick punk rock, which music freaked us out when we were younger, DEVO making your friends cry in fear, Pat getting invited to his first punk show by Big Boys in 1979 when he started taking photos of the scene that night, Pat’s artistic influences, The Huns riot, early bands like Sharon Tate’s Baby, the band Terminal Mind getting mad at people for dancing to their music, singing with a British accent, Raul's being the centerpiece club of the punk scene, Buxf of The Dicks, Sister Double Happiness, Gary Floyd’s singular vocals in punk, The Torn Panties, how Gary upstaged Lou Reed, Poison 13, Pat befriending David Yow and David Sims before they started Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard, watching the evolution of Butthole Surfers and their work ethic, Pat being at the Rembrant Pussyhorse recordings, The Residents’ Hardy Fox, Kurt Cobain, Big Boys playing the Austin Chronicle Award Show and the fight that ensued, Flipside VHS Tapes, the lack of local press support for punk rock, IRS's The Cutting Edge coming to Austin, Daniel Johnson and more.

So let's get lost in the pit together on this episode of Revolutions Per Movie!

PAT BLASHILL: patblashill.com

TEXAS IS THE REASON book: www.bazillionpoints.com/books/texas

SOMEDAY ALL THE PARENTS WILL DIE book: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477332474

THE DICKS FROM TEXAS doc: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYSNWLY5iEM

BIG BOYS live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVjMx0JDHM

BUTTHOLE SURFERS live film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW0mXU2mkgo

SCRATCH ACID live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdG1OALNSFI

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

PATREON:

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods. It helps the show to keep going and is greatly appreciated!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'

www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens

https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest this week is graphic novelist/artist/musician Leela Corman (Victory Parade, Unterzakhn), who chose to discuss the 1980 midnight movie classic Forbidden Zone.

We also talk about how Leela creates her long-form graphic novels, the difficulties and joys of making her masterwork Victory Parade, how Einstürzende Neubauten's album Lament helped her create her art, how watercolor is the noise guitar of paints, Leela's use of Busby Berkeley imagery, growing up in the 80s surrounded by transgressive art, Sonic Youth & Big Black, Raw Magazine, Lisa Suckdog, Forced Exposure, RE/SEARCH, how divisive the Forbidden Zone film can be, director Richard Elfman and his creation of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo troupe (later taken over by his brother, Danny Elfman), how we each discovered the film, how Leela puts a line from Forbidden Zone into every one of her books, Night Flight, the acting of Hervé Villechaize and Susan Tyrrell in the film, how the film spoke to Leela because of its use of Yiddish and ‘Yinglish’, how Richard Elfman went broke making the film, its incredible musical sequences, Josephine Baker, Leela working with The Mountain Goats, the legendary performance art of The Kipper Kids in the film, midnight movies and so much more!

So let's jump into the mouth in the wall and ride through the intestine on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!

Leela Corman:

http://www.leelacorman.com/

Forbidden Zone:

https://richardelfman.com/films/

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

PATREON:

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods. It helps the show to keep going and is greatly appreciated!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'

www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens

https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to an Encore Presentation of the first episode ever of Revolutions Per Movie...It had to start somewhere...and of course I had to begin with 'Dig' the Dandy Warhols/Brian Jonestown Massacre documentary! I was so happy that my first discussion already had a surprise guest to dismantle the film from the inside. Oh, the youth of us all...ha! (Episode 1 originally aired on Sept. 14th 2023).

The original show notes:

Hello and welcome to Revolutions Per Movie, a podcast about music documentaries, music-based fiction films, and the art of the music video.

I’m your host, Chris Slusarenko— a musician who has been in bands such as Eyelids & Guided By Voices and was once the owner of an independent video store in Portland, Oregon, for over 22 years.

For our inaugural episode, we talk with author/musician Ryan H. Walsh, who chose the Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dandy Warhols documentary film “Dig!” to discuss. We are also joined later by a surprise guest from the Brian Jonestown Massacre camp, Travis Snyder, who was the band’s tour manager for almost 20 years. We talk about how the film was initially commissioned to be a reality series by MTV, how bands in the 90s navigated the major label-feeding frenzy, the unhealthy lifestyle of band life, and how this documentary really did not tell the whole truth.

So listen in as we discuss the revolution that never happened on this episode, Revolutions Per Movie. 

Ryan H. Walsh:

www.astralweeks.net/about

www.hallelujahthehills.com/

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.

Revolutions Per Movies releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

THEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'

www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com 

ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owens

https://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, my guest is author, musician, journalist DAVE BIDINI (member of Canada's longest running indie band--Rheostatics, Editor-In-Chief at West End Phoenix, author of 12 books including Around The World In 57 1/2 Gigs) who picked one of the most fought-over titles to discuss on Revolutions Per Movie, Ron Howard's TV Movie Of The Week, COTTON CANDY!!!

We also discuss entering competitions when you're a kid, how Rheostatics have changed over their 45-year history and how the geography of Canada shaped their music, Dave's parents talking to him about the evils of Punk Rock, Stompin' Tom Conners, how Canadian record labels want bands to strip the Canadian aspects from them, the film/book/lp Whale Music, signing to Sire Records and working with Seymour Stein, Dave watching Cotton Candy when it first aired on TV, Charles Martin Smith and Clint Howard’s amazingly honest nerdy turns in this film, Kiss Meets The Phantom, how TV started competing with films in the late 70s, the pacing of a made-for-TV movie, old teenagers in films, teenage rejection and self-sabotage, being "PUNK" on TV, having a band logo before you even have a band, the brand of Power Pop in this film, dancing in movie theater aisles, the uncomfortable strip poker scene, building bands’ mythology in your head, music that scared you as a kid, being hypnotized by commercials as a kid, Ron Howard's directing style, a great story about Frank Sinatra & The Cramps and more! 

So let's head to the mall to play in the battle of the bands on this week's Revolutions Per Movie!

DAVE BIDINI: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/2290/dave-bidini

RHEOSTATICS: https://www.sixshooterrecords.com/artists/rheostatics

WEST END PHOENIX: https://www.westendphoenix.com/

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:

Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.

The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.

Revolutions Per Movie releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

TIP JAR:

ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovie

SOCIALS:

@revolutionspermovie

BlueSky: @revpermovie

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.