REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

'THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT' w/ Kid Congo Powers

This week I am joined by the one and only Kid Congo Powers of The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and Juanita & Juan (to just scratch the surface of his incredible career), who picked the iconic 1956 rock n' roll comedy classic The Girl Can't Help It!!!We discuss Kid running the Ramones fan club, sleeping outside for tickets, recording and performing as Juanita and Juan with his bandmate Alice Bag, his first time playing guitar with Lydia Lunch, faking your way through music, Jeffrey Lee Pierce taking acting classes at the Lee Strasberg studio, lying to get The Gun Club's first show with The Blasters, Kid playing his first show after only a month of having a guitar in his hands, joining The Cramps and recording Psychedelic Jungle with them, The Gun Club's The Las Vegas Story and unlocking the intro to 'Walking With The Beast', William Burroughs and cut-up technique, the art of collaboration, making blobs of sound, Kid discovering The Girl Can’t Help It with the help of The Screamers, the Nuggets comp, cheapo rock n' roll exploitation films like Carnival Rock & Rock Baby Rock It, the power of Deluxe color used in the film, John Waters’ obsessions and tributes to The Girl Can’t Help It, the mystique, power and performance of Jayne Mansfield, the newly formed concept of the teenager when this film came out, Lady In A Cage, director Frank Tashlin and his animation roots, Julie London, Little Richard's incredible performance (while seeming to stare out into space), the weird lesser-known bands in this film, The Chuckles in the film standing next to legends like Fats Domino, the dragging up of Jayne Mansfield, Jayne's legendary home- The Pink Palace- and its wall-to-ceiling carpeting, mob ties in the rock world, Kid seeing legends like Yma Sumac and Eartha Kitt perform, confronting the audience and so much more!So let's throw another jukebox out the window in this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!! KID CONGO POWERS: officialkidcongopowers.com/@kidcongopowersjuanitajuan.bandcamp.com/album/jungle-cruiseREVOLUTIONS 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 at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods that I send out to you. It helps the show to keep going and is greatly appreciated!TIP JAR:ko-fi.com/revolutionspermovieSOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BONUS EPISODE: "WE WERE THERE TO BE THERE"/THE CRAMPS AND THE MUTANTS AT NAPA STATE w/ Jason Willis & Mike Plante

Welcome to an emergency BONUS episode of Revolutions Per Movie! Last week, while I was talking to Jackie and Jill from Target Video, they mentioned the doc We Were There To Be There, which focuses on Target filming The Cramps & The Mutants playing a show at Napa State, a psychiatric hospital in Northern California. So today, here is my conversation with Jason Willis & Mike Plante, who directed We Were There To Be There!!!We discuss how we each discovered Target Video VHS tapes and how it made us feel we weren't alone in our weirdness, the Flipside Video series, how goofy Black Flag was in their videos with Target, Repo Man, fanzines, Greg Turkington (Neil Hamburger) in the crowd of a Target Video shoot for the Meat Puppets, how the film changed its focus during the research phase, tracking down Target Video head Joe Rees in the wilderness, the legal and ethical concerns that arise while making a documentary, the surprising conservatism of San Francisco in this era, the doc’s explanation of how The Cramps ended up playing Napa State and the history of the hospital, how Reagan destroyed the inner works of Napa State, the NEA, the footage of The Mutants playing The School For The Deaf, Flipper, Desolation Center, the importance of LSD in the early days of the punk music scene, how the lines between the audience and the bands performing at Napa State were completely shattered, Bryan Gregory’s performance, the lost Mutants footage discovered after 40 years and where they found it, The Punk Media Research Collection Archive, Scopitones, Eerie publications, straight edge punk and so much more!Watch WE WERE THERE TO BE THERE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwwRQVgW-0gBLU-RAY with additional Mutants doc and Napa State performance:https://grasshopperfilm.myshopify.com/collections/new-releases/products/the-cramps-and-the-mutants-the-napa-state-tapes-blu-rayREVOLUTIONS 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/revolutionspermovieSOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'TARGET VIDEO' w/ Jill Hoffman-Kowal & Jackie Sharp

My guests this week are two absolute legends, Jackie Sharp and Jill Hoffman-Kowal of the punk rock video team Target Video (who documented hundreds of incredible live performances by Iggy Pop, The Screamers, Black Flag, Throbbing Gristle, minutemen, The Cramps, Hüsker Dü, Survival Research Laboratories, Bauhaus, Dead Kennedys, Lydia Lunch, and Young Marble Giants to name just a few). They are lifelong friends to this day… so get ready for jaw-dropping stories galore!We discuss Target Video’s origin story & meeting head honcho Joe Rees, how they got their first old-school video camera at the time, Joe's unusual approach to documenting bands, the origin story of The Mutants, their initial cable TV show, how their first color shoot was filming the iconic performance of The Screamers, how they shot The Cramps at the Napa State Mental Hospital, Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party, Jello Biafra staying in fancy hotel rooms in the UK, crashing on the floor of The Members, The Stray Cats playing the UK for the first time, how Jackie and Jill gained the trust of bands to film them in an era when bands were suspicious of being filmed, how the SF punk scene changed when Circle Jerks first came up from LA to play there, using fake addresses to keep the cops away from the Target headquarters, having eight-hour viewing parties in Paris, touring Europe with Dead Kennedys, the powerful footage of Throbbing Gristle playing a basketball court, CRIME playing San Quentin, Black Flag being nerds in the studio and making comedy videos with Target, shooting the TV PARTY music video, Target documenting rarely seen tours by Devo and Iggy Pop, being P.I.L.’s tour guides in NYC, Target video reunion shows, hooking up your VHS player to your stereo and more!So let's fly the Target flag high and play this episode loud on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!TARGET VIDEO: targetvideo.blogspot.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 and keep it going 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/revolutionspermovieSOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'HALF-COCKED' w/ David Pajo PT. 2

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/cestcadavidpajoHALF-COCKED: vimeo.com/ondemand/halfcockedREVOLUTIONS 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/revolutionspermovieSOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'HALF-COCKED' w/ David Pajo PT. 1

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/cestcadavidpajoHALF-COCKED: vimeo.com/ondemand/halfcockedREVOLUTIONS 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/revolutionspermovieSOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.