REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

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.

This week I’m joined by IRA ROBBINS (Editor & Co-Founder of TROUSER PRESS magazine) as we end the year with the 1959 U.K. cult classic EXPRESSO BONGO!!!

We discuss how Ira's influential magazine was started on a whim, and how as outsiders they wanted a different approach to rock journalism, how they got a long-form interview with Jimmy Page, how the magazine made me feel smarter by reading it, the wild highs and lows of publishing Trouser Press, making mistakes in journalism, writing a letter to Pete Townshend and the reply that came back in the mail, how 70s rock journalism still held power in the culture of the time, the Devo/William Burroughs interview, how they got difficult interviewees to open up to their writers, how the magazine become an obligation rather than an opportunity over the years, the hardcore punk movement, how and why the magazine stopped publication, MTV's influence on music journalism, Laurence Harvey’s strange and powerful performance in Expresso Bongo, how young Cliff Richard was in this film, the incredible opening title sequence of the film, how the film pushes the cultural boundaries for young people in the late 50s, the British kitchen-sink drama movement, how the film was originally a West End musical and the differences between the two, how sleazy and risqué the film is for its time, The Shadows, how exploitative the British rock management world was, the threat of the 50s teenager, the alternate ending of the film and so much more.

So let's spin in circles while shattering our espresso cups on the ground on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!

TROUSER PRESS BOOKS (you can read the entire Trouser Press Magazine run in their archives!):
trouserpressbooks.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!

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.