REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

My guest this week is Mike Sacks (NY Times bestselling author and creator of weirdo audio projects featuring Jon Hamm, John Waters, Bob Odenkirk, and Laraine Newman) who picked Jesus Christ Superstar!

We also talk about misremembering scenes from movies we watched as kids, trucker films of the 70s, Paul Williams, Mike's novelizations of "movies" such as the grunge classic Slouchers, working on his audio novelization of Stinker Lets Loose with Jon Hamm, our mutual obsession with Chris Elliott (PLUS Mike gives us a world premiere scoop on the plot of his new audio project with Mr. Elliott!), Bad Ronald, why Bob Odenkirk sent my video store Mr. Show VHS tapes, how we each discovered Jesus Chris Superstar, seeing the Afghan Whigs perform "39 Lashes" as their opening number in the early 90s, how Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice couldn't get the funding to stage JCS, Mike renting the film and why he hid it from his parents, Carl Anderson's haunting performance as Judas, the polarizing performance by Ted Neely as Jesus, the newer documentary Superstars, Bee Gees and their collaborations with Yvonne Elliman, and Mike lays a bunch of knowledge and myths about JCS from his proposed 33 1/3 book on the musicial!

MIKE SACKS:
mikesacks.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 (over 125 bonus episodes are available and counting). 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 at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes and series such as A Very Opinionated Look At Urgh! A Music War & What Makes The Midnight So Special?, A Devotees Look At New Wave Theater, Exploring The Axis: The Oral History Of Frontier Records With Lisa Fancher, Dips On Chips w/ Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross, physical goods such as a limited edition 7" Flexidisc, and other exclusive goods that I send out to you for supporting the show. 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
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My guest this week is Emil Amos (musician: Grails, Holy Sons, Om, Jandek & podcast: Drifter's Sympathy) who surprised me by picking the Paul Simon narrative film One Trick Pony (which also features the mind-bending acting debut of Lou Reed).

We also discuss the naivety of thinking certain artists were bigger culturally than they were, Lou Barlow 7"s and Guided By Voices, how Emil goes about creating his vast & epic podcast, Emil's gateway into the world of soundtracks, Sam Coomes of Quasi being an employee at my video store, Flower Travelin' Band, the experiences of Emil performing with Jandek, Dexter Romweber, Wolf Eyes, cheap guitar powers, how One Trick Pony is a surprising look at Paul Simon feeling out of step with the times, The B-52s performing Rock Lobster in the film, films set in late 70s New York, Street Hassle & Bruce Springsteen, labels wanting to mold you into something you're not, the flex of casting Lou Reed to play a producer who is asking Paul Simon make a more commercial album, the Siskel & Ebert's review of the film and much more!

EMIL AMOS:
holysons.com
drifterssympathy.com

REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:
Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guide d 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 (over 125 bonus episodes are available and counting). 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 at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes and series such as A Very Opinionated Look At Urgh! A Music War & What Makes The Midnight So Special?, A Devotees Look At New Wave Theater, Exploring The Axis: The Oral History Of Frontier Records With Lisa Fancher, Dips On Chips w/ Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross, physical goods such as a limited edition 7" Flexidisc, and other exclusive goods that I send out to you for supporting the show. 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 everyone...welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault!

I love this episode because my initial experience of seeing this upsetting, darkly funny film (by the director of The Brutalist) was completely thrown overboard due to my guest Logan Lynn's harmful experience within the music industry when he was younger (which is the subject of his new documentary, The Pain And The Power). A fantastic discussion on a polarizing film that's a hard watch, but never leaves you.

(Episode 25 originally aired on Feb 29th 2024).

ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:
This week, we talk to indie pop dance legend and Kill Rock Stars recording artist, Logan Lynn, who picked the extremely intense music narrative film, Vox Lux, to discuss. We discussed the realities and tropes of music films, Lynn’s early years as a teenager on a major label, the lack of protection for young artists within creative industries, addressing addiction and trauma in your art, the notion of selling out, backstage rituals, making fun of ‘The Devil’, the Swedish Pop Mafia, how music gets taken out of context, whether or not Natalie Portman a convincing pop icon in the movie and so much more.
So get ready to dance through the pain on this week’s Revolutions Per Movie.

Logan Lynn:
https://loganlynnmusic.com/
youtube.com/watch?v=M3Rkoe_UlR4

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 (over 125 bonus episodes are available and counting). 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 at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes and series such as A Very Opinionated Look At Urgh! A Music War & What Makes The Midnight So Special?, A Devotees Look At New Wave Theater, Exploring The Axis: The Oral History Of Frontier Records With Lisa Fancher, Dips On Chips w/ Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross, physical goods such as a limited edition 7" Flexidisc, and other exclusive goods that I send out to you for supporting the show. 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 Evan Minsker (Critic/Journalist for Pitchfork & the heart behind the amazing punk newsletter See/Saw) who (...wait for it...) picked a very punk film: Autonomy And Deliberation, by a very Australian AND very punk band The UV Race. And although it has never been publicly released, the director and the band let us watch it so we can discuss it for you! Got it yet?!?!?

We talk about why the finished film never reached eyes outside of a few friends in Australia, Evan’s early punk rock roots, the fear of being reviewed on Pitchfork, not being able to get into the venue to see Fugazi and Scratch Acid (so you listen to them outside), the amazing punk scenes and punk labels happening all around the world right now, alternative DIY spaces, being the oldest person at the show (at age 27), Turnstile, how The UV Race has no wikipedia page/follows no one back on social media/embraces broken web links, the poetry of front man Marcus, the mystery surrounding the director Johann Rashid and his film inluences as a child which influenced his filmmaking, Courtney Barnett, the self-depricating tone of the film, the cameos from members of Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Dick Diver & Total Control, the soundtrack for the unreleased film, blowing the band money at the Greyhound Track, how the structure of the film is bascially The Blues Brothers ("I’ve got to get the band back together"), how the film is built upon the band’s inner workings/language and sense of humor, Marcus' other band Hot Tubs Time Machine, their also unseen Sci-Fi followup: THE UV RACE DISGRACE SPACE, and we pitch a new film to complete their filmic trilogy.

EVAN MINSKER:
see-saw.fun

THE UV RACE:
intheredrecords.com/collections/the-uv-race/products/autonomy-deliberation

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 (over 125 bonus episodes are available and counting). 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 at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes and series such as A Very Opinionated Look At Urgh! A Music War & What Makes The Midnight So Special?, A Devotees Look At New Wave Theater, Exploring The Axis: The Oral History Of Frontier Records With Lisa Fancher, Dips On Chips w/ Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross, physical goods such as a limited edition 7" Flexidisc, and other exclusive goods that I send out to you for supporting the show. 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.

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of Revolutions Per Movie. Thank you for supporting what we’re doing…it means a lot.

We were in the process of releasing our recent conversation about John Curry and his band Flyboys this week when we heard from Lisa Fancher about his passing. So we've decided to make this episode of EXPLORING THE AXIS: THE ORAL HISTORY OF FRONTIER RECORDS w/ Lisa Fancher available to everyone. Much love to John, his family, and his bandmates.

SHOW NOTES:

Welcome to Chapter 3 of Exploring the Axis, where we freak out about the genesis of Lisa’s first vinyl release for Frontier Records, the iconic Flyboys S/T 12” EP, an incredible pinnacle of L.A. power-pop-driven punk/garage songwriting.

We discuss why the timing was right to release her first record, what the label was originally going to be called, how she first met Flyboys by interviewing them in her parent's living room, why Flyboys won’t let their debut 7” be re-issued, how their 2nd 7” Crayon World is considered a classic of the era & how the sleeves came back in the wrong size, telling Slash to fuck off, why the look of Flyboys was different than other bands in the scene, the long journey to get the S/T EP recorded, recording at Leon Russell’s recording studio, Disneyland vs. hardcore punk, starting to think about putting out a Circle Jerks LP, JFA covering the Flyboys without credit and more!

The Complete Flyboys: frontierrecords-flyboys.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-flyboys-1978-1980

CHAKI: chaki.bandcamp.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 (over 147 bonus episodes are available and counting). 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 at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes and series such as A Very Opinionated Look At Urgh! A Music War & What Makes The Midnight So Special?, A Devotees Look At New Wave Theater, Exploring The Axis: The Oral History Of Frontier Records With Lisa Fancher, Dips On Chips w/ Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross, physical goods such as a limited edition 7" Flexidisc, and other exclusive goods that I send out to you for supporting the show. It helps the show to keep going and is greatly appreciated!

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