REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

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This week, I’m joined by David Longsreth (of Dirty Projectors and musical collaborator with David Byrne , Bjork , Solange , and Rihanna ) to talk about his life in music, and the experience of composing his first soundtrack for A24 's The Legend of Ochi. We discuss the head-bending Dirty Projector’s take on the Black Flag Damaged LP, punk rock mix tapes, touring with Xiu Xiu and going 'method' on that tour, David making his early records in basement bedrooms on 4-track cassette recorders, embarrassing imperfections in music, an early eureka moment while opening for Broken Social Scene , working solo vs. collaborating with others, the different modes of Neil Young , John Cale ’s touch and attack, how they did the vocal gymnastics live with Bjork , Einstein On The Beach and Phillip Glass , slowing down songs to half speed, being fans of people you collaborate with, the soundtrack to Rumblefish , David's early work on Ochi and the film's 10-year gestation period, vocal hocketing, creating the creatures’ voices in the film, how it feels to hear your music played by an orchestra, my video store colliding with David creating his 1st record while sleeping in a hallway in Portland, and more... So come find out if I put a bag over my head for asking naive questions on this episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!! DAVID LONGSTRETH/DIRTY PROJECTORS: https://www.davidlongstreth.com/ https://www.dirtyprojectors.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! 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.

Dec 11

This week, I talk to Beth Harrington, Emmy-winning/Grammy-nominated director of The Winding Stream: The Carters, The Cashes and the Course of Country Music, the upcoming Duplex Planet documentary, and a recording/touring member of Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, about her amazing documentary, Welcome To The Club: The Women Of Rockabilly . We also discuss Beth’s incredible origin story working with Jonathan Richman and her time in The Modern Lovers during which she suddenly quit her job for a life in music, touring with Jonathan, the story of Chris working with Jonathan Richman for a charity album/documentary, what her upcoming Duplex Planet documentary will be like, the blessing and curse of doing a hour-long doc for PBS, rockabilly influences in the punk underground, how Beth puts her films together, Beth working with Wanda Jackson , The Collins Kids, Brenda Lee & Janice Martin (The Female Elvis), the stage mom factor within the Rockabilly music scene, how Beth gets her candid interviews, J ack White , Robert Oermann & Mary Bufwack's excitable interviews about Rockabilly in the doc, The Sing Along With Mitch albums, how Brenda Lee tried to get Columbia Records to sign The Beatles, the incredible stories of Big Al Dowling (piano player with Wanda Jackson who had one of the first integrated bands in the U.S.), the gender fluidity of many of the rockabilly artists, how documentary filmmaking has changed for Beth over the years and so much more. So come shake a chicken in the middle of the room on this week's Revolutions Per Movie! WELCOME TO THE CLUB--THE WOMEN OF ROCKABILLY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihZl9Ni-Fw&t=856s BETH HARRINGTON: https://www.bethharrington.com/ DUPLEX PLANET DOC : https://www.beyondduplexplanet.com/ BETH W/ JONATHAN RICHMAN : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf4NSNw_U4I&list=PLE9wKImo1JY6wdkL_W_aZmqutEs-ZSSr4&index=7 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. SOCIALS: @revolutionspermovie BlueSky: @revpermovie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 9

Hello and welcome to a special holiday bonus episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!! I'm delighted to be joined by film critic/author Alonso Duralde ( Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation in Film & Have Yourself A Movie Little Christmas) to discuss one of the greatest holiday feasts of all time: PEE-WEE'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL !!!! We also discuss whether or not it's easy to truly love holiday movies, the pain behind the awful Christmas film Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny , what B owie or Zappa were thinking when they played the Florida amusement park Pirates World (where Iron Butterfly also filmed their film Musical Mutiny ), Blast Of Silence , how Pee-Wee scored prime time appearances by Grace Jones and KD Lang while also convincing Cher & Little Richard not to sing, joining the Pee-Wee fan club, David Letterman , the new Pee-Wee doc, how people like Diana Shore were in on the joke by appearing on the special, the incredible pacing of a typical Pee-Wee episode, John Waters , how we love when Pee-Wee was just an asshole, which member of the playhouse would we want to hang out with, David Bowie & Bing Crosby’s rendition of Little Drummer Boy, TV crap and variety shows feeding our 10 year old brains in the 70s, the verdict on Christmas carols, having "verse blindness" with music, top dollar Santas and more! So please come join me at my Revolutions Per Movie holiday party...the cups of instant coffee are on the floor...so help yourself! ALONSO DURALDE: instagram.com/alonso.duralde https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alonso-duralde/hollywood-pride/9780762485895/?lens=running-press https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/have-yourself-a-movie-little-christmas-9781493087440/ 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.

Dec 4

My guest this week is Doug Gillard ( Guided By Voices, Nada Surf, Death Of Samantha ), who picked the film, Ghost On The Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce & The Gun Club , to discuss. We also talk about our experiences recording for Guided By Voices, the night GBV played Austin City Limits , Doug’s first songs he wrote when he was 5 years old, the influence of cartoon/bubble gum rock on Doug, the TV shows Night Flight and Pop Clips , Doug's Homestead Records band Death of Samantha, Dream Syndicate , the Ohio rock trait of putting on a show bigger than your actual audience size, out-weirding each other in the late 80s music scene, how The Gun Club were the authentic sound of Americana, singing in the key of Jeffrey Lee Pierce, guitarist Kid Congo Powers , filmmaker Alison Anders , how this doc never could get a proper release and can’t use The Gun Club music in it, the trauma underlining the doc, Doug’s experience opening for The Gun Club, Jeffrey playing the trumpet backwards, touring with Brian Jonestown Massacre , Peter Case , joining fanclubs, The Cramps , guitarist Ward Dotson , Yo La Tengo , The Liquor Giants , the iconic cover artwork of the band, Debby Harry singing with The Gun Club, how the members of the band kept getting pulled back into the band over and over again, drummer T erry Graham escaping the band while on tour in the middle off the night through a window, writing record reviews for Slash Magazine , why Lemmy from Motorhead is in this documentary and more! So let's walk with the beast on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!! DOUG GILLARD: douggillard.bandcamp.com guidedbyvoices.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.

Nov 27

How better to ring in the start of the holiday season than with two of my favorite music film obsessives, musician Chaki (The Funk Wizard) & comedy writer/artist/filmmaker Rachel Lichtman of Programme 4, who brought to my attention the 1970 TV spectacular T he 5th Dimension Special: An Odyssey In The Cosmic Universe Of Peter Max . We discuss how this special got on Rachel’s radar, Chaki seeing a restored version of this in a theater with the members of The 5th Dimension in atttendance, what’s the story behind The Glass Industries sponsorship of this special and how they created a ‘real band,' The Glass Bottle, the PBS ‘fake band’ Mulligan Stew , what it was like being a groovy extra in tv/movies during the hippie days, hippies in advertising, Dickie Goodman of Mr. Shark fame writing the music for The Glass Bottle, Rachel’s The 5th Dimension crime show on Programme 4, Dionne Warwick , the obsession within The 5th Dimension to get their vocal harmonies absolutely right, Marilyn McCoo & Solid Gold , the Bee Gee’ s Idea TV Special, the steady hand of director John Moffitt (who also directed Mr. Show episodes), how the special was shot in studio 8H in NYC and not in Burbank, Peter Max ’s brand of psychedelic art--where art and commerce meet, the weird vibe of Peter Max’s acting in this special, how the Laugh-In writers did not hit the psychedelic needs of this special, Artie Johnson’s problematic and offensive comedy characters in this special, Glen Campbell and Flip Wilson’s much needed energetic turns in this special, the song and the performance of 'Puppet Man', why the children in this special freak us out, the haunting littering commercials made for this special, Chris’s first time seeing the musical Hair , the legendary arrangement of ' Aquarius' banging into ' Let The Sun Shine In. Also, Rachel gives a massive update regarding the future of Programme 4, and Chaki hints at his new collaboration with El Vez entitled “Fuck Ice”. THE 5th DIMENSION SPECIAL: Obsolete Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjC3xB7egmY&t=3292s RACHEL LICHTMAN: https://www.programme4.tv/contact CHAKI: https://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. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 25

Hey everyone...welcome to our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! And what could be more timely for this Thanksgiving week than a listen back to my episode with DAVID PASQUESI ( Strangers With Candy , Lodge 49 , At Home With Amy Sedaris, Veep, TJ & Dave ) about the Thanksgiving concert that was to become THE LAST WALTZ !!! Enjoy! (EPISODE 53 originally aired Sept 12th 2024) ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES: This week, we talk to actor, writer, and improviser DAVID PASQUESI ( Strangers With Candy , Lodge 49 , At Home With Amy Sedaris, Veep, TJ & Dave ) about Martin Scorsese’s concert film about THE BAND, THE LAST WALTZ !!! We discuss David’s connection with The Band and the the sadness inherent in the film, how every member of The Band can be the coolest depending on which way you’re watching, how the film can be tainted by their history, how David discovered and watched the entire evening of music and what’s missing from the film, marveling in how long the night actually lasted and imagining what the turkey dinner tasted like, Scorsese’s secretive approach to intially making the film, how they got all these masters of cinematography to participate, The Staple Singers &Van Morrison, how the first song seen in the film is the last song they performed that night, The Basement Tapes, Chris’s family’s 3 generation admiration of David’s work & how David uses silence in his work, how The Band seemed small town-ish while being one of the biggest rock bands in the world, the debate on who wrote the actual lyrics, how heavily Scorsese storyboarded and prepared for this film, how they had to transform the Filmore to film the concert, the song Stage Fright and if David ever gets that when performing, Joni Mitchell stealing the show, gettting Neil Young’s rare ability to smile and his cocaine nose booger removal techinolgoy, the accidents that happen in this film and why they are magical, the band/gang mentality vs. being a loner, the fear of public humilation, Dylan’s decision at the last minute that he didn’t want to be filmed for the movie and how they got him to change his mind, the endless end of night jams with Ringo and Ron Wood, Scorsese’s flawed Rolling Stones film and more! So let’s fill up on a turkey, waltz, and dance to The Band on this week’s episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!! DAVE PASQUESI: https://www.davidpasquesi.com/ https://www.tjanddave.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. SOCIALS: @revolutionspermovie BlueSky: @revpermovie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 20

My guest this week is Michael Layne Heath (critic, author & compiler of My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters With Lou Reed ), who brings us the Lou Reed & John Cale performance film Songs For Drella to discuss. We also talk about Michael starting the first D.C. Punk zine in 1977, reading about bands before hearing them, The Slickee Boys , Tommy Keene & Razz , Vintage Violence zine, The Cramps playing D.C., Creem Magazine , Cale recording his album Fear , the import bins at local record stores, treating press interviews as art pieces, Lou Reed's control of a crowd, the genesis of Songs For Drella , how by the end of the project they didn’t want to work together, the differences between the film versions of the songs and the album versions, the dream sequence in the film, fictionalizing Warhol’s life in this work, the very telling non-verbal interactions between Cale and Reed in this film, how the film was misplaced for years after its initial VHS release and then found during the making of the Todd Haynes VU doc, where Lou and John were at the time of this project, Lou’s defense for doing Honda/American Express commercials, Robert Quine , Warhol’s work ethic, The Warhol Museum, and we also reenact the classic and combative Lou Reed interview with the Australian press core! MICHAEL LAYNE HEATH: https://hatandbeard.com/products/my-week-beats-your-year-encounters-with-lou-reed?variant=40376865194050 https://www.furious.com/perfect/vintageviolence.html?curator=MusicREDEF 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.

Nov 13

This week I'm joined by author and music critic Keith Cameron ( Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury From Seattle, 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers ), who picked the documentary I’M NOW: THE STORY OF MUDHONEY to dive into. We discuss our relationship with the British musical weeklies and how Keith ended up working for them, the power of Radio One DJ John Peel , Keith trying to get his favorite bands on the cover of the NME , the Mudhoney riot at the School of Oriental & African Studies in 1989 (where Mark Arm invited the entire audience onstage before the first note), cracking Green River , seeing Mudhoney’s 2nd show opening for White Zombie , the brilliance and haphazardness of SubPop , Jack Endino asking the band if they really wanted to sound like they did while recording them, Mudoney saving SubPop’s label at their lowest point, how Caroline records wanted to polish up Mudhoney, the follies of indie labels & the notion of selling out, Mark Arm as a world class lyricist, Keith visiting Seattle & interviewing Nirvana at the time they were kicking out Dan Peters of Mudhoney and replacing him with Dave Grohl, touring with Nirvana vs. Pearl Jam, the handheld camera tour footage of the band, Keith spending time in Mudhoney's childhood locations, Matt Lukin leaving the band and Guy Maddison replacing him, the obstacles and triumphs of continuing to making music for nearly 40 years and more! So let's collectively make the stage collapse on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!! Keith Cameron: https://keithcameron.co.uk/about-me/ https://www.mojo4music.com/author/keith-cameron/ 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.