movie night

peeped a copy of living on dreams and twinkies, a dvd featuring our beloved goodwin boyzzz (video'ed at an aardvark show we attended a million yrs ago), as well as some dallas bands. nice production values and some kinda random insights into "what it takes to make it in the music biz," but overall, felt like it coulda been developed more -- some follow-up q: might have drawn out more specifics to make this more of a usable tool for up-and-coming local musos. oh well.

then our friends bysshe and mitch brought over half japanese: the band that would be king, the '93 doc about a bedroom band i'd never really had much interest in but do now. our friends thought the movie mighta been a put on, but we confirmed that it was legit. hj frontguy jad fair (who now lives in glen rose, does visual art, and will record a custom-written song for you for $300!) comes across kinda like lou reed as a hyperactive 6-yr-old, but his music is cool in a guilelessly quirky kinda way, altho it lacks the cosmic value that some of the rockcrit / music geeks the filmmakers interviewed (ironically?) make it out to possess. learned some stuff (f'rinstance: that the 50 skadillion watts label was founded by penn jillette with money he got for appearing on miami vice) and dug the footage of forced exposure / arthur scribe byron coley, as well as the bits with ex-velvet underground drummer moe tucker talkin' and playin'. all boo-shee aside, the version of the velvets' "i heard her call my name" with don fleming on gtr and moe doing her patented drumming-standing-up thang absolutely _rips_ and is worth the price of admission all by itself. cool grandma indeed. thanks to bysshe and mitch for sharing!