Etceterama V
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Trapeze, “Don’t Let Them Push You” — there’s a certain strain of dad rock I can only describe as Igloo cooler grooves. Jams to crush cans to at the moon tower! The cowbell that starts “Don’t Let Them Push You” is deeply ICG… way more on this playlist, and if you want deeper cuts let me recommend Grand Funk’s The Red Album and Gravytrain’s Second Birth.
070 Shake, Petrichor — was not expecting the pivot from G.O.O.D. Music features to Jesus And Mary Chain / girl group fuzz but this goes.
Cocoa Brovaz ft. Tony Touch & Hurricane G, “Spanish Harlem” — posting for Toca’s hat. Also: fantastic album! RIP Hurricane G.
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, I Advance Masked — my weekend Guitar World browsing led me to this 1982 collab, sounding like prog rock Ferris Bueller.
Orange 9mm Reunion — old WSOU mainstays doing their thing (at CIV’s tattoo festival) joined by Max Fish vets and professional wrestlers. LFG!
Oral History Of See Hear — tidbits and throwbacks from the ‘90s East Village zine mecca that is directly responsible for me commissioning Mark Dancey of Motorbooty fame to draw a Danny Brown picture disk several decades later.
Film Comment on Megalopolis — watching (or rather, experiencing) this on IMAX def top five movie experiences of the year. The reviews / thinkpieces have also been highly enjoyable, this one simply for copy and pasting one Letterboxd user’s “that shit sucked Megacockolis.”
TCM Talking Pictures S2 — one of my fav pods is back, Ben Mankiewicz kicking off an “all-comedy” season with Bill Groundhog Day Ghostbustin-ass Murray.
Alan Rudolph interviews — was not up on AR’s catalog (or his Altman history) but loved loved looooooved Remember My Name. The director’s been making the film nerd rounds behind a 4K restoration of his Bruce Willis/Vonngegut oddity Breakfast Of Champions, charmingly puzzled that anyone wants to talk to him about it in the first place.
Rap World interviews — on the other side of the cinematic Q&A spectrum, Conner O’Malley and friends are on a hilarious promo run to promote their CKY-inspired DV cam goof-off. I like this quote from ScreenSlate: “if I was this age in the ‘90s, I would just be a guy with hopefully two lines on a sitcom. Now, I get to make the dumbest videos for completely brain-rotted boyfriends.”
Squirrel With A Gun — haven’t really gamed since PS2 (and even that was mostly old Sega ports) buuuuuuut….
“Blanka’s Theme” On Classical Guitar — say less (ok I’ll say some more, he also does Mario 2, DuckTales and for some reason SATC, which is an eerily accurate cross-section of my interests).
Bratz Instagram account — sure, I could make the argument that the last thing society needs is even more hypercommercialized IP in conversation with itself. On the other hand: BRATZ ROSEMARY’S BABY.
Cole Escola, Our Home Out West — if you loved Cole’s Oh Mary on Broadway (yes, I am making the assumption that we have some readers who engage with the theatre) here is its delightfully bizarre precursor. Happy holidays!
Playlists updated…