REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE

This week, we make up for when comedian/musician/author Dave Hill realized at the end of his episode about The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus, that he really should have been talking about Slade in Flame instead...so here we go!!!

We also discuss the passing of Ace Frehley, Kiss freaking people out, being able to shred on the guitar, music going off the rails, Ghost, Cheap Trick coming up with their visual idenity and band name after seeing Slade live in the UK, Quiet Riot, the phenomenon of UK Xmas rock singles, Roy Wood's Wizard, Dave Hill getting mistaken for Slade's Dave Hill, how massive the band was leading up to the film, Dr. Feelgood, how Slade In Flame is a bleak drama rather than a Glam spectacular, our love of English Breakfasts and depressing UK lodging, actor Tom Conte, the literal shitting that Slade did on others in their youth, the Slade In Flame soundtrack, the surprising violence and gangster vibes within in the film, the films Scum and Scrubbers, deep fried pizza, the band Slade 2, Slade never looking young & are Slade really glam?

So let's stomp and clap our way to the top of the charts in this episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!!

DAVE HILL: davehillonline.com
SLADE IN FLAME: archive.org/details/slade-in-flame-1975
DR FEELGOOD: youtube.com/watch?v=iHm7uIC84YM

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 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?, 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.

This week, I am joined by musician/editor Neil Gust (Heatmiser, No.2) to discuss the troubling, complicated, and 'unreleased' Rolling Stones film C*cksucker Blues, directed by legendary photographer Robert Frank.

We also discuss Neil's early days in Portland in his band with Elliott Smith--Heatmiser, Chris directing two early music videos for the band, the process of revisiting and re-releasing the Heatmiser records for Third Man Records, the odd newness of indie rock legacy, Neil’s autobiographical songwriting (including "A.O.R." which is about Neil working on his Dad’s farm as well as how his Dad’s use of the word “c*cksucker” made Neil not want to tell anyone he was gay, Neil writing the Heatmiser song C*cksuckers Blues in response to the Rolling Stone's film, Let It Bleed, how seeing Apocalypse Now at a young age solidified Neil’s love of intertwining music and film, how the Stones have had some of the greatest film directors of all time make some of their worst films, how Robert Frank got involved in making the film and the difficulties that surrounded it, why the Stones killed the film, bad art getting a ‘pass’ when it’s shown in museums, saving or ruining art in the edit, Rock N Roll Circus, Martin Scorsese’s Shine A Light, seeing the Stones live and how janky it could be, comparing The Stones to a John Cassavetes film, Neil making the Heatmiser video for C*cksuckers Blues, Bruce Conner and found footage films, being turned onto art through bands like Hüsker Dü and R.E.M. and more.

So bring the smelling salts, because today we're going deep into the murk on this week's Revolutions Per Movie!!!

Heatmiser videos (both directed by Chris Slusarenko):
Blackout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgNMZbOiCe4&list=RDkgNMZbOiCe4&start_radio=1
Why Did I Decide To Stay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra0ZDlo_jnE&list=RDra0ZDlo_jnE&start_radio=1

Heatmiser video (directed by Neil Gust)
C*cksuckers Blues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CAEFCZoxWo&list=RD7CAEFCZoxWo&start_radio=1

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 and series 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 at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes and series, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods that I send out to you. 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 our bi-monthly ENCORE PRESENTATION of classic REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE episodes from the vault! One of my favorite authors/writers/directors of all time, Jim Gavin (Jim's AMC show Lodge 49 is still one of the greatest series that has ever landed on Earth and those who have lived in it know that it's the truth) brought me a music doc about a band that is located deep within his heart, Don't Break Down, a film about Jawbreaker.

(Episode 36 originally aired on May 16th, 2024).

ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:
My guest this week is Jim Gavin (the creator of AMC’s incredible series Lodge 49 and author of Middle Men), who chose to discuss the Jawbreaker documentary Don’t Break Down. We talk about the band’s grip on their fans, the eventual backlash against Jawbreaker, lyrics that destroy you, the Masonic world and the genesis of Lodge 49, East Coast punk vs. West Coast punk, Lilies/Broadcast/Stereolab and other sonic rabbit holes, creating imaginary mentors, the legendary Jabberjaw/L.A. scene, creating your own mythology about a band, obsessing over Blake’s lyrics, the nature of imploding bands, the concept of selling out and Nirvana’s success, music as time travel, looking for a specific sound and hiring a private detective to find a specific song.

So please don't turn your back towards the band on this week's Revolutions Per Movie!!!

JIM GAVIN:
https://www.vogue.com/article/lodge-49-ode-the-best-television-show-you-missed
https://twitter.com/jimatdeltaco
https://www.tigervanbooks.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. 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 at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods that I send out to you. 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.

This week, we are joined by JAY McCARROL, the co-creator, star, and musical genius behind the joyful phenomenon and film NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE!!!

We discuss Jay’s experience composing music for the legendary Martin Short, the origin stories of Nirvanna The Band, how co-creator Matt Johnson and Jay started blending fiction with reality while still in their youth, being a dreamer and being delusional in a band, the epic tale of being mistaken for Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll, the haunted sounds of an upright piano, how they decided on the tone of Nirvanna The Band The Show and their singular, folding-in-on-itself way of creating their work, how outside circumstances are constantly changing their plots midstream, the magic of using flashbacks, how and why the film changed from a story about going to New Orleans to the current time-travel story, the wild swings of fair usage with the world of Nirvanna The Band, Jay’s touchstones while composing the score for the movie, can Nirvanna The Band still be anonymous, how their success with the film Blackberry helped propel them into making NTBTSTM, what The Rivoli means to the band, the future of Nirvanna The Band The Show Season 3, how they hope to be doing this into their senior era and more!

So let's spill that Orbitz onto this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!

NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE:
https://www.neonrated.com/film/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie

JAY McCARROL:
instagram.com/jaymccarrol

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 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?, 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.

This week, I'm joined by artist/cartoonist NATHAN GELGUD (Reel Politik, published by Drawn And Quarterly), who chose a film that has haunted us since we first saw it in theaters over 25 years ago: Dancer In The Dark.

We discuss the comedown after finishing a substantial long-form piece of art, the process of writing and drawing a daily strip, video store lore, Chris' real Y2K story, Putney Swope, being in the Criterion Closet in real life, how working in a video store and movie theater informed Nathan's daily comic strip Reel Politik, the horrible tagline used on the U.S. Dancer In The Dark poster, the initial concept of the film, how the film has changed in our minds since first seeing it in the theater, Bjork’s incredibly heartbreaking performance and how she challenged the emotive path initially laid out by Lars Von Trier, the 100 cameras they used to shoot all the musical sequences, The Kingdom theme song, why Lars Von Trier was Nathan's favorite director in his youth, the rules laid out in the Dogme 95 manifesto, The Celebration, the greatness of the film’s choreographer Vincent Paterson, Robert Altman, the scenes that were cut out of the final film & the difficulties in getting the film made, and much more.

So let's hold our breath as we head into the next-to-last song on this week's Revolutions Per Movie.

NATHAN GELGUD:
nathangelgud.com
drawnandquarterly.com/books/reel-politik/

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 at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods that I send out to you. 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.