Has anybody seen that Thrill Jockey DVD, Looking For A Thrill?

is lonesome organist on it?

Wow! I really was just gonna post this.

I haven't seen most of it, but I skimmed through it the other night when I had some friends over. The Mouse on Mars guys were funny, and yes, Jeremy (lonesomeorganist) is on (talking about Bach's organ pieces, I believe). Some were pretty good, especially the more sincere ones, like Mike Watt. I think there's over five hours worth.

I have not seen it all. Highlights though, that totally make it worth it, are Thurston Moore's story about his first time at CBGB's, seeing Suicide as a high school kid. He tells a story so well I gotta think he could have been an artist in any medium. The other one I really liked is Gene Booth's. It's hilarious, from the garden setting, to how he acts out the guy dancing on acid.

It took a little while but i watched the whole thing, lots of little standouts. But then i'm a sucker to hear people rave about music too. You don't have to watch it all in one sitting remember!

oh man, can SOMEBODY please post the complete list of interviewees?? Totally dumb that it's not even on the Thrill Jockey website. I'm pretty much sold on it because of Chesnutt, Thurston and Hamid Drake, but want to know it's more than just Chicago wanksters after that.

"The interviews on the DVD include recollections by Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, Hamid Drake, Bjork, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise, the Butchies, Jon Spencer, Vic Chesnutt, Kurt Wagner, Fred Anderson, and Giant Sand - as well as members of the Urinals, Califone, Jesus Lizard, the Boredoms, Mekons, Slint, the Sea and Cake, and Calexico".

That's it? For some reason I thought, in five hours, there'd be more. And for some reason i thought i remembered Rollins being involved, for better or worse.

I went ahead and scanned in my booklet, the translation came across a bit wobbly, but this is better than nothing (Thrill Jockey really should have a listing SOMEwhere of this you'd think!)

…and the SNL guy isn’t on it, just for the record…

INTERVIEW LIST
Abrams, Josh-town & country/terminal 4/sticks and stones/the roots/sam prekop band
Albini, Steve-shellac/big black/rapeman Allstar-all natural/daily plannet
Anderson, Fred-fred anderson quartet/trio/hamid drake/peter kowald/ robert barry/ken vandermark
Arm, Mark-mudhoney/green river/monkeywrench/bloodloss/thrown ups
Armisen, Fred-saturday night live/trenchmouth/niles (
Bankhead, Harrison-8 bold souls
Bannister, Bob-tono bungay/fire in the kitchen
Barry, Robert-sun ra arkestra
Bean, Janet-freakwater/eleventh dream day
Bitney, Dan-tortoise/isotope 217/tar babies
Bjork-bjork/the sugarcubes/gling glo
Booth, Gene-mantis/desert storm/usa/xianggang delight
Bowden, Mwata-ahojd^iuls
Brandlmayr, Man^^^Kfian/trapist
Brokaw, ChridB^^^Pcodeine/pullman/the new year/conson
Brown, Ken "B^nay"-directio^l^^^arrymen/ton^^^^gastr del sol/gray market goods/bastro/seam
Brown, Rirt^-run on/fish ^^Hfe^les batteries/v^effectTcurlew/information
Burns, Joey-calexico/giant j painted blue
Chesnutt, Vic-brute/la-di-da's Cronin, Sheila-fan/engineej^ Cohen, Jem-instrument/benjamin smob//chain^^^B>ok found
^-bobby conn & the glass gypsies/conducent
Convertino, John-calexico/giant sand/friends of dean martinez 3, Carl-paperclip people / innerzone orchestra/planet e records
il—all natural/family)
Datum, Rob-nerves ^^^
LDicks, Elliot- nerves^rome/o^^J^WJfraphers/moon men/control/thomas ifferson slave apartmen
I Jim-town a^^^^
aceways incorporated/william
Eye-boredoms/ufo or die/audio sports
Frreeman, Von-sun ra's band in the 1950's/andrew hill/jimmy witherspoon charlie parker
Frost, Edith-edith frost band
Sarner, Sue-run on/fish & roses/shams/last roundup/sue garner & angel dean
Gelb, Howe-giant sand/band of blacky ranchette Greenwald, Dara-the rope Greynolds, Howard-fan/overcoat records Harris, Tim-antietam/babylon dance band
Herndon, John-tortoise/poster children/isotope 217/the for carnation/5ive
style/a grape dope/precious wax drippings
Hubley, Georgia-yo latengo
Irwin, Catherine-freakwater I Jacobsen, Jeremy-lonesome organist/5ive style Ijohansen, Kjehl-urinals/trotsky icepick/100 flowers IjjJR-molemen | Kaplan, Ira-yo latengo
Carcic, Jovan-gaunt
Key, Tara-antietam/babylon dance band
King, Braden-dutch harbor: where the sea breaks its back/1000 miles: dirty three live
Kligman, Barbara-plotz
Kupersmith, Noel-brokeback/chicago underground/sin ropas/monade .angford, Jon-mekons/three Johns/the waco brothers _icht, Alan-love child/black goat ensemble/blue humans/run on/text of light _ocks, Damon-eternals/super esp/trenchmouth _ux, Matt-isotope 217/black goat ensemble
' MacKaye, lan-fugazi/embrace/minor threat/the evens/dischord records Madell, Josh-antietam/tight fit/other music Manley, Phil-trans am/golden/fucking am-trans champs Margasak, Peter-buttrag
Martin, Jimmy-j.m. and the sunny mountain boys/bill monroe Martlew, Alison-butchies Massarella Ben-califone/perishable records
Mazurek, Rob-chicago underground/isotope 217/orton socket/black goat
ensemble
McEntire, John-tortoise/the sea and cake/gastr del sol/my dad is dead/
bastro/seam
McGonigal, Mike-yeti/chemical imbalance
McMahan, Brian-forcarnation/slint/squirrel bait
McNew, James-yo latengo/dump/christmas
Means, Nathan-trans am/fucking am-trans champs
Miller, Adam Lee and Kuperus, Nicola-adult./le car/ersatz audio
Moore, Thurston-sonic youth/ciccone youth/male slut/diskaholics anoymous/dream aktion unit/college girls gone wild/coachmen/dim stars
Murphy, Rian-chestnut station/dolomite/mantis/plush
Nelson, Brian-gorilla
Nemeth, Stefan-radian/lokai
Nimble, Tone B-all natural/family tree records
Nkishi, Dodo-mouse on mars
Norman, John-radian
Parish, John-John parish band/pj harvey
Parker, Jeff -tortoise /isotope 217/tricolor/toe/chicago underground/new horizons ensemble
Payne, Liz-town and country/pillow/everyone
Peters, Dan-mudhoney
Pomerleau, Julie-bobby conn & the glass gypsies
Prekop, Sam-the sea and cake/shrimp boat
Prewitt, Archer-the sea and cake/the coctails/archer prewitt band
Rice, Casey-dog /designer/super esp
tichards, Bettina-fan/thrill jockey records
|utili, Tim-califone/red red meat/friends of betty/perishable records
fizzo, Rick-eleventh dream day/desert storm/chestnut station
fosario, Neil-national trust/dolomite
tusk, Corey-touch and go records/necros Sachs, Sheila-fan/album cover designer Soss, Kim-fan Souris, Millicent-fan
Spencer, Jon-the jon spencer blues explosion/pussy galore/boss hog St. Werner, Jan-mouse on mars/lithops/microstoria
Taylor, Chad-chicago underground/sam prekop band/sticks and stones/ active ingredients
Thompson, Sebastian-trans am/the frequency/fucking am-trans champs
Timms, Sally-mekons
Toma, Andi-mouse on mars
Tsuyoko, Aki-nobukazu takemura
Vida, Ben-town and country/pillow/terminal 4/central falls
Wagner, Kurt-lambchop
Watt, Mike-minutemen/firehose/secondmen/the jom and terry show/ ciccone youth
Weston, Bob-shellac/volcano suns/mission of burma
Wilkerson, Edward-8 bold souls
Williams, lan-battles/don caballero/storm and stress
Wilson, Kaia-butchies/team dresch
York, Melissa-butchies/team dresch/sugarshock/vitapup
Yoshimi-Boredoms/OOlOO
Youssefi, Azita-azita/scissor girls/bride of no no
Yow, David-Jesus lizard/scratch acid

steve hise, do you own the dvd? if so, do you think i could borrow it next time you're in town?

i've been borrowing it indefinitely from a friend. if i still have it, i'll bring it. since it's opp, i'd feel shitty letting you borrow it, so you'll have to watch it with me. them's the breaks. i think your singer would like to see it too. maybe we'll do a screening at his or your place.

Thank you Phil! That's much better. You mean I get to hear Hamid Drake talk about music that's influenced him AND ogle Janet Beveridge Bean? I don't deserve so much bliss.

no way rollins would be on it, howard gr3ynolds sent him a note making fun of his misfits tattoos a few years ago when asked for a promo of the first tortoise record, hee hee.

i'd like to see that but i sure don't wanna buy it.

I enjoyed a lot of these interviews. Thurston Moore's is awesome, as is James McNew. I don't get how it's five hours long, though. Can DVDs hold that much?

I just picked this up..

The idea is great.. but the execution is painful, mainly because the director/technical folks went WAAAAAAY too far in the "look at us use this awesome Jitter plugin with our hot state-of-the-art digital video software" department. I wish most of the interviews were just straight interviews, with the residual editing for momentum... I really did want to hear/see David Yow's story but he kept time warping in and out of his car thanks to "arty digital video effects!". Same thing with Dan Peters, but he kept stuttering into an Alternate Universe Where His Doppelgänger Was Drinking A Beer. Yeah, it sounds funny in print, but it's annoying as fuck when you watch it. It's my major point of contention with the DVD.. well, that, and Ian Williams' piece. His "moment" was interesting and a departure, but why do we have to get a closeup of his saliva and zits, and see him with a prop Fisher price brand headphone/mic set channeling an 8-year-old? I was this close to throwing all my Don Cab and Storm&Stress CDs in a bag, chucking it across the lake to land in front of the neighborhood record storefront attached with a sign saying "FAH THE CHIL'RUN!"... Or maybe Ian made his piece that deliberately annoying..haha.

So yeah: high points.. Thurston and Watt, definitely. Mark Arm and Dan Peters were great.. Bettina, the "fans", the Butchies, Yo La Tengo, Mouse On Mars, Ian Mackaye Eye and Yoshimi of The Boredoms. I forget who else. Spotty, but worth it.

The best part is realizing how many musicians interviewed were really into Ted Nugent before their "moment".

That said, I'm looking forward to a sequel.. and I hope they don't digitally fuck with the interviewees next time, as mentioned/complained about above.

the highlight was definitely thurston moore on his first suicide concert. alan vega was vile. the best memories were the once where people got scared to death. mackaye and big black was another great love in awe story. and the trembling visual effects where really crap, as you said donut. in the beginning i thought the dvd was broken. but i got used to it after a while.

From the mid 90s and on, I REALLY wish Thurston Moore had a regular column somewhere where he talks about moments from his past. He's the best storyteller ever. His story about he and his friend's first foray into Max's Kansas City deserves to be a scene in a movie. The description of the Suicide show alone.. I can just imagine the cinematography already. It also makes me realize how inferior studio Suicide was to live Suicide based on the story... sigh, another show I would have loved to attend if I had a time machine.

The thread title is funny if you don't know "Looking For A Thrill" is the title.

I can think of two things wrong with this 'Thrill Jockey' DVD.

obviously mackaye talked about bad brains (and ted nugent and the cramps), not big black.

#2: That POSEUR Mike McGonigal is in it!

(HI MIKE! ;-) )