Last week, at the Alamo Draft House, we listened to a talk by Josh Frank, author of In Heaven Everything is Fine, a book about the crazy-ass host of New Wave Theater, composer, yoga master and culturalist, Peter Ivers.  Josh showed two episodes of New Wave theater which were awesome.  Peter Ivers would hilariously taunt and jab at the punk rock bands he featured on his show.  I guess the show was originally on public access and then picked up by Night Flight on the USA Network.  In 1983, Peter was murdered in his bed which remains an unsolved crime.  Josh is supposed to be back in Austin in November for the Texas Book Festival.  Hopefully he'll have more un-YouTubed clips.

There's still time to check out Man on Wire in the theaters.  The big screen adds the scared of heights, vertigo, butterflies in your stomach effect.

She started out as an illustrator for the Spiderman comics, worked her way up to principal animator of the Ren & Stimpy show, started a few bands and recently added a super cool track to Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse soundtrack.

Wikipedia entry

Neon Neon's retro-futurist ode to the life of auto mogul John DeLorean has been nominated for a Mercury Prize for 2008's best album.  I'm also pleased that Burial's Untrue was also included in the list.

Here's the list of songs we think Cher should take a crack at:

carribean queen

get outta my dreams get into my car

pretty woman

standing in line - red hot chili peppers

St elmos fire

never gonna give you up

I hope you had the time of your life

Black Hole Sun - Sound Garden

Run Around - Blues Traveler


Original concept by Julie Derrig and myself.   Megan Willams contributes to the madness.

I saw this at the Alamo Draft House a few months ago.  Watched it again last night and its as good as I remembered.  Apparently, very popular at the Dublin Film Festival and opened Sundance.  

I liked the poster better than any trailers I found.

The Netflix Link

Lipton - Sizzle & Stir
Bartle Bogle Hegarty | New York | 2001

Upstairs at Eric's has one of my favorite Album covers.  It just reminds me so much of the "new wave" / "dark dance" era that our older sisters hipped us to.  Stark, minimal, dehumanized and cold; Just like the electronics that provide contrast to Alison Moyet's warm vocal.

When I saw these reissues,  I hadta post 'em:

and the original:

Photography by Joe Lions for Mute Records

Dont Go - Yaz

After a few viewings, the guy behind the camera becomes funnier than the auditioners.  Sounds more like Bob Dylan than Jerry Seinfeld.  Thanks John Kraft!  Corn!