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... and here is the proof!
Get the June 2015 issue (#385) for the feature/interview about this project along with Karen photos.
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Welcome to all you fine, feathered folks who've been clued into this site by the MaximumRockNRoll magazine (#385) interview with me and the display of Karen Kirchhoff's beautiful photographs. You now have to listen to all 59 or so interviews (and counting)!
If you like what you see and hear, please help out this project by spreading the word about it. You can also buy photo books directly from Karen and the last few remaining L!F!P! t-shirts from me.
Feel free to share your thoughts about the project. I'd love to hear what you think.
More interviews are in the works, so be certain to keep an eye on the site to see what's new. I will always strive to draw in the diverse individuals who make up or made up this scene as well as a few others who aren't Philly people but who've influenced me in a positive way.
Thanks to Yoni Kroll for doing the interview and Grace Ambrose at MRR for seeing it through. And thanks to you for taking the time to see what this is all about. You rule!
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... please allow me to recommend one of my favorite reads of this year so far and what will surely stand as one of the best books of 2015:
All Involved by Ryan Gattis
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Here are some photos from Bull's annual "One Foot In the Grave" Woodlands Cemetery birthday party (plus a shot of the Bull head Karen made out of vegan lunchmeat).
See if you can spot some past and possibly future interview subjects!
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Thanks to Greg Trout, the site now boasts an interview with the inimitable David E. Williams.
Here, for your visual satisfaction, is a photo of the two of them together at Williams' house at the time the interview was recorded.
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Here are some extra photos from Karen Kirchhoff's shoot with Dave "Bass" Brown of Negative FX (and many other bands).
The interview was conducted last night and went up today. I hope you enjoy it. There are more to come.
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I was interviewed for a Criterion Collection release along with Greg Weeks (formerly of the band Espers). The movie we were interviewed about is Jaromil Jires' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Czech, 1970). It'll be coming to you on DVD and blu-ray in a stunning 4K scan with three rare Jires short films; the Valerie Project alt-score; and a piece about the making of the Valerie Project score, which will feature the interviews with Greg and me along with never-before-seen video footage of the band, performance photographs, Exhumed Films flyers, and more. It's going to be a fantastic release! My involvement with The Valerie project and this movie has been tremendously important to me, so this brings me great satisfaction.
You can read about it here.
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I recently had the opportunity to the see the new documentary Salad Days: A Decade of Punk In Washington, DC (1980-90). Before the screening at Underground Arts here in Philadelphia (Sunday, March 8, 2015), I was a guest interviewer (again) on the Cinepunx podcast hosted by Liam and Josh. Also guest interviewing was Mike DC. We talked to Scott Crawford and Jim Saah, the creators of the documentary. If you'd like to give our discussion a listen, it's here or, more directly, here. I thought the doc was terrrific! It really captured the inspirational spirit of DC hardcore and the creative individuals who created that scene.
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I once again joined Josh and Liam on their Cinepunx podcast. This time the interview was not with me, but rather with Bill Perrine, director of the new (and very enjoyable) documentary It's Gonna Blow!!!: San Diego's Music Underground 1986-1996. I was guest interviewing with the fellows along with my brother Bull. It was a lively talk and if you like the interviews here on the site, you should give it a listen.
You can find it here.
The Cinepunx podcast is also available through iTunes.
If you'd like to listen to me talk about L!F!P!, the Cabbage Collective, Diabolik DVD, Exhumed Films, etc., the episode with my interview, #10, is here.
I should be joining Liam, Josh, and probably Bull again in early March for another interview with a documentarian. More on that if it comes to fruitition.
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And it's worth defending against the troglodytes who want to force their antiquated and vile beliefs on the world through force.
“Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.”
- Salman Rushdie
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