REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

Welcome to my 100th episode of Revolutions Per Movie (and that's really 181 episodes counting the exclusive Patreon episodes)!So to properly celebrate gloriously, we are joined by one of the greats, Tom Scharpling (host of The Best Show, co-host of Double Threat, and writer for What We Do In The Shadows & Monk) who brings us his favorite music film of all time by his all-time favorite artist, Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps!  We discuss Tom’s 25 years of doing The Best Show, Tom’s introduction to Neil Young and how I discovered the deep catalog of Neil though Tom's show, Neil Young's ditch trilogy, how live records are often not truly live documents, King Crimson, how Neil shifts genres constantly and fearlessly, how the people around Neil initially didn’t understand Crazy Horse, concert fans who only want to hear the hits, Sonic Youth opening for Neil Young, Devo's influence on Rust Never Sleeps, how Neil Young is one of the most prolific filmmakers of all time, the films Human Highway & Harvest Time, Neil's sense of humor, how Star Wars influenced the Road-Eyes (roadies), the symbolism of Neil cutting his hair for this tour, how the film takes its time with long shots and hazy cinematography, how Neil came into the CSN fold and how they came to regret it, the album Trans, Neil’s Geffen & Reprise Record years, the video store music collection, when artists play unreleased music on tour, the power of the song 'Powderfinger', Neil and his relationship to Grunge, Tom seeing Neil Young live at the Roxy, the Robert Pollard/Neil Young parallels, letting an artist go where they need to go and more!So let's put on our 3-D glasses and watch Neil Young rust before our very eyes on the 100th & 181st episode of Revolutions Per Movie!THE BEST SHOW:https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-best-show/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.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies 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!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovie

Hey everyone...in honor of Julie Klausner coming to Portland to do Revolutions Per Movie Live on July 5th 2025, I'm re-releasing my incredible conversation with Julie about the Nancy Sinatra TV Special Moving With Nancy (Episode 5 which originally aired on Oct. 12th, 2023).This episode should get everyone excited to come out to see us at the Clinton St. Theater where we will be watching and discussing the Rachel Welch wild-ass musical special Rachel! which Julie goes into a bit during our original discussion in this episode. Julie will also be putting together a series of unique, mind-altering videos just for this event only too...and maybe we'll shower you all with RC Cola...you never know!!!Come escape the 4th of July weekend with us...see you soon!Tickets for Revolutions Per Movie Live with Julie Klausner are available here:https://cstpdx.com/event/revolutions-per-movie-live-with-julie-klausner/The original podcast show notes:This week, we talked to actor/writer/musician Julie Klausner (Hulu’s ‘Difficult People, Double Threat Podcast, ‘I Don’t Care About Your Band’) about Nancy Sinatra’s 1967 TV Special ‘Movin’ With Nancy.’ We obsess over Nancy’s dedication to the art of her lip-syncs, the magic of her partnership with Lee Hazlewood, how the special is also an unintentional horror movie & why Ringo Starr, Throbbing Gristle & Davy Jones would have been perfect duet partners with Nancy.So pour yourself a goblet of that mad, mad, mad, mad cola and take the passenger seat straight into heaven on this week’s episode of Revolutions Per Movie.

This week I’m joined by Australian musician Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm, The Drones) who chose to discuss one of the greatest concert films of all time,  EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN:HALBER MENSCH.We talk about how Tropical Fuck Storm made their own film (Goody Goody Gumdrops) during the pandemic lockdown, Gareth playing shows with Neubauten, how TFS writes their brain-melting songs and how Neubauten’s influence crept into their work, TFS having to leave Melbourne due to economics, making their music using equipment they didn’t know how to use, how not to be too good at guitar, the influence of Greg Ginn, John Coltrane & Jimi Hendrix, Thrasher magazine, the current difficulties of touring the States, blowing things up in music videos, industrial high-school study music, Neubauten playing inside an actual freeway, how Neubauten are The Beatles of the industrial world in terms of charisma, how the film transcends pretension, Butoh dancers, Tarkovsky’s Stalker, the microphoned shopping cart, Blixa’s take on The Police, how the film is so well scripted and shot by filmmaker Gakuryū Ishii, how the legendary music producer Gareth Jones recorded one of the most expensive industrial records of all time and more. So let's set our instruments on fire and the music to stun on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!TROPICAL FUCK STORM:https://usa.firerecords.com/products/tropical-f-storm-fairyland-codexhttps://tropicalfstorm.bandcamp.com/album/fairyland-codexREVOLUTIONS 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.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies 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!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hey everyone...in honor of our upcoming 100th episode (!!!), I'll be occasionally re-releasing some of my favorite past conversations. This one was special and powerful--the incredible Ann Magnuson coming on and being incredibly heartfelt, funny, vulnerable, and truthful on the show. I love that I never know where the show is going to go and this episode is the perfect example of why I feel so honored to do Revolutions Per Movie. (Episode 48 which originally aired on August 8th, 2024).The original podcast show notes:This week, we talk to legendary actor, musician, performance artist, and writer ANN MAGNUSON (Bongwater, The Hunger, Making Mr. Right, Cabin Boy, Pyramid Club, Club 57) about the influential cinema jazz documentary Jazz On A Summer’s Day.  We discuss the performances in the film (including Thelonious Monk, Anita O’ Day, Chico Hamilton, Eric Dolphy to name a few performers), what it was like for Ann to inhabit Anita O’Day for the audio book of her autobiography, first impressions of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Ann’s programing at the legendary NYC Club 57, Ann’s new song ’Ghost Cat’ with producer Don Dixon, her early life in West Virginia, D.I.Y. & Ann’s SurRURALism techniques, success in the underground being a dirty word, the return of Vulcan Death Grip, being a professional walk-a-thoner, photographer & filmmaker Bert Stern, how the film brings a visceral sense of childhood for Ann, how Stern made the whole project happen with his own equipment and financing, Ann’s parents and the dry Jazz club scene in West Virginia, filming Making Mr. Right and the new wave sensibility of the 80s, how Monk’s performance is presented in the film, Chris scats the Anita O’ Day finale of ‘Tea For Two’ from his memory of repeated listening of the film at his video store, the white privilege throughout in the film, midnight Mahalia Jackson performances, how protest music is needed now more than ever and Ann reads from Anita O’day’s memoir about the performance that was filmed for this movie and how it changed O’Days life. So let’s never sing the same song the same way twice on this week’s episode of Revolutions Per Movie!ANN MAGNUSON:https://annmagnuson.com/https://annmagnuson.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-catVULCAN DEATH GRIP:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2_dWSpDXJEREVOLUTIONS 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 Movies releases new episodes every Thursday. If you like the show, please subscribe, rate, and review it on your favorite podcast app.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. There, you can get weekly bonus episodes and exclusive goods just for joining.SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieX, BlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com

This week, we are joined by Sue Carpenter, the author and director of 40 WATTS FROM NOWHERE, which documents her pirate radio stations in SF and LA.We talk about what made her want to turn her book into a documentary, how her station also became a theatrical experience, the incredible amount of documentation she did considering it was a pirate radio station, what makes starting a traditional radio station almost impossible, her incredible roster of DJs from Mike Watt to Keith Morris, climbing over her bed to broadcast, people triangulating the station's signal to try to find her, theft and the unknowns of running the station, getting artists like The Jesus & Mary Chain and Spiritualized to the station’s secret location, the film Pump Up The Volume, how the FCC found out about the station and the final showdown for the station.So head to the left of the dial on this week's Revolutions Per Movie!SUE CARPENTER:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nnNX1AeB_ghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224894.40_Watts_from_NowhereREVOLUTIONS 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.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies 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!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hey everyone...in honor of our upcoming 100th episode (!!!), I'll be re-releasing a few of my favorite past conversations on Tuesdays.This one was a lifelong dream for me: getting to talk to DEVO's Gerald V. Casale about their body of work--a band whose musical and visual identity showed teenage me that it was o.k. to be different, weird, and skeptical. Jerry does not suffer fools gladly, so I was quite nervous going into the interview, but once he realized I wasn't going ask about the flower pot hats, we both relaxed and took a serious deep dive into how he and DEVO altered the world forever, as well as how lonely that could be for them. Episode 35 originally aired on May 9th, 2024.The original podcast show notes:This week, the one that started it all for me, Devo’s Jerry Casale, joins me on the podcast to talk about Devo’s film and video legacy. We discuss the origin story of their first short film, the films that influenced Casale and Devo’s aesthetic, their early jobs and the pressures of Ohio, how ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ influenced the 'Beautiful World’ video, meeting collaborator Chuck Statler, where Rod Rooter’s dialogue came from, Club Devo and the difficulties making their merchandise, Jerry tells the plot of the Devo feature-length film script that never got made (including one that was going into production with Francis Ford Coppola & one with William Friedkin), how they directed their conservative looking extras and General Boy, meeting their idols, how they constructed their live shows, phone calls from the video Commissioner of MTV, censorship, working with Soundgarden, Bruce Connor’s ‘Mongoloid’ short film, transgressive art, people being scared of Devo, Kent State & the Vietnam War as the antecedents of Devolution, crawling out of the basement, the communal mindset of the members of Devo, the antagonistic nature against Devo from interviewers, having fun with the audience while rubbing their nose in it, the groundbreaking & primitive ‘Oh No It’s Devo’ tour, making ‘The Men Who Make The Music’ and having your own action figure made of you.So...peek-a-boo...let's all get devolved together on this week's Revolutions Per Movie!JERRY CASALE (videos, action figures, music, art):https://www.geraldvcasale.com/DEVO:https://www.clubdevo.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.New episodes of Revolutions Per Movies are released every Thursday, and if you like the show, please subscribe, rate, and review it on your favorite podcast app.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support the show is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie, where you can get weekly bonus episodes and exclusive goods sent to you just for joining.SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieX, BlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.comARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

This week, I am joined by Jake Fogelnest, who at the age of 14 hosted MTV's Squirt TV, and later collaborated with Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman & Billy Eichner.  We take a look at the Bee Gees/Peter Frampton mess-a-thon theatrical feature SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND.We also discuss how Jake turned his childhood cable access show (shot in his bedroom!) into a full-fledged MTV show, getting his hair cut on TV by Kim Gordon, the day Cypress Hill showed up to his bedroom, the difficulties of the MTV show getting cancelled and his struggle with addiction, how the Beatles were less protective of their legacy than we thought, the military aspects of Sgt. Pepper's, how we never noticed the military aspects of Sgt. Pepper’s, the legacy of Robert Stigwood’s powerhouse career, Grease, Robin Gibb’s grandiose delusion that this film’s music was going to replace the legacy of The Beatles' original, how this was Steve Martin’s film debut, how it felt watching the film as kids, the movie Car Wash, the PG-13 version of Saturday Night Fever, the cult musical film The Apple, the fight scene between Peter Frampton & Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, the incredible Alice Cooper cult leader scene, Sandy Farina as Strawberry Fields, speculating if anyone ever cried watching the film, Xanadu, Billy Preston saving the day, our alternate endings of Sgt. Pepper's, who are all the artists that appeared in the film's big finale, finding peace of mind from just hanging out in a video store and more!So let's run from that wicked Mean Mr. Mustard and his two latex-clad gimb-bots on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie! JAKE FOGELNEST: @jakefogelnest www.patreon.com/jakefogelnestREVOLUTIONS 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.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies 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!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

Hey everyone...in honor of our upcoming 100th episode (!!!), I'll be occasionally re-releasing some of my favorite past conversations. And why not start with a bang: Actor, Musician & Director Paddy Considine on his favorite band Guided By Voices and their documentary Watch Me Jumpstart (Episode 34 which originally aired on May 2nd, 2024).Now that you've all caught up with Paddy and the rest of the Harrigan family on the season finale of MobLand & his band Riding The Low releasing their latest 12" EP (Above And Beyond), it's time to revisit this episode where we discuss this band that brought us together and how this documentary changed our lives forever.The original podcast show notes:This week, we talked to the actor (House Of The Dragons, 24 Hour Party People, The World’s End), musician (Riding The Low), writer/director (Tyrannosaur, Journeyman) Paddy Considine, about his all-time favorite band (in any universe), Guided By Voices and the documentary Watch Me Jumpstart.  We discuss these mythical legends of Dayton, what it was like for Chris being in the band and working with Pollard, Pollard’s incredible work ethic and output, Paddy’s trip from the UK to visit Ohio for the first time and taking a GBV/Bob Pollard tour of Dayton, the eureka moment of understanding the band, wrapping your mind around Bob's lyrics, the early confusion of why, how and who was recording this music, being under-appreciated by the establishment, GBV's influence on Paddy's acting writing & music, Pollard's legendary mix-tapes, turning people onto the band, the obsession of collecting Pollard's entire discography, beer, basements and talking to Bono about Guided By Voices.So, disarm the settlers, and let’s go deep into the world of Guided By Voices on this episode of Revolutions Per Movie.PADDY CONSIDINE:Riding The Low:https://www.ridingthelow.co.uk/Tyrannosaur:https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B007ZYJT1U/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_rREVOLUTIONS 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.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies 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!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand

This week, I'm joined by JoE Silva, the author of The Minimoog Book and host of Athens 411, who chose the film Moog to discuss.We talk about how JoE first met Robert Moog and then went on a 14 year journey to write The Minimoog Book, Rush's Geddy Lee writing the preface to the book, the incredible stories surrounding Sun Ra as one of the first musicians to get a Minimoog, the strange era where digital synths overtook analog synths, how shy and gentle Robert Moog was, Moog's onstage work with Yes, the synth company's humble beginnings, the music industry’s fear of synths replacing 'real' musicians, Kraftwerk, why live music was the most important factor for Moog making his instruments, JoE’s time with Eno, the amazing early documentary footage of the Moog factory, Bernie Worrell & Rick Wakeman’s outdated conversation in the film, DJ Spooky, Taco Bell’s 'Island Of Electronicus, Stereolab, our top 3 synth parts of all time and more. So let's set the oscillators to the max on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!JoE SILVA: https://www.athens441.org/aboutTHE BOOK: https://bjooks.com/products/the-minimoog-bookTHE FILM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRsSSjqZ1ykREVOLUTIONS 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.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies 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!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand