hey folks - just stumbled across this documentary about two pop-rock bands i
had sort of heard of but never heard - it's really quite good, you don't
really have to be interested in the music, and the reason i would even
consider posting something like this, besides just out of suggesting
something to do, is:

a) Genesis P-Orridge is featured early on as a "commentator," and sh/e said
that in interviews and such, when asked what music s/he was listening to at
the time, the reply was something like, the only band s/he would consider
seeing live was the Brian Jonestown Massacre - interesting to note.

b) this crazy character "Anton" is also shown wearing a Death in June
t-shirt at a few points in the movie, causing trouble at a petrol station -
also interesting to note.

lastly, my companion had just bought us tickets for a show BJM is playing in
NYC soon, and this DVD made me much more interested in going. check it out
if you so desire:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388888/

DIG! is the feature-length documentary shot over seven years about musicians
Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor,
head of the Dandy Warhols, star crossed friends and bitter rivals. From the
moment they met, The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre quickly
bonded over a desire to not conform to the tastes of the recording industry.
Yet, the bands' choices over how to express their creativity and originality
in a profit-driven industry eventually put them at irreconcilable odds.

Culled from 1500 hours of footage and narrated by Courtney Taylor, DIG!
follows the underground giant Anton Newcombe, unearthing him to be an
important yet largely unnoticed artist of our time.

In 1996 Anton Newcombe and his band the Brian Jonestown Massacre - who in a
decade independently released 11 albums, 3 recorded in one year - are
hell-bent on staging a revolution in the music industry. They are convinced
their friends, the Dandy Warhols, will join them to create a united front.
But Anton's creative psychosis takes him to the most remote areas of the
human mind to find his original art, and as a result, he destroys every
opportunity for financial success.

While tracking the destructive path of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, DIG!
also accompanies the more 'well-adjusted' Warhols through their leader
Courtney Taylor, as they navigate the corporate sea, trying to maintain
their creative edge while starring in mega-budget music videos and
entertaining crowds in the tens of thousands.

DIG! is about both musicians' love and obsession, gigs and recordings,
arrests and death threats, uppers and downers - their choices between art
and industry, which unfold with the passage of time.

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