This is Hardcore: Minor Threat live at CBGB, 1982
While this video is as muddy as shit — after all, nobody had an iPhone yet — it’s still a fascinating document of the seminal…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 08/2013
Talking Head David Byrne’s lost ‘Talking Heads’ video project from 1975
Oh what a time it must have been on Manhattan’s Bond Street in the mid-1970s. Bond Street connects Broadway and the Bowery exactly where CBGB’s…
Fact: ‘Community’ creator’s Dan Harmon’s ‘Harmontown’ is the best comedy podcast
To get a handle on who Dan Harmon is, the following facts are relevant. He grew up in Wisconsin, which gave him access to, simultaneously,…
The night Hulk Hogan knocked Richard Belzer out cold
Back around 1985, the Lifetime Network, which had not yet branded itself as a channel dedicated to angsty women’s dramas, decided to dedicate an hour…
Disco Sucks: Relive the madness of ‘Disco Demolition Night’ in Chicago’s Comiskey Park, 1979
On July 12, 1979, the schedule called for a twi-night doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox. The Tigers took the first…
Stay sick: Cleveland’s legendary 1960s horror host ‘Ghoulardi’ is Paul Thomas Anderson’s father
In the city of Cleveland, people of a certain age get all misty-eyed when the name “Ghoulardi” is uttered in their presence. He was a…
‘The Scorsese Machine’: Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker at the editing bay
In 1991 French filmmaker and sometime actor André Labarthe released The Scorsese Machine, a cinema verité documentary featuring oodles of interesting footage of Scorsese living…
Let Nixon play Nixon! Listen to Tricky Dick tickle the ivories, on a composition by Richard Nixon
Sure, you know him as the only president to resign in disgrace as well as the guy who turned Cambodia into a mass graveyard to…