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| Bad artist's impression of what Lee Brilleaux would look like with Spiderman sitting on his head |
You'll know youthful Peter Parker from his role as web-slinging superhero Spiderman, but did you know the troubled teen is also an ardent fan of England's Pub Rock scene? That's right, subscribers! Let's hear it from the Geiger counter-busting radiation victim himself! Pete granted this interview yesterday on the latest rotary dial phones with big handsets and curly cables:
FT3 Hey Petey! How's it going?
PP That's Mister Parker to you, asswipe. Not so good. It's tough being perhaps the best comic book ever created and growing up into the sucking cultural void of "graphic novels" - I'm doing finger quotes here, make sure Ed puts them in - and then helping Stan Lee bring the movie business to its fucking knees in an unending series of stupid and boring rubber-head movies that don't even please the fanboys that absolutely nobody should be giving a fuck about anyway.
Th' IoF© - home of harsh, unfeeling humor!
FT3 Phew! But hey - Pub Rock, right?
PP I know fuck nothing about it. You just brought me into this deal because my name is alliteratively convenient. Not that I'm bitching. I have nothing else to do right now. Me and Sandman are locked down in an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town. What you want me to say?
FT3 Uh - how about, the first Dr. Feelgood album is a timeless classic that transcends the genre?
PP Wait. Sandman just sprinkled some grit on my foot. Hey - that the best you got, fella? Where were we?
FT3 It's okay, webhead! Your work here is done! Have a swell New Year!
When my eyes have stopped swiveling in my head I'll load up the deluxe double of this Canvey Island classic! Gee, is it ever swell, guv'nor!
ReplyDeleteDude on the right getting teabagged by Ol' Webhead. Oh the humanity!
ReplyDeleteis he the one who picked a peck of pickled peppers?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mr. Throckmorton!
(I actually think I had this album at some point and remember it fondly...)
Fun Fact: Peter Piper was based on 18th century French horticulturalist Pierre Poivre.
Deletewho knew...achoo!
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Killer versions of "Roxette" on these discs......
ReplyDeleteLive album "Stupidity" is the one for me - but seeing the band live was, by far, the best way to experience and enjoy the music. Claim to fame - Wilko Johnson, the first and best of their guitarists, once shared a urinal with me before a gig. Shock and awe!
ReplyDeletePost Stupidity if you have a mind to!
DeleteOoooh, we're feeling blood-thirsty towards the comic book industry and (comic book) movie industry today, huh?!
ReplyDeleteThank god no Marvel fanboy will find our hidden cozy little island...and neither will Namor.
The impact those Marvel comics had on me in the sixties was profound and wonderful. Art for the masses, for the kids who didn't know art from the hole in their sock. Art that snuck in under the gaudy cloak of popular entertainment (like pop music). And it was made by a confluence of people and times that inevitably broke up and passed away, and that combination was never rediscovered. So yeah - "graphic novels" and superhero movies, with all their calculated self-seriousness (offset by smirking irony), all their big-budget production, all their self-referential self-adoring emptiness, can never come close to the thrill of finding the latest Marvel on the comics stand, shining like a cathedral window on Saturday morning.
Deletewipes tear away from one eye...nice. TBH, my father talked about comic books in the 1940s this way and when I gave the ol'stone cold scientist Chabon's _The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay_ he LOVED it.
DeleteWish I could share your words with him--he'd love that too. Plus I feel like his Little Annie Fanny obsession would fit right in here...
You got the Little Annie Fanny giveaway here, right?
DeleteThat Chabon book was pure bliss.
DeleteThanks for the recommendation - I've located it on a shadowy internet backlot.
DeleteI agree on the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - fantastic book.
DeleteToo young to have known the silver age of comics - sorry, I grew up in the dark age of comics. Though compared to some of the excesses, these "dark" comics were still relatively light fare. I just read a couple of Batman comics from the acclaimed Scott Lobdell-Greg Capullo team but couldn't really get into it. Capullo's Image-style art was weird to see on Batman, and the grand guignol presentation of the Joker reeks of the "dark excesses" of that infamous "New 52 era".
I picked up the "The Joker's Daughter" TPB a couple of months back - which illustrates your point, even at DC and a good decade and a half later. The first 3/4 are zippy, silly and harmless late 70's comic book fun. Then, bam, we switch to the character's 2011 "reimagining" and wouldn't you know it, the goofy original character has become a self-mutilating psychopath, slashing and maiming people around her.
Nobody wants? It joins the Slayer album in the IoF© dumpster, then ...
ReplyDeleteI want! I want!
DeleteYou got! You got!
DeleteI'm not sure how well people outside of the UK know Wilco Johnson the guitarist on the left at the back on the LP cover? Well he had an eventful last decade, firstly he was the executioner in Game of Thrones. Then he was diagnosed in January 2013 with late stage pancreatic cancer. Doctors told him he had nine or ten months to live. He did a "farewell tour" of the UK. After the tour was over, he announced he would spend his final days recording a farewell album with the Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey...
ReplyDelete..but the cancer was treatable, and he is due to start a UK tour at the end of this year - so like Spiderman he's a bit of a superhero. - part of the above was cut and pasted from wiki.
The documentary Oil City Confidential is essential watching if you want more on the Dr Feelgood story.
Sorry, Wilko Johnson, Doh!
ReplyDeleteI recall reading a news story about that, but other than it involving Daltrey, I had forgotten who the main character was. Thanks, Bambi.
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