Saw Urgh! A Music War last night at Anthology Film Archives. I've only been to two movies in my life where people clapped during the movie: the first Karate Kid, and now Urgh! Bascially it was 90 minutes of concert footage of bands like Echo and the Bunnymen, OMD, Devo, The Police, UB40, Steel Pulse, Dead Kennedys, Joan Jet, The Go Go's (when they were cool and punky), Klaus Nomi, Gang of Four, XTC, X, and Gary Numan, to name a handfull. Ian McCulloch is just too cute to be believed. Gary Numan brought the house down, in his motorized wheelchair with headlights trussed up to look like some kind of "space age" car or something. It was so ridiculous! The gear shift or whatever it was that propelled the stupid thing was between his legs, adding to the hilarity. During the DK clip Jello Biafra was on stage sputtering "There is no punk rock in Afganistan! There is no punk rock in Iran!" There was a collective sucking-in-of-the-breath/oh my god! in the theatre, and someone blurted out "Nothing's changed!" The Anthology guy who introduced it said this movie is basically unavailable anywhere, in any format and that they tracked their copy down in New Zealand. And everyone got a drink ticket for a free Stella at a bar down the street afterwards! It was actually a free cup of beer foam, but oh well.

And I was thrilled to see the Anthology will be showing Jandek on Corwood: A Documentary Film in November! And get this: It's also going to be showing in Concord, NH at the S.N.O.B. Film Festival!

Banned Books Week starts tomorrow.