Tag Archives: Mark Mothersbaugh

07/16/2018 · 6:39 pm

Neil Young

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Movies You Missed, Saturday Movie Matinee, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1970s, 1975, 1980s, 1990s, 2009, Arlo Guthrie, Bands I Useta Like, Canada, comic, corporate crap, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, DEVO, Family Guy, Jabootu, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Mothersbaugh, MTV, music, Neil Young, New Jersey, Pearl Jam, political correctness, Queen, Sally Kirkland, sellouts, strips, The Agony Booth

09/24/2016 · 3:43 pm

Mannish Boy

Every so often, somebody inquires as to why the hell I call myself Matty Boy.

To which I affect my terrible Billy Bob Thornton impersonation, and reply, “would you ask Sonny Boy Williamson that?”

“Are you fucking with me?”

Since I’m referencing a radio debacle from years ago between Thornton and the guy from Moxy Fruvous, I receive blank looks in return. So let me clear the air a bit.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Uncategorized

Tagged as 1990, 1991, 2016, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, Billy Bob Thornton, Bob Mothersbaugh, Booji Boy, DEVO, DMX, General Boy, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mike the Pod, Moxy Fruvous, National Lampoon, Popeye, Savannah, Scott Shaw!, Sonny Boy Williamson

07/29/2016 · 7:14 pm

DEVO: The Good, The Bad, And The Mutated

I have been a DEVO fan- a “DEVOtee”, if you will- for a very long time. 35 years ago, I was witnessing the video for “Whip It” for the first time, on the brand-new cable channel MTV. I knew a lot of spoiled kids.

When a good time turns around.

It’s not one of my favorite DEVO singles, but I appreciate its historical importance. Even today, it sounds truly weird. However, it came to be so closely linked with DEVO and their visual style, eventually it was the only song anyone brought up. Continue reading →

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Filed under Bad Influences, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club, Unfairly Maligned

Tagged as 1970s, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1980s, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, Akron Ohio, Alan Myers, alternative music, Bob Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, Brian Eno, David Bowie, DEVO, Gerald V. Casale, Kent State, Mark Mothersbaugh, Murray the K, music, New Wave, nitrous oxide, punk, Ramones, Spazz Attack, Sun Ra

01/05/2016 · 6:20 pm

Æon Flux: The Herodotus File

From 1991 to 1995, the animated femme fatale Æon Flux appeared on MTV (of all places), at first in shorts that appeared on the variety program Liquid Television. She was created by Korean animator Peter Chung, storyboard artist for Transformers: The Movie (1986), and veteran of cartoon shows like Rugrats and Ring Raiders.