"Taza, Son of Cochise" is part of "Douglas Sirk Filmmaker Collection" that you can buy from TCM's store.

"Taza, Son of Cochise" is part of "Douglas Sirk Filmmaker Collection" that you can buy from TCM's store.

That's not right.  The Beach Boys cover was in heavy rotation on MTV less than 6 months before this song came out.  Referring to The Beach Boys version made perfect sense at the time.

That's not right.  The Beach Boys cover was in heavy rotation on MTV less than 6 months before this song came out.  Referring to The Beach Boys version made perfect sense at the time.

The Dead Milkmen are not wrong about who sang "California Dreamin'" … The Beach Boys recorded a high profile cover of the song less than six months before this song came out.

The Dead Milkmen are not wrong about who sang "California Dreamin'" … The Beach Boys recorded a high profile cover of the song less than six months before this song came out.

"Fans have hailed … Dario Argento’s European edit"

"Fans have hailed … Dario Argento’s European edit"

The Times THEY Are A-Changin'

The Times THEY Are A-Changin'

By Canadian punk rock band The Forgotten Rebels (<- I guess their name is pretty accurate)

By Canadian punk rock band The Forgotten Rebels (<- I guess their name is pretty accurate)

Where to start with Russ Meyer?

Where to start with Russ Meyer?

"Or the guy in the dog costume giving a man in a tuxedo a blowjob?"

… and the Madonna Pap Smear woman was a drummer for the Butthole Surfers.

My favourite bit of trivia about "Slacker" … the "we've been on the moon since the 1950s" guy is the actor that everyone mistook for Spalding Gray in "Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks".

I think it should be noted that the article kind of implies that bands like Earth Crisis are the extreme, as if anyone who would had a problem with straight edge had it because of bands like them.  No … the extreme edge were asshole Krishna bands like Ray Cappo's Shelter that quite literally encouraged mixed-up young…

Interesting article.  I'm 43, and I haven't given much thought to straight edge since the early 90s.  So … isn't the motivation behind it relatively obvious and straightforward?  Looking at North American culture in the early 80s, drinking, drugs and promiscuous sex was mainstream.  If you look at early hardcore…

It has the immense virtue of not being "Superman IV"