Having a little trouble finding the time to post right now, so I’m keeping it brief. I think by next week I should have some kind of understanding of my new schedule, which would be good, as I have a backlog of things to post about and photos to edit…
One of the things I’m most excited about in the upcoming Getty California Video show is that they’ve had the good sense to include the work of John Rees/Target Video 77. For those who live in a sad, punk-less cave, Target Video recorded many of the most important punk and new wave performers to cross the California border. When I was a lad, before YouTube and DVDs, We passed shoddy tape copies of these materials around like the relics of the saints. Now these horsemen will ride alongside the icons of California video art (full listing of artists with known links here), where they belong.
The PR video I received for the show only contained a brief clip of The Cramps at Napa State Mental Hospital (full performance of The Way I Walk above, enjoy), but checking in with the Target Video blog, I noticed the awesome poster graphic at top (I really hope they produce and sell that poster, BTW), which indicates that they’re pretty much running selections from the whole Target Video catalog, with performance videos of: The Avengers, The Cramps, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Crime, The Dils, The Dead Kennedys, DEVO, Diamanda Galas, Flipper, The Germs, The Mutants, The Screamers, Survival Research Laboratories, The Weirdos, and Zev. I’m like a pig in shit!
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You know John Reiss who shot a bunch of that stuff with Joe (especially the srl pieces) has a new doc out about global graffiti (“Bomb It”) that is supposed to be really good.