I miss The Peach Pit After Dark. Good times. Good times.

Funny juxtaposition.

Reminds of the Butthole Surfers show I saw in the mid-90's when Gibby came out firing a shotgun to chase off all the fans of [the popular Seattle grunge band whose name I forget] who opened for them. The Flaming Lips were the first band to play that day.

Also reminds me of when Devo played Muffy's bat mitzah on Square Pegs. That was awesome.

That was INDEED awesome, dano. I loved me some Jamie Gertz back in the day. She did a movie in which she banged both Andrew McCarthy AND Robert Downey, Jr. the same year she did a movie where she banged Jason Patric AND Keifer Sutherland. How awesome was that? Rock on, Muffy Tepperman!

Jamie Gertz in D&D ad [via rcade]

yeah, I liked Jami Gertz, where is she now? and jrossi, that's one impressive gangbang (I don't like Kiefer though, his dad is a trillion times cooler)

anyway:

When the Smiths became slightly popular they were sellouts. Bob Dylan appeared on MTV and of course was a sellout. Recently, just at dinner tonight, after a huge, sold-out reading by David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell (both sellouts), I was sitting next to an acquaintance, a very smart acquaintance married to the singer-songwriter of a very well-known band. I mentioned that I had seen the Flaming Lips the night before. She rolled her eyes. "Oh I really liked them on 90210," she sneered, assuming that this would put me and the band in our respective places.

However.

Was she aware that The Flaming Lips had composed an album requiring the simultaneous playing of four separate discs, on four separate CD players? Was she aware that the band had once, for a show at Lincoln Center, handed out to audience members something like 100 portable tape players, with 100 different tapes, and had them all played at the same time, creating a symphonic sort of effect, one which completely devastated everyone in attendance? I went on and on to her about the band's accomplishments, their experiments. Was she convinced that they were more than their one appearance with Jason Priestly? She was.

Now, at that concert the night before, Wayne Coyne, the lead singer, had himself addressed this issue, and to great effect. After playing much of their new album, the band paused and he spoke to the audience. I will paraphrase what he said:

"Hi. Well, some people get all bitter when some song of theirs gets popular, and they refuse to play it. But we're not like that. We're happy that people like this song. So here it goes."

Then they played the song. (You know the song.) "She Don't Use Jelly" is the song, and it is a silly song, and it was their most popular song. But to highlight their enthusiasm for playing the song, the band released, from the stage and from the balconies, about 200 balloons. (Some of the balloons, it should be noted, were released by two grown men in bunny suits.) Then while playing the song, Wayne sang with a puppet on his hand, who also sang into the microphone. It was fun. It was good.

But was it a sellout? Probably. By some standards, yes. Can a good band play their hit song? Should we hate them for this? Probably, probably. First 90210, now they go playing the song every stupid night. Everyone knows that 90210 is not cutting edge, and that a cutting edge alternarock band should not appear on such a show. That rule is clearly stated in the obligatory engrained computer-chip sellout manual that we were all given when we hit adolescence.

But this sellout manual serves only the lazy and small.

Oh god, Jami in pig tails playing D&D!? Mischief, can I borrow your tissues sleeve bunksock for a minute?