fictional bands

great, thanks for the heads-up

i miss mark leyner...

?Faux-Real!= pretty fake band.

Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns, from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. i don't know about featuring prominently, but they are the most popular band in the Metaverse.

Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns, from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. i don't know about featuring prominently, but they are the most popular band in the Metaverse.

Ha! I was just going to mention this one. They are obv. an homage to the Paranoids from Crying of Lot 49.

oh, and there's deathtongue/billy + the boingers, the band from berke breathed's Bloom County comic

Used to love that stuff.

Horror Hospital from Dennis Cooper's short story "Introducing Horror Hospital" and the graphic novel "Horror Hospital Unplugged"

Spinal Tap, Silicon Teens, The Rutles, Gorillaz

Wow no mention of Heaven 17 from Clockwork Orange!?

Just around 40 people saw "Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains," at the Library of Congress last night. That included me, "pretzel walrus," and recent DC transplant Kid Congo Powers (onetime member of the Cramps). The movie's far from great but is definately worth seeing--the Brit punk makeup likely suggested by consultant Carolyn Coon (Brit punk author); the flawed but admirable attempt at feminist and diy uplift; the humor both intentional and unintentional; and getting to hear "We're the Professionals" sung over and over and over by both the Looters(Ray Winston, Paul Simenon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook) and the Fabulous Stains. The trailers and the 'making of' short were entertaining also.

Young Diane Lane and Laura Dern. Wow.