"They ripped us off," said Gibby.

Saw the Flaming Lips docu "Fearless Freaks" last night at Pioneer. I remember another docu abt them I saw at CMJ a while back, and thinking it was pretty silly and not very good, and well, Beesley goes way to the other side being as not-silly as possible. The whole middle sequence about Steve's heroin addiction sort of fails at treating the brittle space between success and personal self-worth with any sort of coherence - it just meanders on, bluntly showing Drozd shooting up and endless shots of Wayne saying 'there's nothing I can do." The whole white-trash rags to riches but don't forget who we are is told in this sort of bated breath too, just not subtle at all.

Also, c'mon, right, where would Flaming Lips have been without Beavis & Butthead? It was a lop-rank novelty hit before that show rerunned all through the summer of 1994. No mention in the film, weird.

Other stuff:

Army hip hop on CD Baby. Judge for your self, the pages advertises, "REAL SOLDIERS!!! REAL WAR!!! And for the first time ever... REAL MUSIC!!!" Me, I quite enjoy all the fake civilian peace music.

Matos' Jukebox Jury with USE, ya it's old but I've been like, busy.

If you have any cool DIY/underground materials that you don't want, think about donating them to The Counterculture Archive at George Washington University. They are working with Tamizdat to preserve old Czech music and documents from the communist era. Cool.

MY OTHER NEWS:

Just did an interview with John Maclean for Grooves. He said that his whole album comes from listening to 10cc's "I'm Not In Love." Download and compare: scary!

Am going to MUTEK tomorrow. Are you going? Are you there? Let me know, but I won't be answering my cell for much cause it's freakin' expensive. Text me. Will be with awesome posse Geeta, Amy and Nick. Out of contact until Monday night - vacation!