More saluting to do

Do only the military salute each other? Or the military-minded? Is it militaristic to salute the greats of rock? I think rock is militant, for sure. We watched "Kill Your Idols" the other day which I'd seen at A&B for $16 and thought I should buy it, because maybe it was a bargain. However, we rented it for $4 and I was relieved that I didn't buy it. I thought it would be a collection of video recordings of concerts or shows of various No Wave bands and other contemporary New York based bands. But it was all talking! Snippets of Arto Lindsey and Glenn Branca, fragments of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Sonic Youth but WAY too MUCH Lydia Lunch whining about the burden of being...something, not sure what. And endless footage of unedited tape given to the Skafish of today: Gogol Bordello - who that? Conversations with Micheal Gira are nervously clipped, mid-sentence, or even mid-word, to keep the pace edgy & peppy but elsewhere in the program we have to sit through catatonic stares of go-nowhere drone in the form of "ARE Weapons" guy summing up his fame.

I digress! Occupant has to keep saluting members of the rock and roll parade. Q is fixated on the Big Bopper and Bill Haley. Every time I see him planted at the beputer howling at the screen I know he's Google-Imaging Big Bopper. We have a Lisa Germano doing Rock Around the Clock cover to bring to you. We have parody, impersonation, homage, and copying to get out of our system. We have a Blues Segment to present including the immortal: "My Dog Keeps Eating Sandwiches Off the Ground Blues", "My Band's Not Tight Blues", and "I Don't Like My Mood Blues".