Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friendly competition going for decades. Whenever he'd talk about the longevity of Batman, I'd ask what he's done lately. Whenever I'd mention a Marvel character, he'd remind me that Batman had been the biggest screen superhero. He was the best kind of friend--always provocative, always fun. He certainly didn't always live by the usual rules. Meeting the ever tardy Kanes for dinner was an adventure. If we were to meet at 8, my wife and I would arrive at 8:30. He'd beat us by arriving at 9. Next time...
...always really crazy and diverse. The first album has punk songs, and swing songs, and I think it was kind of the whole philosophy of the band was to just do whatever, whatever the band felt like doing, and Steve [Perry, the lead singer and songwriter] has really eclectic musical tastes; he's the kind of songwriter that wants to write in different genres. "Well, I'm going to try to write a swing song," or "I'm going to try to write a country song." So the band billed itself as this whole spectrum of music, which always threw...
...Yeah, that was pretty much how we ended up doing it. At first we kind of said, "We'll do it in Daddies style," but we don't really play that kind of music...
...went down to L.A. and played at this club called Palomino, we opened for them, and that was the first band I remember seeing, other than us, that was playing swing. And even back then they were really into the look, and being more of a "purist" swing kind of sound. I think they're great, and their guitarist is the real virtuoso of the new swing scene. We've also done shows with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Indigo Swing...
...general, The Alarmist suffers from a kind of multiple personality disorder. Lines like "stop or I'll shoot" and "I love her and you took her away" alternate with weirdly sophisticated monologues on security and trust. The plot aims to depict paranoid modernity but misses, venturing off into the surreal as it ticks through comedy, romance, tragedy and documentary. The aesthetic attempts to depict low-class L.A. kitsch (the 1954 sushi joint, Tommy's family home in the outer 'burbs), but lacks many key touches. Especially lacking is the cool, retro music soundtrack one would associate with such a picture...