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I couldn't sleep, so I watched this instead. I recall being in Boy Scouts and for some reason a whole bunch of us went to Ted Skidmore's house for some evening event (house party?). We ended up all piled into his bedroom and he put on Jocko Homo which was the first time I'd ever heard their music.
I'm not a huge fan, but have a number of songs that I like. It was interesting to see their career path and how Whip It saved them from being dropped from their label. They talked about the DEVO philosophy and how they came up with various visuals. No mention of this scopatone tho...
recommended if you like music docs or DEVO...
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There were some interesting parts, and some of it was funny, but I was sort of disappointed in this because it kind of made them unlikeable, well Gerald Casale mostly. I felt like they were the classic smart misfits who decided that everyone else was stupid because they weren't like them. Casale developed that into a worldview with the concept of devolution, when I think it's more probable that a lot of people - maybe most - aren't that smart and it's probably always been that way, rather than people are getting stupider. (Although....) Anyway, Casale comes of as sort of an arrogant asshole that thinks he's really smart, and takes the whole thing really seriously, like they were making profound statements with the songs. I felt like Mark Mothersbaugh was more into the art angle of it than believing it, and enjoyed writing quirky music.
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I met so many art students like that when I was at SJSU
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Some are still that way. As for me, I think I was looking for an easy major where you could goof off a lot.
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