I was doing this instead of finishing the new issue
When VCR Party Live! calls, I have to answer.
Last night, when I otherwise would’ve been writing the new issue of Band Name Bureau, I was a guest on VCR Party Live! If you’re unfamiliar, that’s the weekly YouTube series hosted by Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher1 of the glorious Found Footage Festival. (Check out the interview I did with them last year, linked below.)
Like the Found Footage Festival mothership, VCR Party Live shares incredible clips from all manner of VHS-era ephemera, but episode 431 is particularly great. Not because I’m there, but because co-host George Pasles uncovered an early ’80s TV newscast that makes Anchorman look like a documentary. I just hope my guffaws aren’t too loud on the recording.
Check it out below, and you should absolutely see the Found Footage Fest when it comes to your city. Joe will be out on the road again at the end of August in North Carolina, then in the Pacific Northwest in September.
BNB #121 will drop later this week, or Monday at the latest. Get ready to learn how Slovenia’s celebrated Goriška Brda wine region influenced a porcine ska-punk band!
#101: Celebrating accidental transcendence with the Found Footage Festival
For 20 years, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have been on a specific mission: to celebrate, as they put it, “videos that time forgot, dredged up in dusty thrift stores and estate sales throughout North America.”
Nick’s currently on sabbatical, sadly, but I felt his spirit there.