{"id":433,"date":"2015-05-27T20:41:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=433"},"modified":"2015-05-27T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:41:31","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-what-we-do-is-secret-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: \u201cWhat We Do Is Secret\u201d (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germs were &amp; still are one of my all-time favorite bands. In the late seventies, when punk was getting tired after The Sex Pistols broke up &amp; what was left started morphing into somewhat drearier \u201cpost-punk\u201d and\/or goofy \u201cnew wave,\u201d I still wanted to hear really fast music fueled by outrage, &amp; The Germs certainly fit the bill. They &amp; many of the other LA bands from their milieu paved the future of \u201cpunk\u201d for me after it was supposedly declared dead. In Montreal, I was such a fan that every time I\u2019d see someone wearing a Germs blue circle logo it&#8217;d be an excuse to gab whether they liked it or not, even if they were complete strangers. That\u2019s how I first met future Montreal music promoter Dan Webster when he was still a bike messenger. The only other person I remember wearing Germs insignia back then was the late Alex Soria of the Nils. When The Germs reunion band with the actor in the movie playing Darby Crash in the actual band with the actual surviving members was slated to play Montreal around 2008, my band The American Devices was\u00a0going to open up, but the show was cancelled when one of the Germs wasn\u2019t allowed across the border! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory, which originally appeared in a 2008 issue of The Montreal Mirror, was; \u201cHomosexual! Up the ass! Homosexual! Darby Crash!\u201d \u2013Angry Samoans. The quote was from the lyrics to the song \u201cHomo-Sexual\u201d from the 1982 LP \u201cBack from Samoa\u201d by Angry Samoans. Can someone please explain to me what their intention actually was? (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/what_we_do_is_secret.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-434 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/what_we_do_is_secret-655x1024.jpg\" alt=\"what_we_do_is_secret\" width=\"627\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/what_we_do_is_secret-655x1024.jpg 655w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/what_we_do_is_secret-192x300.jpg 192w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/what_we_do_is_secret.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Germs were &amp; still are one of my all-time favorite bands. In the late seventies, when punk was getting tired after The Sex Pistols broke up &amp; what was left started morphing into somewhat drearier \u201cpost-punk\u201d and\/or goofy \u201cnew wave,\u201d I still wanted to hear really fast music fueled by outrage, &amp; The Germs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}