Completely Conspicuous 178: Look Back in Anger

This week on the podcast, I've got part 1 of my conversation with special guest Ric Dube as we dissect 1990s movies. Listen to the show below or download it directly (right click and "save as").



The show notes:

- Check out Ric's great podcast, More Lost Time

- Indie film emerged as viable entity in the '90s

- Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino

- Still in the age of VHS and fewer cable options for viewers

- Internet was in its infancy at start of decade, text-based

- Reinventing brands, like Coke did with Diet Coke

- Ric's million-dollar idea

- Studios started experimenting with quality projects

- Ric: Huge trend of "Adjective Noun" movies

- Revisiting "The Cable Guy"

- Jay: The end of the bankable star

- Every star had huge bombs

- Eddie Murphy had the biggest decline from '80s to '90s

- Ric feels the same way about R.E.M. after the first few albums

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

Centro-matic - Only in My Double Mind

Roadside Graves -Love Me More

Bon Iver - Calgary

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The Centro-matic song is on the forthcoming album Candidate Waltz on Undertow Music. Download the song for free at the band's site.

The Roadside Graves song is on the forthcoming album We Can Take Care of Ourselves on Autumn Tone. Download the song for free at Stereogum.

The Bon Iver song is on album Bon Iver on Jagjaguwar Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at the band's site.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his new site PodGeek.

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