05 September 2008

I can't believe I used to like these guys

Circle Jerks Live at the House of Blues

(2004)

OK, it's unfair to compare any other band with the Stones or any other concert film to a Stones concert film, but I think maybe we can declare a general principle here: if you're good enough, and if you stay fit enough, and if your shtick is fun--rockfun, sexful, prancefun, poutfun--then maybe you can still do it in your sixties and not just look like posturing old farts. But if your shtick is anger--well, there's a reason why "angry old man" was never a familiar phrase. Then again, I guess until The Decline of Western Civilization finally comes out on DVD, your options for seeing these guys are this and a lounge-lizard version of "When the Shit Hits the Fan" in Repo Man.

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