When I heard about the movie “Joe Strummer – the Future is Unwritten”, I was on board to see it. After seeing the rave review Mojo gave it, it looked like a winner. So last night I dragged Travis away from figuring out how to get 1.2 jigawatts outta this thing, he packed up his pill bottles, we piled into the Delorean and checked this flick out.If you are a fan of the Clash, prepare to be bummed. If you are a casual fan of the Clash or Joe Strummer, do yourself a favor and check out “Westway to the World” instead and skip this pile of garbage. All this movie essentially was, is Julian Temple (who did a good job with the Sex Pistols movie “the Filth and the Fury”) being pissed off that Don Letts made the aforementioned Clash movie “Westway to the World” before him.

For two hours, you get to watch non-stop interviews of people sitting in front of a bonfire stating the obvious, Joe Strummer rules. The guy actually was so hard up you get to see what Matt Dillon, John Cusack, and Johnny Depp think about Joe Strummer. Cinematic genius! The Clash footage interweaved is basically all the same stuff from Westway, only worse. And the portrait they paint of Joe after the Clash is that of a hippy who sat around campfires with nothing to say for 10 years. This movie presents about as much insight into the life of Joe Strummer as Aaron does into healthy eating. There was no reason to make this movie, it was already done way better.

Me and Dr Feelgood were totally bummed. Such a shame, because there are some recent rockumentaries that are so well done (You’re Gonna Miss Me, Devil and Daniel Johnston) that there’s just no excuse to make a pile of crap like this anymore. Not even worth a rental. It reminded me a lot of the Paris Hilton porno, it should be awesome, but in the end it was really boring.

Watch the trailer here:

Greasers everywhere are super AMPED like Aaron is on Red Bull… Social Distortion are touring California AGAIN! Go ahead, laugh all you want. Mike Ness is laughing all the way to the bank (and not even leaving home to do it) with eighteen of the thirty shows already sold out. Sure, they are gonna play a couple shows in Vegas and a couple in Tempe too. But please tell me who-the-fuck-else can tour basically Anaheim & Hollywood that many nights in a row and have all the shows sell out? We don’t know anyone… Now, wrap your tiny brain around this… they’ve done this the last five years or so around the holidays. Cha-ching. But I ain’t jealous… like one of those rapper dudes said” “Mo’ Money, Mo Problems.”

On the inside joke that you won’t understand tip, we can’t even put into words how stoked our Uncle Scott is to attend these Social D shows. We already know he’s gonna end up dragging us to multiple nights by telling us how these are the last Social D shows ever… AGAIN. The best part is homeboy’s been saying that every time they play for the last four years now, but we’re not gonna argue cuz he’s way bigger than we are and he usually buys us beers at the shows. Plus the drummer of Social D, Charlie Quintana, knows Izzy Stradlin. We know that because the guy used to play in the Ju Ju Hounds. Too bad his drum kit has shitty flames airbrushed on it, he wears gloves when he plays and sits in a computer chair with a back to it like a DORK! But fuck, maybe we’ll run into Izzy. Izzy, meet us at one of these shows dude… we got shit to talk about!

Oh, and if Mike Ness is reading this, we’ve got two things you’ve gotta hear… One, stop doing that thing where you run out with a bandanna over your face at the beginning of your show, it’s embarrassing. Everyone knows it’s you bro, that’s why they’re there… YOU, not your band. Yep, number two is your band. You might as well hire three retarded chimpanzees to throw shit at each other up there, the guys you have now are nerds. I’ll bet you $100 that our Uncle Scott would be a better guitar player in your band and while he’s shredding he’d run circles around that geek that you have now. Plus, the dude actually rides a motorcycle.

Check out the video for their song “I Was Wrong”, which is on the greatest hits they just put out a while ago. It’s also one of my favorite songs of theirs… check out Chuck Biscuits (Black Flag, Circle Jerks and Danzig) killing it on drums. By the way, where is this dude now? Where is Chuck Biscuits? Anyone know?

Update: After reading this post, Uncle Scott sent me this link here on “How To Build A Time Machine.” because “we need one to get back to 2001″ when people actually cared about Buddyhead”.

TOURDATES:
11/19 - ANAHEIM, CA - SOLD OUT
11/20 - ANAHEIM, CA - SOLD OUT
11/21 - ANAHEIM, CA - SOLD OUT
11/23 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA - SOLD OUT
11/24 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA - SOLD OUT
11/25 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA - SOLD OUT
11/27 - ANAHEIM, CA - SOLD OUT
11/28 - ANAHEIM, CA - SOLD OUT
11/30 - LAS VEGAS, NV
12/1 - LAS VEGAS, NV- SOLD OUT
12/2 - LAS VEGAS, NV - SOLD OUT
12/4 - SAN DIEGO, CA
12/5 - SAN DIEGO, CA
12/7 - VAIL, CO
12/8 - TEMPE, AZ
12/9 - TEMPE, AZ
12/11 - ANAHEIM, CA - SOLD OUT
12/12 - ANAHEIM, CA - SOLD OUT
12/14 - ANAHEIM, CA - SOLD OUT
12/15 - ANAHEIM, CA - SOLD OUT
12/16 - ANAHEIM, CA
12/18 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA - SOLD OUT
12/19 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA
12/21 - ANAHEIM, CA
12/22 - ANAHEIM, CA
12/23 - ANAHEIM, CA
12/28 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA
12/29 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA
12/30 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA
1/1 - ANAHEIM, CA
1/2 - ANAHEIM, CA
1/11 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA
1/12 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA
1/13 - W. HOLLYWOOD, CA