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[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Oh dear god. I may change my mind about coming, then. I'd forgotten that 
"Instrument" was a solid 2 hours long, and it was excruciating. And 
Fugazi are still one of my favorite bands. But how many minutes of Ian 
pumping gas, or checking into another Super 8 Motel, does anybody need 
to see?

Other things I think we've seen enough of: sitting around backstage 
looking bored. Sitting in the studio looking bored (and/or engaging in 
wacky band-in-studio hijinx). Footage of highway signs out the window of 
the van.

I suppose it's possible that "Fearless Freaks" manages to avoid all 
these cliche's and still winds up at 110 minutes (and yes, I know I can 
leave anytime anyway) but I'm not holding my breath. It's bad enough 
when feature films start routinely climbing towards the 120-minute mark 
-- at least most of them have plots. But "rock movies" really don't need 
to be any longer than a good rockshow, which for most bands isn't much 
more than 70 minutes. Actually, for most bands it's about 28 minutes, 
but we'll assume that [hopefully] if somebody's making a movie about 
you, you've got at least an hour's worth of decent material.

I mean, shit, even Jason's Dead Moon documentary is under 90 minutes, 
and it covered Fred's entire 40+ year career.

xo

Mr. Cranky

matty wrote:
> The runtime for "Fearless Freaks" is 110 minutes, the DVD extras take it to 
> 185 mins - we may opt to show some depending on the crowd/demand.
>
> -Matt