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Rest in Peace, Carl Reiner

on June 30, 2020

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DESOLATION CENTER

DESOLATION CENTER (Film Review) Featuring Stuart Swezey, Perry Farrell, Mark Pauline, members of Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, Redd Kross, Einst ű rzende Neubauten. Directed by Stuart Swezey. (2018/93 min) ON DIGITAL FROM MU PRODUCTIONS Review by Fluffy the Fearless 😸 Fed up with the local mainstream's overall contempt for the L.A. Punk scene, super fan Stuart Swezey took it onto himself to organize a series of shows – collectively dubbed Desolation Center - that would take place far away from media and police scrutiny. Assembled on-the-fly with few resources and nearly no promotion, these grassroots gigs were mostly held in the remote desert. Ticket buyers, trucked to the locations in old school buses, literally had no idea where they were going on the day of the show (which was part of the experience). The shows themselves featured such underground antiheroes as Minutemen & Sonic Youth, as well as performance artists like Mark Pauline (who bl

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Rest in Peace, Carl Reiner

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