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I WANT MY DVDS - NEW OLD NARDWUAR

Welcome To My Castle
Mint Records
Nardwuar's been interviewing folks long enough now for subjects to have picked up on the nuances of his style and comport themselves accordingly. But all the videos on this DVD are from the early 90s, back when being asked questions by a stringy-voiced nerd in his childhood toque (before an enraged Sebastian Bach snatched it off his head) could still provoke an unexpected response. Like Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo going into full-on bully mode and pulling Nardwuar's shirt over his head. Or Tommy Chong talking about James Brown's gay lover. Or Mickey Dolenz from the Monkees turning into such an embarrassingly smarmy asshole that we could only make it through about two minutes of the interview before diving for the remote. All fine watchin'. They even preserve all the little filler bits like zine reviews and clips of arcane 60s novelty acts like Cesar et ses Romains from Nardwuar's original VHS tapes. The only bummer is that this is essentially a time capsule from one of Western culture's ugliest, most goatee-and-velour-flame-shirt-wearingest periods ever. But I was seven at the time, so what the hell do I know?