{"podcast":{"title":"REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE","slug":"revolutions-per-movie-6604757","podcast_index_feed_id":6604757,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/64de4e5db2838f0011a11fce","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/revolutionspermovie","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/64de4e5db2838f0011a11fce/1693174354908-fcd75e030eec9d4c6bd097f1bb5d9025.jpeg","author":"Chris Slusarenko","episode_count":184,"summary":"Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T18:22:03.982568+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757"},"episode":{"title":"THE MUSIC VIDEOS OF THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS w/ John Flansburgh","slug":"the-music-videos-of-they-might-be-giants-w-john-flansburgh","published_at":"2026-04-16T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/the-music-videos-of-they-might-be-giants-w-john-flansburgh","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757","url":"https://shows.acast.com/revolutionspermovie/episodes/joseph-k","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/64de4e5db2838f0011a11fce/e/69a1e7007221cfbf20d40f76/media.mp3","summary":"This week, I'm joined by J ohn Flansburgh  of  They Might Be Giants  to look at their incredible body of music video work (481 videos and counting on their YouTube page!), and get treated to so many incredible mind-bending stories directly from the source! We discuss TMBG's track and video they made for my Hedwig covers charity album, the fascination with death and aging in their lyrics, the moment when both Johns first realized they were connecting with an audience of strangers, borrowing expensive drum machines when they started, foolish life decisions, the East Village scene of the 80s, playing on the same bills as  Butthole Surfers  &  Steve Buscemi ,  Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , long-distance collaborations, the multitudes of songs written for their Dial-A-Song answering machine service, the John Updike world the band came from, having architectural dads, the pros of being ultra-prolific, the different ways they would record their songs, microtones, the children's records era for TMBG, working with their first director Adam Bernstein, TMBG being accepted by early MTV, using left-over film from Jonathan Demme movies and windup 16mm cameras for their early videos, where they got the 6ft. head props used in their stage shows, John getting music video fatigue, the parameters the band set early in their career (no solos, not a lot of intros, no fadeouts), Spike Jonze, the epic tale of TMBG playing on The Tonight Show with Doc Severson, & more. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: theymightbegiants.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTZ0pVJExw6z0XjqEzchX8g REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE: Host Chris Slusarenko ( Eyelids , Guided By Voices , owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedian…","meta_description":"This week, I'm joined by J ohn Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants to look at their incredible body of music video work (481 videos and c…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4305,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/episodes/the-music-videos-of-they-might-be-giants-w-john-flansburgh/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/the-music-videos-of-they-might-be-giants-w-john-flansburgh.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}