There was a short film, in B&W, many years ago on Independent Lens, that was about this unsuccessful English heavy metal band, going around in an old
junker van, doing gigs, where the members started to fracture, the drummer adamant of heavy metal, like a religion, a couple other members secretly
wanting to try out more Top 40 type stuff, faux heavy metal, only interested in getting a break. They were constantly reassuring the drummer they're
still and always will be heavy metal, "evee meh uhl", while secretly plotting how they'll get rid of him and heavy metal, as soon as the band catches
a break. It was hilarious, like Spinal Tap, of that doltish, blue collar facade of needing to appear the bad boys, as if religiously, for the heavy
metal of Satan, while it was really all about money to half the band, if it meant doing Donny Osmond covers. I never have found that video, anywhere.
It had some real laughs, nailed the poorly educated, animal, English rocker perfectly.
There was another one about a magician that comes to town, that everybody loves, that was, in fact, railroaded to prison when young, and now, years
later, the guy responsible is the town mayor, the mayor that does not recognize his new, delightful magician friend, who finally stages a trick
needing mayor participation, to execute the mayor. The magician leaves town on the train, with a smile, throwing glitter in the air from the platform.
It was a striking little video. Never saw that one again, either.
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