I don't update my livejournal nearly enough.
I woke up this morning in a researchy kinda mood. I recently ordered the Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron soundtrack. It'll be weeks til it gets here. I first heard about the soundtrack a few years ago in an issue of juxtapoz dedicated to album cover art. There were several Dan CLowes examples, one of which, the "soundtrack" to my all time favorite Clowes comic, Like a Velvet GLove Cast in Iron. This blew me away, a soundtrack...?? I wasnt aware there was a movie! After some research I quickly discovered that it was a "soundtrack" to a story so great it didn't need a movie. A musician named Victor Banana had composed it. Of course I was thrilled! I knew I had to have it! I searched for it all over the net, but never found anything. I sorta gave up, but ever so often I'd remember that I still needed it and search again, coming up with no results.
I re-read it for the first time since highschool last week. It totally rekindled my obsession. Sending me off the deep end in my hunt. Several blow jobs and a few dead bodies later, i FINALLY was able to purchase a used copy for about $30. Cd, not LP ...which does suck, But beggers can't be choosers. When it arrives, I'll upload it into my computer and burn myself a copy so I can leave my cd itself safe at home with my records. If anyone is interested, I'll definitly be whoring this shit. No one should have to go through, what I have gone through to obstain this album. Sure, I feel accomplished having finally found it. But I would rather have found it three years ago. So if you're a hardcore Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron fan, let me know.
I plan to make it into a movie one day.
oh yeah, about "Victor Banana". He's a mysterious cat. I would like to find out more about him, here is what I know...
he goes under several psuedonyms
Neil Smythe
Vic Hazelnut
Tim Hensley {which I believe is his real name because, according to my research his father is also a musician named Tom Hensley}
most of his albums, including the Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron soundtrack were released under Jenkins Peabody records. This part confuses me a bit, I read two differnet things that kind of contradict one another. I read that he owned that company and decided to stop making music and discontinued all of his own albums. I also read that he did not own it, and he abruptly demanded that Jenkins Peabody stop distributing his albums. None of his albums are in print any longer, however, you can get his album under Neil Smythe, title "refrains" from cdbaby.com
http://cdbaby.com/cd/neilsmytheApparently, they just made a lot of this particular album and many copies are still lying around. Much unlike EVERY other album he made.
Under Victor Banana, he had a song on the compilation "place of general happiness" called "why I write poetry". Dan Clowes also did the cover art for this as well.
he did 7" with April March, a song called "kooky" inspired by the adams family theme. While finding that out, I also discovered that April March was one of the original animators for Ren and Stimpy! She even got in some legal trouble for releasing an album which cover art bares a striking resemblence to Stimpy.
enough about her, back to vic/neil/tim...
I really dont know much else. He did a 7" called "split" under Splat-co. Records.
if anyone has any info, let me know.
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