2008 RELEASES...... Sasori Bad Biology What we do's Secret The Happening The Strangers Speed Racer R Kern: Extra Action Prom Night The Ruins Teen Moviemaker Shutter Funny Games Llik Your Idols Hannah Montana The Eye Cloverfield One Missed Call The Orphanage P.L. Vaillancourt

2007 RELEASES...... I Am Legend Beowulf Cinema Sewer book Mme Tutli-Putli Resident Evil 3 Eastern Promises Halloween The Invasion Viva Hairspray Simpsons Movie Transformers JK's Girl Next Door 13 Beloved The 4th Life 1408 L'Érotisme Hostel 2 Rise: Blood Hunter Mau Mau Sex Sex Inland Empire 28 Weeks Later .45 Next Vacancy The Reaping Grindhouse Hills Have Eyes 2 The Host Dead Silence 300 Midnight Mavericks Black Xmas remake Night @ Museum

2006 RELEASES...... Eragon Turistas Fast Food Nation Living Dead 3D Tideland Saw 3 Anger Me Grudge 2 Chainsaw Beginning Black Dahlia The Covenant Wicker Man Snakes on a Plane Pulse Sm Gauge Trauma A Scanner Darkly Neigh'hood Watch Strange Circus Meatball Machine Superman Returns New York Doll The Omen Lady Vengeance See No Evil Poseidon Art School Con Silent Hill Bettie Page Rhinoceros Eyes Cinema Sewer Slither Other Hollywood Hills Have Eyes Ultraviolet Davis Quits Parc Final Destination 3 Underworld 2 Karla Hostel Michael Will

2005 RELEASES...... King Kong 2005 Get Rich Die Tryin The Dark Hours Zathura Doom The Fog Popaganda History of Violence Emily Rose Sound of Thunder The Cave Red-Eye Last Days War of the Worlds Harryhausen MTL God's Cocksuckers Three Extremes Land of the Dead Shark Boy 3D Batman Begins Reflections of Evil House of Wax Oskar Fischinger Revenge of the Sith Jiminy Glick Oldboy Early Harryhausen Sin City Binky Brown Napoleon Dynamite Constantine Ryan Boogeyman O.com Precinct 13 Manson Family Philippe Spurrell

2004 RELEASES...... Spike & Mike Blade 3 Spongebob Kinsey Rest in Pieces Team America Raoul Barre A Dirty Shame Gods of Times Sq. Vanilla Resident Evil 2 Alien vs Predator Manchurian Can... Journey Into Bliss Boy in the Box I Pass For Human Goopy Spasms Spiderman 2 Fahrenheit 9/11 Riddick Stepford Wives Super Size Me Day/Aft/Tomorrow 300th Anniversary Van Helsing Mayor/Sunset/Strip Kill Bill Vol. 2 Eternal Sunshine Hellboy Scooby-Doo 2 Dawn of the Dead Taking Lives Decoys Passion of Christ Monster Big Fish Francois Miron

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ON SALE NOW! AMERICAN DEVICES CD (for ordering info contact ricktrembles@hotmail.com)

New! First factory-made CD label release from Montreal's longest-lasting "post-punk" band! Includes 22 killer songs spanning 1980 to the present, a 12-page booklet by Rick Trembles detailing his band's secret origins crammed with rare photos, a full color foldout poster of current members, & a brain-bending foldout genealogy tracking Devices milieu dating as far back as the 70's!

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"As the first few notes start trickling in, the momentum behind the American Devices becomes unshakable" -Liz Worth, Exclaim! Magazine (Toronto)

"Onanistic/obsessive, & in their singular way, brilliant, ...irreducible" -Mark Lepage, The Gazette (Montreal)

"Intricacies & idiosyncrasies pushing the envelopes of punk ethos, proggy complexity, & twisted pop charm" -Rupert Bottenberg, The Montreal Mirror

"An essential possession for any serious lover of Montreal music" -Martin Siberok, Hour (Montreal)

"Authentically delirious thick-skinned psychedelic alterno-punk" -Serge Paradis, Ici (Montreal)

"Really weird music... sounds like The Velvet Underground meets The Fast" -John Holmstrom, Punk Magazine (New York City)

"Wiggley surf guitar on amphetamines, perverse lyrics, obscure mythology, & refusal to die" -Terrence Dick, Broken Pencil Magazine (Toronto)

"The real deal… hits you with its euphoric minimalism & penchant for the unpredictable, songs spinning & twittering into manic claustrophobia, jangly angles, fraught bass-lines & hyperactive freak-outs" -Liz Worth, Eye Weekly (Toronto)

"I put the Labelle/Trembles combo right up there with some of the other great guitar duos in rock and roll; Reed/Morrison, Jones/Richards, Thunders/Sylvain, Verlaine/Lloyd, Julian/Quine, Shelley/Diggle, Ranaldo/Moore, etc." -Chris Burns, Nutsak (Montreal)

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SUCK MY ROCKS (2.78 MB)

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FAT GIRL (2.87 MB)

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"A remarkable Canadian quartet" -Mark Rhodes, Alternative Press

"Too weird to succeed" -Mark Lepage, The Gazette

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This week's MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: Rick Trembles' comic strip review of DRACULA'S GREAT LOVE (1972): “Fangs for the mammaries!”

Last week's review: Snake People

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August 14, 2008

GOOPY NEWZ #11 plus RICK TREMBLES INTERVIEWED IN VANCOUVER'S MONGREL ZINE #3!

From their Fecesbook promo page: "Mongrel Zine #3 is out & has 48 pages of interviews hipping ya to Rick Trembles, Mark Sultan/BBQ, The Tranzmitors, The Pointed Sticks (legendary 70's Vancouver punk band), Bloodshot Bill, Oily Chi, The Stolen Minks, we meet Defektors, plus all the usuals: music reviews, live reviews, drawings, Baron Fingers, Make-A-Match, and more!" In my segment, Cinema Sewer's Robin Bougie recounts a funny story about when he was staying over at my place & sez the way I concoct my Motion Picture Purgatories is "like taking pudding & pork chops & somehow making apple pie out of them"! Buy it NOW via: mongrelzine.etsy.com

Wanna see my animated film Goopy Spasms next week? Well then head on over to the Winnipeg Film Group Cinematheque at 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba on Wednesday, August 20 @ 9:00 PM for the TRANSGRESSIVE VISIONS FROM CANADA show curated by Fantasia's Mitch Davis! Fangoria Magazine sez my film Goopy Spasms "must-be-seen-to-be-believed"! Read all about it HERE.

From the TRANSGRESSIVE VISIONS Fecesbook promo page: "Visceral & intellectual confrontation is the order of the day in this provocative collection of 7 contemporary subversive/transgressive Canadian shorts. Exploring a range of themes that include outsider sexuality, religion, family, alienation & transfigured perceptions of love & morality, these uncompromising - & in several cases, award-winning - auteur visions showcase a unique diversity of storytelling styles (animation, experimental, stream-of-consciousness) & points-of-view that paint a startlingly new picture of the Canadian independent film landscape. These unprotected bursts of radical Canadian cinema will shock the unshockable and haunt memories until the end-times."

July 17, 2008

GOOPY NEWZ #10!

Wanna see my animated film Goopy Spasms tonight? (Official BUNNY award winner for "most effectively offensive short" at the BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL, & winner of the "best original short" at the 2006 CALGARY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL)! Well then head on over to 13 rue Moret - 11e - Paris, France right NOW cuz it's playing as part of Cinema Abattoir's mini Euro-tour of local transgressive short films "HÉRÉTIQUES: CINÉMAS ICONOCLASTES QUÉBÉCOIS"! Do it!

June 5, 2008

SLEW OF NEW AmErIcAn DeVicEs LIVE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE TO HELP PROMOTE BAND'S UPCOMING SHOW FRIDAY JUNE 6TH IN ST-HENRI (!)

Come check out THE AMERICAN DEVICES live in St-Henri (!) June 6th @ Bar De Courcelle, 4685 rue Notre Dame Ouest, corner of rue De Courcelle (just a short walk west from the Place-St-Henri Metro). Pictured right: handsome poster by Walter Scott (click on it for bigger color version)!

Opening up will be TRICERATREETOPS, DRAINOLITH & the honky tonk house band that comes with the joint! I checked out Bar De Courcelle a few weeks ago & it's principally populated by seniors & middle-aged regulars! Devices are actually not that far off from this demographic mind you, but De Courcellesters are into line-dancing to country & western & guest-vocalling on old French top-40 crooners, not WeEYard PunGcK like us, so it's going to be an interesting night. DO NOT MISS THIS. Price: Pay What You Can (suggested donation 5$)!

A Pirates of the Lachine Canal presentation. Official Facebook page for this event HERE

I've been posting lotsa old Devices live footage on YouTube spanning back 20 years to help promote this show which you can see by clicking on the links below. Stay tuned! More vidz to cum!

Gory Story live in my cramped apartment living room on St-Dominique street across from Schwartz's Smoked Meat in 1992. Rob Labelle: vocs/guitar, Rick Trembles: guitar, Cups Von Helm: drums, Dave Hill: bass. Camera by Janet Kane. Check out the poster of "Bub" from Day of the Dead on my wall. Click image below.

Gory Story by Rob Labelle (1984)

The taste of time spreads like butter on my mind, My memories melt & are dissolved by word of mouth, She said I have a frenzied fate, I’m in a childlike state, Strapped in by a few new toys, I gave my body & blood for an angel to send me, But the world won’t end me, as it’s designed by circumstance, You & I are one more gory story, While timothy talked sad, I borrowed clouds from my mind, My days are empty, my sleep is full of the ghosts of a hundred dead ideas, I lit him a cigarette & cruelty dawned in my eyes, Timothy choked & reached for his throat, But couldn’t undo the cold hand of an innocuous act, After that, the lights of hell were beckoning me, Outside to a night of lonesome wandering adventures, The bar was full of eager fans waiting for something to go wrong, The singer choked & they slit his throat cuz that’s entertainment, Gory story.

Spacey Seasick live on TV 1991. Rob Labelle: vocs/guitar, Rick Trembles: guitar, Cups Von Helm: drums, Dave Hill (ex Men Without Hats, Ulterior Motive, Three O'Clock Train): bass, Kate Fallon: tambourine. Click image below.

Spacey Seasick by Rob Labelle (1990)

Stay awake, I don't know why you wanna go home, There's no one there, so what you do you do on your own, Libraries & pieces, pages, Floating underneath the covers of your bed, awake, I don't know why you wanna go home, Walking over all other nations, here comes Spacey Seasick, Radios & pieces, pages, Floating underneath the covers of your bed, Someone heard, someone said, what is gone is gone, What goes around comes around again, I want a confrontation matching my sense of frustration, I know it sounds emotional but now I'm talking from the one, Now I'm talking in the very first person, I woke up this morning & I found out I was thirty one, Then I lost my job & now I'm camped out on the Whitehouse lawn.

See My World live again in my cramped apartment living room on St-Dominique street across from Schwartz's Smoked Meat in 1992. This is one of the very first songs The American Devices ever wrote, back in 1980 wherein Rob gently orders over & over again "you gotta see, gotta see my world." Pictured below: Rotting liquid latex duplicate of our old penis/brain/pterodactyl mascot attached to the bass drum, copied from the same original Trembles sculpture that graced the American Devices' 1989 LP embossed front cover. Rob Labelle: vocs/guitar, Rick Trembles: guitar, Cups Von Helm: drums & Rat Fink t-shirt, Dave Hill: bass. Camera by Janet Kane. Click image below.

See My World by Rob Labelle (1980)

You gotta see, gotta see my world... You gotta see, gotta see my world...

Decensortized live on TV 1991. Paranoid/neurotic ramblings from cartoon/clown character Rick Trembles hollering about whatchamacallit sex, drugs, hypocrisy, & obscenity, like you like it! Rick Trembles: vocs/guitar, Rob Labelle: guitar, Cups Von Helm: drums, Dave Hill: bass, Kate Fallon: backup vocs. Click image below.

Decensortized by Rick Trembles (1990)

Iddy biddy power lovin' liberator, doing you & me a favor, In this institute of harm avoidance, Hurting's just an intuitive annoyance, Not always mutually synchronized, And so we ask not for confessions of any personal recessions, Beneficial or bourgeois but that we all be equalized, Liberation, liberation, liberation ... liberate me! And at your disposal are sensations, Of generic stock penetrations, Groping at some sort of duty memory, Instead keep on sustaining cum-pensation, Go and redefine some dead-ication, And all the while do not prolong puberty so free & strong, Liberation, liberation, liberation ... liberate me! Neuter-lize my cerebellum with your quality truth serum, Decensortized, decensortized, And so this will provide us less, much less, yeah, Newfangled morals to confess, much less, yeah, Not always mutually synchronized, Why second guess & go defend what's best unseen, Be more than willing make room for what's obscene, Liberation, Liberation, Liberation.

Meaning Of Life live on TV again in 1991. I violently destroy my guitar strings at the end of it, all in the name of trying to get some interesting sounds outta my guitar (which started getting costly after a while, so I don't do it anymore). During Rob's soliloquy you can see me twisting around behind him like an attention hog. I was actually just bored cuz I don't play anything there. At a bunch of our last live shows I took to spitting gulps of beer at our bassist Andre Asselin if his back was turned during that segment. That's how bored I get at that spot in the song. Andre told me to quit it. We're gonna close our set with this song on Friday. What am I gonna do at De Courcelles during my boring break? Only one way to find out. We don't have any other shows booked for a little while so don't miss this one. Rick Trembles: vocs/guitar, Rob Labelle: guitar, Cups Von Helm: drums, Dave Hill: bass, Kate Fallon: go-go dancing. Click image below.

Meaning of Life by Rick Trembles & Rob Labelle (1979-1983)

A song singing this moment, dismantled before it happens, Me given one more chance before Nosferatu's door opens & time always wins, Scratching my face with bandaged fingers on eleventh-hour stubble, While elephant stories weigh down on my memory & I kneel with new demeanor, Fill my trunk with sand balloons, What is the meaning of life? There is no solution, We're all tiny animals, living out their own conclusions, What is the meaning of life? There is no solution, We're all tiny animals, living in confusion.

Suck My Rocks live @ Foufounes Electriques 1988. SEE! Guitarist Rick Trembles wearing a mold of his own penis on his forehead like a brain-damaged unicorn! SEE! Singer/guitarist Rob Labelle sporting his own handsome Devices T-Shirt design! SEE! Singer/keyboardist Louise Burns burn the place up doing her best trying to dance to the convoluted music (if this clip of her doesn't start you smoking cigs nothing will)! SEE! Drummer Cups Von Helm speaking in tongues working himself up into a frenzy! SEE! But not very well cuz she's tucked away in the corner, bassist Sylvie Payne (too bad cuz she was playing a crazy flying V bass guitar)! Camera by Eric Sandmark. Click image below.

Suck My Rocks by Rob Labelle (1983)

"I am a rock," says sixties songs & sick corporations, Suck my rocks, Everybody knows that's where life on earth came from, The slanting rays of the setting sun, Reflecting down on our early lives you know, The slanting rays of the setting sun, Casting doubt on American history, Sodomy & Gomorrah, I'm alright, Looking back towards tomorrow, stay out all night, "I am a nation..." no, no, nineteenth century navigation, Suck my rocks, Everybody knows that's where life on earth came from, I remember one time when I was skipping off school one day, British bulldogs in my way, And from then on I realized, Inanimate objects possessed all the life they needed to put out my lights, I am an insect crawling through mirrors of scrapbook generations, Suck my rocks, Everybody knows that's where life on earth came from.

Extra bonus video: Decibel Hell doing a cover of Thor's "Tell Me Lies" opening up for The Chromosomes at Concordia University, 1984. Decibel Hell were a band me & American Devices drummer Cups Von Helm were in for a few seconds (that's how long the band lasted). On vocals is Michelle Tardif AKA Mimi Re/Tardif, with Johnny Everglades & Danny Darling on additional guitars. (Camera by Jeremy Coyle). Hilarity: don't miss the part where my guitar goes suddenly horribly out of tune in the middle (I figure due to my whammy-bar abuse) & Mimi actually gives us the thumbs down. Her own band! Click image below.

Yours poorly, Rick Trembles

May 15, 2008

MONASTIRAKI!

Check out this new Rick Trembles comic-strip review for the Montreal Mirror about local cartoonist Billy Mavreas' crazy store & new book!

April 17, 2008

THE ELECTRIC VOMIT IMMORTALIZED IN PAINT!

At last week's kick-ass Aids Wolf concert a young man by the name of Eric Bent approached me to inform me that he had been at the reunion show of my 70's punk band The Electric Vomit at Zoobizare last month & painted a picture of it! I asked him if I could see it & then gave him my e-mail address. The next day he sent me the following photo of it. Click on the image to see a full color larger version. Awe-freaken-some!

March 13, 2008

GOOPY NEWZ #9 + Nick Zedd + Electric Vomit on pYoukTube!

Wanna see my animated film Goopy Spasms this weekend? (Pictured right: Official BUNNY award winner for "most effectively offensive short" at the BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL, & winner of the "best original short" at the 2006 CALGARY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL)! Well then head on over to FRIENDSHIP COVE this Friday, 215-A Murray Street (Metro Bonaventure) cuz it'll be opening for legendary underground filmmaker Nick Zedd (along with other local shorts like Francois Miron's latest Hymn to Pan) as part of a 2-day Cinema Abattoir retrospective where Zedd will be in attendance each night presenting his own rare films. Thursday at the same venue will also be the world premiere of Cinema of Transgression documentary Llik Your Idols. Do NOT miss this!

Also! Check out these new YouTube clips fresh from my band's last gig where we got to play with the original singer of The Electric Vomit, Rabid Roy Random (pictured at right from last Friday). T.E.V. were one of Montreal's early punk bands from the 70's & Roy flew down from New Mexico just for this Garbage Bag Records 7-inch vinyl launch with The Nymphets (who were also launching their own record) & The American Devices. You shoulda been there cuz oh man that ULTIMATE in anticlimacticness intro for Rabid Roy Vomit that preceded his 2 tunes! Classic. Classic FUCKUP. Yummy hilarity-inducing typical black-cloud/curse of the devices/vomit. At the end of our set when we introduced Roy to close us off with those Vomit songs we did a prolonged throbbing one-note deadpan bass riff that was supposed build up to his appearance all dramatic & showbizzy while I put down my guitar so I could take of my jacket & wear my old official Electric Vomit shirt & then explode into my guit riff. So as I pick up my guitar it decides to DIE w/out warning... JUST THEN! No sound came out of it. NOTHING. I switched all the wires, twiddled with knobs, screamed in confusion, joked into the mike how this was "exactly like 30 years ago," & then Nymphets passed us their guit to save our butts but it was missing half the strings (?!?). So devices second guit Rob passes me his axe & says just play it alone & so after Roy's EXPLOSIVE intro just standing their smiling with his hands in his pockets for 10 minutes waiting for something to happen we ripped into the shit & lucky it was extra fine. Roy can sure belt 'em out: see it for yourselves youtuberized (both original 70's recordings are on the record)...

NO END

TREASURE HUNT

Thanks to Louise Burns for filming all this live footage for us by the way. Just tried my guitar now & was relieved to find out it did indeed croak cuz I was worried maybe somehow it was something silly like me forgetting to turn my volume knob on or some shit. Now to open that motherfucker up & see what the hell's wrong with the innards. GREAT TIMING, ASSTARDED GUITAR OF MINE. Rob joked that my guitar broke down so that only one player could do it cuz the songs weren't meant to be played w/2 guitars (true, vomit only ever had one guit). Plus: JOHANNA NYMPH IS A SUPERHUMAN DRUMMER! Check out their cover version of another Vomit tune they did at the same show (not available on the record)...

ENERGY CRISIS

Funny note: title of above song was commenting on the actual energy crisis that had occurred in the 70's (lineups at the pumps, etc) & here we are almost exactly 30 years later about to go thru the same crap!

Yours pukely, Rick Trembles

March 6, 2008

COME SEE RICK TREMBLES' FIRST 70'S PUNK BAND THE ELECTRIC VOMIT BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE FOR 3 SONGS! This Friday, March 7, $8 at Zoobizarre, 6388 St-Hubert Street, Montreal. Click on the handsome Walter Scott poster pictured below to see a bigger version (gee, speaking of handsome, who's that ugmo in the middle of the image with the big-ass shades?).

Here's the official press release from the promoters: "The fine folks at BSTB, Pirates of the Lachine Canal, Psychic Handshake Recordings and Garbage Bag Records are getting together to present: THE NYMPHETS & THE ELECTRIC VOMIT Duel 7” Launch Party! Featuring Live Performances by THE AMERICAN DEVICES (a special performance by Montreal’s reigning punk scholars which will include two Electric Vomit songs performed with original lead singer Rabid Roy Random) and THE NYMPHETS (Montreal/Brooklyn garage punk dynamo's releasing their debut 7” on Psychic Handshake Recordings) + DJ sets by The Pirates of the Lachine Canal South West WEIRD PUNK Crew all night long!"

"This evening will be a unique celebration of two generations of Montreal punk rock. As many of you know, THE ELECTRIC VOMIT were one of Montreal's first punk bands when Rick Trembles started the band in the late 70s, and a precursor to THE AMERICAN DEVICES, who formed not long after the Vomit broke up. No recordings by the Vomit were released in their brief lifespan, but a demo tape from 1979 survived, sitting on the shelf for almost thirty years before an upstart label in Grand Mere, Quebec called Garbage Bag Records decided to release three songs from the session on a 7". The result is the incredible "No End" single, an invaluable addition to the Montreal punk discography that bridges the gap between the snotty, glam-influenced late 70s Montreal punk scene and the thrashier and artier sounds that would come out of that scene in the early 80s. The single will be available for sale at the show, and during THE AMERICAN DEVICES performance that night will be a performance within that performance of two ELECTRIC VOMIT songs from the single with original Vomit singer Rabid Roy Random flying in all the way from New Mexico just to sing those songs. This is a moment you are absolutely not going to want to miss."

(Pictured below L to R: Rabid Roy Random & Rick Trembles circa 78/79. Rick is gonna be wearing that same 30-year-old shirt at the show!)

"THE NYMPHETS are the yin to the Vomit's yang, if you will. Having formed just a few years back, they quickly shot to the top of the heap of this city's punk bands, and now have the U.S.A. set in their sites. The band found a second home last year in Brooklyn, NY, and have been splitting their time blowing minds in both cities. Their debut single "Feels Like Motherfuckers" on Psychic Handshake Recordings arrives just in time for the band to embark on a U.S. tour this spring that will see the band visit SXSW for the first time, but you folks will be the first people in the world to get your hands on this gem. This two song single features some of the best punk rock that's ever come out of this city. Its trashy, immediate, lo-fi garage punk with lean, catchy melodies, bringing to mind everyone from Supercharger to The Television Personalities. It's shit so good that we'll have to share it with those douchebags in NYC, but when you see how amazing this band is in the flesh and how well that translates onto this record, you'll understand. THE NYMPHETS performance will comprise a impressive set of originals (including the two songs from the 7"), as well as an ELECTRIC VOMIT cover, in the spirit of the evening. Both records will be for sale throughout the evening and the always awesome Pirates of the Lachine Canal South West WEIRD PUNK DJ crew will be spinning tunes when the bands aren't playing, and all night afterwards!"

Here's an interview with Rick Trembles about this show in the latest issue of The Concordian

February 14, 2008

MY UNABRIDGED INTERVIEW WITH THE KUCHAR BROS!

A few months ago I interviewed the legendary Kuchar Bros for The Montreal Mirror preceding their massive retrospective at the Cinémathèque Québécoise. Offscreen Magazine has just posted everything that DIDN'T make it into that article from my lengthy conversations (8880 words)! The classic underground cartoonist/filmmakers yack about the heyday of underground film & cross-pollinating with the likes of fellow underground cartoonists Mike Diana, Rory Hayes, Bill Griffith & Art Spiegelman! Check it out HERE!

Pictured below: “BUTCH” © 1983 by Mike Kuchar (from Funeral Party Volume Two: A Celebratory Excursion into Beautiful Extremes of Life, Death and Lust, edited by Shade Rupe, Rude Shape Productions, 1997).

Rick Trembles

February 7, 2008

MY SECRET COCKUPATION: THE PRIVATE JOURNALS OF A PROSTITUTE!

From the perverted pen of Vancouverite Robin (Cinema Sewer) Bougie comes this latest instalment in his series of anecdotal sexposés, “My Secret Cockupation”! Following his other great minis, like “The John Project” (“interviews with dudes who pay for sex”) & “The Incest Project” interviewing actual people in unapologetic incestuous sexual relationships, this new zine’s filled with Bougie interviews w/a young prostitute he knows working in his area, Miss Jessica Vile, about how she got into the biz & her humorous adventures in whoring. Each of these mags is predominantly text-driven, reprinting conversations & email correspondences, sometimes anonymously to respect certain parties’ privacies, but never embellished or censored, & laced with Bougie’s excellent realistic smutty portrait drawings of the characters in question, more often than not in lurid, candid poses.

Cockupation standouts include chapters like “My First Time” about how Jessica got into the biz posting her wares on Craigslist so she could pay the rent. “Horny For Liquor” is about her & her gay hustler boyfriend whoring themselves out for a couple of cases of beer simply cuz they were horny, hungover & in the mood for some hair of the dog, & “Chocolate Chip” is about how a golden shower session went horribly wrong when… oh I’ll just let your imagination figure out where that chapter’s title is headed! It all sounds sordid but there’s an innocence & gleeful curiosity to Bougie’s technique of drawing out such true-to-life stories that makes you LOL rather than ralph or boo-hoo.

(Pictured at right: Jessica Vile on the back cover: Bougie sure can draw cute butts). And it’s informative too, Jessica makes no bones about it, selling your ass is not for everyone as some of her scarier tales can attest, like when she was assaulted by a homophobe that answered her boyfriend’s ad but the guy couldn’t cum to terms with the fact that he was into man-meat in the presence of a girl so he blew up. And the sex-for-beer story for instance reads like latter-day-Bukoswski but starring a sexy brat instead of the punchy pock-faced boozehound. Bougie closes his tract with post-porn-modernist Annie Sprinkle’s 40 reasons “Why Whores Are My Heroes” manifesto (used w/her permission). The best measly 4 bucks you can spend, “CHEAP & EASY (to read)” as the cover boasts! Order online via Bougie’s website Cinemasewer.com

January 24, 2008

NEW AMERICAN DEVICES MUSIC VIDEO ON YOUTUBE & LIVE SHOW WITH PARLOVR & FLAMES!

Come see my band The American Devices play this Saturday, January 26 @ Lab.synthese, 435 Beaubien Ouest, loft 200, with Flames! & Parlovr for the launch of "Four Minutes to Midnight" magazine number 9! Apparently we're on last.

To help promote the show I just made a new American Devices music video for the song Party Pooper which you can see here for free on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK4D0JeegkE

We'll be closing our set with this song Party Pooper on Saturday. The video's actually made from old footage of our 1986 lineup: Rick Trembles on vocs/guitar wearing the silver jacket, Rob Labelle on guitar with the boombox, Louise Burns on keyboards as go-go dancer, & Cups Von Helm on drums with the D-Cups & Cupcycle (Chris Burns also played bass on the tune but he wasn't in the video). Video portions were filmed by Michel "Rot Wang" Gagnon who was also in Mother's Meat Freud's Flesh. It's got old-school scratchy homemade super-8 film, claymation, pixilation, beer, tussling, broken hockey sticks, & motorcycles made outta drum kit bits. The animated "Cupcycle" was the actual drum kit we used to play with live back then & it weighed a ton, as much as, say, an actual goddamn motorcycle, so I sure don't miss it! But we rigged the headlights to go on & off in unison with the bass pedal to give audiences a light show so it was worth it. Come see what 20 years-plus can do to such a song this Saturday (minus the Cupcycle but plus our current kickass rhythm section consisting of Howard Chackowicz & Andre Asselin)! Pictured below; the actual storyboards I drew for the Cups Von Helm D-Cups sequence...

Rick Trembles

December 27, 2007

AMERICAN DEVICES NEW YEARS EVE MONTREAL BLOWOUT WITH CLOCKCLEANER, O-VOIDS & PANOPTICON EYELIDS (Click on the handsome Lisa Czech poster image below for larger color version)!

Come see my band The American Devices play this Monday night 9 PM December 31 at Friendship Cove (215A Murray Street) with DJ's Chloe Scum, Brett Wagg & Blamderson! Presented by The Pirates of the Lachine Canal! It's pay-what-you-can & I believe we're on second so don't come too late! We'll be unveiling 2 brand new songs, Pink in the Sink sung by me & Shitfinger sung by Rob Labelle! Check out the other crazy bands on the bill on MySpace:

CLOCKCLEANER (from Philadelphia)

O-VOIDS

PANOPTICON EYELIDS

Happy Poo Year!

Rick Trembles

December 6, 2007

NEW ONLINE GALLERY OF RARE 80'S MONTREAL PUNK ROCK POSTERS & COMIX BY REBECCA TUCKER!

Rebecca Tucker was the guitarist for the 1980's Montreal hardcore punk bands Terry Fox's Right Leg & No Policy & not only did she draw kickass comix & posters but used to custom build guitars as well! She eventually moved to Los Angeles & played in Frightwig for a while & now she makes fancy costumes for a living, having even dressed up Cameron Diaz & Gene Simmons from Kiss! I present to you for the first time ever an online gallery of her work, a series of rock posters followed by some rare comix. I published a few of her comix in Sugar Diet magazine in 1984 but lots of these have never been published before! Her comix always appealed to me, she has a distinct style & kinda creepy storylines that often deal with body image in disturbing ways. Click HERE or on the image above to start the show! Enjoy!

November 15, 2007

CORPUSSE ROCK VIDEO & COMIC STRIP!

Here's a music video I just made of Corpusse for the song Pretty Flowers (see my October 31 blog entry for more info on him). It incorporates live performances on video (camera-persons unknown; please contact me if you recognize it so I can give credit) & some old school super-8 footage I took of him one lazy afternoon circa early 90's. I play guitar on the live footage. The super-8 takes place at the old abandoned church long since gone on St-Laurent & Sherbrooke in Montreal. The hearse belonged to someone I knew who just left it for dead beside my old apartment behind Schwartz's Smoked Meat. Click on the images or the following URL to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlCjtcZzicI And don't miss Corpusse live this weekend with Mad Parish & The Nymphets, Saturday November 17 at Montreal's Barfly, 4062A St-Laurent.

Also, here's a comic jam I did just for fun with Corpusse called Fingerfood from 1996. I would draw & write some text, then he'd draw & write some text responding to my drawing & text, then I'd do likewise, etc. I did the hand critter, he did the chicken critter. Click the image or HERE to see it.

Rick Trembles

November 8, 2007

Here's a comic I did called ROMP for the zine Flaming Poutine about a typical gig for my band The American Devices back in the 90's (at a Montreal venue called Jailhouse Rock) . I made $1.75 that night. And that was a good night! Click the image or HERE to see it.

Rick Trembles

October 31, 2007

SPECIAL HALLOWEEN COMIC STRIP SLIDESHOW "CORPUSSE THE MOVIE" by Rick Trembles! (Click the title image to start the show)!

Corpusse (John Ashton) was a confrontational one-of-a-kind Montreal one-man-band shock art & horror movie influenced performance artist I had the pleasure of joining forces with in the 90's before he moved to Toronto. His recitals used to make my jaw drop way back when he was doing them solo & at one point he really wanted "female assistants" on-stage as if he was thinking up horrendous Grande Guignol magical acts to foist upon the audience. I was running around town with a dirty autobiographical slideshow I'd narrate at various venues dressed in drag at the time & so when Corpusse was having trouble convincing actual women to join up he decided to get the next best/worst thing; yours truly.

I began to accompany him on guitar in drag & participate in various on-stage stunts like closing the show by getting punched in the gut by him. Once, I put on a pair of fake boobs under my dress so he could incorporate unbuttoning me & caressing my tits into the act before doing something terrible to me, all while I was playing guitar. He occasionally had local musicians join in on the fun to improvise over his numbers but I chose to consciously allocate very noisy minimalist riffs on the guitar to go along with his unpredictable keyboards. We even recorded a few of these tunes. Watching audiences' bug-eyed reactions of disbelief at Corpusse's antics right from next to him on-stage was awesome but also a little bittersweet cuz it meant I couldn't get a very good view of what my fave performer was up to as much anymore. It was like being in the eye of the hurricane. A truly bizarre, chaotic & priceless experience like I'd never been thru before, haven't since, & probably never will again.

When it seemed like I was gonna be a permanent inclusion in his act I made a short super-8 film of him & also started planning another more ambitious one, the "storyboards" of which make up the bulk of the images in the 1993 comic strip slideshow I present to you this week (stick with it, some "fun facts" follow the boards). Unfortunately it was a touch beyond our means to film (what else is new) so the idea caved in on itself but I did manage to salvage the principal bump-in-the-head design idea by using it as cover art to last year's American Devic