PopCanon: noisepop avantpunk idiotrock ... sort of a cross between XTC, TMBG and X, but with more vowels ... a 6-piece nonska band with horns, attitude and a Master's degree in English ... the music of tomorrow, one day early ... now in convenient digital video form!

Please enjoy a sampling of rough clips pulled from the PopCanon rockumentary-in-progress directed by Alex Fernandez. We will update these clips periodically as they are edited, and they may never be seen anywhere but here ... doesn't that make you feel--I don't know--special or something?

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Late-80s Gainesville Club Scene

Gainesville legend Danarchy talks a little about the clubs in town during the late-80s and early-90s..

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Late-80s Gainesville House Parties

Danarchy also talks fondly about some of the bands in Gainesville during that period.

Roll call: Mutley Chix! Stabilizer! Roach Motel! Scared of Stares! And thousands of others....

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Dude, Pick Up The Phone...

Sure, we all know that The Dude Abides, but apparently the Dude does not abide waiting for news about how the suckumentary is going.

You don't want to be on the business end of this kind of love, people -- it's scary!

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Veggie Dogs and Beer

When Ned got home from the fateful, fitful show that next morning (around 7am), he found a message of encouragement from his RockBuddy Pose. As Pose puts it himself: '[That clip] really showed the inside-out world of rock. The inside grit and struggle (you) and the avid fan oblivious to it all (me). What a poignant moment.'

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The Rhinestone Cowboy

Unbeknownst to us before the show, a somewhat grizzled, Gary Busey-like Glen Campbell made an appearance at PopCanon's Last Show Ever, and serenaded us with a stirring rendition of this classic tune.

Although this clip is only a short excerpt, rest assured that Mr. Campbell performed the entire song, and several others. What a tribute!

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Dave Leaves Town

The very next day Dave hits the road to go on tour with his next band Eurotoaster.

Try to figure out who Dave is waving to in this clip.

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Michael on the Last Show Ever

A flair for understatement.

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Anne On Ned's Future

"It's funny how you took my dignity just then ..."

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That Was Then, This Is Now

Dave explains how and why the once mighty PopCanon lost its power after drastically altering its rehearsal schedule. Well, and there was another reason, too ...

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On Bubblewrap

Don & Alyson brainstorm about how to use $100 worth of bubblewrap spread all over the floor of the club during the night of the Last Show Ever in order to achieve maximum irritation from the audience.

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Squeaky Steve Says 'Oh No'

In retrospect, we can see how some people could have thought that smacking the band in their collective face with a bunch of whipped cream pies after the show was a really, really funny idea.

And yet...

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Don's Extreme Sport

Don, among his many talents, is a fine cook. Once, on tour, he cooked everyone an amazing Punk Rock Breakfast. As a non-meat-eater, this required him to engage in handling delicious, delicious bacon, the equivalent of an Extreme Sport. And Don was an Extreme Sport, wasn't he?

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Why Dave Eats Meat

Oh, Morrissey, what power ye wield...

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If PopCanon Were A Food

It's funny because it's true.

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A Diaper and A Thong?

Ned discourses upon the casual level of nudity found among touring rock bands (onstage and offstage), singling out Don for especial distinction in this area.

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You're Soaking In It ...

... the angst, that is.

Old punchline from German class, with apologies to Steven Wright and Paul Miller: Ich habe Angst fur Witz!

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Who Is Responsible?

Was this whole thing Ned's idea? Was it for self-aggrandizement, or rather self-immolation?

What about Alex? Aren't all the bad things his fault?

'You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!'

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The Fightin' Tubamabaist

This clip has three parts:
1) PC plays the 97X theme song, enjoyably
2) Guest Neil Bliss takes a ripping solo on the tubamaba
3) a fight breaks out offstage, derailing the song

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Chair + Head = Go

At some point during the preparations for the Last Show Ever, once we decided to open with a set featuring the original Semantics lineup (with Blue Lang back on drums), we also thought it would be hi-larious to vividly demonstrate the historic transition to Robby on drums by -- that's right -- having him hit Blue in the face with a chair, a la professional wrestling, and then take over the drum throne.

This is not that moment, however: it's just a brief clip from the night before, showing us preparing the chair.

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Where's The Drummer?

A not-infrequent refrain heard in RockRooms everywhere. Our comrades-in-omnirock Handshake Squad once wrote a song that is somewhat about this phenomenon:
Band Practice Begins At 6:30!!

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