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Those of you in the audience who know about our "day jobs" may imagine, thanks to said day jobs, we get a lot of records in the mail. And those who think that would be right. To expound on this a bit, if you factor in the fact we've been publishing c14 since October of 1994, you may imagine over those years we've gotten so many records we could literally fill a house. That theoretically may be true too. Except what people don't seem to get is, we don't keep all of these records. We can't, unless we want to write each word of the 15 - 20 page review section ourselves. (Something, if I may speak on behalf of the entire c14 editorial staff - yes, both of us - we did not, do not, and will not ever want to do.) So the majority of records sent to us are then sent out to the folks who generously contribute to the magazine, thus allowing us to clutter up their record rooms instead. I bring all of this up because we've been sent a few Pansy Division records over the years and must admit, I've never sent a reviewer any of them. (Unless we somehow wound up with two copies of the same record, which may have happened once or twice.) What can I say in my defense except I heart Pansy Division! Whether you heart or have never heard of them, if you generally enjoy a good music related documentary I highly recommend this particular one. Subtitled Life In A Gay Rock Band, this would be one of those occasions where, to a certain extent, you can go ahead and judge the DVD by it's cover. Because it is a film about life in a gay rock band. By the same token, it's also an interesting, engaging, entertaining story about an interesting, engaging, entertaining punk rock band so I imagine it would / could / should be appreciated by those who do not like the cock. Of course, if you're like me, someone who does like the cock, as well as humor in music; someone who say, may know the lyrics to all the songs on the "Manada" EP but not know too much about the early days of the band; the queercore movement in general; or (and I probably have known about this last one since I was writing for at least one music magazine / fanzine at the time) the fact they opened for Green Day on a huge tour, culminating in the band playing Madison Square Garden, then you will really appreciate this movie. And the accompanying DVD full of live footage. You also very well may want to be on the lookout for Jon Ginoli's similarly minded, recently released book, Deflowered: My Life In A Gay Rock Band. (I haven't read it, but I'm sure that's good too.)
—Bunny
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