Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century | ||||
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Released | September 11, 2007 | |||
Recorded | 2006-2007 | |||
Genre | Punk cabaret | |||
Length | 35:22 | |||
Label | Chunksaah Records | |||
Producer | Don Fury | |||
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Addicted to Bad Ideas is the fifth album by The World/Inferno Friendship Society, and their second for Chunksaah Records. Subtitled "Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century", the release is a concept album inspired by the life and films of actor Peter Lorre.
Lead singer Jack Terricloth describes Lorre as "a strangely charismatic, extremely creepy person, which I think most punk rockers can identify with ... It’s the lure of the other. He’s the underdog, the outsider." [3] Many of the album's lyrics are taken directly from movie dialogues, notable Lorre quotes, and from the biography The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin. The track title, "Everybody Comes to Rick's" is a reference to "Rick's Café Américain" from the film Casablanca. In addition, the album's cover art is an homage to Lorre's renowned film M .
This album was developed into a dramatic multimedia production directed by Jay Scheib. In 2009 World Inferno performed this work at festivals such as Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, Philadelphia's Live Arts Festival, Montclair State University's Peak Performances series, and South Carolina's Spoleto Festival USA. [3] Jack Terricloth commented, "the producer asked me if we were ever going to pay him back. We said 'No!'" [4]
The songs "Peter Lorre" and "Heart Attack '64" are reworked versions of tracks from Just the Best Party , and "Ich erinnere mich an die Weimarer Republik" is reworked from East Coast Super Sound Punk of Today .
Peter Lorre was a Hungarian-American actor of Jewish descent. Lorre began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre caused an international sensation in the German film M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls.
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone is a book by the anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey published in 1991 by Autonomedia and in 2011 by Pacific Publishing Studio (ISBN 978-1-4609-0177-9). It is composed of three sections, "Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism", "Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy" and "The Temporary Autonomous Zone".
The Bouncing Souls are an American punk band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 1989. By the time of their acknowledgment by the national punk rock scene, they had reignited a "pogo" element to New Jersey punk rock by playing fast light-hearted songs, a model followed by various other local bands.
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