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I had the opportunity to see The Screamers at some forgotten venue in San Franciso almost 30 years ago (with Tuxedomoon & the Units) and remember it being one of the strangest shows I've ever been to. Since the Screamers never released a record (at least, officially), I have a hard time remembering their music, but seeing "Population: 1" did evoke some memories of that show.This isn't so much a movie as it is a visual treat, as our "host", Tomata Du Plenty, the last surviving human being on earth (supposedly), takes us on a fictitious historical journey through his twisted past.This is pretty much an extended music video with Tomata's rambling, but not uninteresting, monologue, with his reminiscence of days gone by, and his mom calling him in from the fields (she did NOT call him Tomata, I'm sure), and his love affair with Sheela Edwards (who also does a hot little number called Jazz Vampire), to his rather bizarre & almost "rap-like" take on "Pillow Talk". Tomata gets some opportunity to do his strange crab-like moves and bizarre little dances as he fills us on on the past.This film will have a rather limited appeal, but if you're at least familiar with The Screamers & anything to do with the LA Punk scene of yesteryear, you'll definitely want to get your mitts on this. Disc two of the set has a Screamers performance at the Whiskey in 1979 too, and it's fairly decent visual quality, even if the audio is kind of muddy.7 out of 10, very weird stuff, but kind of cool.
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