Basic Info

Release: November 17, 1989

Runtime: 120 min

Status: Released

Videos

Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordon busting up vinyl-Raymond Pettibon (YouTube)

Weatherman '69

1989 120 min

Overview

Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself, this deadpan narrative pays dubious homage to the 1960's radical underground. In this crudely rendered home video of a commune of stoned revolutionaries, the cameras are hand-held, the edits in-camera, and the dialogue is wryly on-target. Pettibon's band of outsiders reenacts a countercultural moment defined by rock music, drugs, and ideological paradox — and in so doing, captures their own late-80's West Coast grunge milieu as well.