DEVO: Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh

“Island of Lost Souls. That's the classic that inspired both the film and the song, the Jocko Homo song. I remember watching this movie at my girlfriend's family's House on a big old tubed giant old-fashioned television set and going, 'That's Akron, Ohio. I live there.' I saw it like 1967 maybe and never forgot it. Island of Lost Souls is only 70 minutes long. I just realized how much they packed into a short time span. This one is fantastic and mercifully short.”

“Sweet Smell of Success. Oh my God, I just love Tony Curtis in it for being the rat he was. He's a slimeball and he's always scurrying around, but Burt Lancaster is pulling the strings. He's J. J. Hunsecker, and he kind of represents a kind of Walter Winchell character, like a right-wing power monger that's evil. In the spirit of the '50s, they don't really succeed in the end, but in Real Life they would have, and they will, and they do today over and over.”

“Check this out. Besides having the best artwork of any of the films here, I've always been a fan of Fellini's and all of the music of Fellini. It's like Juliet of the Spirits. There was this other instrument called a Novachord and it's most beautifully used in Juliet of the Spirits. I just have this box set. I saw Satyricon and it blew my mind and it made me realize that the film scoring was just totally open because it was one of the most imaginative and a pioneer in creativity.”

“Monsters and Madmen. Yeah, four thrilling tales of inner torments and outer space. Somehow that sounds like DEVO right there.”