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Albert Maysles Working on Fall Out Boy Documentary. Wait…What?

Posted by Jay C on January 3rd, 2008
Filed under: News

01-fallout-boy-present-400a032207.jpgThe Maysles rockumentary legacy is a force to be reckoned with. A sprawling document of some of the greatest rock bands in modern music history. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones…FALL OUT BOY?? This news comes perfectly summed up by Matt Dentler at his blog (found via AJ Schnack’s revamped site) as being “really genius or incredibly misinformed”. Hmmm. Indeed. I’m not too sure how I feel about this one. To be fair, I don’t really know anything about Fall Out Boy outside of the album I was forced to listen to CONSTANTLY while working at a mall record store a few years back. Maybe they’ve got some sort of interesting back story? I’m not a huge Metallica fan yet I loved Some Kind of Monster. I just hope the concert element of this documentary is left on the cutting room floor. Perhaps, as a 28 going on 29 year old male who’s somewhat out of touch with this genre of music, it’s MYSELF who’s incredibly misinformed and not Albert. After all, how can millions of pre-teen mallrats be wrong? Will The Documentary Blog end up flooded with comments from black haired, eyeliner wearing Fall Out Boy fans praising Albert for his work and discussing their favourite of the Christo films? Only time will tell.



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Reader Comments:

  1. Rian
    January 4th, 2008 00:58
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    I make no excuses for the fact that I like the first three Fall Out Boy albums, but I’ve got no clue what this documentary could possibly be about. They changed members after their first record and then became a huge deal overnight, and now they’ve completely sold out and their latest album is shit. Not much there to work with if you ask me.

  2. Hawbaker
    January 29th, 2008 01:50
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    Do you think that Maysles has some thought that they’re actually cool in any way, shape, or form? Wha?

  3. Poindexter
    February 8th, 2008 10:45
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    ‘It’s “me” who’s incredibly misinformed, not “myself”.

  4. Jay C.
    February 8th, 2008 11:35
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    Thanks Poindexter. That just guaranteed I’ll be beating you up for your lunch money at noon.

  5. Poindexter
    February 10th, 2008 12:12
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    Funny!

    Hey, Jay C., in all seriousness, Maysles and FOB are really weird bedfellows. But this is Maysles, so we’ll see. (I’ve had the pleasure of working with Albert.)

    By the way, my fav Cristo film is the Running Fence.

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