Weatherman '69

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.

Directed by Raymond Pettibon

Top cast

Kim Gordon

Bernadine Dohrn

Thurston Moore

Jeff Jones

Mike Watt

Gabe Nemisch

A

Abby Travis

Jane Fonda

Joe Cole

David Markey

Allen Ginsberg/Yoko Ono

R

Raymond Pettibon

Serge Soulberg

B

Bob Balhatchet

El Kahane

D

Davo Claassen

Wayne Kahane

D

Daniel V. Adams

Catnip Goldbug

C

Crane Doe

Tom Hayden

H

Henry Vincent

John Lennon

J

Janet Housden

Marav

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Linda B. Stone

Billy Jean Sweetness

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Nelson Tarpenny

Cocky the Red

J

Junebug Soiree

Prissy

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Icarus Glorfindel

Butch

S

Steve Stelter

Stix

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