Black Flag’s Ron Reyes, Black Pacific’s Jim Lindberg talk about “The Other F Word”
“The Other F Word,” a documentary based on Manhattan Beach resident Jim Linderg’s autobiographical “Punk Rock Dad: No Rules, Just Real Life,” has its Los Angeles area premier on November 4 at the Nuart Theater in West Los Angeles. Lindberg was the co-founder of the punk band Pennywise, and more recently Black Pacific. Variety magazine reviewer Andrew Barker wrote of the documentary, “The Other F Word” is a raucous, eye-opening, sad and unexpectedly wise look at veteran punk rockers as they adapt to the challenges of fatherhood. To be sure, watching foul-mouthed, colorfully inked musicians attempt to fit themselves into Ward Cleaver’s smoking jacket provides for some consistently hilarious situational comedy, but the film’s deeper delving into a whole generation of artists clumsily making amends for their own absentee parents could strike a resonant note with anyone (punk or not) who’s stumbled headfirst into family life.” Ron Reyes and Black Flag founder and guitarist Greg Ginn reunite after 40 years for Reyes’s 50th birthday party last July at the Rickshaw Theater in Vancouver. Photo by Femke Van Delft In addition to Lindberg, the documentary’s subjects include two dozen other…
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