Yesterday before dinner and a movie at Jefferson Pointe, Jess and I enjoyed a leisurely stroll through Best Buy. I stumbled upon a DVD featuring the band, MXPX, entitled “B-Movie” and was instantly excited.
MXPX was first introduced to me back in the 1990’s when I was trying to find out what types of “Christian Music” I could like that my parents wouldn’t.
MXPX filled that “need” instantly.
If you don’t know MXPX, think “Green Day” or “Blink 182” as today’s popular comparisons.
These guys quickly became my closet-favorites, though I didn’t fit the “punk-fan” lifestyle, so mainly the first MXPX albums were listened to in my own room or in public with headphones on. In college, I had a few opportunities to see the band but never took advantage of the opportunities.
The DVD is interesting – it’s a behind the-scenes-look of the making of their AC-EP album (a 5-song accoustic record) – which is very weird to even THINK of MXPX producing an accoustic record being the 3-chord punk-rock band that they are.
The album comes with the DVD – and I’m a huge fan already of each of the 5-songs.
I was let-down by the DVD in a few ways:
1. Most of the video seems to be shot on the same day. The description on the DVD claims to have footage documenting 12-years of the band’s history. Baloney – they shot this movie like we shot all of our college-movies in one day when they got really bored and thought, “we could make a DVD!”
2. There is absolutely, positively NO mention of MXPX’s faith in Christ on this DVD (except the lyrics of one of their songs that say, “Just know this that God is faithful even if you don’t have faith yourself.”) They DID, however, glorify the fact that the guys enjoy drinking beer on occasion.
I still have the commentary to listen to as I watch the DVD again sometime – Mike, Tom and Yuri (bandmates) apparently sat through the entire movie and commented on everything for us. That will be interesting, and possibly more of a letdown, too.
