Show Notes
This is another piece of HardLore history in the making, as we’re joined by our first ever actor, the great Brooke Smith of Silence of the Lambs, Grey’s Anatomy, Bates Motel and more!
I am once again joined, very appropriately, by Alec Faber of Holy Blade, Twitching Tongues & God’s Hate (and formerly of the Reel Deal podcast with… me)
Long before she graced the silver screen as the iconic Catherine Martin in Silence of the Lambs , you could find her romping around all over the lower east side as one of the infamous WARZONE WOMEN, and a staple of 1980’s New York Hardcore. She spent the golden decade of NYHC taking legendary photos of bands like Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Cro-Mags, Underdog and more, as documented in her incredible book Sunday Matinee.
We get into her life as a legendary publicist’s daughter, befriending and falling out with the Cro-Mags, the informal formation of the Warzone Women, growing out of hardcore just as acting started to become more serious, her life changing by being in one of the greatest movies of all time, AGAIN with Grey’s Anatomy, and everything in between…
An incredibly fun conversation with a genuine legend. Thanks to Brooke for joining us. _______________
HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy.
Shot, Mixed & Edited by Steven Grise Title sequence by Nicholas Marzluf
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00:00:00 - Start 00:01:39 - Brooke Smith 00:04:09 - Growing Up 00:06:39 - Women in Early New York Hardcore 00:09:28 - Picking Up Photography 00:10:33 - Sunday Matinee 00:12:54 - The Cro-Mags 00:17:32 - Best Mosher in Early 80s NYHC 00:18:40 - "New" Bands That Formed In Real Time & Changed Things 00:22:12 - Hardcore in the 80s vs. Now 00:23:49 - The Warzone Women, Straight Edge, & Her Infamous Pool Party 00:27:33 - Brooke Flips The Script on us smh 00:29:00 - People & Details in Sunday Matinee That Stood Out to Her 00:31:48 - Phones at Shows Now, The Ramones 00:33:49 - Agnostic Front & The Donahue Show 00:36:05 - Hare Krishna 00:37:57 - Modern Day Equivalent of 1980s CBGBs (Shut Down the Internet) 00:41:04 - Close Calls at CBGBs 00:42:28 - Playing Bass In A Band with Carl the Mosher 00:43:42 - Pardon This Interruption… 00:46:22 - The Misfits & Growing out of Hardcore in 1990 00:50:42 - Acting & Hardcore Intersecting 00:53:05 - Getting the Acting Bug 00:54:43 - Developing a Project With Elgin James 00:56:33 - Silence Of The Lambs 01:05:48 - Friendship with Ted Levine 01:08:08 - Brooke's Silence of the Lambs Journals, Vanya on 42nd St 01:12:37 - The Roles That Could Have Been 01:16:38 - Worst Career Advice 01:18:55 - Grey’s Anatomy 01:29:25 - Jeff Buckley 01:33:08 - Motherhood 01:42:06 - Every Character Goes To See AF 01:45:10 - Top 4 Hardcore Records
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