Since the summer, my buddy Nick and I have convened weekly to watch movies through Squad, a chat app with a screen-share function. For months, Nick has evangelized for free streaming site Tubi: it’s got lots of forgettable 2000s comedies featuring famous actors who’ve scrubbed those jobs from their CVs, plus tons of the absolute trash we both love, including way too many movies produced by Full Moon, a churn-’em-out horror-film company that makes Roger Corman look like John Carpenter.
I e-mailed Bookwalter last week to ask about this mysterious band, and he told me that “Wilbur & the Hoodlum Patrol” was a pseudonym for a local band called Argus—they made music for The Dead Next Door, his debut, and for at least one more of his early films. Bookwalter also pointed me toward the Facebook page of bandleader Mick Corcoran, who has yet to reply to my out-of-the-blue inquiry about punk songs he made decades ago.
