How did this one sneak by? I knew legendary pop culture documentarian Ron Mann was filming a “Big Daddy” Roth film, but I had no idea it was being released so soon. If you don’t dig yet, lay your orbs on this interview with Ron Mann.

There was a shift in culture in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. Roth was like Wolfman Jack or Mad magazine; he was someone who put a message out into the culture. That message was that it was okay to be weird. That being weird was cool. I personally liked Roth’s shirts and graphics because my parents hated them—those Basil Wolverton-esque monsters were great. When you were a kid you wanted to wear a T-shirt with Rat Fink on it and build those models.

Tales of a Rat Fink is playing the festival circuit right now, but Varsity Cinema in Toronto has it for a week-long engagement, right now. Lucky bastards.

Rated F for Finks everywhere.

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