I got the chance to see Dig! the other night and it was a pretty good film. For those of you not familiar, it’s the story of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre over the past seven (?) years and the two very different paths that the group’s have followed.

The Dandy’s have been a relative success, while never making it big in America they’ve sold a ton of albums overseas. The Massacre, on the other hand, because of their leader Anton Newcombe have never been able to put it together for an extended period of time. Everytime that they seem destined for what could be construed as a bit of mainstream success, Newcombe or someone else goes and shoots the band in the foot.

What I found perhaps most interesting about the film, though, was the fact that one of the “failures” of the Massacre wasn’t their fault at all. Instead, when the band’s van is pulled over in Georgia and Newcombe readily consents to having the car checked by cops, he isn’t aware that the filmmaker has drugs in the car. This tidbit of information was kept out of the final cut for some odd reason, but seems to be a pretty serious and useful piece of information for the viewer, as the film seems to hinge on this and a few other incidents as evidence that the band self-destructs at every opportunity.