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Bands I Caught: The Cobbs, The Asteroid #4, Pattern is Movement, Make a Rising

What's new and/or interesting on television this week.

Sean Lennon likes hats. When he stepped out onto the stage of the TLA on Friday night, he looked like a bespectacled carnival barker. The lapels of his dark suit were bordered by white piping, offsetting the perfect circles that were his glasses. The ensemble was topped off with a tall black hat. The entire band was dapper, sporting suits or top hats, sometimes both. Lennon told the audience he'd read that civilization ended when men stopped wearing hats. So he was bringing hats back.

With visions of sugar plum fairies dancing through their heads, the -Ists began to get into that holiday mood. Well, some did.

It's a good time to release a documentary about a rockstar activist speaking out against the President and his administration for continuing a costly and unpopular war in a foreign country. And indeed in some ways The U.S. vs. John Lennon is about current events; a number of the interviewees make comparisons to contemporary figures and occurrences, and comparisons not voiced out loud in the film were voiced out loud by audience members in the theater. There were even some modern anti-war activists on hand at the screening I attended, handing out posters and leaflets and so forth - even WMGK, the local radio station at the screening, was giving out buttons reading "War Is Over! If you want it" (the text of a poster that John and Yoko put up one Christmas in cities all over the world). This gave a fresh relevance to the film and brought its thirty-year-old subject handily into the present.