The appearance of this DVD documentary chronicling the life and times of history’s sunshiniest and most rosy-cheeked girl group comes at a strange intersection for your humble narrator and goes a long way in demonstrating that The Go-Go’s weren’t exactly history’s sunshiniest and most rosy-cheeked girl group. The Go-Go’s collides with two of the many books that have been taking up space on my nightstand as of late: All I Ever Wanted, which is bassist Kathy Valentine’s autobiography, and Spray Paint the Walls, the authoritative tome detailing the history of Black Flag. The connection between this film – which tore it up on the contracted Sundance festival and with critics last summer – and book number one is obvious. Valentine may have been the last member drafted into the Go-Go’s lin...
