One of the reasons I like writing these blogs is to talk about obscure or forgotten movies that some people may not be aware of. For this entry, I'm gonna talk about a documentary that I haven't seen, about a musician I didn't even know about up until a few days ago. Credit must go to retroist.com, which brought Weird Paul Petroskey to my attention. When Weird Paul videotaped himself, showing him doing a McDonald's food review and uploaded it to his Youtube channel, the video went viral. That's only fitting because it's as if it were made just for that site even though it was 1984! Since then he's been posting something regularly from his personal video archives. Several of those videos show the young, budding musician playing his guitar and performing songs. Eventually, he started writing his own songs, releasing them and performing small concerts. Some might call him an obscure version of "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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| Cover art of Weird Paul documentary |
Fast forward a couple decades later and he's still at it. Petroskey has garnered followers in the underground music scene. In 2001, filmmaker Stacey Goldschmidt began filming the Pittsburgh native, culminating in the release of Weird Paul: A Lo Fidelity Documentary in 2006.
