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What's the poorest you've ever been?
From my destitute dayz, I STILL know 12 different ways to make a meal from pinto beans and free fast food condiments. I once traveled cross country on a Greyhound bus (4 days) with only a couple dollars change and a box of BooBerry cereal given to me by a fiend as I boarded the bus in downtown SD - to avoid dwelling on my hunger, I tried to sleep as much as possible, but on day two my prone form and blue lips (from the BooBerry) convinced my fellow riders that I had overdosed or died, and I awoke to paramedics checking me..... For the rest of the trip, I ate out of bus station garbage cans and off the leftover plates of fellow bus riders. I was feeling like I MIGHT die by the time I finally made it to Nashville, where I pulled a miraculously untouched wrapped Subway sandwich out of the bus station garbage. Tho soggy and clearly unfit for most people's consumption, I recall that sandwich - my first full "meal" in three days - as the most delicious and welcome thing I've ever eaten ------
— April 20, 2010 4:18 a.m.
Mean Kitties Do Rule Peanut Butter Jelly Rap
Good heavens, Nan - your profile photos are lovely!
— April 18, 2010 3:21 p.m.
Pumpkin
I stumbled across this tonight, never having heard of it and without looking up its premise - I've never said "What the f#ck?!" out loud so many times in my life (tho the two hours I spent suffering thru No Country For Old Men comes close). The movie plays like an acid flashback, becoming increasingly surreal as the dialogue goes from weird to bugfukken insane. BUT, once I realized just how hard my leg was being pulled - and became resigned to having my limb then pulled off and used to beat my brains in - I grew to appreciate the satire, wit, and utterly inappropriate insanity. Somewhere between Heathers, Jawbreaker, the Forbidden Zone, and Richard O'Brien's Shock Treatment, that's where you'll find Pumpkin. Along with a lot of DVD and TV browsers muttering "What the f#ck?!?!"
— April 17, 2010 2:12 a.m.
Roller Boogie
The stoners were there for the other features, California Dreaming and I think maybe Fast Company. Plus, Linda Blair from Roller Boogie looked great in spandex and attracted a big fan following that crossed several sociological stratas, at least circa 1979 ---
— April 15, 2010 1:02 p.m.
Roller Boogie
When this played at the Frontier Drive-in near Midway and Rosecrans, a bunch of teens showed up on roller skates - which must have seemed like a cool idea, until you consider the rows of graded hump-hills that serve as car ramps at drive-ins, so all cars can view the screen with no blockage. Disco skaters were going down everywhere you looked, all of 'em ending up with so many cuts and bruises and so much torn spandex that all the stoners who reeked like Tommy Chong's beard were literally falling out of their cars laughing!
— April 14, 2010 4:32 p.m.
Spare Me
I'm such an electronic Luddite that I've never texted, twittered, tweeted, TIFFed, Torrented, nor twonked - tho I once tawt I taw a putty tat ---
— April 14, 2010 12:09 p.m.
None
Tho small slices of '70s life are accurately and even poignantly portrayed, Dazed & Confused mostly misses the mark. The featherweight script is more akin to a "special" episode of That '70s Show than generation-defining films like Fast Times and Breakfast Club. Far better at capturing teen life in the '70s is an obscure little movie called the Stoned Age, also concerning a single night but with characters and scripting far more evocative of the era I grew up in. I particularly liked the one stoner raving about the night Blue Oyster Cult blew his mind with their laser Godzilla - dude, I kin diggit! At least Dazed is better than Detroit Rock City, a groovy-dayz period piece as vapid as its subject matter (road trip to a Kiss concert). Now if only the amazing '70s-set Swingtown TV show hadn't been canceled after a single season, and I could go on for hours about the attention to '70s detail in the equally lamentably shortlived Life on Mars TV show (U.S. version - the U.K. incarnation is vastly inferior, lacking any performers as dynamic as Harvey Keitel!) --
— April 14, 2010 11:15 a.m.
Spare Me
It took me awhile to warm up to Facebook, until last December when I found out my high school sweetheart/first love had died - I couldn't attend the funeral in CT where we grew up, but a few FBook friends attended and sent me "live" reports of the memorial service - it was the first contact I'd had with most everyone in 30 years. I might never have even heard about her death were it not for the way things unfolded online. I took several calls from childhood friends that day, and we were able to have kind of a virtual memorial-slash-reunion, including photos of her we posted to our FBookpages. I'm still skeptical of socializing online - for me, the internet is still mainly my "office," and I've never been in a chat room or turned on an instant message function - but I've become a believer in the 'net's power to bring people together in many ways hitherto impossible ---- this website and the interaction among site visitors is a good example.
— April 14, 2010 10:53 a.m.
Stoners Now Rockin'
PalmdaleMom = my new hero!! Quite right -- the key to rehabilitation isn't the key you throw away after locking 'em up.
— April 14, 2010 9:03 a.m.
Logan's Run
Agreed, the FX haven't aged well, and there's even a scene with the crazy Box robot where you can briefly see the actor's mouth inside the suit. But, as you say, this stuff was state-of-the-art circa 1976. Since you mention the colorful Unarians, whose psychedelic public access TV show featured their outer space queen amidst sets remarkably similar to Logan's Run, now I wonder just how much of their visual iconography was actually inspired by the movie? I used to think they were straight outta Close Encounters-slash-Barbarella, but perhaps they're more directly descended from the Sandmen of Lastday ....
— April 12, 2010 5:56 p.m.
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What's the poorest you've ever been?
From my destitute dayz, I STILL know 12 different ways to make a meal from pinto beans and free fast food condiments. I once traveled cross country on a Greyhound bus (4 days) with only a couple dollars change and a box of BooBerry cereal given to me by a fiend as I boarded the bus in downtown SD - to avoid dwelling on my hunger, I tried to sleep as much as possible, but on day two my prone form and blue lips (from the BooBerry) convinced my fellow riders that I had overdosed or died, and I awoke to paramedics checking me..... For the rest of the trip, I ate out of bus station garbage cans and off the leftover plates of fellow bus riders. I was feeling like I MIGHT die by the time I finally made it to Nashville, where I pulled a miraculously untouched wrapped Subway sandwich out of the bus station garbage. Tho soggy and clearly unfit for most people's consumption, I recall that sandwich - my first full "meal" in three days - as the most delicious and welcome thing I've ever eaten ------— April 20, 2010 4:18 a.m.
Mean Kitties Do Rule Peanut Butter Jelly Rap
Good heavens, Nan - your profile photos are lovely!— April 18, 2010 3:21 p.m.
Pumpkin
I stumbled across this tonight, never having heard of it and without looking up its premise - I've never said "What the f#ck?!" out loud so many times in my life (tho the two hours I spent suffering thru No Country For Old Men comes close). The movie plays like an acid flashback, becoming increasingly surreal as the dialogue goes from weird to bugfukken insane. BUT, once I realized just how hard my leg was being pulled - and became resigned to having my limb then pulled off and used to beat my brains in - I grew to appreciate the satire, wit, and utterly inappropriate insanity. Somewhere between Heathers, Jawbreaker, the Forbidden Zone, and Richard O'Brien's Shock Treatment, that's where you'll find Pumpkin. Along with a lot of DVD and TV browsers muttering "What the f#ck?!?!"— April 17, 2010 2:12 a.m.
Roller Boogie
The stoners were there for the other features, California Dreaming and I think maybe Fast Company. Plus, Linda Blair from Roller Boogie looked great in spandex and attracted a big fan following that crossed several sociological stratas, at least circa 1979 ---— April 15, 2010 1:02 p.m.
Roller Boogie
When this played at the Frontier Drive-in near Midway and Rosecrans, a bunch of teens showed up on roller skates - which must have seemed like a cool idea, until you consider the rows of graded hump-hills that serve as car ramps at drive-ins, so all cars can view the screen with no blockage. Disco skaters were going down everywhere you looked, all of 'em ending up with so many cuts and bruises and so much torn spandex that all the stoners who reeked like Tommy Chong's beard were literally falling out of their cars laughing!— April 14, 2010 4:32 p.m.
Spare Me
I'm such an electronic Luddite that I've never texted, twittered, tweeted, TIFFed, Torrented, nor twonked - tho I once tawt I taw a putty tat ---— April 14, 2010 12:09 p.m.
None
Tho small slices of '70s life are accurately and even poignantly portrayed, Dazed & Confused mostly misses the mark. The featherweight script is more akin to a "special" episode of That '70s Show than generation-defining films like Fast Times and Breakfast Club. Far better at capturing teen life in the '70s is an obscure little movie called the Stoned Age, also concerning a single night but with characters and scripting far more evocative of the era I grew up in. I particularly liked the one stoner raving about the night Blue Oyster Cult blew his mind with their laser Godzilla - dude, I kin diggit! At least Dazed is better than Detroit Rock City, a groovy-dayz period piece as vapid as its subject matter (road trip to a Kiss concert). Now if only the amazing '70s-set Swingtown TV show hadn't been canceled after a single season, and I could go on for hours about the attention to '70s detail in the equally lamentably shortlived Life on Mars TV show (U.S. version - the U.K. incarnation is vastly inferior, lacking any performers as dynamic as Harvey Keitel!) --— April 14, 2010 11:15 a.m.
Spare Me
It took me awhile to warm up to Facebook, until last December when I found out my high school sweetheart/first love had died - I couldn't attend the funeral in CT where we grew up, but a few FBook friends attended and sent me "live" reports of the memorial service - it was the first contact I'd had with most everyone in 30 years. I might never have even heard about her death were it not for the way things unfolded online. I took several calls from childhood friends that day, and we were able to have kind of a virtual memorial-slash-reunion, including photos of her we posted to our FBookpages. I'm still skeptical of socializing online - for me, the internet is still mainly my "office," and I've never been in a chat room or turned on an instant message function - but I've become a believer in the 'net's power to bring people together in many ways hitherto impossible ---- this website and the interaction among site visitors is a good example.— April 14, 2010 10:53 a.m.
Stoners Now Rockin'
PalmdaleMom = my new hero!! Quite right -- the key to rehabilitation isn't the key you throw away after locking 'em up.— April 14, 2010 9:03 a.m.
Logan's Run
Agreed, the FX haven't aged well, and there's even a scene with the crazy Box robot where you can briefly see the actor's mouth inside the suit. But, as you say, this stuff was state-of-the-art circa 1976. Since you mention the colorful Unarians, whose psychedelic public access TV show featured their outer space queen amidst sets remarkably similar to Logan's Run, now I wonder just how much of their visual iconography was actually inspired by the movie? I used to think they were straight outta Close Encounters-slash-Barbarella, but perhaps they're more directly descended from the Sandmen of Lastday ....— April 12, 2010 5:56 p.m.