slacker/Waking Life

[King Crimson]

checked this out the other night. saw it about 10 years ago or whenever came out. it's definitely dated (the clothes, ugh! short man shorts and belly packs?) but i liked it alot this time.

i have mixed feeling about Linklater--and since Waking Life is kind of a companion piece to this....it's interesting to see post facto. I showed Waking Life in my Contemporary Mass Media class a year ago and most kids liked it. i don't think they would have liked slacker.

i think he's trying to do something interesting in both--and he cops a lot lines from Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces and some other early dada sources--which is good but it comes across like his own stuff--which it aint'.

Lipstick Traces is an interesting book to check out if you are/were ever into punk music and the history of the big cultural "fuck you" and "commercialism sucks" going back to the early avant-garde movements of the early 20th century.

it's quite long, though. but it's not a punishing read. and it's easy enough to find out who Greil Marcus is. he's a respectacle writer with a concern for the polity needing a big "fuck off" everyonce in a while.

yeah, i know: this post has zero respones written all over it.

[BBMarley]

checked this out the other night. saw it about 10 years ago or whenever came out. it's definitely dated (the clothes, ugh! short man shorts and belly packs?) but i liked it alot this time.

i have mixed feeling about Linklater--and since Waking Life is kind of a companion piece to this....it's interesting to see post facto. I showed Waking Life in my Contemporary Mass Media class a year ago and most kids liked it. i don't think they would have liked slacker.

i think he's trying to do something interesting in both--and he cops a lot lines from Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces and some other early dada sources--which is good but it comes across like his own stuff--which it aint'.

Lipstick Traces is an interesting book to check out if you are/were ever into punk music and the history of the big cultural "fuck you" and "commercialism sucks" going back to the early avant-garde movements of the early 20th century.

it's quite long, though. but it's not a punishing read. and it's easy enough to find out who Greil Marcus is. he's a respectacle writer with a concern for the polity needing a big "fuck off" everyonce in a while.

yeah, i know: this post has zero respones written all over it.

Linkleter is the epitome of hit or miss... He does fantastic films like Slacker and Dazed and Confused.. then the Newton Boys and the Bad News Bears remake. I am waiting for A Scanner Darkly to come out.... sounds like it will be pretty good.

Did you read Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes? A good read about that era of writers/directors