The Laser-Beam Eyes
Dave Moore on "Regulate":
"I can't believe this happening in my own town." That line struck me at 10. I often fantasized before drifting off to sleep, when my mind was most feverishly imaginative, that something would go wrong in my own town. I'd be left to prove myself, maybe for a girl, or for a faceless crowd, and all of a sudden I, like Nate Dogg, would have the power, the guns or the fists or the laser-beam-eyes, and I'd beat the bad guys and everyone would recognize me for the hero I could be if given the chance. And I wouldn't even recognize them, would just solemnly nod and move on.
Here's the link; read the whole thing and then scroll up and down for everyone else's comments:
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=3275#comment-79386
(I definitely underrated "Regulate" in my Radio On days, even knew this at the time, but I had a fear of West Coast rap as slow-moving poison. I would have to revisit it to know how right or not I was. It wasn't really in my life, except as a potentially toxic cloud somewhere else.)
Dave, did you ever see the original Mark Of Zorro, the silent version with Douglas Fairbanks? It's a wonderful moment when everyone realizes that Don Diego is actually Zorro. This movie was probably the ur-text for superhero comics that came into being a decade or two later.
"I can't believe this happening in my own town." That line struck me at 10. I often fantasized before drifting off to sleep, when my mind was most feverishly imaginative, that something would go wrong in my own town. I'd be left to prove myself, maybe for a girl, or for a faceless crowd, and all of a sudden I, like Nate Dogg, would have the power, the guns or the fists or the laser-beam-eyes, and I'd beat the bad guys and everyone would recognize me for the hero I could be if given the chance. And I wouldn't even recognize them, would just solemnly nod and move on.
Here's the link; read the whole thing and then scroll up and down for everyone else's comments:
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=3275#comment-79386
(I definitely underrated "Regulate" in my Radio On days, even knew this at the time, but I had a fear of West Coast rap as slow-moving poison. I would have to revisit it to know how right or not I was. It wasn't really in my life, except as a potentially toxic cloud somewhere else.)
Dave, did you ever see the original Mark Of Zorro, the silent version with Douglas Fairbanks? It's a wonderful moment when everyone realizes that Don Diego is actually Zorro. This movie was probably the ur-text for superhero comics that came into being a decade or two later.