A Small Left Turn or, Tale o' the Twister

[viridian5]

The thing about life and memories is that little things link to each other in occasionally unexpected ways. A line of dialogue that came to me this morning brought me back to a song on the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack which made me think of the movie which made me think of the ways both brought me to goth.

Watching Pump Up the Volume years later

Comments

[wirrrn]

PUMP UP THE VOLUME remains on my Have Not Seen Don't Really Plan To list. The Christian Slater love is not strong in me.

Baby Seth Green is the lead character in Woody Allen's best film, RADIO DAYS. He's so cute1 (in a completely different way than he is now, of course!) and also gets the best line of the film. Even then, he was funny! It's also impossible to watch Julie Kavner and not think of Marge Simpson...

[viridian5]

I think it's a film you really have to see as a teen anyway. I used to love him--c'mon, Heathers!--and still retain some fondness.

I avoid Woody Allen like the plague.

[wirrrn]

What? Isn't that a Serious Crime for a New Yorker?! *g*

[viridian5]

Amazingly, there's no punishment for thinking that Woody Allen is highly overrated and a creepy fuck with ego issues. I'm glad that at least I no longer have to see commercials for movies in which he's the romantic lead matched to a woman 40 years younger since he finally realized some small sense of shame.

[wirrrn]

True. He hasn't made a good film in years, but at least he's stopped casting himself opposite 20-something female love interests. The last film of his I enjoyed was 1993's MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY. RADIO DAYS is a great film though. Seth Green is just gravy *g*

Have you ever gone to the NY Jazz club where Woody plays saxomophone?!

[viridian5]

Jazz sounds too discordant and random to me, so I'm certainly not going to see a guy I already hate playing it. *g*

[wirrrn]

I like some Jazz. Mostly from the 1950's-70's.

:hides from grumpy Shirley: