It’s a rotten fucking world, sometimes. Deepest sympathies to her friends and family, and here’s wishing I could go back to bed for about 30 hours.
(Monday, 11/06 –
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It’s a rotten fucking world, sometimes. Deepest sympathies to her friends and family, and here’s wishing I could go back to bed for about 30 hours.
(Monday, 11/06 –
addendum
I can’t watch a Hal Hartley film without thinking of the 1987-89 Hoboken scene. I accidentally ran across the website of a scenester from back then when it hit me that Yo La Tengo are the sole survivors of that crew. New Wave Hot Dogs. Having instant access to everything has many merits, but friends spending Christmas break in NJ, renting and copying art films from Manhattan video stores and coming back to town so one could spend the freezing January temperatures holed up watching these movies once, twice, oh, someone came over, let’s watch that one again.
Don
there’s a lot of long island in those H.H. movies, too, Don.
Though I like the idea of nudging someone into checking out Hartley’s early work for glimpses of the young Martin Donovan, Edie Falco or Michael Imperioli, I think the films still hold up pretty well.
With all due respect to Yo La Tengo, it would be incorrect to call them the sole survivors of the late ’80s Hoboken scene. Bob Bert is still making records and publishing BB Gun (I’m sure of the former).
This reminds me of my favorite quote from the 1979 TV movie Wild Wild West Revisited:
“Huh? Washington, DC isn’t a city on the east coast.”
“It is when you’re from California.”
Don
ps- SY and PG were so downtown I never pegged Bert for a tunnel person.
re : SY/downtown. Steve Shelley’s practically the mayor of Hoboken. I mean, they oughta consider electing him.
Jesus Christ.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6125832.stm