Sometimes it takes a notice for domain renewal and an unforseen debit in your checking account to give you the inspiration to finish moving over to a new blog engine and try to avoid leaving 2007 with one sole post of any value. (It’s pretty sad and telling that the YouTube videos on the other nine entries on the front page right have nearly all been removed.) So here it is, a new look (and a new RSS feed) and maybe a few new entries to follow. I’m sure there are a few blogpiles around the corner I can hitch up to.
Some months back, I grabbed a few screencaps of Walter Hill’s The Warriors after seeing a midnight show of it at the Uptown Theater. Predictably, a ton of wannabe gangs were waiting in line, a few even dressed up. (The Baseball Furies were of course the most conspicuous source of inspiration.) I was prepared for that as much as I was prepared for the movie to seem even more funky and kinetic surrounded by drunk teens while perched in the balcony of the only theater in the Cities that could conceivably pass for one of the crumbling caverns on the Deuce. What I was not ready for, however, was for the talkback to the screen to rival what I heard at a midnight showing of The Goonies for sheer inanity. At the time, I grabbed these images with the intention of writing another essay like I did for Ms. 45, attacking masculinity by way of a late-’70s Noo Yawk gutterpunk B movie … only this time attacking the second-hand testosterone today’s youth seem to leech from the cult movies of yesteryear.
But I’m not going to do that, if only because I can’t really remember what any of the points I had intended on raising were going to be. This screening did happen early last summer. Instead, I’ll just let the comments from everyone around me speak for themselves.
What really speaks for itself, though, were the moments that didn’t touch off anything other than a chorus of ball-cupping “Yeaaah!” grunts.
I may have half-grunted myself at the arrival of the Lizzies, if only to pay respect to a group with more balls than anyone I was sitting among.
A new post! (Choir of angels singing in the background. No, really.)
Left by Zach on November 5th, 2007