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48:21 - Pynchon (in Gravity's Rainbow) said it best! "If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long."
... that's Theresa Nervosa (Butthole Surfers' 1/2 drummer - R.I.P.) with the "jar of Madonna's papsmear" ... I'm a longtime Surfers fan and was def psyched to see this movie like 25 yrs ago ... hidden gems all throughout ... Teresa pops up randomly (like most characters) ... I also see that Richard is in the upcoming doc based around Surfers' lore ...
I absolutely loved Slacker when it came out -- was all over the concept -- saw it a few times in the theater -- revisited it often. But as I did so, via video/DVD/recording, I noticed how often I fast forwarded. Yes, to the bits I love best, but more so over the parts that are absolutely dull AF. And there are A LOT! Almost from the get go -- the kid who runs over his Mom, watching that movie against his wall. The dude walking beside the kid from the coffee shop. The guy in the back of the car with the jun yard kids. It's a trait of Linklater's whole body of work, actually, that he just engages in dull moment after dull moment. I've never felt the love people have for him. Slacker still has the bits I love best, and it came out when i was one of the folks in it, or thereabouts, so it holds a special place in my heart. But Linklater has never won me over since.
Happy Birthday Marcus! I actually had never seen this... although I pretty much lived it, turning 20 in 1990. Linklater is hit-or-miss with me... glad y'all liked Everybody Wants Some. It suddenly occurs to me-- I wonder if this movie influenced Tarantino with Pulp Fiction? If he thought, "I'll take this genre material I love so much and apply this "90's" treatment to it... make a Hong-Kong-action -Slacker movie." Maybe it was just minds of the time thinking alike... maybe this has already been documented someplace. Marcus, the car driving through the TVs was Ant Farm... that was Chip Lord, the chair of the film department where I went to school at UCSC.
I watched Slacker when it came out on video and it made me so nervous and embarrassed I avoided seeing it again for years. It was the first time I'd seen my generation in a movie. It felt acutely true. And it cut me to ribbons. Great episode. Thank you.
So behind with your videos...I have to say when Slacker was out in the theaters, I ignored it. I was running around NYC at the time and that film poster was pasted up everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I hated the image on the poster so hard, that even though I had numerous opportunities and invites, I just didn't go. Same with the VHS release. Yes, I was that shallow. Anyway, fast forward ten years ago and I finally watched it (on VHS no less...) and loved it. It did set the tone for the 1990's film scene. That all said, I not sure I would go back to it, as I look at it like an experience you cannot repeat. Great discussion on this one and Happy Belated Birthday, my man Marcus! BOOM!
Glad to see the gang's all here. I like when y'all switch it up, but the chemistry of you three is top notch. Hilarious. Thanks dudes. I really enjoyed SLACKER when I first saw it. It felt super natural and very inventive in a subtle, unpretentious way.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I drove sixty miles to see this film based on a picture in the back of New Yorker magazine. First film I ever went to where people walked out. For me, it was a transformative experience. A few years later I went to a music festival in Virginia and I thought I had been dosed because the drummer in the band I was watching looked just like the Ultimate Loser character from the pap smear scene. I figured I had been dosed or had finally lost my mind. They were The Asylum Street Spankers and it WAS the guy. Not only that but one of the singers, Wammo, played the Anti-Artist in another scene.
This movie was very influential on my life in the 90s. It led me to study photography and almost to going to film school before I decided to move on to other things. I think that it's a movie that technically could never be made again. I don't see a movie like this being successful in a world with cellphone cameras. It kind of required a crew lugging heavy equipment around and worrying about getting light and sound right to feel aesthetically correct. It's an industrial, pre-world wide web project.
Ah love Linklater and this film. It really captures the college town vibe of Austin during this period. I too hung out in coffee shops, and made what I thought were profound musings on life. Love that it’s all scripted, yet feels like a random documentary. I remember Ebert saying do ever see a group of characters in a film and you’re wondering what the other group are up to, as they pass by?Well, this film will allow you to do that:)
Slacker contemporary to Brave Little Toaster is wild. Doubt they'll be compared too often. Slacker is closer to a Daniel Johnston album than Brave Little Toaster.
I promise to suffer through one fucking summer of 90s movies as long as you do a fall palette cleanser of One Fucking Hour on The Residents One Minute Movies or Murder My Sweet or maybe Sunset Boulevard.
I always thought Slacker was a lot like Robert Altman’s Short Cuts…I thought both are true classics…❤and actually some of the characters that are in Slacker are also in Waking Life as well….
I wonder if Altman saw this for Short Cuts then again that was based off of Carver's writings but uncanny as far as tone and feel similarities and both movies have someone getting hit by a car in the beginning with similar camera location maybe Short Cuts is a suburban version of Slacker with a lot of death where Slacker has no death after the beginning hit by car scene
Talkin' 'bout Cinéma Vérité, Richard Linklater's upcoming movie is about the making of Godard's ''À Bout de Souffle''.....for the year 1992 I hope y'all goin' for One Fucking Hour on ''Bad Lieutenant'' and not (although he's one of my favorite directors) QT's debut ''Reservoir Dogs''.
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48:21 - Pynchon (in Gravity's Rainbow) said it best! "If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long."
Also, I want a "Cosmic Cop-out" shirt!
... that's Theresa Nervosa (Butthole Surfers' 1/2 drummer - R.I.P.) with the "jar of Madonna's papsmear" ... I'm a longtime Surfers fan and was def psyched to see this movie like 25 yrs ago ... hidden gems all throughout ... Teresa pops up randomly (like most characters) ... I also see that Richard is in the upcoming doc based around Surfers' lore ...
you mentioned it a few minutes after my post .. instead of deleting my comment - I am COMMENTING on it. trippy.
I absolutely loved Slacker when it came out -- was all over the concept -- saw it a few times in the theater -- revisited it often. But as I did so, via video/DVD/recording, I noticed how often I fast forwarded. Yes, to the bits I love best, but more so over the parts that are absolutely dull AF. And there are A LOT! Almost from the get go -- the kid who runs over his Mom, watching that movie against his wall. The dude walking beside the kid from the coffee shop. The guy in the back of the car with the jun yard kids. It's a trait of Linklater's whole body of work, actually, that he just engages in dull moment after dull moment. I've never felt the love people have for him. Slacker still has the bits I love best, and it came out when i was one of the folks in it, or thereabouts, so it holds a special place in my heart. But Linklater has never won me over since.
Love listening to you guys. Would love to see a Nashville review someday.
def will happen some day
Happy Birthday Marcus! I actually had never seen this... although I pretty much lived it, turning 20 in 1990. Linklater is hit-or-miss with me... glad y'all liked Everybody Wants Some. It suddenly occurs to me-- I wonder if this movie influenced Tarantino with Pulp Fiction? If he thought, "I'll take this genre material I love so much and apply this "90's" treatment to it... make a Hong-Kong-action -Slacker movie." Maybe it was just minds of the time thinking alike... maybe this has already been documented someplace.
Marcus, the car driving through the TVs was Ant Farm... that was Chip Lord, the chair of the film department where I went to school at UCSC.
Ohh fingers crossed for Fire Walk With Me and Gummo
Yes to FWWM!
I watched Slacker when it came out on video and it made me so nervous and embarrassed I avoided seeing it again for years. It was the first time I'd seen my generation in a movie. It felt acutely true. And it cut me to ribbons. Great episode. Thank you.
So behind with your videos...I have to say when Slacker was out in the theaters, I ignored it. I was running around NYC at the time and that film poster was pasted up everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I hated the image on the poster so hard, that even though I had numerous opportunities and invites, I just didn't go. Same with the VHS release. Yes, I was that shallow. Anyway, fast forward ten years ago and I finally watched it (on VHS no less...) and loved it. It did set the tone for the 1990's film scene. That all said, I not sure I would go back to it, as I look at it like an experience you cannot repeat. Great discussion on this one and Happy Belated Birthday, my man Marcus! BOOM!
Glad to see the gang's all here. I like when y'all switch it up, but the chemistry of you three is top notch. Hilarious. Thanks dudes. I really enjoyed SLACKER when I first saw it. It felt super natural and very inventive in a subtle, unpretentious way.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I drove sixty miles to see this film based on a picture in the back of New Yorker magazine. First film I ever went to where people walked out. For me, it was a transformative experience. A few years later I went to a music festival in Virginia and I thought I had been dosed because the drummer in the band I was watching looked just like the Ultimate Loser character from the pap smear scene. I figured I had been dosed or had finally lost my mind. They were The Asylum Street Spankers and it WAS the guy. Not only that but one of the singers, Wammo, played the Anti-Artist in another scene.
This movie was very influential on my life in the 90s. It led me to study photography and almost to going to film school before I decided to move on to other things. I think that it's a movie that technically could never be made again. I don't see a movie like this being successful in a world with cellphone cameras. It kind of required a crew lugging heavy equipment around and worrying about getting light and sound right to feel aesthetically correct. It's an industrial, pre-world wide web project.
Ah love Linklater and this film. It really captures the college town vibe of Austin during this period. I too hung out in coffee shops, and made what I thought were profound musings on life. Love that it’s all scripted, yet feels like a random documentary. I remember Ebert saying do ever see a group of characters in a film and you’re wondering what the other group are up to, as they pass by?Well, this film will allow you to do that:)
Favorite character is probably "had a break through day" 100% Denise Montgomery RIP.
Slacker contemporary to Brave Little Toaster is wild. Doubt they'll be compared too often.
Slacker is closer to a Daniel Johnston album than Brave Little Toaster.
🎵🎶 You wanna piece a pizza🎵🎶
❤❤❤
I promise to suffer through one fucking summer of 90s movies as long as you do a fall palette cleanser of One Fucking Hour on The Residents One Minute Movies or Murder My Sweet or maybe Sunset Boulevard.
I used to live in Chico, too. Ever go to a Blue Room show?
90s Findinies. Name chosen.
I always thought Slacker was a lot like Robert Altman’s Short Cuts…I thought both are true classics…❤and actually some of the characters that are in Slacker are also in Waking Life as well….
I wonder if Altman saw this for Short Cuts then again that was based off of Carver's writings but uncanny as far as tone and feel similarities and both movies have someone getting hit by a car in the beginning with similar camera location maybe Short Cuts is a suburban version of Slacker with a lot of death where Slacker has no death after the beginning hit by car scene
Talkin' 'bout Cinéma Vérité, Richard Linklater's upcoming movie is about the making of Godard's ''À Bout de Souffle''.....for the year 1992 I hope y'all goin' for One Fucking Hour on ''Bad Lieutenant'' and not (although he's one of my favorite directors) QT's debut ''Reservoir Dogs''.