{"id":110,"date":"2000-03-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-03-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/03\/20\/lets_go_to_the\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:50:06","slug":"lets_go_to_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/03\/20\/lets_go_to_the\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Go to the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Movies were the theme this weekend.<\/strong> And quite a contrast of them. Friday night, Stephen and I met up at the swanky little Chelsea gallery where our friend Abbey works, and then took off for another one of our “Teen Nights,” to go see Final Destination<\/a>.<\/i> We were supposed to meet up with the members of sixteen gay soccer teams after that, but apparently we missed them. Their loss.<\/p>\n

Saturday night, after an afternoon watching all of More Tales of the City<\/a><\/i> (not all it was cracked up to be) while curled up on the couch in my underwear and under a blanket, I went to go see the breathtakinlgly beautiful 70s-gay-art-porn classic, Pink Narcissus<\/a>.<\/i> Beforehand, after checking out the very addictive star Links<\/a> site, where you can see how any two actors are connected (usually through work with veteran character actors like Shelley Winters<\/a> that have made movies with almost everyone), we launched into our own Celebrity six Degrees obsession. some of our triumphs include linking Ingrid Bergman<\/a> to Don Knotts<\/a>, and Peter Lorre<\/a> to Casper van Dien<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While we were listening to Simon’s rare vinyl copy of the soundtrack to Liquid sky<\/a><\/i> (sunday’s couch-and-blanket feature), we talked about how wild it would have been to be urbane adults back in the early 80s in New York. I have a very pop-kitsch fondness for the West Coast 80s (as distilled in the classic Valley Girl<\/a><\/i>), but a real fascination with the arty, New Wave, hedonistic, pre-Giuliani New York of that era. John made a good point, though: if the three of us had been around through all that, we’d surely be dead now, considering what we would have been doing to entertain ourselves. A chilling thought, but very true.<\/p>\n

Tonight I’ll finally see All About my Mother<\/a><\/i> with a couple of new hipster pals from North Williamsburg. (A neighborhood I love and loathe at the same time. Dori’s journal<\/a> at Saran Warp<\/a> illustrates the dilemma perfectly.) <\/p>\n

My ambivalence about life in New York grows and grows, but that’s a rant for another day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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