Well, so Easterbrook went and got fired from ESPN. I thought that was kinda odd...I mean, it was his retarded political writing for TNR that was the problem. TNR should've given the cultural conservative the boot. Oh well.
I've been sitting around, listening to Sonic Youth a lot, waiting for the good movies to come out...one of those is Gus Van Sant's Elephant, a flick about a Columbine-style shooting. Looks good, I hope it somehow makes its way to St. Louis.
There's a Sonic Youth song called Expressway to Yr. Skull which is very good, and it starts out with the lyric "We're gonna kill the California girls, we're gonna fire the exploading load in the milkmaid maidenhead." The idea of random killing, of the mass slaughter of innocents, this is a storyline which has floated around the culture for a while. While it didn't, as Herr Easterbrookkk suggests, evince itself in the movie Scream, it's certainly in others and in Sonic Youth songs, as well.
I remember going to a school auditorium in the early/mid nineties to see a screening of the film 1991: The Year Punk Broke. The flick was basically a tourfilm for Sonic Youth in Europe when they were being supported by Nirvana. Several other Big Cred bands were featured...there's even a short segment where Bob Mould pops up. SY play a great version, as I recall, of Expressway... in the film. The cramped and acoustically claustrophobic auditorium helped the experience.
I also remember being puzzled by the ironic mocking of Bob Mould, Iggy Pop, and a hapless Goo fan by Thurston Moore. Puzzled and threatened, really. There were people that I recognized from school there, a couple of goth-ish alternachicks. Wasn't really a part of that scene, but some of the music was quite good.
Posted by mattb at October 22, 2003 04:53 PM