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CONGRATULATIONS TO MIZ MOJO FOR DOING IT BIG! And as for NY Underground Film Fext, do not miss Valley Girl tomorrow at 9:45 pm… nope, not the original.. it’s Valley Girl 2006, reenacted, verbatim, in deconstructionist stylee, by artists living in the modern-day Valley. Mo’s been talking up this one for weeks, and I LOVE the original Valley Girl, which starred a young, pre-bonkers Nic Cage as a lovelorn Punk Rocker from around the way… around the way like RESEDA or some other neighborhood where high-school department store freaks would never be caught dead in their Sperry Topsiders and Dippity-Do. (When I am an adjunct professor, my course will be entitled “Everything but the Gel: Class issues Revealed in Semi-Popular Teen Films of the ’80s and ’90s.” Will you take it?)
So anyway, I am psyched. I used to have a VHS copy of the original Valley Girl, but my dad accidentally overdubbed it with a Broncos game back in 1984-ish, a fact which I discovered in early 1985, while trying to screen the film for my half-brother, shortly after subjecting him and his girlfriend to an hourlong Barbie (TM) fashion show. Also, the original Valley Girl was the first time I heard SPARKS, the band, not the bodega crack. In case you are wondering, Eaten by the Monster of Love is the truth. In the film it soundtracked Valley kid/grocery delivery boy SKIP’S poolside-to-showerhead love affair with his girlfriend’s mom, a bourgeois divorcee who predated The O.C.‘s Julie Cooper.
Also, don’t miss Google Me This, Saturday at 7:45 pm—it is a very intriguing program of performance art and live-action google-videoing, wherein “two bakers’ dozen of underground WWWunderkinds will be dunked headfirst into the Google Video reserve, to emerge with some unbelievable shit fit or not-fit-for public screening.” Hmm….some of those presenting WWWunderkinds include Michael Bell Smith (he of my favorite movie of 2005, “Trapped in the Closet All at Once”), Kendra Levin, Cory Arcangel (he of Cory Arcangel), Nellie Killian, and oh, I dunno, YOURS FUCKING TRULY!!! Mais oui! I will be there, deep-crate google-videoing that esoterica like it’s NOT WHAT I DO ALL DAY LONG.
Finally, like most people in America, I lack health insurance. Did you ever notice Hillary Clinton’s harpooned health plan happened to coincide with the mainstreaming of the World Wide Interweb? I’m pretty sure the justification was, “Who needs doctors when we have the internet?” I was able to test this uniquely Darwinian logic this week, when the aforementioned Google (TM) helped me to diagnose my own severe gastrointestinal disorder. Just call me MISSUS Lower Intestine, thank you very much. So I think I am trying to go dairy-free/macrobiotic for awhile… if you have tried this and have any advice / recipes that do not taste like loaves of hand-woven cardboard, I would appreciate it. Minimal lentils, please. Also? Digestive yoga poses? Anyone?
And, perhaps most of all, RIP.