http://urbanhonking.com/thingsivebeenthinking/2012/01/16/better-ways-to-open-pandoras-box/ Thu, 20 Aug 2015 04:51:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/thingsivebeenthinking/2012/01/16/better-ways-to-open-pandoras-box/#comment-48 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:52:59 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/thingsivebeenthinking/?p=38#comment-48 I like Empire Records. I know it sucks. But there’s something about its suckyness that makes it even more endearing that I was once super into it, in my teens. Other movies I loved early on, like Labyrinth or Pee Wee’s Big Adventure(s), have held up, still spawn Halloween costumes, incite sing-alongs at the Hollywood Theater. And that’s fun, but there’s something really satisfying about a movie from my middle/high school years that doesn’t make it through to the other side of 18. Or 15. Or 29, or whatever. Because it reminds me that I did move to a good city and get cool friends and learn what drugs are, and I did things like throw parties and discuss music over beers and dance with couch cushions. So, now I get to re-watch Empire Records on my mom’s Netflix over the holidays and go: check. It’s satisfying.

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