Ok, I had to watch Suburbia tonight. It’s been nagging at me since we got on the subject of TSOL and the Vandals and me swapping spit with Bruce when I was 15. Darn you, Diggity, you brought this whole thing up.
If you haven’t watched Suburbia before, well, I would say it might be too late for you. Maybe if you grew up as a teen in a trench coat and a tshirt held together with safety pins, you could watch it and get it. Otherwise, I think it might be lost on you.
I’d forgotten how bad ass hot the character Jack is in that movie! And how STUPID all the female characters are, oh my god, stupid. The male characters and the concerts remind me so much of growing up in Asheville and throwing ourselves around the loading dock of the Chesterfield Mill or the Spider’s Web or Squashpile to our favorite bands, and how music and friendship was absolutely everything in that moment.
And crap! I’d forgotten how horribly the movie ends! Geez. But at least it’s out of my system for the moment–the movie, not the music.
I remember squashpile and where was spider’s web? That sounds familiar.
yeah – i’ve not seen that movie in probably 15 years. but, it’s still a fun one.
we need to have a screening of Repo Man, too…
although emilio estevez doesn’t really cut too punk of an image.