getting there...just 20 years too late

one of the best things about my santa monica library card is that i can check out 5 dvds for a week at a time - free of charge! lately i've been watching some eighties classics that either 1) i never saw as a kid or 2) i saw once as a kid and not since.

the film festival thus far has included:

valley girl - josie cotton as the prom entertainment singing of 'johnny are you queer?'. how did they get away with that? oh, right. it was 1983. in 1983 i took a breakdancing class at cochise elementary school where i learned a dance called 'the fag'. scary.



heathers - i saw this once in 8th grade at jen garber's house and not since. until this morning. the line "swatchdogs and diet cokeheads" has been with me all day.


sixteen candles -had never seen it the whole way through. xenophobia (nice gong sound!) plus what ben describes as 'one of the great rape scenes of our time' - when jake ryan puts his girlfriend in the rolls royce with anthony michael hall really got me larfin'.

Caroline: Who's he?
Jake: That's me.
Caroline: Who are you?
Jake: I'm him.
Caroline: Oh, ok.

man, that cracks me up.



thank god MAD MEN will be on in about 20 minutes! A little misogyny, homophobia and bigotry doesn't seem so bad coming out of the hot curves of joan holloway and the dapper coif of don draper. i LOVE that fargin' show.



joan, you could fire me any day of the week.