Revenge of the Nerds, Better off Dead, Risky Business… to say we simply “watched” them would be an understatement. We practically wore the strip out on the Betamax, memorizing every scene, every line, every song. From Booger to Fronch fries to Swamp, these films became heroic keystones, handily defining us as proud children of the 80s — perhaps in the same way that Zeppelin or the Beatles were iconic backdrops to my parents’ upbringing. The Hughes’ films of course being mandatory. Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles; we lived them. My friend Elliott Hurst said it best, calling John “My Generation’s J.D. Salinger,” and reminding us that, in a way, John’s death last week was mortally wounding. RIP.
xo
8/10/09 | Comments (0)Tags: Better off Dead, CUT THROUGH THE NOISE, Elliot Hurst, KATE BRADLEY, OUTLANDOS MUSIC, Revenge of the Nerds, Risky Business, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club —
Day 2 for me here in Austin, surviving fairly painlessly thus far. Let’s just say that the interactive folks are perhaps a little less wild and crazy then the music crowd. Case in point, this year’s festival goodie bags: Highlight item in the interactive bag, a mysterious petite blue keychain-sweat sock — in the music bag, let’s cut straight to the chase: condoms and gum.
?????
Highlight item from the film festival bag also curious but decidedly cooler: Risky Business knockoff sunglasses (as modeled by Merritt):
Sometimes you do indeed have to say “what the fuck.”
Like last night, when we were impromptu-serenaded by an utter stranger with his (failed although brave) trying-to-pick-up-chics Broadway rendition of Les Mis. Really.
On a more serious vibe, there has been at least one festival star sighting, king of entrepreneurship and hero, Guy Kawasaki:
Cool!
Not to mention several notable quotes:
- From the Entrepreneurship in the Beast panel: “We don’t need an idea depository, we need an idea suppository to take ideas, get them out, bring them to life.”
- “Holy shit, I lost my iPhone.” Me, earlier today.
- “It’s like being a kid in a candy store, only with beer.” Scott Perry on today’s New Music Tip Sheet describing the music festival to come.
And perhaps the best business card we’ve seen for those with short-term memories (i.e. ME):
Brilliant.
Until next week, wish me sanity and no sunburns,
xx
3/16/09 | Comments (0)Tags: CUT THROUGH THE NOISE, Guy Kawasaki, KATE BRADLEY, New Music Tip Sheet, OUTLANDOS MUSIC, Risky Business, Scott Perry —
