Growing up, I always gravitated towards the characters who didn’t quite know how to say what they meant. The ones who stood slightly outside every conversation, watching the room with a disconcerting intensity. When I spotted characters like that, I got glimpses of how I might render from the outside. I recognized them immediately, I … Read more
“You see there’s nothing to do anymore… Everything decent’s been done. All the great themes in life have been used up, turned into theme parks. So I don’t really find it exactly cheerful to be living in the middle of a totally exhausted decade where there’s nothing to look forward to and no one to … Read more
Dear diary. When I first rented Heathers back in the summer of ’89, I didn’t yet grasp the generational shift that was slowly gaining ground, that steady crawl towards 90’s slacker antiestablishmentarianism that would erupt with the unmistakeable power chord of Smells Like Teen Spirit in 1991. But for this then-high-schooling suburbanite, the movie felt … Read more