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Retro-retrospection - 2008-10-06
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10:39 a.m. - 2004-07-15
Last night’s movies were Calendar Girls and Dogma. Those were the ones I stayed awake for. My celluloid Sominex was that old stand-by Conan the Barbarian. A truly excellent choice. I plug Conan in and I’m asleep before the opening credits are over. I am amused and a little insulted by Alex’s astonishment that his old mom knows about ‘cool’ stuff. He came home from work last night and stopped by my office as he always does for a hello and a hug. I paused my movie. He flicked a look at the screen and gawped at me. “You’re watching Dogma???” Yeah, and? Well according to my son, the mighty college sophomore, it’s damn peculiar that a mom should even know about Kevin Smith films, let alone own and enjoy them. I try not to step all over his new-found sophistication. He’s entitled to make discoveries. Isn’t that the point of university? To broaden the mind? If he wants to think he and his buds have staked out new territory out there in the world of indie film, alternative music, and the uber-geekdom of graphic novels and role playing games I’m not one to disabuse him of it. I hide my smiles and listen patiently while Alex expounds on such ‘new’ things like the SCA, Mage, and the Williams- Gibson and Burroughs. I do not remind him that I taught him to Pogo when he was 8, gave him his first set of many sided dice at 12 and own a signed copy of Naked Lunch. Sometimes I burst his bubble inadvertently. When he came home for spring break he was quite enamored with a bootleg cd a friend had given him. When I asked about it he handed me his headphones and discman. I listened for a few then said, “Oh! Siouxsie and the Banshees.” Poor kid. I thought he was going to cry. At times like that my son feels much like another Alexander and there are no new worlds left to conquer. His mother has already been there and done that. He’s quite confident though I know nothing about his biggest and best love, anime. A total anime freak, Alex smiles indulgently while I ask inane questions. Anime is his turf and I am a clueless animation old timer from the world of Huckleberry Hound and Screwball Squirrel. . I hope to God he never finds my set of Cowboy BeBop. Shhhhh…, ~LA Today’s Pick: “Premature Burial” by Siouxsie and the Banshees
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