I started this blog to post my papers and essays. I haven't been posting them with the proper promptness.
Here's the one I wrote today about the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Very nicely done, professor, but I have to admit that I begin every conversation about 'the great soundtracks' with Repo Man. After all, how often can a person say with conviction that music changed the very direction of their life?
It was also the first movie I ever saw on VHS.
Is that the one with all the punk music? I probably should have included it, but it's too obscure maybe. We brainstormed 80's movies, but none of them really fit into the theme I was using with the other examples.
Iggy Pop, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies ... It really was my first exposure to punk rock as such and opened a whole new world to me. Maybe it's only pertinent to your discussion in that O Brother opened my eyes to the transcendent quality that is roots/bluegrass/folk. I had no idea who Dr. Ralph Stanley was before this movie, but you can be sure I wouldn't want to live in a world without his music.
It is certainly fair to say that Repo Man was pretty obscure by comparison, but with Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez, I remember some amount of fanfare when it was released on videocassette. My god I'm starting to sound really friggin' old. Peace.