1. Review of Gregg Araki's Totally
Fucked Up
I had a difficult time deciding
on what to write about this weekend. I
witnessed The Who's virtual sur reality
Tommy musical down in L.A., listened
to Saint Etienne's morosely brilliant
new disc on continuous play, and
finally accessed the whole Forrest
Gump phenom enon en masse. Then I
fell down and hit my head.
So I decided to write some
fucked up dribble about this stupid
Gregg (does everybody float extra "G"
consonants on the Coast?) Araki flick
playing at the Castro, you know, that
movie house with the deco thing out
front where all the fags go watch The
Wizard of Oz every three minutes and
cry when Judy puts on the glitter heels
and...oh you know the place. This
movie had a Totally Fucked Up name
which was supposed to sum up the
dull lives of these really cute slacker
teens down in LA LA land, which I
mentioned having visited in a previous
paragraph and it was really hot by the
way, who did drugs and slept around
and video taped each other because
they were so disenfranchised by the
suburban experience and that whole
doom and gloom routine.
I wanted to see the stupid
movie because Andy, the lead, was
gorgeous and kept taking off his shirt
and my friend wanted to take me to
see it kind of like a late birthday
present...well, you know the story.
Before the vapid thing started they
were playing the soundtrack to Wild At
Heart which is just about my favorite
movie by David Lynch and also
happens to be about some screwed up
kids who seem to raise a whole lot
more HELL then these braindead teens
in LA LA land.
I guess that was the point, the
point being that we are all so blasted
out of our skulls with information and
plague and sex and suicide and
parking lots and disco music that we
don't have TOO MUCH room left over
for fascist fagbashers and stupid
boyfriends that fuck around with other
stupid guys that aren't even as cute as
Andy anyway, so what's the point?
I just know some critics said
this Totally Fucked Up movie was a
work of goddamn ed Gay America Art
from an Asian American and this one
critic who said it was beyond a waste
of time but he just sounded a little too
tired to handle it all, if you know what I
mean, and I think he listens to
Streisand records when he's down
instead of Nine Inch Nails which was
on the soundtrack for this stupid
movie but I couldn't even HEAR IT!, so
go figure. No, Go Fish , because the
dykes and the kick edits were the only
really swank bits and there's some
other movie with all that jazz.
But there was this Dennis
Cooper fan in this Totally Fucked Up
movie which was just great because
I'm a Dennis Cooper fan too but his
haircut wasn't a cool as mine so who
cares. But the movie's still playing if
you feel like going and you don't have
anything better to do.
Kelly Lemieux 940822