best stoner flicks? + Vineland

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Flashback - never seen that one yet, can't think why not. If I can score some Croatian brandy, I think I'll watch it this weekend. 

I also liked Chong's solo effort, "Far Out, Man" though I think it's pretty strictly for fans; and Rude Awakening was pretty good too. 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carvill John [mailto:johncarvill at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 6, 2006 07:11 PM
> To: robinlandseadel at comcast.net, monropolitan at yahoo.com, fqmorris at gmail.com
> Cc: mikebailey at speakeasy.net, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: best stoner flicks? + Vineland
> 
> Just over a year ago, I mentioned 'Flashback':
> 
> "...Conicidentally watched the 1990 Dennis Hopper film 'Flashback' just the
> other day, and couldn't avoid the Vineland resonances, think this was
> briefly mentioned in one of the essays in 'The Vineland Papers' (by the way
> I see the Modern World Pynchon site is still looking for someone to review
> that collection, anyone wanna volunteer?), but I hadn't seen the film since
> I watched it at the time, and I hadn't read any Pynchon at all - except a
> first abortive attempt at COL49 - back then. Looking at it now, the opening
> montage of images would make the perfect intro to a film of Vineland.
> 
> Anyway maybe it's all this Croatian brandy I'm drinking but it seems
> there're so many parallels, not least how the 1960s became the 1990s, the
> tragic generational plummet from idealistic campus radicals to yuppie hell
> whores, even little things like cops running for office, kids watching old
> 16mm films of their left-wing radical parents, guys going to old favourite
> bars and finding them full of designer beers and jukeboxes they can't
> understand. No more 'Born To Be Wild'! And odd how it just must be
> coincidence that Pynchon's book and this film came out around the same time,
> presumambly unaware of each other but both in their way addressing how 2
> decades and 2 characters in the names turned hippie into yuppie....."
> 
> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0509&msg=97670&sort=date
> 
> Ok, my post was a bit rambling and I was probably a bit, er, inebriated when 
> I wrote it, but it generated the usual zero responses which lengthy posts 
> seem to attract.......
> 
> 
> 

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