IVIV: The Feds II

[rich]

what was that movie with the Patrick Swayze (RIP) and Keeanu
Reeves--surfer bank robbers who wore Reagan and Nixon masks. Point
Break or something. funny movie

rich

On 9/15/09, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Doc is interrogated beneath framed pictures of Nixon and Hoover. The
> coffee is cheap. The feds seem to have been newly arrived from
> Washington D.C. - Washington is alluded to frequently throughout IV,
> never nicely. One of the biggest villains boasts that he was married
> in St Johns' Episcopal, the Presidents' Church, just across from the
> White House.
>
> Doc's seen these types before: they either remain removed and immune
> to California charms and head back east, "or else with blinding speed
> found themselves barefoot and stoned, putting their stick in the woody
> and following the surf off wherever it might roll. There seemed no
> middle range of choices."
>
> Excluded middles, etc...
>
> "putting their stick in the woody": stick = surfboard, woody = the old
> wood-panelled Plymouth station wagon
>
> (thanks wiktionary glossary of surfing!
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_surfing_terms)
>
> "It was hard for Doc not to imagine these two as surf Nazis doomed to
> repeat a film loop of some violent but entertaining beack-movie
> wipeout"
>
> Surf Nazis - surfers overly-protective of their patch, sometimes to
> the point of violence.
>
> -----
>
> Doc is still playing amiable, acting interested "Ronald Reagan style"
> (cos that'd please the feds) and surprised that there is a federal
> file on him.
>
> The file is left with a bunch of others on a credenza. Interesting
> wiki fact: "Originally in Italian the name meant "belief". This was
> because in the 16th century the act of "credenza" was the tasting of
> food and drinks by a servant for a lord or for another important
> person (like popes and cardinals). By tasting it they made sure the
> food was not poisoned. The name passed then to the room where the act
> took place, then to the furniture"
>