SLPAD12 - youth

[Michael Bailey]

Carryover of previous paragraph - are ‘60s guitar solos really a lot like
‘50s alto sax solos?

That’s not a thought I’ve had before. Maybe they are at that. In that case,
the sax-playing Owen Wilson character in “Inherent Vice: the Movie” aka Coy
Harlingen, is a transitional figure of some importance by virtue of his
presence in the band The Boards.


Via the topic of youth being overemphasized in both the Beat and Hippie
movements -

 (“We should be together” Jefferson Airplane lyrics:

We are obscene, lawless, hideous, dangerous, dirty, violent
And young

- oh. You’re young. Well, then. Never mind.)



- we arrive at youthful folly in the person of Dennis Flange, protagonist
of “Lowlands.”

He calls him “old Dennis.” Familiarity with a bit of contempt.

“along with imperfectly developed attitudes about sex and death, we may
also note how easily some of my adolescent values were able to creep in and
wreck an otherwise sympathetic character…. his fantasies become
embarrassingly vivid, that’s about all that happens”