Let it be know that this place is the greatest vintage clothing store that I have ever been to. The outfit that I'm currently wearing is absolutely classic. It's so disgustingly 1970s that I'm surprised the clothing even still existed anywhere but a moth-ridden attic in somewhere in the Midwest.

My 1980s outfit isn't nearly as awesome, because the 1980s weren't nearly as awesome, but it'll work just fine. Thankfully, the Afro spanned the style in both decades, so that works on both ends.

Labels: 1970s, 1980s, vintage clothing

Do either of my readers know the lyric in the title?

One of the wife's best friends is turning 30, so we're heading out to the coast for a little party in celebration of that. The party is a 1970s themed party (as that is the decade of her birth), so I'm on the look out for some bell-bottomed pants as well as any jacket made from vinyl. I'm hoping to find an afro wig also, if only so I can yell "Mr. Kot-tear" every 15 minutes without people looking at me like I'm nuts (anymore than they do ordinarily).

The party will also be of the roller-skating variety, and I'm pretty psyched to show off my skills on wheels. I'm not getting and rollerblade/in-line skates either. I'm going straight, four wheel in each corner, old school skates.

There will be refreshments served. There will also be pictures.

Labels: 1970s, Los Angeles, roller skating

I don't know why I took a good line from one of the last movies on the list to title this blog post. Scroll to the end of the post if you don't know where the line is from.

Through IMDb, I found this list of the best 100 films of the 1970s. I've long been an admirer of films from the 1970s, if only because a lot of these films took time to develop character and plot and weren't constrained the same way films are now. There's very much a tell the story, get in, get out thing going on with most movies these days. They don't take the time to develop anything outside of a linear story, and I think they suffer for it. In fact, it's one of the essays that I wanted to write for our forthcoming book. I believe that movies from this era (I call them "1970s auteur films") are wildly overlooked in the discussion of the greatest films of all-time, excepting the Godfather and the Godfather, Part II, which get tons and tons of recognition (rightly so).

For the record, this list doesn't include Rocky, which seems like a pretty serious omission to me. But it does include several films that I'd never even heard of (pretty much the whole first page) and several others that I've heard of but never seen. It includes 4 Woody Allen films (all of which I could probably recite from memory, most notably Manhattan, which is my favorite Woody film) and it includes the Robert Altman film Nashville, which is a great film.

I'll probably take time over the next couple of month to watch them. Check the list and leave a comment about any movie that you've seen and have some thoughts on. I'd be interested to hear some feedback about these films.

By the way, the quote is from Five Easy Pieces, right before Jack Nicholson swipes all the stuff off of the table.

Labels: 1970s, knees, movies