Night, day, doesn't mean shit. *

[zustifer]

Harry Dean Stanton was plate-of-shrimping me yesterday, which is very appropriate given his proximity to the term's genesis. We were talking about him last night (look at the truckload of stuff he's been in), and Matt said he thought of him in a Lynch-based context, and I of course think of him in Repo Man, but I realised later that neither of us had latched onto Alien, for chrissake. Or Cool Hand Luke. Which is a little sad, but it IS true that his role in Repo Man was a little more front and center than either of those. This viewpoint makes me think of Harry Dean Stanton as a little more of an insane bastard than, say, Matt does. I think of that story about him wanting a real baseball bat in I think the scene where he attacks the Rodriguez Bros with one, instead of a fake plastic or rubber one. But he wanted that real bat.
So that'd slipped out of my short-term memory when I opened up this sucker at random so as to read a little before bed. Whose entry should I hit but that of Mr. Harry Dean Stanton, who shared a couple of movies (here's one) with Mr. Dylan, and also had a knife whipped at him by Sam Peckinpah, apparently.
I would like to point out that this is sweet.

Oh my god, Alex Cox was 29 when he made Repo Man. I've wasted my life.



* One of Bud's lines in Repo Man

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[ziptie.livejournal.com]

Dude, you forgot Alien? He's in the best scene! Ok, one of the best, but still.

*tinkle tinkle drip drip* "here kitty kitty..."