“Twilight” was apparently all that America cared about this weekend. It grossed $70M, and I spent over 5 hours last night collecting interviews, video interviews, audio, and photos for Monday’s morning editor. The film’s reviews are fairly lackluster, and I still don’t quite understand why Catherine Hardwicke continues to make movies about kid culture - they’re always so joyless and affected. I can appreciate “Thirteen,” but then I hated those kind of girls in high school.
My coworker and I were reminiscing about the teen entertainment from our youth that was the exact opposite of “Twilight” – something fun, colorful, absurd, and where it seems like the adults are having more fun than any of the kids. Something like Spongebob or The Powerpuff Girls. Naturally, the conversation turned to The Adventures of Pete and Pete!
Anyway, I got off work at midnight and was inspired to honor the show by spending the next three hours clipping together all of its bizarre indie cameos. I’m tired. They appear in the following order:
Patty Hearst, David Johansen (New York Dolls), Ann Magnuson, Martin Donovan, Suzzy Roche (The Roches), Sarah Shannon (Velocity Girl), Chris Elliott, Bebe Neuwirth, Syd Straw, Steve Buscemi, Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes), Janeane Garofalo, Debbie Harry, Heather Matarazzo, Kate Pierson (the B52s), Marshall Crenshaw, Juliana Hatfield, Luscious Jackson, Iggy Pop, Hunter Thompson
(Michael Stipe's part got cut to .5 seconds to make the clip under 10 minutes. Sorry Mike, everybody hurts.)
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