Pop Goes the Culture: Repo Man (1984) " The life of a repo man is always intense."

...one of my all time favorite films. Miller was right about the lattice of coincidence. I always just called it a web. But he's right.
I've known people who are that kind of crazy, too. They have a weird sort of radar, and somehow I always cause it to ping. That's why I don't take the bus

JWM

Posted by jwm at April 17, 2013 8:15 PM

Dig the book on the way into the fire barrel:

Dioretix: The Science of Matter Over Mind

by A. Rum somebodyorother....

Posted by Rob De Witt at April 17, 2013 8:31 PM

I owned a 4 door version of that Malibu. Same color. Maybe my favorite car ever.

Posted by Fat Man at April 17, 2013 9:02 PM

Gerard, to add even more pop culture wackiness to this post, Repo Man was produced by former Monkee Michael Nesmith, heir to the Liquid Paper fortune (invented by his mother), and he was appointed trustee of the Gihon Foundation, which was founded by his mother.

Posted by John Venlet at April 18, 2013 4:28 AM

John Venlet,

I knew Mike Nesmith in San Antonio around 1966 or '67. He was one of two guys in the folk music scene who exemplified the "Self Righteous Hippie" pose, forever telling everybody else they needed to mellow out and loosen up. Eventually he packed up his stuff and his girlfriend in a bug-eye A.H. Sprite and headed "Off to Californ-i-o," after making sure everybody got the word for a week or so.

It wasn't until years later that I learned that all that hip was undergirded by his mother's safety net. The mother of the other guy, by the way, turned out to own Heavenly Valley ski resort. And people wonder why I'm cynical.

Posted by Rob De Witt at April 18, 2013 2:42 PM

Rob, I guess Nesmith is kind of an American Alain de Botton, in a way, though I don't hear of Nesmith advocating for the expansion of the state, or desiring to build atheist cathedrals in the sky.

Posted by John Venlet at April 18, 2013 4:31 PM

Gerard, once again you manage to peek into my collection. I have the soundtrack to this movie on vinyl.

Posted by Mike at April 19, 2013 8:36 PM