2008-07-05 - 5:34 p.m.
There�s a movie coming out (in the UK first, unfortunately) called The Wackness. It takes place in New York in the summer of 1994. The main character is just about to go off to college and spends the summer dealing pot.
I can relate. I can relate really well. First of all, I spent my summer before college growing pot (on a farm in Tennessee � there�s a world of stories there maybe I�ll get around to telling). And I remember summer 1994 quite well. I can remember an awful lot of events from then and maybe I�ll recount them later.
I got invited to a screening of the film here. I got dressed up all 1994, with a t-shirt I�d gotten then (actually, I think I got it in spring 1995, but close enough) reading �Radcliffe: A Tradition of Remarkable Women� and my baseball cap on time-appropriately backwards.
I felt so cool. Although Nya pointed out, I looked a bit like I was in the band EMF. But it reminded me that I�m the same dissatisfied person I was in 1994. Older, married to my girlfriend from 1989, using a wheelchair, more educated (which is not at all the same thing as �smarter�), but still pissed off. Dissatisfied youth become dissatisfied adults�
Something really disheartening happened on the way home, but going to the screening itself was very amusing. You see, I never actually saw it. All jazzed up about 1994 and no film set in 1994. I had conflated two film screenings I had been invited to.
The other was for a documentary about (in)famous Providence mayor Buddy Cianci and was indeed at the bar I was in, but on the next day. I was supposed to be someplace else. Aw man. I called a cab and waited for it outside with a very nice bar patron from England.
The taxi home initially tried to drop me off at the wrong place and I�ll talk about what an unexpected downer that was in the next entry.
� 2008 Geoff Gladstone
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