shoes hanging from powerlines
Bring Back Ol' Shoe!
if your going to make rarified filmic references (that i dont get) on my page, please provide links!
In the movie, throwing shoes over power lines was like "tying a yellow ribbon"--something everyone thought was a spontaneous folk tradition but was part of a cleverly managed spin campaign. Ol' Shoe was the "captured soldier" we had to go to war to "rescue." Willie Nelson (I think) was hired to write a fake folk ballad about bringing back Ol' Shoe, that "spontaneously" started popping up on the radio.
I thought it meant that drugs were sold on the block.
The reference to gangs and drug dealing is interesting. There was a particularly impressive collection on a wire strung across 11th Street between A & B back in the late ‘80s-mid ‘90s that I used to wonder about. It was connected with a derelict garage building where there was a lot of dealing going on, so maybe that was the come-on sign.
that whole block was a fright.
in Big Fish, which I kind of hated and kind of liked, getting your shoes up on the line was like crossing the river Styx, committing yourself to the afterlife.
what is that, a film?
yes...but its NOT very obscure.
oh, ok. i see the shoes made an appearance in the trailer. thx
Wag the Dog: an obscure film directed by obscure director Barry Levinson (Diner, Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam), co-written by obscure writer David Mamet, starring obscure actors Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche, and Woody Harrelson, that received tons and tons of obscure publicity during Clinton's second term, when "wagging the dog" became obscurely synonymous with using war as a distraction from Presidential scandal. Yeah, I guess I should have linked to it.
ohhh that ol' shoe.
Bill doesn't watch movies, and I only know the hanging shoes for the drug on the block message, pretty ubiquitous sight around large areas of NO, I think as an advertising iconic message delivery system it is very effective. Although a redundant sight in NO it never ceased to make me think about drugs.
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shoes hanging from powerlines
- bill 5-18-2004 6:33 pm
- bill 5-18-2004 6:42 pm [add a comment]
Bring Back Ol' Shoe!
- tom moody 5-18-2004 7:56 pm [add a comment]
if your going to make rarified filmic references (that i dont get) on my page, please provide links!
- bill 5-18-2004 8:09 pm [add a comment]
In the movie, throwing shoes over power lines was like "tying a yellow ribbon"--something everyone thought was a spontaneous folk tradition but was part of a cleverly managed spin campaign. Ol' Shoe was the "captured soldier" we had to go to war to "rescue." Willie Nelson (I think) was hired to write a fake folk ballad about bringing back Ol' Shoe, that "spontaneously" started popping up on the radio.
- tom moody 5-18-2004 8:15 pm [add a comment]
I thought it meant that drugs were sold on the block.
- jim 5-18-2004 8:18 pm [add a comment]
The reference to gangs and drug dealing is interesting. There was a particularly impressive collection on a wire strung across 11th Street between A & B back in the late ‘80s-mid ‘90s that I used to wonder about. It was connected with a derelict garage building where there was a lot of dealing going on, so maybe that was the come-on sign.
- alex 5-18-2004 8:25 pm [add a comment]
that whole block was a fright.
- bill 5-18-2004 8:36 pm [add a comment]
in Big Fish, which I kind of hated and kind of liked, getting your shoes up on the line was like crossing the river Styx, committing yourself to the afterlife.
- sally mckay 5-18-2004 11:34 pm [add a comment]
what is that, a film?
- bill 5-18-2004 11:54 pm [add a comment]
yes...but its NOT very obscure.
- sally mckay 5-18-2004 11:58 pm [add a comment]
oh, ok. i see the shoes made an appearance in the trailer. thx
- bill 5-19-2004 12:44 am [add a comment]
Wag the Dog: an obscure film directed by obscure director Barry Levinson (Diner, Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam), co-written by obscure writer David Mamet, starring obscure actors Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche, and Woody Harrelson, that received tons and tons of obscure publicity during Clinton's second term, when "wagging the dog" became obscurely synonymous with using war as a distraction from Presidential scandal. Yeah, I guess I should have linked to it.
- tom moody 5-19-2004 2:57 am [add a comment]
ohhh that ol' shoe.
- bill 5-19-2004 3:28 am [add a comment]
Bill doesn't watch movies, and I only know the hanging shoes for the drug on the block message, pretty ubiquitous sight around large areas of NO, I think as an advertising iconic message delivery system it is very effective. Although a redundant sight in NO it never ceased to make me think about drugs.
- jimlouis 5-19-2004 4:33 am [add a comment]