glam was a form of modernism that celebrated the host culture. like the dreaded italian futurists. we can see now that this host was poison too. the movie was sad because rodney was a pretty sad sack. abandoned by his father early. mom was a hottie cocktail waitress who abandoned him too to work and emotionally as well and then left him on some star he had a crush ons doorstep at age 16 in hollywood. he was informed she was away so he walked over to sunset strip to join the rest of his lost generation runaways. everyone kind of chuckled through the whole movie."oh yeah, that rodney." a davie jones of the monkies stand in? sure he was getting laid liike mad. but by groupie social climbers who delivered to get another person closer to their goal. no real emotional connections. ultimately the glam hedonism was short lived as are all things of the flesh and the pretty young things are now dead or dying or just appear that way. lets just say that generation didnt age well. ive seen too much footage of manzerek complaining to let that get by. and freaking fowley just cant ever get over himself but is too interesting to hold accountable. his poor $ remuneration served as metaphor for lack of emotional pay back, for me anyway. and its all his moms fault.
oh its sad. it fritzed out on me and i have to come back to the 2nd half.
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- bill 8-28-2009 8:09 pm