At the end they go to the Mt Bonnell I remember sans the safety rails that are there today. I still miss that Captian Quackenbush coffee house that used to be on Guadalupe.
Slacker top 40 movie#
Anyone who was around Austin about that time also hung out somewhere in that film, talked to one of the actors in a bar about something quasi intellectual, had conversations similar to the ones in the movie - about nothing, while not in a rush to get anywhere. It was an accurate reflection of a time and a certain psychic space. And still are, because the things that make them interesting are are not specific to Austin, or 1991.įor me, the thing that Linklater does so well, here and in each of his movies, is have people have conversations that feel familiar to me - not specifically about pap smears or JFK or whatever - but the way people talk to each other, even when those people, say, have a TV attached to their back, always feels like a conversation I can imagine having, under the right circumstances. But, even if Austin was a particularly 'weird' place, the 'people' in Slacker were everywhere. He'd thought it was basically a big in-joke about Austin. My friend from Austin was sort of surprised that it was well received. "No! After the 'I have a mansion and a yacht' lady is the guy in his bathrobe who doesn't want to have premeditated fun, and his girlfriend who is watching Geraldo, and then those kids peep in their windows and run away to steal cokes from a machine, and then one of the dudes who is going to throw the typewriter off the bridge buys a coke from the kids, but then he gives it to his girlfriend who bumps into the JFK assassination guy in the bookstore." On the recommendation of a friend from Austin (at the time) a buddy and I drove down from Massachusetts to see it at the Angelika in New York, and then spent the drive home basically re-relaying the movie to each other.
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