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Big John
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Editor in Chief, Gambit Weekly. Formerly BuzzFeed, Roll Call, Nat Journal, Your Mom’s House. John Fetterman bit my style. Basically a DC bama livin in New Orleans
the first time I saw it I was a little kid. pop took me to see it cause i loved star wars so much. i didn't really understand it but the fact that there was so little dialogue or action but so much happening fascinated me. Hell, i think i'm still basically at that same place with it, lol
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
in high school I'd tell my dad about my escapades (sans mention of acid, natch) when I'd stumble into the house at 2 or 3 am and wake him from slumbering through Skinamax. then when i was like 15 one night pop said he never wanted to know what I was up to again, cause it stressed him out lol
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
saw this one on acid in a theater too! and the sequel, though I didn't go to the nights when they played em back to back unfortunately, so i had to do that at home
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
absolute classic. looking back its wild to me that this was ever in "theaters" plural as like a release. Obviously there's no way AMC or Regal would do that today, so a national release would be near impossible. But even back then this was a bananas movie to get distributed.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
ha I saw this in a theater in like 1988. on acid. as i recall they played a bunch of international animation, stop motion and puppet shorts before hand, so it was like a solid 4 hours of having my brains blown out of my ears by the awesome entering my eyes
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
yeah, i'm not one for those dumb "WE DRANK FROM HOSES" Gen X feels, but i will say the ability of the cops and your parents to track your every move is a thing that will make Gen Zers/Whatever the youngin youngins are called way different from us
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
that's a real bummer. I saw Fantasia at the old Uptown in DC twice on acid and then like a week later went back to see Blade Runner Director's Cut twice on acid.

Now that I think about it we went to a lot of movies tripping in the 80s. It helped make the Reagan era slightly more easy to live in
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I am honored to be the wild card here
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Wait doesn’t he live in Aspen
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Cause grapes don’t shake like that
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
TOO FUCKIN SOON AARON
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM