WhatIfWileE.CoyoteWentFasterMilesAnHour
WithTheRadioOnVille
Now.
Don’t get me wrong.
Because I think Richard Linklater, especially at his best, is a genius.
After all, anybody who can start a whole new genre of anything, out of almost, but not quite, nothing is pretty much the top-of-the-pops in my books.
But given all that, I really do have a small quibble with one particular aspect of Mr. Linklater’s most successful bit of multilevel movie stratification fit for the whole family.
Specifically, he really should have had Dewey Finn go back past JRichman’s ‘Roadrunner’ to JCale’s & LReed’s ‘Sister Ray’.
Because, if you don’t do that, how the heckfire can you possibly have a class in Rock History that comes even remotely close to explaining where the inspiration for the following came from…
Which, of course, changed absolutely everything.
And, in the very end, absolutely nothing.
Which, if you ask me, is the true magic of the thing.
OK?
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