I'm totally serious!
Show of hands:
Who, out there, spent every Saturday morning, between about fourth and sixth grade, at the roller skating rink?
Who, when certain songs come on (e.g. "Bad Girls," "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" "Babe,") will immediately, and forever, think "skating song?"
Who's with me?
OK, you guys? You are my target audience here. You, skating geeks, are hereby directed to go rent this movie:
(Yes, I KNOW it has Bow Wow in it. I don't care. He's really good, as it turns out. And I'm not even defensive.
Mick turned this movie on for me the other night, and man, is it cute! The story's nothing much - it' s the 70's, a roller rink on the south side of Chicago shuts down, and the gang of roller-skating kids has to take the bus to another part of town if they want to skate. WHICH, of course, they do. There's a badass skater at that rink (who is very hilarious, BTW,) and there's a big skate-off, of course.
But...the skating! Is so awesome! And the soundtrack...which is sadly not available in a package, but should absolutely be assembled on iTunes:
"Flashlight" - Parliament
"Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll" - Vaughan Mason & Crew
"I Wanna Know Your Name" - Keith Sweat
"Lovely Day" - Bill Withers
"Emotion" - Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb
"Love to Love You Baby" - Donna Summer
"Superman Lover" - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
"I'll Keep Loving You" - Carl Douglas
"Barracuda" - Heart
"Rock the Boat" - Hues Corporation
"Baby Hold On" - Eddie Money
"Kung Fu Fighting" = Carl Douglas
"I'm Your Boogie Man" - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
"Pure Gold" - Earth, Wind & Fire
"Let's Roll" - Chaka Khan
"Easy" - The Commodores
"For All We Know" - Donny Hathaway
"Boogie Fever" - The Sylvers
"Pick Up the Pieces" - The Average White Band
"Le Freak" - Chic
"Hollywood Swinging" - Kool & The Gang
"Get Off" - Foxy
"He's the Greatest Dancer" - Sister Sledge
"Boogie Oogie Oogie" - Taste of Honey
Anyhoo, I can promise you that, while nowhere near a really good movie, it is very enjoyable, and has RAD skating scenes. Plus, if you're bored with the storyline, you can amuse yourself by picking out the cameos (Look! It's Tim Kasurinsky! And Wayne Brady!)
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I'm home, in my nice soft bed, while The Man indulges OG in her biannual desperate desire to go camping.
I really do appreciate that, as, though I like many of the trappings of camping (e.g. hiking, swimming, cooking outside,) I really do not enjoy sleeping outside, particularly not in hot, sweaty Austin.
I probably owe him something. (And, I'm certain that he can come up with some way to repay him.)
2 comments:
Roller skating was hard for me. I was really good at it, but never ONCE was I asked to couples skate. Not ONCE. I was TOO TALL, you see. I would go hide in the bathroom while the others skated to Foreigner or ELO or whatever. It stunted my boy communication skills for years.
But when it was time for the "All change direction skate"or the backwards skate, I was out there with a vengeance. Cuz i ruled. "Don't bring me DOWWW...OOWWW...OOWWN! BRUCE!"
Dude, I'm beginning to believe that we may share the same gene pool. The similarities in our tastes astounds me.
I'm fucking BUYING this movie based on your recommendation (and my love of roller skating) alone.
Wanna come to NYC with me to see Xanadu on Broadway? Maybe we could convince Karla to meet up with us there...
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