Comments on: The Eternal Return of the Dark Past http://www.pleasantfluff.com/2008/10/23/the-eternal-return-of-the-dark-past/ better than wikipedia Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:29:58 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: The Noir Protagonist With Reference to Neo-Noir and Gone Baby Gone (2007) « Wonderbread http://www.pleasantfluff.com/2008/10/23/the-eternal-return-of-the-dark-past/comment-page-1/#comment-26 The Noir Protagonist With Reference to Neo-Noir and Gone Baby Gone (2007) « Wonderbread Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:04:50 +0000 http://pleasantfluff.wordpress.com/?p=566#comment-26 [...] Johnson’s 2005 indie-film Brick, also, is set in ever-sunny early ’90s California, and thus bears almost none of the [...] [...] Johnson’s 2005 indie-film Brick, also, is set in ever-sunny early ’90s California, and thus bears almost none of the [...]

]]> By: baileysmith http://www.pleasantfluff.com/2008/10/23/the-eternal-return-of-the-dark-past/comment-page-1/#comment-25 baileysmith Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:33:23 +0000 http://pleasantfluff.wordpress.com/?p=566#comment-25 And another thing: After proof-reading a draft of this post and giving a wee bit of critical feedback, good friend and fellow Wonderbread editor Martin Kingsley told me that he wanted to hear a little bit more about the post 9/11 teen culture that I flippantly mention in the final paragraph. I pretty much just told him what I thought about this, and he instructed me to copy and paste my comments into the piece, because they were what he wanted to hear. I thought that might interrupt the structure (as loose as it is) of the article though, so I've simply put them below, as a post script. <strong>My prompted thoughts on Sep. 11:</strong> <em>I think it's affected youth in the same way that every hostile political climate in American history has...Cold War, Vietnam...only difference is I think today's youth is just more well-informed and more desensitized, simply because of where they are in history. We're at a stage where nothing much is taboo or kept from kids...there's an openness to American culture now that is neither good nor bad...it just is. And I think teenagers are generally always the go-to group when you're after the effects and status of any given culture, because they are both impressionable and impressive and they are the signifier of where the next generation is going.</em> And another thing: After proof-reading a draft of this post and giving a wee bit of critical feedback, good friend and fellow Wonderbread editor Martin Kingsley told me that he wanted to hear a little bit more about the post 9/11 teen culture that I flippantly mention in the final paragraph. I pretty much just told him what I thought about this, and he instructed me to copy and paste my comments into the piece, because they were what he wanted to hear. I thought that might interrupt the structure (as loose as it is) of the article though, so I’ve simply put them below, as a post script.

My prompted thoughts on Sep. 11:

I think it’s affected youth in the same way that every hostile political climate in American history has…Cold War, Vietnam…only difference is I think today’s youth is just more well-informed and more desensitized, simply because of where they are in history. We’re at a stage where nothing much is taboo or kept from kids…there’s an openness to American culture now that is neither good nor bad…it just is.

And I think teenagers are generally always the go-to group when you’re after the effects and status of any given culture, because they are both impressionable and impressive and they are the signifier of where the next generation is going.

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