"damn, what's wrong with our generation? we was the cream of the crop now it seems we've been robbed that's happens when you've traded all your dreams for a job" - Micheal "eyedea" larsen
Signboy: The fact that there a dozens of "you" every 10 feet in Austin saying the same thing and the fact that you despise those who live differently than you shows you're not an independent thinker because you haven't come up with any original thought or constructed any opinion/philosophy of life without interdependence on others to form the basis of your thought.
@signboy: I moved to Austin around the time this was being filmed. I got to know/still know many of the people in this film. 20 years ago, this is pretty much who they were. Oh the many times at house parties, art exhibits, clubs, the coffee house etc. that I heard the proclomation of the "independent thinker" and it was exactly the same thing you have posted here, that is until they got older and wised up. Do you think these people still live like this now?
i doubt you actually lived there. you are just lying to support your argument.
but i saw a documentary about these people and i know a lot of these people sold out and became corporate slaves. and most of the buildings and scene in austin has been replaced by mcdonalds and various other comercial franchises.
like most of america these women got impregnated and a mortgage and these men got enslaved. but like the rest of america there is a minority who doesnt sell out.
@hogcontroller Work scene: Outside of Les Amis on West Campus of UT. Interviewee : Doug The Slug, a friend of both my wife and myself. Cameraman: Luke Savisky, performance artist., played film loops for many years for the Butthole Surfers. My friend Deborah Pastor was the art director for the movie and stars early on in the scene with the African American activist selling T-shirts. The guy with her is Greg Wilson,AKA Wendell Stivers, from one of the early lineups of SPOON.
you cant use your weak "i know you are but what am i" response, because i read an interview of richard linklater and he said he just filmed his friends objectively.
i am being unique because most americans are brainwashed jesus freak 9-5 slaves who think a lifetime of working a job you hate and being a cog in the machine will be rewarded with a magical heavenly paradise by the baby jesus.
but actually christianity was invented by the rich to motivate the slaves.
@signboyy I don't want to argue or preach to you. But I will correct you in your error of speech that you have given. First, (the God I know) will not give a person something that they do not like, that will cause stress and a lack of enjoyment in their life. It is not God's will for mankind to be trap into the crappy slave world system of "bad work" "make money" and "die". He wants mankind to come back to the beginning with the Father. Which I'm too lazy to explain.
@shrineheart87 but isn't hard work a result of original sin in the Judaeo-Christian tradition? "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."'
@signboyy You may ask, "how do you know this"? life experience and reading the scriptures for myself; to know the truth, to compare/contrast, to know the cause and see the affect. Oh, and the qoute "but actually christianity was invented by the rich to motivate the slaves"~I can tell you didn't read the scriptures in the bible for that one on who Jesus is. LOL!
is it being satirized? or are you using your own preconceptions to judge these characters? linklater simply film his friends in austin talking about things they were interested in. linklater made no judgement of these characters so it is your own biases which causes you to interpret satarization.
The Buddha was an ascetist(aka living in a tent) before coming back to society. I think its a necessary stage in spiritual development. You can be ascetic while still having a roof over your head but to figure out what its all about you usually need to divorce yourself from materialism for a while. People who hate baking make bitter bread and are better off sitting alone in a room than doing it. But theres nothing inherently bad with making bread, or building a car, or whatever.
this movie caused me to drop out of college and read about things which interested me,work as little as possible, become atheist, vow never to have a wife and kids and spend the rest of my life living in the moment. thank you richard linklater for preventing me from becoming a 9-5 slave and spending my life
signboyy trust me, after years doing fuck all except wanking, staying in, watching great videos,eating beans on toast and getting intoxicated on cheap lager and cheaper spliff,I got bored and have tried the 9 to 5 thing,now I can eat steak and caviar,drink tequilla,buy DVDS and pay per view,even buy me a whore if I could be arsed-just so as you know,,its hell on earth,total psychological devastation- see you in the unemployment line buddy
as one of your countrymen said "the best things in life are free" and "cant buy me love", there is no god and no heaven. there is no love, people just use each other. work is boring and repetitive. most people get through the daily grind by believing in one or all of the myths society force feeds us. i must admit the quality of women isnt top notch for me, but you learn to appreciate mature women and chubby women. and you become good at profiling nymphos who need variety like men do.
im not "blaming" a movie for anything. i am simply saying that it showed me characters who could think independently which inspired me to be an independent thinker. i researched politics, sociology, theology etc. if it hadnt been for the inspiring characters in that movie i would probably be working 9-5 in a job a hate, in order to make my mortgage payment, probably paying child support and alimony, and enduring that hell with the delusion of being rewarded by a magical paradise when i die.
well the place i sleep in is relatively safe. its in a wooded area surrounded by mcmansions. so the only people i have to worry about is nosey millionares taking their chuahua for a walk and finding my tent. so im basically safe. and my sleeping bag is warm. when i need money i can just work on an online job on my laptop at the library. but i rarely need money so i spend my days completely free, unplanned and spontaneous.
uhmmm yeah. news flash, most people who are '9-5 slaves' are not doing it to 'succeed in life' but because they have no other options except suicide or homelessness.
and lots of working women who have kids, tend to look after them, and feed and clothe them, so that they wont grow up to be like this guy in this video.
if you've trapped yourself with marriage, children and a mortgage whose fault is that? and whats wrong with this guy? he's completely free and answers to no one. and whats wrong with being homeless? you can spend your days as you please. im homeless and while most people spend their day at a job they are bored with i spend my days watching youtube, watching dvds and playing grand theft auto online with other slackers. there is no god, no heaven, no love, no interesting jobs so live accordingly.
ya know, a lot of people dont have a marriage or a mortgage. they have an apartment, a junkie ex-husband who wont pay child support, and they still have kids. while you are arguing about 'whose fault it is', they are working their ass odd, sometimes with two jobs, just to feed those kids.
whats wrong with the guy is he is a complete jerk, and probably one of those deadbeat dads.
im not a deadbeat dad. i got a vasectomy when i was 24 because thats what smart men do. i have no kids and i never will. there is no heaven and hell....except the heaven or hell you create for yourself while you are alive.
interesting.. you say there is "no love," yet you also say that we create our heaven or hell? so is there no love in a heaven? no fear in a hell?
your ways will come back to bite you. being homeless in society is meant to destroy you. you are using degenerative terms such as "slacker" and "homeless," which are terms created by society, and meant to break you down by their very nature.
love is a lie, people use each other. god is a lie created by rich romans to motivate the roman working class to work hard their whole lives. i dont believe in god i believe in science. stop being metaphysical and superstitious and start being realistic and rational.
Because their is pain and suffering, God does not exist? That proves that God is a sadist? It proves neither. Besides, the metaphysical and for that matter nothing at all can truly be proven objectively. How does one even prove reality? My point is just stop being such a whiny bitch.
@signboyy You couldn't read about things that interested you in college? You had to drop out of college to become atheist? Work as little as possible? Why are you proud of this? Yes, there is slavery in 9-5 work days but you're own slave to whatever reality you've created for yourself. You're just glad it's your reality and not someone else's reality that you feel has been hoisted upon you. You're a slave. Never forget it.
i am not a slave because i dont work a job i hate which 99% of people do. i do wish i was the next david fincher making incredible films, but until that happens being a slacker and avoiding a job i hate and spending my days exploring my intellectual interests is the next best thing.
@signboyy Plenty enjoy their jobs and it's not 99% who hate their jobs! Actually, plenty find great solace in HAVING A JOB instead of being a LOAF like you! But the, you're a slacker so if you're proud of that, fine.
This film is amateurish and frankly quite bad. A much better film, that takes the same ideas and exploits them much more creatively is Linklater's Waking Life.
i'll never forget when this movie came out at our local artfilm theater in 1991. i was going to college in portland oregon and working in a health food deli. this movie spawned the slacker culture.
actually this movie reflected the slacker culture, it was the original generation x, the bridge of the post boomer baby bust. the publicity that came afterward in the grunge era 90's was co-opted by a younger and much larger demographic.
the slacker culture was co-opted by corporations for financial gain.
but of course in the bigger picture the corporations were used by capitalist organizations, thinktanks and government agencies to diffuse and water down the slacker movement.
not since the late 60's hippie movement was there such a social threat to the capitalist way of life.
so it had to be neutralized.
a few years later we were listening to brittney spears.
@1zappa ...yep, same guy as in Waking Life. The guy in jail who dreams of torturing his captors. Charles Gunning is the actor's name. Died back in '02 after complications from a car accident.
This place is like a stroke now, so uptight. I'm moving out, I'm tired of supporting these yuppie idiots. Thats what people dont realize, being a slacker can be hard work. Someones got to pull the rope because the boomers sure arent.
The fact that you put an advertisement on this clip is revolting.
DineNaked 1 month ago
"damn, what's wrong with our generation? we was the cream of the crop now it seems we've been robbed that's happens when you've traded all your dreams for a job" - Micheal "eyedea" larsen
Pr0Zak666 2 months ago
"End of interview."
choconatio 4 months ago
Fantastic.
cajandro 6 months ago
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ChanRunningbear 9 months ago
This guy reminds me so much of Billy Bob in Bad Santa
theevilfed 10 months ago
this dude is my hero
Aspenfash899 11 months ago 2
"End of interview!" -- I say that all the time.
gluecement 1 year ago
Lol! The True Call. I know when I hear it
sbnr 1 year ago
Couldn't help but think of Eyedea while listening to this.
cucuy91 1 year ago
True Call!
radiof00le 1 year ago
my favorite scene in the whole movie, thanks!
sorosan 1 year ago
Signboy. By the way. Still in Austin 20 yrs later.
hogcontroller 1 year ago
Signboy: The fact that there a dozens of "you" every 10 feet in Austin saying the same thing and the fact that you despise those who live differently than you shows you're not an independent thinker because you haven't come up with any original thought or constructed any opinion/philosophy of life without interdependence on others to form the basis of your thought.
You are neither unique or independent.
hogcontroller 1 year ago
@signboy: I moved to Austin around the time this was being filmed. I got to know/still know many of the people in this film. 20 years ago, this is pretty much who they were. Oh the many times at house parties, art exhibits, clubs, the coffee house etc. that I heard the proclomation of the "independent thinker" and it was exactly the same thing you have posted here, that is until they got older and wised up. Do you think these people still live like this now?
hogcontroller 1 year ago
@hogcontroller
i doubt you actually lived there. you are just lying to support your argument.
but i saw a documentary about these people and i know a lot of these people sold out and became corporate slaves. and most of the buildings and scene in austin has been replaced by mcdonalds and various other comercial franchises.
like most of america these women got impregnated and a mortgage and these men got enslaved. but like the rest of america there is a minority who doesnt sell out.
signboyy 1 year ago
@hogcontroller Work scene: Outside of Les Amis on West Campus of UT. Interviewee : Doug The Slug, a friend of both my wife and myself. Cameraman: Luke Savisky, performance artist., played film loops for many years for the Butthole Surfers. My friend Deborah Pastor was the art director for the movie and stars early on in the scene with the African American activist selling T-shirts. The guy with her is Greg Wilson,AKA Wendell Stivers, from one of the early lineups of SPOON.
hogcontroller 1 year ago
@sebastianflyte07
you cant use your weak "i know you are but what am i" response, because i read an interview of richard linklater and he said he just filmed his friends objectively.
i am being unique because most americans are brainwashed jesus freak 9-5 slaves who think a lifetime of working a job you hate and being a cog in the machine will be rewarded with a magical heavenly paradise by the baby jesus.
but actually christianity was invented by the rich to motivate the slaves.
signboyy 1 year ago
@signboyy I don't want to argue or preach to you. But I will correct you in your error of speech that you have given. First, (the God I know) will not give a person something that they do not like, that will cause stress and a lack of enjoyment in their life. It is not God's will for mankind to be trap into the crappy slave world system of "bad work" "make money" and "die". He wants mankind to come back to the beginning with the Father. Which I'm too lazy to explain.
shrineheart87 10 months ago
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@shrineheart87 but isn't hard work a result of original sin in the Judaeo-Christian tradition? "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."'
devinkk 6 months ago
@signboyy You may ask, "how do you know this"? life experience and reading the scriptures for myself; to know the truth, to compare/contrast, to know the cause and see the affect. Oh, and the qoute "but actually christianity was invented by the rich to motivate the slaves"~I can tell you didn't read the scriptures in the bible for that one on who Jesus is. LOL!
shrineheart87 10 months ago
@sebastianflyte07
is it being satirized? or are you using your own preconceptions to judge these characters? linklater simply film his friends in austin talking about things they were interested in. linklater made no judgement of these characters so it is your own biases which causes you to interpret satarization.
signboyy 1 year ago
does anyone know the name of the song played in the car?
nothingsafe84 1 year ago
THIS GUY IS MY HERRO!!!!
marcusmanson4 1 year ago
@marcusmanson4, I pity you.
sexcation 1 year ago
The Buddha was an ascetist(aka living in a tent) before coming back to society. I think its a necessary stage in spiritual development. You can be ascetic while still having a roof over your head but to figure out what its all about you usually need to divorce yourself from materialism for a while. People who hate baking make bitter bread and are better off sitting alone in a room than doing it. But theres nothing inherently bad with making bread, or building a car, or whatever.
duncan36 1 year ago 3
@duncan36
like bill murray in the movie the razor's edge based on the novel by sommerset maugaum.
the thing is once you live in a tent for a while you permanently lose the desire to work a mindless pointless 9-5 job in order to pay rent.
signboyy 1 year ago
End of interview
justiniscoolohyea 1 year ago
"So, did you vote in the most recent election?" "HELL, no! I've got less important things to do."
tuttt99 2 years ago 5
Hahahahaha.
slworking2 2 years ago 2
To all you workers out there: Every single commodity you produce is a piece of your own death.
cridantis 2 years ago 4
i'll write more about this scene when i hear the true call.
meesalikeu 2 years ago 3
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symbal777 2 years ago
This movie is genius, and this is one of my favorite scenes and characters.
"I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it." LOL!!!
Lyubov91 2 years ago 8
"HELLLL no, I got less important things to do!"
adelmanjaro 3 years ago 2
one of the best and truest lines in all of flickdom.
teflonmagnet 3 years ago
this is how Consciousness travels...
jeexbit 4 years ago
what a great film!!!
SLACKER614 4 years ago 2
this movie caused me to drop out of college and read about things which interested me,work as little as possible, become atheist, vow never to have a wife and kids and spend the rest of my life living in the moment. thank you richard linklater for preventing me from becoming a 9-5 slave and spending my life
"living in quiet desperation" as thoreau put it.
signboyy 4 years ago 48
whoah...
jeexbit 4 years ago
dear lord, you sound like me. and quoting Thoreau? wow. I still think there are people who desire that lifestyle, and feel honestly fulfilled by it.
sharkboy85 4 years ago
signboyy trust me, after years doing fuck all except wanking, staying in, watching great videos,eating beans on toast and getting intoxicated on cheap lager and cheaper spliff,I got bored and have tried the 9 to 5 thing,now I can eat steak and caviar,drink tequilla,buy DVDS and pay per view,even buy me a whore if I could be arsed-just so as you know,,its hell on earth,total psychological devastation- see you in the unemployment line buddy
sockironer 3 years ago
as one of your countrymen said "the best things in life are free" and "cant buy me love", there is no god and no heaven. there is no love, people just use each other. work is boring and repetitive. most people get through the daily grind by believing in one or all of the myths society force feeds us. i must admit the quality of women isnt top notch for me, but you learn to appreciate mature women and chubby women. and you become good at profiling nymphos who need variety like men do.
signboyy 3 years ago
if you are homeless, and you arent crazy, dont blame a movie for it. and dont pretend you dont want to go sleep in a safe, warm place every night.
phdecora 3 years ago
im not "blaming" a movie for anything. i am simply saying that it showed me characters who could think independently which inspired me to be an independent thinker. i researched politics, sociology, theology etc. if it hadnt been for the inspiring characters in that movie i would probably be working 9-5 in a job a hate, in order to make my mortgage payment, probably paying child support and alimony, and enduring that hell with the delusion of being rewarded by a magical paradise when i die.
signboyy 3 years ago 33
@signboyy
hogcontroller 1 year ago
@hogcontroller i guess you are speechless.
signboyy 1 year ago
@signboyy so what are you doing now?
Trimbler00 11 months ago
well the place i sleep in is relatively safe. its in a wooded area surrounded by mcmansions. so the only people i have to worry about is nosey millionares taking their chuahua for a walk and finding my tent. so im basically safe. and my sleeping bag is warm. when i need money i can just work on an online job on my laptop at the library. but i rarely need money so i spend my days completely free, unplanned and spontaneous.
signboyy 3 years ago 4
uhmmm yeah. news flash, most people who are '9-5 slaves' are not doing it to 'succeed in life' but because they have no other options except suicide or homelessness.
and lots of working women who have kids, tend to look after them, and feed and clothe them, so that they wont grow up to be like this guy in this video.
phdecora 3 years ago
if you've trapped yourself with marriage, children and a mortgage whose fault is that? and whats wrong with this guy? he's completely free and answers to no one. and whats wrong with being homeless? you can spend your days as you please. im homeless and while most people spend their day at a job they are bored with i spend my days watching youtube, watching dvds and playing grand theft auto online with other slackers. there is no god, no heaven, no love, no interesting jobs so live accordingly.
signboyy 3 years ago 4
ya know, a lot of people dont have a marriage or a mortgage. they have an apartment, a junkie ex-husband who wont pay child support, and they still have kids. while you are arguing about 'whose fault it is', they are working their ass odd, sometimes with two jobs, just to feed those kids.
whats wrong with the guy is he is a complete jerk, and probably one of those deadbeat dads.
phdecora 3 years ago
im not a deadbeat dad. i got a vasectomy when i was 24 because thats what smart men do. i have no kids and i never will. there is no heaven and hell....except the heaven or hell you create for yourself while you are alive.
signboyy 3 years ago 5
interesting.. you say there is "no love," yet you also say that we create our heaven or hell? so is there no love in a heaven? no fear in a hell?
your ways will come back to bite you. being homeless in society is meant to destroy you. you are using degenerative terms such as "slacker" and "homeless," which are terms created by society, and meant to break you down by their very nature.
grahamillionare 3 years ago
love is a lie, people use each other. god is a lie created by rich romans to motivate the roman working class to work hard their whole lives. i dont believe in god i believe in science. stop being metaphysical and superstitious and start being realistic and rational.
signboyy 3 years ago
prove it. Yes! Two points, bitch!
GohModley 2 years ago
prove it? ok. that earthquake in italy. or any cataclysm for that matter. either god is a sadist or he doesnt exist.
signboyy 2 years ago
Because their is pain and suffering, God does not exist? That proves that God is a sadist? It proves neither. Besides, the metaphysical and for that matter nothing at all can truly be proven objectively. How does one even prove reality? My point is just stop being such a whiny bitch.
GohModley 2 years ago
nothing can be proven objectively?
ok go walk onto a highway and try to prove that you can get hit by a car and not be injured.
my point is just stop being such a deluded bitch.
signboyy 2 years ago
What's your name? I want the first and last name NOW
GohModley 2 years ago
@signboyy You couldn't read about things that interested you in college? You had to drop out of college to become atheist? Work as little as possible? Why are you proud of this? Yes, there is slavery in 9-5 work days but you're own slave to whatever reality you've created for yourself. You're just glad it's your reality and not someone else's reality that you feel has been hoisted upon you. You're a slave. Never forget it.
cutis1000 1 year ago
@cutis1000
i am not a slave because i dont work a job i hate which 99% of people do. i do wish i was the next david fincher making incredible films, but until that happens being a slacker and avoiding a job i hate and spending my days exploring my intellectual interests is the next best thing.
signboyy 1 year ago
@signboyy Plenty enjoy their jobs and it's not 99% who hate their jobs! Actually, plenty find great solace in HAVING A JOB instead of being a LOAF like you! But the, you're a slacker so if you're proud of that, fine.
This film is amateurish and frankly quite bad. A much better film, that takes the same ideas and exploits them much more creatively is Linklater's Waking Life.
cutis1000 1 year ago
@signboyy and how the flying fuck are you survining without money?
OZDE32 1 year ago
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@OZDE32
using my brain.
signboyy 1 year ago
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@signboyy what a little bitch you are asshole
NiggersofWestCompton 1 year ago
i'll never forget when this movie came out at our local artfilm theater in 1991. i was going to college in portland oregon and working in a health food deli. this movie spawned the slacker culture.
signboyy 4 years ago
actually this movie reflected the slacker culture, it was the original generation x, the bridge of the post boomer baby bust. the publicity that came afterward in the grunge era 90's was co-opted by a younger and much larger demographic.
meesalikeu 2 years ago
the slacker culture was co-opted by corporations for financial gain.
but of course in the bigger picture the corporations were used by capitalist organizations, thinktanks and government agencies to diffuse and water down the slacker movement.
not since the late 60's hippie movement was there such a social threat to the capitalist way of life.
so it had to be neutralized.
a few years later we were listening to brittney spears.
signboyy 2 years ago 4
@signboyy I'm not! :-)
badnewswade 1 year ago
Did Judith Crist ever review this film?
I'd love to have read it.....
noahf67 4 years ago
Was that the same guy in Waking Life?
1zappa 4 years ago
@1zappa ...yep, same guy as in Waking Life. The guy in jail who dreams of torturing his captors. Charles Gunning is the actor's name. Died back in '02 after complications from a car accident.
slipperypete619 3 months ago
'Dazed and Confused'....1993....
slacker 4 ever..do opiates and drop out..
mduff051 4 years ago
down with the system, refuse to conform!!!!!
VoteKucinich 4 years ago
Everytime I see this film I think of the old Austin. Sure, I still love this town, but there are some things I miss from the old days.
Travieso78702 4 years ago 2
Austin was a cool place..now it has been yuppie-fied by the baby boomers..the worst gen in history..
SLACKER614 4 years ago 4
still has a great music scene though
sharkboy85 4 years ago 2
This place is like a stroke now, so uptight. I'm moving out, I'm tired of supporting these yuppie idiots. Thats what people dont realize, being a slacker can be hard work. Someones got to pull the rope because the boomers sure arent.
duncan36 3 years ago 4
dude that guy is so cool!
moshingnerdhippy32 4 years ago 2
yes, may he r.i.p., linklater is a genius. this whole movie concept is so... you know.
baktu1 4 years ago 2
Classic scene
chumbersdee 4 years ago 2
i agree..."every single commodity you produce is a piece of your own death" best quote of all time.
IBMeddling 4 years ago 4
The True Call!! Hurray!
jjj7477 4 years ago
"I got less important things to do."
D111111111 4 years ago 2
"I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work ta do it."
D111111111 4 years ago 3
Great line in that scene - "every commodity you produce is a piece of your own DEATH!" LOL!
Yeah, like BeerxPirate says, he is an arrogant SOB all right. But a great addition to the movie.
ScottfromTexas 4 years ago 2
lol, HE'S SUCH AN ARROGANT JERK
BEERxPiRATE 4 years ago
Can somebody upload the scene with the girl trying to sell the Madonna papsmear?
justinbluehall 4 years ago
watch?v=009ZKnZJIOs
tuttt99 2 years ago
that film is a patchwork of such subversive gems, ace stuff....!
jjj7477 4 years ago
"I'm coming from a funeral"
"I'm sorry"
"Fuck it"
I love it!!
baxill23 4 years ago
every single commodity you produce is a piece of your own death --classic! hehe
I'll have to rewatch the movie --or better yet have someone post scenes like this so I dont have to be disappointed.
kimowasabe 4 years ago 2