Guest post written by Jenkens Utella
Chad’s brother Tim was visiting from school and crashed at our place. The little guy is all grown up these days and is sporting a red mohawk. He went out with some friends from the neighborhood to go to some new microbrew hippie beer place. They invited me but I stayed in to finish up some work. When I was done I joined Chad who was watching Repo Man on satellite tv. Tim came back mildly wasted and stared with fascination while Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) tricks Otto (Emilio Estevez) into stealing a car. Otto. Get it?
Man, kids today are just plain ignorant. We couldn’t believe Tim with his new hair and pierced head had never seen the ultimate sci-fi punk movie. Repo Man has got it all. The American wasteland littered with generic goods. The twisted philosophy of the repo men, the 80s punk scene, government agents, UFO conspiracy nuts and a dead alien stashed in the trunk of a Chevy Malibu. There is even a little Dianetics bashing. One of the elder repo men gives Otto a book entitled Dioretix. Very solemnly he says, ‘This book will change your life’…so Otto chucks it in a fire. And the music! Man, the music in this film is like a soundtrack for the 80s LA punk scene with bands like Fear, Iggy Pop, Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag and the Circle Jerks who play a lounge act in the movie. If you are bored enough to shave your head into a mohawk this is pretty much required reading if you know what I mean.
I think we did a good deed. We have passed on ancient wisdom to young Timothy to share with his other punk friends. Maybe now they will start drinking cheap beer and crushing the empty cans on their skulls because real punks wouldn’t drink organic microbrew at 7 dollars a pint.