Matty Stanfield. I’ve been moving from coast to coast since I graduated university. No matter how many times I’ve moved over the course of my adult life, my journals have followed.
Last time I moved they accounted for 4 boxes. Now I suspect it would take up to 8. After some soul searching, I rid myself of all those hand written documents. But I did take. В a last look at my 2.
В existential scrawling. Over the course of 6 months I reviewed all of my self- reflections. I came to the conclusion that my life took a positive but harrowing turn when I was 8 years old. This turn took place in 1. My 8 year old self took a determined stand against my father and everything changed. I find it interesting that such a powerful moment in my assertion of self is so eclipsed by art and one profound realization about the world.“Love will keep us together…”Captain & Tennille, 1. I guess I should have known better.
В В I was eight years old, but I was still somehow too innocent. I can remember waiting with anticipation for the arrival of В The Sea- Monkey Aquarium package. I know I was eight because I had been working out my plan to get myself into the cinema. В to see Tommy which was due to open in our town before summer had even begun. It was 1. 97. 5. В Jaws was playing at the movies and Captain & Tennilles’ Love Will Keep Us Together was always on the radio. My Grandmother had helped me place my Sea Monkeys order shortly after Christmas.“Caricatures shown not intended to depict Artemia”But no one pointed out the fine print to me!
I did eventually notice little specs moving about the jar. My Grandmother’s magnifying glass revealed surprisingly little of these highly uninteresting floating things. There was nothing amazing to be seen. “I think these.
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By the way, this image is dated 1. I got mine in 1. 97. I had carefully cleaned a. В pickle jar, filled it with water and emptied the contents of my Sea Monkey “seeds” expecting to watch whole families of Amazing Life. В swimming about. They would me my pets! Not like my father’s mean little poodle that had once upon a time been intended for me.
These Sea Monkeys would be my friends and my amazing pets! Oh, for the promise of Sea Monkeys…I did eventually notice little specs moving about the jar. My Grandmother’s magnifying glass revealed surprisingly little of these highly uninteresting floating things. There was nothing amazing to be seen.“I think these are brine shrimp.”I was far too embarrassed to admit that I had expected to see multiple happy families just like the advert promised.“You didn’t think. В they were going to look like the cartoon, did you?”I wanted to say, “Yes, I did.” Instead I said something to the effect that I thought that Sea Monkeys would at least be fun to watch. These lifeless brine shrimp seemed to just float on the top of the water. Artemia captured in motion for You.
Tube. The image seems magnified to what I saw in my pickle jar. I had followed the directions very carefully, but it seemed like the very un- Amazing. В and practically microscopic brine shrimp were far from being Sea Monkeys. В I was also fairly certain they were already dead. AВ knotted feeling gripped my stomach as I poured the contents of my pickle jar into the toilet and flushed.
Sea Monkeys had only. В yielded disappointment. Yet there were far darker realizations that took place in my 8th. В year of life. However the true realizations were. В В obscured by memories of movies and music. My father was crazy. I am sure some who read this will think I’m exaggerating but the dude was nuts.
The man who put me through. В hell was buried six feet under a long while ago. I always thought his absence would bring me peace, but the truth is there are only more things I wish I could say to him.
Only more questions I would like to ask. I doubt I would, but it would be nice. В to have the opportunity.
I do miss him. It would be a massive understatement to write that he had a twisted sense of humor. He was a complete character and a mound of eccentricities balanced on. В cowboy boots. While almost. В everything he left me has caused pain, he did gift me with the love of movies. It was a gift delivered in a sadistic manner, but I credit him all the same.“Take a trip into terror!”One of many amazing films I saw on the adult side of our town’s Drive- In. I saw this there in 1. SISTERSBrian De Palma, 1.
My father had no true sense of the appropriate. Not too long after I drew my line in the sand, he began to take me with him to the movies.
He either had no sense or did not care about the content of a movie being inappropriate for a child and movie rating restrictions were always ignored. My mother did not like going to movies much and he did. В not like going.
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В alone. I think I became his movie pal. I sometimes wonder if this all wasn’t possibly an intentional toe over my blood marked line. It was made clear that I was never to discuss the movies we saw with my mother or Grandmother. Most of these screenings were framed within the context of a shared secret.
I did not mind. In fact, I loved going to the movies. Like any kid, I especially loved being able to see the movies that were forbidden to my school friends. My mother would have never allowed me to see most of these movies. However by the time I was 1. Her concern regarding the warning of the movie rating system seemed to only flare when a film contained a lot of sex. However if I articulated the desire to see a movie I could usually secure her buy in.“Take her to the prom.
I dare you!”Released in 1. I saw it in 1. 97. CARRIEBrian De Palma, 1. By 1. 97. 7 my mother’s own situation had become quite complex. I suspect it was a bit of a relief to drop me off to see Saturday Night Fever or The Rose.
В I would usually end up alone at the two screened cinema and would end up sneaking in to see the move playing in the other cinema. This was how I saw Carrie in addition to Network. I know that my. В mother would have been very concerned had she been aware.
Most especially when I was 8 or 9. Actually she would have been very concerned when I was 1. I just don’t think she had the time or the emotional ability to be to. В actually question or be aware. However, that is another topic.
The only self- aware. В problem I encountered with our.
В Father/Son movie outings was that I quite often did not understand much of what we saw. And he was never interested in explaining anything. Back in the 1. 97. It is my impression that distributors just kept a lot of them in circulation to not only Grindhouse cinemas and Drive- In’s, but in pretty much all movie houses outside of major cities across the Americas. I remember thinking that the poster for the other two movies on the first screen looked more interesting, but we were not seeing those.
My father considered the two that interested me to be dull. I usually fell asleep by the time the second feature began anyway.
IВ remember Sisters fairly well. The whole movie confused me from beginning to end. It would be years later before I finally saw it as a young teen on VHS. Like many of the movies we saw, they drifted through my head in confusing ways.
В Did that really happen in the movie? Why was she taking her clothes off in front of a guy? Was she blind? Were there two of her?
Why did the other lady seem to be one of them? It would be well into the 8. I’m certain I was not the only child to be taken to see this. Swimming at the beach or even in pools would never be the same. JAWSSteven Spielberg, 1.
We saw Jaws as a family unit. I saw the giant shark movie with my parents in our town’s nicer cinema. В It was a shared terrifying experience. Unlike many of the movies I saw, most of my friends saw Jaws. В as well. It wasn’t just because I was a kid that this movie altered my perception of Fun- In- The- Sun. I think this film impacted culture ’round the world. Going for a swim would never be the same.
The only fears that seemed to be unique to me was that I was convinced that my father had rigged our toilet and bathtub to drop me into The Gulf where. В sharks. В waited to kill me in the most painful ways possible. Like a lot of kids, I was obsessed with Jaws and I taught myself to draw the iconic poster image. I don’t think I’m dreaming — we. В had a single of this movie’s theme song and I played that 4. Unlike most of the kids I knew, my obsession came to end when I learned of another movie that was promoted as. В Coming Soon. It was a movie that somehow captured my entire being.“Your senses will never be the same…”TOMMYKen Russell, 1.
I am fairly certain I become aware of Ken Russell’s Tommy because of preview I saw at the Drive- In and some odd photographs I noticed. В in my Grandmother’s copy of People Magazine. I remember knowing that it was. В Ann- Margret was on the cover.
I am so certain of this that I would swear in a court of law. I recall a. В mention of it regarding Elton John on one of my Grandmother’s favorite talk shows. Did I see that on. В Dinah! В or The Michael Douglas Show? Of this I am unsure, but one thing is solidly real: I had never seen or heard anything quite Tommy the movie. It just looked so incredibly cool and strange to me.
And I knew the lyrics to Elton John’s version of Pinball Wizard. В within hours of having heard it on the radio.“But I ain’t seen nothing like him in any amusement hall.
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball!”Note: I have never seen this particular single. I found it on The Internet! Elton John. Pinball Wizard Limited Edition 7″ single, 1.
IВ immediately received push- back from all three of the adults in my life. Not even my father was willing to take me to see Tommy. And even though my mother had a couple of Elton John 8- Track Tapes and a Who LP, she was not interested and didn’t felt it unsuitable. В for a child to see. Initially she could not understand why I would even want to see it.“I just don’t understand why you like that Streisand lady, this weird movie or that ugly. В Patti Smith band!”My father dismissed my request because it looked like “hippie shit.” I attempted to lie and claimed that Ann- Margret was probably “totally naked!” in it.
This did not change his opinion.