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October 4, 2010

The Hobo's Curse

The curse of living as a hobo is this uneasy feeling that everything you see looks vaguely familiar. I'm sick as a dog, lying in bed watching a movie today on IFC called Paranoid Park. Basically, it's a skateboarding/coming-of-age story about a group of teenagers. They spend their free time skating in this park and I'm looking at this park thinking...that looks exactly like the skateboard park I used to frequent in Portland - the Burnside Skatepark.

And this is a rough place. When I went there, I had people tell me to leave and threaten me with physical violence. It's a rough crowd and a tough place to hang out. As soon as I saw it, I had this adrenaline rush of fight-or-flight all over again.

The movie isn't all that good, IMHO. It seemed long and tedious and of dubious merit. But the skateboard park was spot-on - a rough place to hang out where few good things happen.

The other redeeming attribute of this movie is the songs by Elliott Smith, who lived in Portland for some time, apparently. The song "Angeles" also was used in the soundtrack for the movie The Girl Next Door.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1808915360/filmography

Posted by Rob Kiser on October 4, 2010 at 8:47 PM

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