I have a confession to make: I love this track. I remember sitting on the grass of Puerta del Parian in Intramuros listening to my friend shout the song's "I'm not sick but I'm not well. And I'm so hot 'cause I'm in hell" line as loud as he did and louder than I could. 24 years have passed since Flagpole Sitta's release. Its online popularity, relative to every other song from the 90s, is a sound indication for whether it will be remembered by our children's children.
You know that feeling when you stumble upon an old movie you haven't seen in years? It's like finding a dusty photo album and flipping through the pages, only instead of bad hairstyles, you're greeted with hideous special effects and awful dialogue. Also, the dramatic tension I remembered as nail-biting was now… well, a little slow-paced. But the truly entertaining part of rewatching a movie is that you notice things you never did before. For example, in Midnight Cowboy , I didn't know that the guy who gave Joe Buck (Jon Voight) a blow job was played by Bob Balaban, who later became known for his role as Russell Dalrymple, the fictional president of NBC in Seinfeld . Released in 1969, Midnight Cowboy is a raw, sometimes uncomfortable, often heartbreaking, but ultimately deeply human. And seriously, the chemistry between Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Buck is pure gold. Rewatching a movie is like visiting an old friend. You know their idiosyncrasies, their stories, bu...
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