Serious Stevie Realness
(or, How to Cry Your Eyes Out on a Friday Night).
If you haven’t seen this movie, and apparently no one I know has, it will take you a decade or two back in time and you will spend the entire time you are trying to watch it thinking things like Holy Crap! That totally reminds me of the time we swore there was no concert on Earth we would drive all the way to New York city for except the Sisters of Mercy, who had been safely broken up for years, and we all solemnly agreed and then a week later the Sisters announced a reunion show in New York City so we took a three day road trip in a Geo Metro.
I suggest getting together with those kids you hung out with in college, a couple of bottles of wine, and a large supply of tissues.
September 28th, 2012 at 4:32 AM
OK, I think this has thrown up a very interesting cultural difference between early 80′s goth in the UK and the USA… namely Stevie Nicks????? Stevie Nicks? Are you kidding, she was a HIPPIE! No way any UK Goth girl wanted to look like Stevie Nicks!
September 28th, 2012 at 5:50 AM
Yve – this isn’t the first time this blog has gotten goth totally wrong.
September 28th, 2012 at 7:32 AM
Ha, I love that movie! It was randomly on netflx and while the whole Stevie nicks thing is questionable everyone else is spot on.
September 28th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
I perform at the Night of 1000 Stevies every year in New York City. It’s real and it is amazing!!!
September 28th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Awww yeah, goth cred! I have this movie practically memorized… Love Gypsy 83! Don’t forget it was made in 2001, and the characters themselves are chastised for wearing styles from before their time. They were trying to be 80s goth in the new millennium (didn’t we all at some point in the late 90′s?), emulating a specific time when Stevie Nicks went through her own boho Gypsy Goth phase. The outfit Sara Rue wears and the spinning on stage move is straight from Stevie’s live tour 20 years earlier.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Sorry, AJ, we weren’t aware there was a specific and finite definition.
September 30th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
I don’t know that movie, but I love to watch it! xx
October 1st, 2012 at 3:43 PM
Oh man, this movie used to be on repeat when I was in high school. Love it.
October 4th, 2012 at 8:16 PM
It’s a pile of cheese, but delicious cheese…dark and angst-y and fun. This flick is a guilty pleasure for me.
October 18th, 2012 at 3:07 PM
I love this movie. It’s incredibly genuine and not what I expected.