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Clerks played all through high school, in friends’ dens and basements, usually in snippets because we’d get bored or sidetracked by the particularly provocative scenes. Then we’d head out to convenience stores (not much different from the generic Quick Stop Groceries) and waste time, talk to kids that carried around skateboards but couldn’t really ride them, walk all over town because we didn’t have cars or anything better to do. One of my friends recently described those nights as times “when we?...
...wistfully of “getting some direction” in our lives, we get new pamphlets in our mailboxes every day about “exciting new opportunities” among which we must pick and choose. Our views now extend far beyond our friend’s basement, out to the international stage, out to the sprawling world which our education is preparing us to take...
...paths are clearly, almost painfully defined, and recalls those small, clearly defined years from my own life which could nearly be contained within a convenience shop/video rental store. As the movie’s gleeful profanity and grungy soundtrack recalled the cocoon of my best friend’s basement (which, incidentally, was so small that we could barely stretch our legs on her futon without kicking her television), my college life suddenly seemed to be almost a search for a new set of boundaries to replace the ones that had once so unquestioningly bordered my days. The personal issues...
Asked their thoughts on Origins makeup, Frey and Campbell consider their preferences. “We’re bargain basement trainees,” says Frey. “Cover girl and all that. But there’s an Avon lady at the Tiffany Club who hooks...
There is a poem by Ruth Stone entitled “Second-Hand Coat” that begins, “I feel/ in her pockets; she wore nice cotton gloves,/ kept a handkerchief box, washed her undies,/ ate at the Holiday Inn, had a basement freezer,/ belonged to a bridge club.” Thrift store clothes are loath to abandon their previous owners...