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...took almost too long to squeeze the punk rock rationale through the multi-million dollar movie needle...
...When punk finally did raise its little pointed head on the whore-worn streets of the Cannes Film Festival this year, most of the new rock movies arrived outdated, blaring examples of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Hopeful eyes were fixed upon Dennis Hopper's new film, Out of the Blue, expecting it to do for punk what Hopper's Easy Rider had done for communes and cocaine. Unfortunately, Out of the Blue keeps slipping back into country flowerhead basics with New Wave trim. It takes its title from Neil Young, dresses up Linda Manz (Days of Heaven) as a rebellious punkette who alternately sings Supertramp songs and punches safety pins through her face, and it glaringly dates the death of Elvis Presley incorrectly, somehow linking him with Sid Vicious...
...also stars in the film as Linda's father, whose alcoholism and sexual perversity have contributed to Linda's spiraling decline, obviously. Linda, suited for the part but laboring under the random references to last year's chart listings and a script that forces her to embody a homicidal punk metaphor, finally snuffs her folks while singing "Teddy Bear...
...THIS CURIOUSLY SCHIZOID debut album is any indication, the Nervous Eaters better keep an eye on their audience. If the group--one of the mainstays of Boston's rock scene over the past few years--displayed its previously undisclosed ersatz California mellow side at a grungy hard-core punk joint, the switchblades might fly. But if the Eaters showed up at a junior high school prom and started bashing out their traditional no-holds-barred lust-ridden ear-splitting cacaphony, the result would be right out of Carrie...