Word: slackerly
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...your slacker-stoner character, the Dude, become such an icon...
...Beercan” was one of the emblematic “slacker-raps” from Beck’s 1994 album, “Mellow Gold.” He played it early on in his thrilling set at the Bank of America Pavilion last Thursday, with microphone held high and confidence in his voice...
...thinking he went soft, or, worse yet, is doing it for the money. Why else would the indie director of Slacker and Before Sunset--a guy whose idea of an action sequence is to have two characters walk while they talk--do a remake of the '70s kids' baseball movie Bad News Bears? It's because, although his office building off the highway in Austin, Texas, is lined with framed posters of French auteur Jean-Luc Godard movies, Richard Linklater is not a film snob. He just likes to make movies. "I would have loved to have been...
...mellow, or because he still looks like a postcollege mop-topped, ex-jock vegetarian from East Texas, or because other than School of Rock's $81 million box-office take, his movies don't make much money, people think of him as the official spokesman for the slacker generation. "I had my chance to do that, and my instinct was to back away. 'Kurt Cobain just died, do you want to go on ABC tonight?' No, I don't. I don't want to speak for my generation that doesn't want to be spoken for," he says...
...from London; films by Len Lye," Australia is offering a more restrained reception at the seriously elegant Hotel Cipriani. The parties reflect the different approaches the two countries are taking to promote their artists this year: for the controversial collective called et al., New Zealand is going loud; with slacker-generation sculptor Ricky Swallow, "it's a much more subtle kind of approach," says Karilyn Brown, head of audience and market development at the Aus-tralia Council, which funds the show...