Discussion about indie rockers in movies:

PUNK ACTORS IN FEATURE FILMS. I'll start, you add.
(Not regular ol' rock stars, but from the punk and indie rock crowd.)

* IGGY POP in "Cry Baby" with DEBBIE HARRY, and a few others.

* JOHN Doe of X appearing on the screen in everything from "Great Balls of Fire" to various episodes of "CSI" and "The West Wing."

* RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS bassist FLEA making his screen debut in "Suburbia" and appearing in a dozen or so from then to now including "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," and "My Own Private Idaho"

* ANN MAGNUSON of BONGWATER was a regular on the 1980s Jamie Lee Curtis/Richard Lewis sitcom "Anything But Love." She's also had small roles in "Panic Room," "A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon," "Making Mr. Right" and "The Hunger." Magnuson was also on episodes of Nickelodeon's great "The Pete & Pete Show."

* JACK WHITE of the WHITE STRIPES in "Cold Mountain."

* COURTNEY LOVE, beginning way back with a bit part in "Sid & Nancy," to her critically-acclaimed turn in "The People Vs. Larry Flynt" and several others.

* HENRY ROLLINS has been in a bunch of cruddy action movies.

* JOAN JETT (She has punk cred via The Runaways) opposite Michael J. Fox in the horrid "Light of Day."

I've also seen in movies JANE WEIDLIN of the Go-Go's, ELVIS COSTELLO, GRACE JONES, LOU REED, SUZI QUATRO, CYNDI LAUPER, and DAVID JOHANSEN of the New York Dolls.

Observations on revisiting "Desperately Seeking Susan"

Today I watched again "Desperately Seeking Susan," the 1985 Susan Seidelman-directed flick showcasing the best of Madonna's acting abilities.

The movie is cool and nostalgic, jam-packed with Big Apple early '80s street cred by featuring cultural hotspotsof the time Danceteria (where everyone dances to Madge's "Into the Groove") and the (still-thriving) Greenwich Village vintage store Love Saves The Day.

The movie also features underground New York musicians in bit parts including Richard Hell (of Richard Hell and The Voidoids) as the thug "Meeker", No Wave pioneer Arto Lindsay as a newspaper clerk and Bongwater chanteuse Ann Magnuson as a cigarette girl.

ELEVEN CLUES YOU ARE A HIPSTER*

(1) You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration.

(2) You frequently use the term "post-modern" (or its commonly used variation "PoMo") as an adjective, noun, and verb.

(3) You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed Elvis Costello-style glasses.

(4) You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurants with monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine.

(5) You have one Republican friend who you always describe as being your "One Republican friend."

(6) Your hair looks best unwashed and you position your head on your pillow at night in a way that maximizes your cowlicks.

(7) You own records put out by Matador, DFA, Definitive Jux, Dischord, Warp, Thrill Jockey, Smells Like Records, and Drag City.

(8) You bought your dishes and a checkered table cloth at a thrift store to be kitschy, and often throw vegetarian dinner parties.

(9) You enjoy complaining about gentrification even though you are respinsible for it yourself.

(10) You have refined taste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE, Quiet Riot and Entertainment Weekly).

(11) You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring this up in conversation.


* All of it cribbed from Robert Lanham's insightful "The Hipster Handbook." ( wwwfreewilliamsburg.com)

ALSO, CAN SOMEONE PRAISE ME

for my amazing prescience when way back in March I linked to the Journey "Don't Stop Believing" video??


Someone from "The Sopranos" probably reads "Earful of Cool," but then again, probably not since only like 300 people have checked out the Little Blog That Could.

QUOTE:

"One of my heroes is Barbie. She may not do anything, but she always looks great doing it."
--PARIS HILTON

OTHER WEIRD ROMANTIC UNIONS:

Gene Simmons + Diana Ross

Gene Simmon + Cher

Mike Tyson + Robin Givens

Brad Pitt + Robin Givens

Frank Sinatra + Mia Farrow

ANNA WINTOUR'S 1970s AFFAIR

I know I haven't posted in ages - of course, you've all been busy with your own blogs- but I just read something today that freaked me out as much as I was stunned when I learned that Faye Dunaway was married in the early 1970s to Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band.

It's this:
Anna Wintour, the icey editrix of American Vogue, the woman who reportedly inspired a former assistant to write the biting memoir "The Devil Wears Prada," (played brilliantly in the comic flick by Meryl Streep)

Anna Wintour, she of the fur coats and bangy bob,

had a week-long affair in the 1970s with BOB MARLEY!!