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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Liquid Sky - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 2-Oct-83 23:28:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  2 23:28:20 1983
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I just bought the album, too, mainly for the cut, "This is My Rhythm Box",
which is a masterpiece whether or not you have a fondness for punk music.
Otherwise, a good exercise in Wendy-Carlos-like synthesizer classical pop,
a bit discordant, and nothing special outside the movie.  I was quite
disappointed that it did not contain the poem which Adrienne recites
upon the death of Margaret's acting professor--a hilarious requiem
for the 1960's if there ever was one.

My point about "Western values" referred to Tsukerman's emigre-eye-view
which allowed him to gently satirize not only the dead-end punk scene, but
German scientists, middle-class aspirations and New York women on the make.
Its tone is firmly tongue-in-cheek, but saying "it's only a movie" doesn't
mean that it has nothing to say.  As I watched it, I realized how much the
same the avant garde remains, generation after generation.

/Steve Dyer
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