tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252880197262898711.post7959859565106111226..comments2023-03-30T00:26:13.100+09:00Comments on Paper Planes From the Aerie: Harold Fine Is Just Fine, Thank YouSean Miles Lotmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000281914946185231noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252880197262898711.post-38146973448402962462010-06-12T02:24:49.958+09:002010-06-12T02:24:49.958+09:00The party scene you speak of quite possibly deserv...The party scene you speak of quite possibly deserves a bit more description than where Harold had a "bad trip"...in retrospect it feels like a twenty minute horror film shot in a single take, but just as goofy and wantonly extroverted Harold's hippy dippy trip is, this only magnifies the obsessiveness with which all the other characters are "cool", nonchalant and couldn't really be asked. It's much like the Future-Utopian-City-Of-Copenhagen where I am now: on the outside everyone's subdues, blase and equal (but secretly know they're all better than everyone else). But yeah, back to the heart of it, which is hotness. Nancy is Hot. Harold is not. Hot people can do whatever they want. Unhot people have to walk on down the road. Or Easy Ride it. Hence context. We can surmise that being tongue-in-cheek is cheap while "true freedom" will eventually cost you your life, but not much more since all of out contextual cultural clues are based on the 70s and 80s, the leftover dross of the 60s grooviness. Lucky us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com