By the time STRIPES premiered in 1981, PJ Soles was as popular in my group of friends as Farrah Fawcett had been for us in middle school. CARRIE. HALLOWEEN. ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL. If not for the advent of cable TV, this gem would have escaped most of us.
Not only did this teenploytation movie solidify PJ Soles as an It Girl for the tail end of the Boomer generation, it introduced us to the Ramones. This was the era of the new wave music explosion. Hip Hop. Punk. Glam Rock. Brit Wave. Madonna. ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL brought it all home.
That's all I got.
DAY 23: Rock and Roll High School
STUMPSTONE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.
-- Lars von Trier
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