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But let's not 'The Walking Dead,' it's get that sense of branddon't even get me started settle for only reboots and author "The Perks a comto to Kody Keplinger easier turn Chbosky's ing and familiarity from a on Tom Cruise's perforwhen there are revivals Bianca in mind for had a Wallflower" of Being book's fanbase. pleted work and fully mance in "The Mummy;" of books to adapt. it did its job. omits several key scenes envisioned (and beloved) plenty "Established popular his sense of humor is drier , -- , -- . movie-worth- ., ,"''''''"''',771,,,,,,,,,,7--- --- --- .6,6 1 ,' 3' - )... , e, g 7,- z,,1-,'- ',. 1 I ,,,,, I " c , ' I i, 11- , --- - f ; 1 ', ,,.... -. I. , $;1-- .. .. . ,...,,,,...1;. ) - - - a , , - 1 .. i , book-to-mov- ie - - - !I; , - , , data-support- book-to-mov- ie ed book-to-mov- ie :711114 L,14 C.(ó .4 ,.';' - 1 -- ag 1 ,Z ,) l'i'i, I ;t 1 Send letters to the editor to DixieSundixie, edu. 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ItN.a& N. this period, too, bands like Suicide and Pere Ubu that worked up dour serenades about life in America with pop-inflect- i- power chords, droning harmonies and surrealist lyrics delivered by singers BY STEPHEN B. ARMSTRONG Guest Columnist whose voices were anything but lovely. One of the best of these bands I always was Television, a thought art-pu- four-piec- e outfit fronted by Tom Verlaine, who took his name from the fin de siècle French writer Paul Verlaine, whose poetry, like Tom Verlaine's lyrics, emphasized both the lurid and the beautiful aspects of modern urban life. Television released a record in singer-songwrit- er In the '70s, punk rock was flourishing in Lower Manhattan. Bands with crazy fashion aesthetics like the Stooges and New York Dolls penetrated the clubs around the Bowery and Greenwich Village first, and then came a wave of even faster, harder and snottier groups like the Dictators and Dead Boys, who crushed out short, nasty, nihilistic songs about drugs and child abuse. Several acts with serious artistic ambitions played the lounges in the Lower East Side during self-loathin- g, 4 PI Ar .41iotttion' well-writte- n. - ZTOID Cz:Li...'d7sa71--C- 17''-:..-,- 1977,"Marquee Moon," that stands out even today as one of the most consistently excellent albums ever made by an American band, punk or otherwise. Its sound is sweet and brittle like a box of Pocky biscuit sticks. And absurdist lyrics like "I remember How the darkness doubled I recall Lightning struck 1 I F-)r;:syrt:- s 'I 2 itself" flitter through it like pigeons in a city park. In the late 1980s, I had a chance to live in New York, to be near the spaces where the music of my dreams had been written, recorded and performed. The rock clubs around the Village at that point, however, were dominated by bands that played hardcore and speed metal, music I appreciated but never loved as it shunned the artistic objectives of Television and the pleasant minimalism that made the first four Ramones album wonderful. By the time I moved to New York, so many of the figures that had made the scene a decade earlier had gone commercial, too. David Johansen, the New York Dolls's lead singer, had turned himself into a lounge lizard character named Buster Poindexter and scored a Top 40 hit ("Hot Hot Hot"). Lou GodfaReed, the ther of Punk, was shilling on TV for American Express and Honda. And Blondie's Debbie Harry ed I , it lima 11110mA I I I .."14001010' had become an actor, landing roles in straight-tovide- o the band and for myself. I still listen to New York horror movies. City punk, though. I revere Blondie. I'd take "Marquee Moon" with me on a desert island. Next week, I'm interviewing someone who produced a Ramones album in the But the punk moment has passed. The clubs are all closed. The record stores But vestigial traces of punk lingered in the city. I remember one morning standing in line at a bank on Broadway. There was a piano in the lobby, and a guy in a tux was playing music that sounded like Ferrante & Teicher. Johnny Ramone stood three or four people ahead of me. He looked like a parolee: bowl-cu- t hairdo, white undershirt, scowl. It didn't seem like a very cool thing to say hello to him, so I didn't. A few weeks later I saw Dee Dee Ramone walking along Bleecker Street, his arms wrapped around the waists of a pair blondes. of strung-ou- t Witnessing the gods of punk rock like that should have been a thrill. But I, knew they were And even when I caught has-been- a Ramones mid-'80- s. extinct. And yet I wonder at times about the impulses that made punk so great, the refusal of professional musicians to be boring. Do these tendencies still exist in our country and what passes these days for alternative music? On the lower frequencies, perhaps? I sure hope so. , - , s. show a few years later outside D.C., I knew I was looking at and singing along to something that time had displaced, that success had eluded, and I felt embarrassed for 41t,16'k,41,,m1.0;4'm 7.4mmt;,i', 7.471.;, ,trr, |