DeLiRiouS NY......part 1
Those trucks in the street Is it really Monday? Time to find some trouble again Make a bid for romance while the dollar stands a chance. Dumb love in the city at century’s end Those trucks in the street… Opening lines patently familiar to a New Yorker - clarion call signaling it's time to get up and slog through yet another week. Taken from the theme song for the movie "Bright Lights, Big City" (United Artists, 1988). The movie is based on Jay McInerney’s novel of the same name (NY:1984) about an unnamed protagonist seeking escape from his reality in mid-1980s postmodernist New York City. Not only was he living in postmodernist New York City, his story is contextualised in a timeframe in which postmodernist aesthetic and thought was coming to a festering, carbunclous head. I found myself singing that song as my subconscious yet again registered images of pop culture peeps and storefront mannequins adorned with fluorescent costume jewelry and accesso...