SIVACRACY.NET: Slacker: To the Austin that used to be

Salon presents "Slacker": 15 years later":

... Deborah Pastor (production designer and art-department staffer; also appeared in film): I grew up in Houston, and when I got to Austin, I lost my fucking mind -- there was so much to just chew on and sink into. It was a small town, [and] easy to navigate. You'd go over to someone's house, everybody would grab crayons and make postcards. People didn't judge. There was no fear.

Kalman Spelletich (played the TV-obsessed "Video Backpacker"): I had lived in Iowa City. I talked to a few friends who were like, "Man, Austin's happening. It's cheap, and it's full of kids. It's just rocking." And it was insanely cheap -- you could a rent a big old house for, like, $300.

Michael Laird (played an unsuccessful burglar): There were a lot of people around the area of West Campus who you would see at parties. It was a very loose community. The contrast between those people and, say, the fraternity and sorority people was very striking and obvious: The fraternity people had their frat houses -- these great big temples of prosperity -- and people like us, the slackers, wore secondhand clothes and rode bicycles. ...

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I hear ya, Siva. I hear ya.

Posted by: Steve C | July 7, 2006 09:07 AM

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