Midnight Cowboy

First, I’ll admit that I’m pinching this find from Dossier’s blog.  I don’t spend enough time online to dig this stuff up on my own.  Speaking of pinching, this scene from John Schlesinger’s film, Midnight Cowboy is ripe to be ripped off and made into a fashion story.  (If you can do it.  Do it!  Play your cards right and you could build a fashion career on psychedelia right now.  Which would be as ironic as the new John Varvatos in the old CBGB space on the Bowery.  Sigh – alas, I think it’ll take an apocalypse of sorts (entirely feasible) before our post-modernist sensibilities of relative-truth and irony make the chance of a certainty – a sensibility unmistakable in this video clip – possible again.  Until then the safest bet is inaction, un-care, or insanity…or likely a mix of the three.  Or maybe there’s a fourth path too: engaging some Warhorlian high-intelligence.  (Wait though, Dylan did write “Lay Lady Lay” for this film and it didn’t make the cut, which for some probably critically flawed reason on my part makes me think sentimentalizing the past is always a fallacy, b/c I can only imagine the reason for a song like “Lay Lady Lay” to be rejected would be a crude reason.))   Check out this clip anyway, for me its like a feverish susurration, and a self-aware requiem of an era to boot.


video: Party scene from Midnight Cowboy, 1969.

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3 Responses to “Midnight Cowboy”
  1. jw says:

    I seem to recall telling you to watch this film before you left for NYC so you wouldn’t starve if things didn’t work out right away.

  2. admin says:

    Ha! I’d forgot about that piece of advice, Jeff, that you did in fact give me. Never came to the gigolo bit, fortunately, but tides do turn…

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