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Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, FKA Twigs.
The playlist caption was this is my favorite show … if u know u know.
I desperately wanted to know.
Theres Jen as the self-deprecating gal pal, and Goat the beloved neighborhood freak.
That was kind of a line of demarcation where society changed completely.
I wanted to be able to have nostalgia for what doesnt exist now.
Im grateful for his prescience.
I just follow the scene, literally.
The popular kids have literally been identified on a map a la theMean Girlscafeteria scene.
So it does come down to money.
The underemployed, aimless kids ofDowntownwouldnt be hanging out on Ludlow Street now because they couldnt afford it.
Grunge decamped and dispersed and grew up.
Gentrification is a stale topic of conversation when were using white bohemians leisure spaces as the point of reference.
Again and again we cry wolf that the city is dead.
Cynthia Carr writes in her August 1999Village Voicereview of the show, The East Village stopped mattering years ago.
It stopped feeling like an artists community.
It stopped being an adjective attached to a sometimes dubious aesthetic.
Its always getting worse, isnt it?
According to Carr, the East Village died during the Tompkins Square riot of 88.
I dont really care if Prynoskis cartoon dispatch is inaccurate.
Im nostalgic for the aesthetics of the signified.
Im nostalgic for last Saturday.
I am basically Owen Wilson inMidnight in Paris.
I would be friends withDowntowncharacter Jen, who works at a kitschy used-clothing store.
A time capsule is useful for seeing not only whats changed, but what never really does.
Like micro-influencers tweeting about making it onto theCivilizationmap,Downtownis obsessed with coolness.
Every character is somewhere on a weirdo spectrum, and Alex is the most concerned with where he sits.
She has 97 pairs of shoes and her new iguana likes to crawl in and out of them.
The animators perfectly rendered a shapeshifting closet of platform Mary Janes.
It was going to be a niche show no matter what.
I would have liked to make more but we kind of knew [it was over].
We thought that if the series ends like this, thatll be fitting.
There are certain nights in New York where its like everybodys friendly.
Its all a big party on the street, anybody will talk to you about anything.
