{"id":86034,"date":"2023-10-03T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86034"},"modified":"2023-09-18T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:36:51","slug":"soundtrack-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86034","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Hughes wrote movies for eveyrone – but they focused through the lens of angsty upper-middle-class kids from the north burbs of Chicago. Risky Business, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink<\/em>. even Home Alone <\/em>(angsty tween!). And their soundtracks reflected those kids; Psychedelic Furs, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Simple Minds – just sing the big singles from each of those movies, and you’ll get a pretty decent digest of new wave pop from the early to mid eighties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Hughes had written movies about rangy, restless kids with huge chips on their shoulder in the middle of nowhere, he’d have had a bunch of John Mellencamp’s Scarecrow<\/em> on the soundtrack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I knocked around Jamestown<\/a> during the weeks before I moved, it felt like my social circle was constricting around me. My haunts and stomping grounds were on short time. . My friends who hadn’t graduated and moved on were all busy with their lives – there, in Jamestown. My focus was moving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And outside the occasional night knocking back beers at “The Club”, I felt isolated<\/em>. Above and beyond the isolation of living in a place far, far from the center of action I craved being in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So as this song plied its way up the charts in early October, it couldn’t have been timed much better:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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