I spent yesterday in Dreamland. The skating rink. Twirling round and round in black light accent, center stage, toxically glowing and trucking to syncopating rhythm. A camel spin and a glide in reverse, a handstand with a kick of my leg, a back walkover and a clap under my back, a turn with a disco barrel tumble and then a screeching halt with jazz hand finish to a not so adoring teenage public. What’s wrong with kids these days? Don’t they know a star when they see one?
A roller disco STAR. 
Thumbs tucked in belt loops, shoulders shrugging to the music; I take in the screen-printed advertisement, “Dreamland” only to realize my dreams of becoming a professional disco skater have been neglected and unfulfilled . Simultaneously realizing that a forty something roller boogie maniac can relive the moment.
Dreamland at nine dollars per session gave so much in return. A life misspent but the promise of reliving my youth came true... it truly is a Dreamland. I was one of the elite trucking in unison with kids who didn’t care if I was a has been roller disco queen but a partner to the beat of Apple Bottom Jeans. Magic, pure magic and it added at least forty-five minutes to my lifespan but my corns and bunions will last a lifetime.
Maybe it was the spandex pants or the gold lamé leotard but at that moment I was Linda Blair. Chucking a life of classically trained musicianship for the chance to get laid by a roller boogie grease monkey. A goofy hot roller boogie grease monkey. It started a love fire...and it’s raging out of control.
For the record and I go on the record here by saying this was the first movie to feature a classically trained upper class princess who gives it up to look for love in the streets. Of course there are variations on the theme, Flash Dance, Breakin’ 1 & 2, Save the Last Dance which launched the whole ballerinas gone bad industry.
Since the sad sad passing of my much beloved Farrah I have decided that Linda Blair is now the official patron saint of Mean Dirty Pirate. Long Live Linda!
Showing posts with label Roller Boogie:. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roller Boogie:. Show all posts
Dreamland:
Movies and Interviews:
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The Roller Boogie Movie:
“So you know how I’m a huge Linda Blair fan right? No? Oh yeah Linda Blair and I go way back. I used to ride my bike up to the Meadow Brook Cinema 6 when I was a kid and see matinees for two-fifty. I saw the trailer for Linda Blair in the Roller Boogie movie, the next Saturday I was there watchin' it. I wanted to be her.”
So does this fascination with Linda Blair continue to this day?
“Oh yeah...like just this other day, well a couple months ago really I was on Ebay searchin' for stuff and I came up on that purple silk shirt she wore in the Roller Boogie movie. You know the one I’m talkin' about? No? It’s purple and iridescent and she belts it over a pair of purple spandex leggin’s and leotard. It's all roller disco color coordinated purple for Linda Blair in the Roller Boogie movie.”
Looks hot. Did you bid on it?
“No”
Why not?
“Cause it was fif’teen hunard dollars that’s why. I figured I could get one like it at a thrift store and just tell ever’body that it was the one Linda Blair wore in the Roller Boogie movie. The auction did offer a really good deal though. An autographed 8x10 Screen shot and the DVD cover both featurin' Linda Blair wearin' the shirt.”
*LINDA BLAIR SCREEN WORN "ROLLER BOOGIE" SHIRT *
This is YOUR chance to own a piece of HOLLYWOOD HISTORY! This is a very wise buy! It can only go up in value!
Linda located this wardrobe piece in her archives and is auctioning it off for charity! All to help abandoned and abused animals!
This is the only wardrobe piece from the film in existence. This is it!
Fans of the Movie should act now!
You will receive:
The Roller Boogie Shirt! An 8x10 Screen Shot of Linda wearing the shirt! An 8x10 of the DVD cover featuring the shirt!
ALL ITEMS SIGNED TO YOU OR WHOMEVER YOU WOULD LIKE by LINDA BLAIR, herself!
This is a ONCE IN A LIFETIME PACKAGE!
Starting bid: US $1,499.99
Ended: Apr-16-08 11:44:00 PDT
Shipping costs:Calculate
Ships to: United States
Item location: Toluca Lake, CA, United States
History: 0 bids
Purple Silk Shirt on Ebay
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The Blade Runner Movie:
“Well a few years later my older brother made me skip school and get high and go see a movie with him. My parents were out of town and he was supposed to be watchn’ us and we went to see the Blade Runner movie with Harrison Ford. That movie changed my world. Harrison Ford had a fine ass short haircut, a nice ass apartment, and cool ass futuristic clothes. I wanted to be him.”
So what steps did you take to be more like Harrison Ford in the movie Blade Runner?
“I liked his stuff. I liked his piano with tons of pictures and the whole Frank Lloyd Wright stamped concrete motif all over the place. I’ve been saving little pieces of stuff for a long time and one day I’m goin’ to redecorate my life and house and wardrobe and be like Harrison Ford in the Blade Runner movie.”
Wow that sounds ambitious?
“Yeah and time consuming. I recently found the company that makes Harrison Ford’s barware in the Blade Runner movie, do you know the glass I mean? No? Well he uses several different sizes all in the same distinctive pattern: shot glass, high ball, old fashion. Well them I-talian’s sure think a lot about their stuff cause they aint cheap. I thought I’d register it as my pattern when I get married one day to Harrison Ford in the Blade Runner movie.”
So you want to marry the Harrison Ford character that was in the movie Blade Runner?
“Definitely. I want to be Rachael the robot. You know the one I mean? No? I want to be her. Well Sean Young plays Rachael the robot in the Blade Runner movie. She has these outfits that look like they’re from the 40's and she has a Joan Crawford hair-do. You know the kind all wound up on her head, with lots of pins to hold it together. Sean Young in the Blade Runner movie playin’ a robot sits down at the piano covered in pictures and, she looks like a Hallmark card, then casually undoes her hair and lets it down into soft curls...no pins in sight.”
You wanted to be the robot? Instead of being the Harrison Ford character in the movie Blade Runner?
“Yeah she had better wardrobe and hair-do’s. Oh and she didn’ have a built in life span. She could live forever with Harrison Ford in the Blade Runner movie until he’s old and dead while she remains young, beautiful, mysterious and dangerous.”
The Roller Boogie Movie:
“So you know how I’m a huge Linda Blair fan right? No? Oh yeah Linda Blair and I go way back. I used to ride my bike up to the Meadow Brook Cinema 6 when I was a kid and see matinees for two-fifty. I saw the trailer for Linda Blair in the Roller Boogie movie, the next Saturday I was there watchin' it. I wanted to be her.”
So does this fascination with Linda Blair continue to this day?
“Oh yeah...like just this other day, well a couple months ago really I was on Ebay searchin' for stuff and I came up on that purple silk shirt she wore in the Roller Boogie movie. You know the one I’m talkin' about? No? It’s purple and iridescent and she belts it over a pair of purple spandex leggin’s and leotard. It's all roller disco color coordinated purple for Linda Blair in the Roller Boogie movie.”
Looks hot. Did you bid on it?
“No”
Why not?
“Cause it was fif’teen hunard dollars that’s why. I figured I could get one like it at a thrift store and just tell ever’body that it was the one Linda Blair wore in the Roller Boogie movie. The auction did offer a really good deal though. An autographed 8x10 Screen shot and the DVD cover both featurin' Linda Blair wearin' the shirt.”
*LINDA BLAIR SCREEN WORN "ROLLER BOOGIE" SHIRT *
This is YOUR chance to own a piece of HOLLYWOOD HISTORY! This is a very wise buy! It can only go up in value!
Linda located this wardrobe piece in her archives and is auctioning it off for charity! All to help abandoned and abused animals!
This is the only wardrobe piece from the film in existence. This is it!
Fans of the Movie should act now!
You will receive:
The Roller Boogie Shirt! An 8x10 Screen Shot of Linda wearing the shirt! An 8x10 of the DVD cover featuring the shirt!
ALL ITEMS SIGNED TO YOU OR WHOMEVER YOU WOULD LIKE by LINDA BLAIR, herself!
This is a ONCE IN A LIFETIME PACKAGE!
Starting bid: US $1,499.99
Ended: Apr-16-08 11:44:00 PDT
Shipping costs:Calculate
Ships to: United States
Item location: Toluca Lake, CA, United States
History: 0 bids
Purple Silk Shirt on Ebay
________________________________________________________
The Blade Runner Movie:
“Well a few years later my older brother made me skip school and get high and go see a movie with him. My parents were out of town and he was supposed to be watchn’ us and we went to see the Blade Runner movie with Harrison Ford. That movie changed my world. Harrison Ford had a fine ass short haircut, a nice ass apartment, and cool ass futuristic clothes. I wanted to be him.”
So what steps did you take to be more like Harrison Ford in the movie Blade Runner?
“I liked his stuff. I liked his piano with tons of pictures and the whole Frank Lloyd Wright stamped concrete motif all over the place. I’ve been saving little pieces of stuff for a long time and one day I’m goin’ to redecorate my life and house and wardrobe and be like Harrison Ford in the Blade Runner movie.”
Wow that sounds ambitious?
“Yeah and time consuming. I recently found the company that makes Harrison Ford’s barware in the Blade Runner movie, do you know the glass I mean? No? Well he uses several different sizes all in the same distinctive pattern: shot glass, high ball, old fashion. Well them I-talian’s sure think a lot about their stuff cause they aint cheap. I thought I’d register it as my pattern when I get married one day to Harrison Ford in the Blade Runner movie.”
So you want to marry the Harrison Ford character that was in the movie Blade Runner?
“Definitely. I want to be Rachael the robot. You know the one I mean? No? I want to be her. Well Sean Young plays Rachael the robot in the Blade Runner movie. She has these outfits that look like they’re from the 40's and she has a Joan Crawford hair-do. You know the kind all wound up on her head, with lots of pins to hold it together. Sean Young in the Blade Runner movie playin’ a robot sits down at the piano covered in pictures and, she looks like a Hallmark card, then casually undoes her hair and lets it down into soft curls...no pins in sight.”
You wanted to be the robot? Instead of being the Harrison Ford character in the movie Blade Runner?
“Yeah she had better wardrobe and hair-do’s. Oh and she didn’ have a built in life span. She could live forever with Harrison Ford in the Blade Runner movie until he’s old and dead while she remains young, beautiful, mysterious and dangerous.”
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