In Minute 111 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike look at the history of the legendary green pin (and our awesome pins available on Patreon), take a side trip to Mike’s intimidating leather jacket-wearing college years, talk about the problems of provenance in Mike’s Museum Corner, especially when it comes to alien artifacts, our return to the beginning of the film through the pin, memories of the fairytale narrator who’s never appeared again, and how that fits Velvet Goldmine’s postmodern aesthetic, how Mike doesn’t like The Neverending Story, how cute Ewan McGregor is as 1984 Curt, how Curt’s dual flashbacks to his lovers Brian and Arthur use the same film stock and how that signifies nostalgia, Curt’s peeing off the side of the Rainbow Theater and the role of urine in gay and in transgressive art from Warhol to Mapplethorpe to Serrano, how the pin represents something Arthur still cannot access within himself, and how the pin represents handing on an artistic, musical, and cultural legacy.
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The Whole Shebang Minute 80: You’re Just This Weird Nerd
The Whole Shebang Minute 79: Capital-A Acting
The Whole Shebang Minute 78: I Wanna Tear It Down
The Whole Shebang Minute 77: Sweaty Greasy Goths Flirt
The Whole Shebang Minute 76: Brief Holiday, Much Needed
The Whole Shebang Minute 75: It Could Be Shannon
The Whole Shebang Minute 74: Excessively, Guiltily Naked
The Whole Shebang Minute 73: Walking Out The Door
The Whole Shebang Minute 72: Rubbing Our Shoulders In Unison
The Whole Shebang Minute 71: The Rock Equivalent of a Doily
The Whole Shebang Minute 70: An All-Caps Salon Orgy
The Whole Shebang Minute 69: Kurt With a K
The Whole Shebang Minute 68: Rewriting History
The Whole Shebang Minute 67: Vain Sinners And Truth-Telling Masks
The Whole Shebang Minute 66: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
The Whole Shebang Minute 65: An Artificial Century
The Whole Shebang Minute 64: A Clean-Cut Man Pal
The Whole Shebang Minute 63: Satellite(s) Of Love
The Whole Shebang Minute 62: Maybe You Could Be My Mainman
The Whole Shebang Minute 61: The Impenetrable Wall of Verbiage
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