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 40: What Would Ludwig Van Say?
The Whole Shebang Minute 39: Lady Tongue Controller
The Whole Shebang Minute 38: I Wish I Had Said That
The Whole Shebang Minute 37: Nature Is Their Chill-Out Room
The Whole Shebang Minute 36: The Elephant In The Room
The Whole Shebang Minute 35: Finger, American Style
The Whole Shebang Minute 34: Rows and Flounces
The Whole Shebang Minute 33: Leather Jackets and Sneers
The Whole Shebang Minute 32: A Freeform Jazz Exploration In Front of a Festival Crowd
The Whole Shebang Minute 31: Bona To Vada
The Whole Shebang Minute 30: The Peacock Revolution
The Whole Shebang Minute 29: Maiden, Mother, and Crone
The Whole Shebang Minute 28: The Theory That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The Whole Shebang Minute 27: Taking Her Up The Back Passage
The Whole Shebang Minute 26: Don't Break Your Waffle Cone
The Whole Shebang Minute 25: A Little Of What You Fancy Does You Good
The Whole Shebang Minute 24: Like The Pendulum Of A Grandfather Clock
The Whole Shebang Minute 23: Unspeakably Beautiful Mugshots
The Whole Shebang Minute 22: Such A Genius
The Whole Shebang Minute 21: Poor Arthur
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