The screenshot above is from I guess a promotional film for UT Austin in 1988. This week on Self Help Radio I am revisiting my earlier theme of my favorite music of 1988. Why? Because it was a very important year of music for me. Way too much music I love to fit in one two-hour show.
This video on Youtube tries to capture the UT campus in 1988. Interestingly, the Erwin Center has been demolished. I never saw a concert there - I decided at some point not to see shows in arenas - but I did go there once to add/drop classes. I also spent very little time on Sixth Street when I lived in Austin. Mainly I would walk down that way getting to KOOP, which was for a time on 5th & San Jacinto. But I walked down 6th because that's where the bus let off.
May I speak a little about the Texas Union Theatre? There was a delightful programming of movies there - I must've seen hundreds of films there - especially series - I watched five John Cassavetes movies in a row there - as well as numerous foreign films - it was easy to get to, it was free, & though sometimes someone wasn't there, you could buy cheap popcorn before the film. Truly if you go to UT Austin right now you have no idea how amazing that campus once was. Is there even a Student Union? Is it full of chain restaurants now?
Answer: mostly. They don't seem to show movies there anymore. I guess Cactus Cafe still has shows.
The truth is, I didn't really do a lot in Austin in 1988. At the beginning of the year, I was a little lonesome & made it through my classes even tho I had a couple of needy fucking roommates who sucked all the air out of my life (I did kind of enable them). I spent the summer in Garland being a selfish douche. & fell in love when I returned with someone who would never love me. So my life was pretty circumscribed by school, horrible friends, & girl.
If I could go back again, I'd try to experience a bit more of the city. I probably wouldn't see a show at the Erwin Center, however.
May I speak a little about the Texas Union Theatre? There was a delightful programming of movies there - I must've seen hundreds of films there - especially series - I watched five John Cassavetes movies in a row there - as well as numerous foreign films - it was easy to get to, it was free, & though sometimes someone wasn't there, you could buy cheap popcorn before the film. Truly if you go to UT Austin right now you have no idea how amazing that campus once was. Is there even a Student Union? Is it full of chain restaurants now?
Answer: mostly. They don't seem to show movies there anymore. I guess Cactus Cafe still has shows.
The truth is, I didn't really do a lot in Austin in 1988. At the beginning of the year, I was a little lonesome & made it through my classes even tho I had a couple of needy fucking roommates who sucked all the air out of my life (I did kind of enable them). I spent the summer in Garland being a selfish douche. & fell in love when I returned with someone who would never love me. So my life was pretty circumscribed by school, horrible friends, & girl.
If I could go back again, I'd try to experience a bit more of the city. I probably wouldn't see a show at the Erwin Center, however.
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