3:00 snapshot #1138

The fire exit in the Tropical Forest exhibit.

Tonight I shared "Repo Man" with my coworkers, for our zookeeper society movie night. I've wanted to do it ever since I knew we had movie nights. Many of the people watching were not born when the movie came out. I think it went over quite well, considering that it was low budget even for the time it was made, and these people are used to 200 million dollar movies.

I think it holds up as a film. Still very funny, still great music, still a fairly unpredictable story. If I had my hands on it I might edit out about 10 minutes that slow it down a bit (the party at Miller's house with the Repo Wives seems extraneous for example).

I still have The Plugz soundtrack music in my head:

The cassette of the soundtrack was the biggest influence on my taste in music--that and my friend Brian Strniste who was into New Wave and New Romantics stuff. I heard Fear and Suicidal Tendencies and thought, WHOA music can sound like this? Give me more!

Edited to add: Next movie night is Labyrinth, which I described to one youngster as an "above-average Muppet chick movie."