Suburbia is a movie written and directed by Penelope Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization) about suburbanpunks who run away from home. The kids take up a minimalist, punk rock lifestyle by squatting in abandoned suburban tract homes. The cast was made up of both professional and nonprofessional actors (the female roles in the film were all played by actual punks who were not professional actresses). Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. ... The Decline of Western Civilization is a rockumentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles punk rock scene in 1979 and 1980. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... Punk is a contemporary subculture closely associated with punk rock. ... This article is about on art and design. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Released in 1984, Suburbia is also known as Rebel Streets and The Wild Side. Red Hot Chilli Peppers' bassist Flea makes a cameo appearance as "Razzle (Mike B. The Flea)". It gives Spheeris' vision of early 1980's punk subculture and an opinion on what drove the youths to become punks. Three bands perform concerts during the telling of the story, The Vandals, DI, and TSOL. Although emphasizing sensational, easily exploitable themes such as rape and drug use, it does score right on the money with its comparisons to hippies and bikers of the '60s (and even outlaws of the Old West) and the discrimination that many punk rockers faced from others because of the way that they chose to look and the music that they loved. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Red Hot Chili Peppers (from left): Flea, Chad Smith, John Frusciante and Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Californian rock band who have combined aspects of funk and hip-hop with rock and roll, pioneering funk metal. ... Michael Balzary aka Flea Flea (born Michael Peter Balzary on October 16, 1962 in Burwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia) is the bassist for the alternative funk band Red Hot Chili Peppers. ... Image:Vandals Iraq Live. ... DI has several meanings: Destination Imagination, an international childrens problem-solving competition Diabetes insipidus, a disease Digitally Imported, the Internet radio station Direct Injection, see fuel injection Drill instructor the IATA code for dba See also the word/name Di. ... TSOL is a punk band from California. ...
When Jeff, the philosophical kid at the heart of Richard Linklater's new film"Suburbia," exclaims to his friends that in 50 years they'll all be dead and forgotten, and therefore everything is futile, he's practically quoting Chekhov.
One of the points made by "Suburbia" is that the deadening sameness of the '90s middle-American landscape — chronicled before the film's credits in long slow pans of decrepit condo complexes, "Everything 99 Cents" stores, McDonald's-laden strips and carelessly thrown-up tract housing — prematurely throttles teenagers' escape mechanisms.
The name of "Suburbia's" town, Burnfield, points to the former, as does the gas meter on which the characters sit and brood or the handguns that periodically appear during the story.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life.
With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply.
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