The 80s resurge is over, folks. But wait, you say, so much of this flashy dayglo bullshit is everywhere still?! True, but it’s just the remnance of a refad. If we are talking about things overstaying their welcome, all of that late 90’s  Nickleback bullshit is still hanging around like a dead corpse as well, right? (Who the fuck listens to HINDER, anyway?)

But one item obsucure and unique that we resurrected from the early age of MTV is the movie Liquid Sky (1982). Oh holy fuck is this movie a goddamned amazing  piece of crap! It gives me  a boner and a toothache as well as some heroin withdrawals just thinking about it! It was directed and produced by Soviet immigrant Slava Tsukerman with a budget of $500,000 and was filmed primarily in a Greenwich Village loft converted to a soundstage. What is a mystery to me is how they raised that kind of dough to make this film? They had to  have pitched the plot to investors to get them to put up the money to make it. What kind of sick rich fuck would have been cool/smart/crazy enough to put up the money for this flick?

The “plot” to Liquid Sky according to imdb:

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model’s casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. (Both models are played by Anne Carlisle, in a dual role.) Darkly funny and thoroughly weird.

I can’t even remember how we came across this thing but somehow a videotape ended up at this INSANE house I was living at in Lincoln, NE. This place was sex, drugs and rock and roll incarnate. We had so much fun there they arrested us for having a party. There was a guy spinning fire in the back yard.  That’s how you know it was great.

So this tape ended up there because the universe wanted us to watch it. It is at once a cautionary tale of decadence, a sci-fi romp and a surrealist piece of cinema that would be be like Dali barfing into Warhol’s mouth to the soundtrack of Mega Man.

OOOH, THE SOUNDTRACK! Easily the best piece of music ever created! I think that this is what Leon Theremin and Robert Moog were hoping would be made when they were giving birth to the synthesizer. Actually it was made on the Fairlight, which was the first digital synth/sequencer… and I think that shows.

I give Liquid Sky a 9/10 for how terribly awesome it is; I HIGHLY recommend that you try to watch this. And for such a bad movie it is really quite flawless. And all set in Pre-AIDS New York. Bed-stuy/Williamsburg trustfund babies can only dream of being so cool.

Tags: 1980s, Brooklyn, Dayclo, Heroin, Hipsters, Liquid Sky, New York City, Violence Against Women, Williamsberg

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