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whatisgoingonpaul · 3 years

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Looking at the deleted scenes

so my last post looking into a scene to hear what they said was a deleted scene and that honestly got me on a kick now about looking though them all. This one is mainly going to be just taking about them/details more then a what I heard post. So here we go.

1- fighting over rooms

This was in the script and the book but never made it into the film, Sam was in the room Michael wanted and they fought for it. So this scene is the context behind Sam bolting down the stairs “MOM PLEASE! Ma! You gotta help me!” “S o o n”

Sam’s got a serious comic collection, which he organises(I see the hulk but no Batman)

Sam mumbling the song he later sings in the tub!! (Ain’t got no home)

“oh no no no, this is MY room. You, spidey and richie rich and the rest of the boys are outta here.” Michael I love you.

“My way or the highway bud” Sam I love you

Michael: I’ll flip you for it *LITERALLY PICKS SAM UP AND FLIPS HIM UPSIDE DOWN*

Sam bites this man in the leg- Michael also notably mumbles ‘lil shit’ as his brother rushes away laughing

Y’all I am in LOVE they are literally just siblings

2- Kitchen that night

This was also script/book. I mean duh because it’s a deleted scene. Basically just talking after dinner

Lucy has two big pictures of her mother ‘hi mom’

Sam is trying to fix the stereo but it keeps popping also Sam wearing the bandana! Cutie lmao

The stereo starts playing lost in the shadows (also like how when Dwayne hits it, it plays good times)

Michaels “sammmmmmm”

Michael just “I dunno if I’m going back to school” he dead ass went ✨I wanna drop out✨

Sam swoops in and starts dancing with Lucy it’s to cute I’m gonna explode

Sam and Lucy dragging him in , Sam straight up head locking Mike and Lucy’s dance is gonna

3- extension of Michael following star

Honestly this should have stayed in. It gives star a bit more character and it also makes Michael slightly less creepy in his actions. THIS IS WHERE THE PHOTO OF LADDIE COMES FROM!

Star: are you following me?*laugh*

Michael, confidently: yea, I am

Star:

How star is laughing and smacking gum watching this dork

Laddie like :0 the whole time

The way she says “well, talk” In a half laugh

SAM ACTUALLY CUTS THEM OFF FROM THEIR CONVO WITH “moms here” that’s why she goes off

LADDIE NOTICING SAMS VAMPIRES EVERYWHERE COMIC!!

“She wants me , all of me” - Sam Emerson 1987

4- Michaels job

Self explanatory, honestly I think this scene should have been kept in for little more past actually establishing that the movie is longer then a few days. Really it’s more like a few weeks

The drunk dude laying on the beach left over from the night before

Hhhhhhhh shirtless Michael hhhhhh

SAM AND THE FUN TUBE I REMEMBER THIS FROM THE BOOK

This kid is trying to read a comic in the ocean

Sam gets splashed by the surf nazis

Michael gets tricked by hair lmao

5- video store that afternoon

Weird note but Maria is called Marie? However in all media she’s called Maria??

Marie gives her little backstory, how she owes max

Max is busy during the day you see

Lucy is such a sweetie “there’s my boys! :D” “my sons my sons”

Michael trying to give Lucy his left over Christmas money and all that 🥺

Sams “bye mike!”

6- talking again

Second night extended talks

They used to come spend summers in Santa Carla

M: where’s your little brother?

S: hes not my little brother

The audio cut out :(

Grandpa asks Lucy about her boss “oh you know him?” “Oh I’ve seen him around”

GRANDPA WHAT DOES THAT MEAN

“Yea if i knew I was gonna live this long I woulda taken better care of myself”

8- morning

Sam watching the stuffed mountain lion

Nanook going after the rears of the stuffed hunting dogs- sir-

“Chill out Nanook”

Sam gets noosy and looks in on the Taxidermy and Grandpa chooses to gross him out lmao

“Nanook, this is my life , I come from a broken home. My mom works all day, my brother SLEEPS all day and my grandfathers possibly a alien who stuffs chipmunks” SAM I LOVE YOU

Sam sneaks a bit of grandpas weed

I’m going to sob I’m gonna sob it’s like a bit of the leaf! Sam baby never change

Grandpa walks in- Sam gets offended and tells him to stop with the Indian walk (this implies that he just straight up sneaks up on Sam non stop lmao I love him)

This blends into the “let’s go to town” scene

9- Michaels “morning after

The video I’m watching titled it this and I’m losing my shit so I’m keeping it. ALSO AGAIN THE MAGGOTS AND THE BRIDGE SCENE ARENT ON THE SAME NIGHT. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT IN TO ESTABLISH THAT

Michael not being able to lift his weights

“I can’t remember to much, not after the Chinese food that looked like maggots” Sam slowly putting down his apple lmao

“Hey mike, you think grandpas a alien?”

Mike “mom and I didn’t wanna tell you two early” lmao

Nanook and Michaels salty feet. I still don’t get this part

“That was some pretty funky Chinese food”

MICHAEL IS NOT WEARING ANYTHING UNDER THE ROBE AND HE HAS FUCKING TIGHTY WHITIES

Mike just placing his full hand over sams face

10-

Went over this last night

Max having thorn sit shot gun

His baseball cap that’s it just his hat

11- max and Lucy date pre phone call

Again for character development , like star. Like he doubles as a love interest and villain you think they’d leave the little parts with him in it in the movie

Max saying “I know what it’s like to be alone”

He says protecting mother in Latin(I think?) then English - NERD

“Lioness with her Cubs” she laughs THEYRE REALLY CUTE- STOP

“I think my mothering days are just about over” “well, they don’t have to be” SUBTLE

Max trying to show off with a fancy order shsisososososos

Max goes all out and spoils with the expensive order and Lucy is all !!! ☺️ no one touch me

They’re actually really cute and it makes me so mad they cut out moments like this for him and star? Because even with these they don’t get that much time but they get that much more character

13- Mike they’re here! Introductions

Should have been kept simply because there’s a huge gap

“This guy looks more like a zombie”

“Should I run him though?”

MICHAELS EYELINER

Mike is so sarcastic

“David! It’s David isn’t it?! He’s the leader! David ansisosososoos” mikes deflated “yea”

In conclusion these all should have stayed in the film and I am still upset over this. Also if there’s any more or any one that I missed: gimme

#the lost boys #the lost boys 1987 #deleted scenes #star the lost boys #max the lost boys #grandpa emerson #lucy emerson #sam emerson #Michael Emerson #laddie Thompson #david the lost boys #marko the lost boys #paul the lost boys #dwayne the lost boys

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strangertheory · 3 years

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Season 1:

"Lonnie... Lonnie used to say he was queer. Called him a f*g."

"I'm the only one that cares about Will!"

Mike is the one that insists that the Party search for Will and is determined to find him.

Mike shoves Troy to the gym floor for insulting Will with homophobic slurs.

Mike loses his temper at his friends and run off with his bike crying when they find Will's body in the quarry. ("You said that he was alive! What is wrong with you!?" / "Mike... don't do this. Mike...")

Mike is still anxiously waiting and awake waiting for news of Will's recovery at the hospital (even while most others are sleeping in their chairs), and Mike is the one to shake Dustin and Lucas awake when they are told that Will has woken up and can now see them.

Season 2:

Mike wrap his arm around Will protectively and walks him back inside the arcade.

Mike wraps his arm around Will protectively after his episode on Halloween and stops Trick-or-Treating during the "best night of the year" to take Will back to his house where he can recover.

"Well if we're both going crazy we'll go crazy together." "Yeah. Crazy together!"

Mike grabs Will's hand to comfort him, and this is paralleled in the following episode when Lucas and Max grab each other's hands and Dustin says he could "feel the electricity" even though Lucas insists that Max was "just scared."

Mike stays by Will's side during his episodes and his diagnosis at the Lab.

Mike says that asking Will to be his friend was the "best thing he's ever done."

Will hesitates and looks questioningly at Mike when the girl with the rainbow hairclip asks him to dance at the Snowball.

My post-season 1 and 2 thoughts: Well, they seem to trust each other very much and be very affectionate and it seems that there could definitely be some feelings between them that aren't strictly platonic, but I suppose I understand why there's still some skepticism in the fan community.

Season 3:

Will gets anxious while at the movies (on what looks like a double date) and Mike and Will glance shyly at each other. Mike asks if Will is okay.

Will quietly tells his mom over breakfast "I'm not ...gonna fall in love."

El and Mike fight and El "dumps his ass" because she knows Mike has been lying to her and hasn't made amends for it in a meaningful way. (Good for her!)

Mike and Will fight and Mike says "It's not my fault you don't like girls!" Will is shocked and hurt and clearly panicked before he storms off to destroy Castle Byers, think back on dnd campaigns they shared together, and rip up a photo.

Mike and Will exchange a rather flirty "But what if you want to join another Party?" "Not possible." conversation and smile shyly at each other.

After El kisses Mike and tells him that she loves him he's genuinely confused by the kiss and confession. Mike's internal dialog in the script for the final episode is "What the hell just happened here?" as El leaves the scene.

My post-season 3 thoughts: Wow! The writers could have decided to ensure that they weren't misrepresenting a friendship as something more and avoided associating Will and Mike's feelings with each other if they intended them to only be very close friends, but in season three the writers actually doubled down on subtext that implies that Will and Mike have hidden feelings for each other and are both closeted. If the writers wanted to avoid misleading fans into thinking something might exist between these two characters then they would not have shone a spotlight on their relationship again in this way during this 3rd season.

Byler is real.

#there are so many other specific details but these are just a few highlights #byler #mike wheeler #will byers

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seancekitsch · 5 years

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Richie Tozier x Reader: 27 Years Later... Revamped!

You heard it here folks! I’ve updated my big Richie x Reader post to be more inclusive! The reader is now gender neutral instead of female, and I’ve mixed elements from the book and the new movie IT chapter 2! warning, i am a book purist so there are some plot elements from the book that do not occur in the movie! Enjoy!

-Growing up, you had always been Stan’s. You’d be each other’s go-to people, sometimes even closer than Richie and Eddie. He had been your perfect Boy Scout crush growing up, and after the first encounter with IT, he decided he couldn’t dance around his feelings any longer and asked you out.

-You always felt like the loser on the “outside”, you were at all group hang outs and meetings but you didn’t really hang out with anyone but Stan besides the occasional sleepover with Bev, but after Stan’s bar mitzvah that changed. Richie was the only loser to attend (besides you) and that meant a great deal to you. Despite how Stan used to get annoyed at Richie’s jokes, you always made sure to go out of your way to include him and befriend him after that day.

-Even though the losers drifted during high school, you remained Stan’s partner and Richie’s best friend besides Eddie. You had a lot more in common with Richie than you had originally thought because both of you essentially had to raise yourselves. Stan found a new found respect for the fellow loser over this connection you had.

-Stan was your first everything, from kisses to heartbreak. Yes, heartbreak. You broke up the summer before college. You were going out to California for school on an honours program and he was going to a university in Georgia with his twin sister. It was practical but it didn’t mean it didn’t sting either of you. You had promised to remain on good terms, however.

-Despite him moving on in Georgia, you never really did. He after college quickly married a woman named Patricia and settled in Atlanta. You met back up with Richie after graduation, and moved into a townhouse with him in Beverly Hills. Despite dating around, you never had much luck, probably thanks to your loud tall housemate.

-You and Richie actually flew out to Stan’s wedding, and while your first love was gone, there were no ill feelings from either of you. You shared a dance with him at the reception and told him how much you approved of his new wife. It meant a lot to him.

-After the wedding, you start to drift from Stan. Soon you don’t hear from each other at all. Richie was the only loser left for you.

-As much as he hated to say it, Richie saw this as his opportunity. You see, he had cared about you since the bar mitzvah. He knew there was someone he loved, but he couldn’t remember who. He guessed because he remembered you so vividly and nothing else, it had to be you. He was respectful of Stan and you, so he had never said anything and kept his distance. With Stan married, and Richie as your roommate (and secretly ruining most of your dates, whether he meant to or not) you were free, and he could hope you’d somehow feel the same.

-You and Richie live it up in Beverly Hills, networking and working side by side; going to celebrity parties and drinking with the big wigs.

-You’ve been tipsy and kissed at these parties, always to fend off unwanted company. It became the perfect cover and a casual display of affection for your closest friend. Despite it being a defence, you once kissed in a taxi after leaving one of these parties. It was a deep and long kiss, and there was no audience for it to be necessary, but it was never spoke of again.

-You became a writer on a semi popular TV series and Richie became a stand up comedian. While you hadn’t gone to school for writing, Richie had encouraged you to go for the job. You had always been good at writing, even minoring in it during college. He helped you prepare and edit scripts. He would even act out scenes in his famous impressions.

-Things were going so well, until one day Mike Hanlon calls. At first, you don’t even remember him until he calls you your old childhood nickname. You have to go back to Derry. IT is back.

-The plane ride is long, and both you and Richie decide to knock a few back in the airport bar and sleep it off on the flight. When you wake up at landing, your head is in the hollow of where his neck and shoulder meet and his arm is around you. Your hands are interlaced. Sure, the two of you had shared beds on road trips and when you’d travel for job auditions, but you had never really snuggled like this. You’re both blushing messes when you get to baggage claim.

-When you finally get back in town, you head straight to the Chinese restaurant in town in the car Richie rents. You recognise everyone immediately, embracing each of them with warmth and love... except for Stan who is nowhere to be seen. Mike assures you that he had contacted him.

-Despite his absence, you all enjoy dinner. You notice Bev and Bill still carry torches for one another after all these years. Ben looks amazing and seems very successful. Mike is even wiser than he was when you were all young. Eddie is still just as hyper and fun to talk to.

-After the meal, you all head off from the restaurant to talk strategy. On the walk out of the building, Bev pulls you back to walk and talk with her. It’s as if nothing has changed and you’re having a sleepover again. She specifically asks if you and Richie are a couple. When you deny this, she laughs and says that’s insane because of how you seem so in love with one another.

-You’d never say it, but you had imagined a life with Richie before. You can’t really be roommates with someone you have such a bond with without thinking of these things. But late at night when you can’t sleep you think about how nice it would be to have his arms around you, pressed into his lean and warm chest. There have been times when he’s brought people back, and he has a type in the people he brings home. A lot of them either share your name, or Eddie’s. You realize this isn’t a coincidence that you’d hear him calling out these names. Tozier sounded like a nice title to gain. It would be fun to see his last name, even hyphenated, on yours in any of your writing credits. But you’re snapped out of your thoughts the second Bev gets through on the line she’s trying to reach Stan at.

-Patricia was on the line; she said Stan had slit his wrists in the bathtub just an hour earlier. IT had been written on the wall in his blood. This makes your blood run cold. You can’t even react for a good five minutes even though everyone is watching you very carefully.

-The day you had all made that blood pact, Stan had made an off handed joke about slitting your wrists instead of just your hands. It had made you uncomfortable then, but scares the shit out of you now.

-When you finally do react, it’s like your whole world crumbles. You think you might be screaming, you know you’re definitely crying. You don’t even realize you’ve fled past all of the other losers cars until Richie’s arms are around you and he’s pressing you close to him on the curb.

-He let’s you scream it out, let’s you dig your nails into his skin until he bleeds, let’s you soak his nice dress shirt with tears and spit. Anything to comfort you and be close to you. This is the most thankful you’ve ever been for Richard Tozier.

-When you’ve stopped crying, there’s a newfound hate in your heart. You’re going to kill IT and it’s never going to hurt anyone ever again. You vow to avenge Stanley Uris. The group can’t disagree, even though half of them want to run. You all vow that before tomorrow is over, the clown will die.

-Richie and Eddie tell you how much they want to leave, and they try to get you to leave as well. But between your need for vengeance and Bill and Mike’s ranting about a strategy to kill IT, they don’t end up leaving town. That night, you can’t sleep. You aren’t sure how, maybe it’s a trick of IT’s illusions, but somehow you end up in Richie’s bed. It’s restless and you’re both terrified, but you cling together in solidarity and something stronger than lifelong friendship. But by the time he wakes you’re gone already, looking for your token to burn.

-You find it in the clubhouse, hidden behind one of the wooden boards nailed to the floor. It’s the little paper program from Stan’s bar mitzvah. An important day that quite literally changed your whole life.

-Upon returning to the townhouse, you find It nearly empty, with Eddie patching up a hole in his face. He’s mumbling something about the library while he’s finishing sanitizing his wound, so that’s where the two of you head when he’s done.

-Richie is shaken after killing Bowers, and now it’s your turn to comfort him. He shakes as you slip your arm around his, guiding him as he walks. Your other hand squeezes his bicep every few minutes to remind him to breathe. You’re here, and you’ve got him. It helps.

-Returning to Neibolt fills you with all of the memories you’d struggled to remember the day before. All of the fear and isolation of your childhood filled you so completely that you thought you could be sick. But you enter anyway, nausea and all.

-seeing IT take the form of Stan’s body is what does it for you though. You’re doubled over vomiting and crying, your hands sting against the broken glass and splinters on the floor. You’re only half aware of the chaos going around you until Richie kicks what you can only describe as a spider with Stan’s head and razor sharp teeth away from you. And then everything is so horrifyingly clear. This is only the beginning; it will get worse. When the head spider attacks Richie, you try to pull it off of him, but you aren’t strong enough. It’s up to Eddie, but Eddie is frozen.

-Down in the sewers is even worse. The fight takes a larger toll on all of you than expected. Eddie finally abandons all of the fear he cling to his entire life and charged head first into the fight, only to be stabbed through the torso and not get back up. You’re bloodied by one of IT’s claws, your wrist probably broken and one of your legs is in agony, so much so that you have to fight to stand while dodging the giant spider monster in it’s true form. All of you are injured in some way but team work weakens the creature.

-ripping out IT’s heart and destroying it should have been the end of all of the horror, and at first you think it is. You’re all relieved, until you notice Eddie hasn’t gotten up. Eddie and Richie had always had a special bond. You knew this better than anyone. He was the first one to Eddie’s side and held him as he tried to get him to respond.

-Eddie Kaspbrak is dead, and you can feel Richie’s heart breaking beside you. You hold his hand as he goes, and the rest of the losers hold each other. Richie presses a long kiss to his face, finally allowing tears to fall for the first time in the lifetime you’ve known him. It hurts even more knowing you can’t carry his body out of this place.

-As you leave the sewers, something changes. It’s as if the curse on you all has finally been lifted. You know you all have to go back to real life and finally live without fear, but fear is all any of you have ever known. The water of the quarry is healing to all of you, in the physical case of soothing aching muscles, and spiritually. It’s a rebirth.

-Richie cries again in the water, and you all come together to hold him. Under the water you feel a hand grasp yours, and you don’t even have to open your eyes to know that it’s Richies hand.

-Much to yours, and i think everyone’s surprise, Bev leaves with Ben. You could have sworn you heard her going at it with Bill the other night. Bill stays in town another week to recover before leaving and starting to work on his next novel. Mike resumes his life without the burden of watching Derry for ITs return, even more wise than he ever had been. You and Richie were another story.

-The second he saw you bleed in the sewer, he had gone berserk. Nothing else had mattered in that moment but destroying the thing that hurt you and Eddie. He knew after that he couldn’t ignore his feelings any longer. If his past love was gone, he had to pursue his future.

-He is uncharacteristically quiet on the way to the airport, and without speaking you know why. You’re all each other has now.

-He parks, gets out, walks around and opens the car door for you. Before you can reach for your suitcase, he reaches for you. The kiss is sobering yet intoxicating all at the same time. His hands rake through your hair and your arms rise up and wrap around his neck. The only reason to stop is the lack of oxygen that leaves you both dizzy. For once in your life, neither of you need to talk to be heard.

-The flight home feels weightless. You’re joking and lighthearted and giddy. If you weren’t as clear minded you could have sworn there was music in the air.

-When you arrive home, you decide to convert one of your bedrooms into a guest room. Stan’s letter to you both is framed in the living room. For once, you fall asleep peacefully. You fall asleep next to your best friend, your soulmate.

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Request anything you’d like to see! My ask box is open!

#my work #richie x reader #richie tozier x reader #richie tozier #it chapter 2

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redsown · 4 years

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get to know the blogger.

1. first name. cole.

2. strange fact about yourself. i’m double jointed, i guess? i’m not very interesting.

3. top three physical things you find attractive on someone.

-- a toothy smile. not sure why.

-- dark hair. oof.

-- presentation, i guess? i like when it’s obvious that someone cares about their appearance. if you’re clean and well-groomed and dress like you’re making an effort to look nice, i’m all about it.

4. a food you could eat forever and not get tired of. baby carrots.

5. a food you hate. avocados and any derivatives. absolutely fucking revolting.

6. guilty pleasure. asmr videos? lmao don’t @ me.

7. what you sleep in. boxers. sometimes i’ll throw on a t-shirt if i’m feelin’ spicy.

8. serious relationships or flings? i mean, i’d prefer a serious relationship, but i also don’t really dip my toes into the dating scene. you know the phrase “once bitten, twice shy”? try “constantly bitten, eternally anxious”.

9. if you could go back in time and change one thing about your life, what would it be? i’d really like to let my younger self know that it’s okay to be who you’re supposed to be, and not to worry about anyone’s perceptions or expectations of you. i feel like i would’ve saved myself nearly two decades of emotional turmoil if i’d had literally anyone in my corner to tell me that i was okay and that i would find people who’d like me.

10. are you an affectionate person? not in the slightest. makes me super uncomfortable, actually. i guess i show affection in more demonstrative ways ( i.e., gifts, thoughtful gestures, etc. ) rather than verbal or physical ways.

11. a movie you could watch over and over again. the mummy, beetlejuice, scream, the devil’s rejects... just to name a few.

12. favorite book. stephen king’s the shining.

13. if you could keep any animal as a pet, what would it be? a fennec fox.

14. top five fictional ships. oh god, uh... if we’re going with regular, fandom-accepted ships? lmao. daphne blake / fred jones. daniel cain / herbert west. lorelai gilmore / luke danes. jessica riley / mike munroe. winifred burkle / wesley wyndam-pryce.

15. pie or cake? neither. i don’t like desserts.

16. favorite scent. not sure. grapefruit, mint, dragon’s blood. a good cologne also makes me weak.

17. celebrity crush. lee pace, bobby campo, david harbour... the list goes on. i’m just... really, really gay.

18. if you could travel anywhere, where would you go? i’ve wanted to go to japan since i was very young. ireland, germany and sweden are on my list, too.

19. introvert or extrovert? introvert.

20. do you scare easily? not really. i don’t do well with suspense, but i love oppressive and frightening atmospheres in games.

21. iphone or android? iphone. i used androids for years, and had nothing but problems with them. i’m happy i made the switch.

22. do you play any video games? when i’m not at work, that’s basically all i ever do with my time.

23. dream job. acting, actually, whether it’s in films / tv or doing voiceovers for cartoons and games.

24. what would you do with a million dollars? put some in savings, travel for a while, then buy a house and lavish my friends with nice things.

25. fictional character you hate? lmao god, so many... but i really cannot fucking stand chloe price. sorry not sorry.

26. fandom that you were once part of but aren’t anymore. a lot, but resident evil comes to mind. honest to god the most toxic fandom i’ve ever had the displeasure of witnessing firsthand. guess biohazard’s a befitting name.

tagged by. @bloodfcst xoxo mwah

tagging. @lcehearted , @reapinghook and anyone else who hasn’t done it.

#❛ the mun.#long post /

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error404kuromi · 5 years

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Can you write a Steve Harrington x Henderson! reader? I feel like you could really write this well, based on your style. Maybe Dustin can notice how Steve looks at his sister and then tries to set them up. If not maybe like a mom and dad relationship to the party. I love you too! You're a magnificent being and my Bi Momma!

Plan set them up- Steve Harrington X Henderson!Reader

A/N

Request: Can you write a Steve Harrington x Henderson! reader? I feel like you could really write this well, based on your style. Maybe Dustin can notice how Steve looks at his sister and then tries to set them up. If not maybe like a mom and dad relationship to the party. I love you too! You’re a magnificent being and my Bi Momma!

Warnings: just fluff

Attraction: Romantic

Summary: Dustin notices how Steve looks at his sister so he sets them up by going to bed early and some wise words

And also I love you too and you are just amazing shdjdhsj thank you for being so nice

Y/N worked at the video store, and that meant working with Steve, her best friend. Nothing romantic was happening between them and yet they both had some sort of emotional connection.

Steve Harrington scanned away at the movies Dustin hand-picked to watch with Steve and Y/N. “Where’s my sister?”

“Right here, you schmuck.” Y/N appears from the aisles after helping a customer. “What movies you watching?”

“Back to the Future, Breakfast Club, Teen Wolf and Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer.”

“What’s the start stealer?” Both Y/N and Steve ask at the same time.

“You mean Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer,” Dustin says and Y/N nods going behind the counter next to Steve. “My Little Pony-”

“It’s official, you’re a schmuck.” Y/N smiles proudly before Steve starts chuckling and she starts laughing with him, her eyes glistening and Dustin rolls his eyes. He looks over at Steve watching him gaze at Y/N like he’s in love with her. Dustin crosses his arms rolling his eyes again before smiling to himself.

Steve’s eyes lock onto Y/N’s smile with a heat crossing his face, shaking his head with a giddy smile before he says “Come on Dustin, we’re not babies,” and Y/N nods in agreement.

“I’m your baby.” Dustin says so casually and Y/N and Steve immediately tense up.

“Ummm-” Steve starts

“Ummm-” Y/N starts

“Just messing around,” Dustin says before breaking out in a fit of giggles. “You guys should have seen your faces!” He starts laughing and slapping his knees.

“Movie night’s off for today!” Y/N exclaims and Steve and Dustin look at her in shock.

“Wh-what?” Steve asks and Dustin looks over at him.

“I knew that would get your attention. I’m sorry, did i hit a nerve?” Y/N giggles before softly hitting Steves chest. Dustin’s eyes immediately widening at the R rated 15+ actions happening in front of him. “Now let us work. We got an hour left so you can stay in the back.” Y/N smiles at her brother before opening the latch of the counter, lifting up the glossy top. “Halt!” Y/N stops Dustin from moving and looks at Steve and Dustin, “I can’t come to movie night as i have a date, but i’ll be back by 10pm so if you happen to be awake, i’ll watch with you.” She smiles before moving out of Dustin’s way. Dustin walks through slowly grabbing the movies, Y/N quickly taking his hat off before ruffling his hair. Dustin’s movies falling to the floor as he snatches the hat back, Y/N pursing her lips to stop laughing. She crouches down to quickly help him before turning around to Steve, their faces turning red before bursting out into a laugh, the back door closing as Dustin disappears and they double over in laughter. “We would be the worst parents!” Steve exclaims and Y/N giggles. “But we’d also be the best. Do you not see how we handle the 8 other kids?”

“8?” Steve questions and Y/N smiles.

“Dustin, Lucas, Will, Mike, Eleven, Max, Erica and Todd Father?”

“How are we the parents of Todd Father?” Steve questions and Y/N starts giggling.

“Oh, Screw Todd, Steve’s her daddy now.” Y/N repeats and Steve’s face heats up as he slightly gets riled up but a blush crosses his face as time slows down for him. His heart fluttering as Y/N remembers something he said from a couple of months ago. She starts laughing again and he can’t help but see how her hair framed her face, her eyes complimenting her smile. That was the moment Steve knew for sure he was madly in love with Y/N and couldn’t hide it anymore, and that he had to stop her from going on her date.

What Steve didn’t realise was that Dustin realised his ever-growing crush on Y/N, Dustin looking at the scene unfold in front of him as Steve awe-struck face silently shows affection. Dustin giggling to himself as he constructs a plan in his head.

“Y-you know, if you didn’t go on that date we could always go to a park with food, and you might umm find that i’m someone who cares.” Steve leans in crossing his arms.

“Are you asking me out on a date?” Y/N blushes and Steve stutters.

“StOP FlirTINg WIth My SIsTer HarRinGToN!” Dustin shouts from the back and we both roll our eyes.

“I enjoyed the food.” Y/N smiles at herself as she and her date exit the restaurant.

“I enjoyed you Y/N.” He smiles and she smiles awkwardly. They walk in silence to his car and Y/N’s brain is questioning everything. “Let’s go to my place.” He smiles opening the car door for her. She quickly slams it shut in a panic and turns around running away in her heels, her red flowy dress just above her knees being held down by her hands as she picks up her pace. “Shit, shit, shit, shit.” She repeats as she comes to a realisation.

“Steve, now that you’re an adult jsut like my sister, you should date someone you enjoy being around. Like my sister for example.” Dustin says as we sit on the couch with the movie paused.

“What? No. I don’t like your sister and i don’t need to date anyone.” Steve says before hearing keys jingle at the front door.

“Oh would you look at that? It’s late and i’m tired.” Dustin checks an invisible watch. “Goodnight!” Dustin runs away from Steve and out of the room

The front door opens quietly and Steve looks over at the door, seeing Y/N appear and he smiles but sees her laughing to herself. His smile falters as she walks in front of him, kicking off her shoes and sitting next to him. “I take it the date went well?” Steve fake smiles and she starts to laugh, leaning into Steve’s shoulder and smelling his scent.

“My date opened the car door for me after dinner to take me to his place. I panicked and slammed it shut and ran away.” Y/N giggles.

“It would only happen to you!” Steve chuckles and stands up. “Anyways, Dustin’s upstairs sleeping so i’ll go now.”

“No, i mean, stay? For me?” Y/N hastily replies holding onto his hand so he doesn’t move. “Also, you promised me a date.” She smiles standing up at him

“Yeah, sure.” He blushes as he places a strand of her hair behind her ear making her breath hitch, Steve noticing as he quickly takes his hand away. “Anyways princess, what made you ditch him?” He asks.

There was a romantic cute vibe in the room, Y/N wanted to kiss him in the moment. She wanted him so badly as she was riled up.

Y/N took Steve’s face in her hands and kissed him deeply, coiling her arms around his neck. He pulls her closer, Y/N feeling his heart thumping in his chest. She brings her hands up to cup his face, blushing as she speaks “There’s something between us. I know there is, i figured out i liked you so i ditched him.”

“I like you too.” He smiles softly and giggles.

“Remember, that date.” Y/N reminds him before hearing someone clapping behind them. They turn around to see Dustin grinning and clapping.

“Why are you grinning like a madman?” Steve asks and Dustin stops clapping.

“I constructed a plan, to get you both flustered around each other today but because Y/N went on a date, i decided to go to ‘bed’ early so you both felt the sexual electricity in the air. And i knew my sister’s date was a schmuck so i had no worries. I’m the master matchmaker.” Dustin smiles and starts to laugh before running upstairs

“Does this mean you are my girlfriend?” Steve asks looking down at Y/N.

She turns around to face him and nods, “Yeah.” She giggles connecting their hands together.

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I Watch a Movie I Should Have Seen: “Mystic Pizza”

I had heard of this movie. If we were doing word association and you said, “Mystic Pizza,” I’d reply, “Julia Roberts.” I knew it was about a pizza place. I’ve been to Mystic twice but I don’t recall seeing the pizzeria.

My thoughts:

The opening credits features Italian music from the old country or, at least, from the Italy section of Epcot Center.

Lili Taylor is going to marry the bug guy from Men in Black. It should be noted that this is pre-bug.

Lili Taylor gets cold feet and passes out at the wedding. Her father is out $5000. I’m hopeful my own daughter’s wedding will cost $5000. I’m willing to cook, DJ, take pics with my phone, officiate, tend bar (beer only), and make the dress. That should cut it close.

Movie watchers’ introduction to Julia Roberts (Daisy) is via her butt. A few tracking shots of her keister lets the viewer know she’s trouble but probably worth it.

There’s a store called “More Than Miniatures II.” If it were me, I’d make one store just miniatures and the other store the rest of the stuff.

Annabeth Gish (Kat) is going to Yale to study the stars. She has 3 jobs besides the pizza place. We know she’s better than Daisy because we spend no time with her butt.

Daisy is intrigued by a handsome guy (HG) she exchanges looks with at the local bar. He’s on a double date but that doesn’t matter when Julia Roberts is around. She must be one of HG’s hall passes.

The other guy on the double date with HG is wearing a turtleneck UNDER a dress shirt. I yelled at the TV. Someone should smack him with a newspaper and rub his face in that turtleneck while firmly shouting, “NO! BAD YUPPIE!”

HG invites Daisy to be a fifth wheel and play pool. Daisy is good at pool and HG likes it. He keeps looking at her with his amused, Blue Steel face.

Kat has a babysitting job for a man whose wife is away for a couple of months. He’s going to have a hard time not falling for Kat who dresses like either Anne of Green Gables or “Mike Seaver on a date.”

In a scene where a drunk Daisy is picking on Kat, Lili Taylor tells Daisy she’s just jealous because Kat’s going to be a famous astronomer one day. That’s right. A famous astronomer. Galileo, Copernicus, and…Kat from Mystic.

Leona, the owner, is the only person who knows the secret ingredients of Mystic Pizza pizza. I bet it’s either cumin or the ashes of Kat and Daisy’s dad who is never mentioned.

There’s a scene where Babysitting Dad (BSD), realizing Kat will be cold on her way home, takes the sweater off his back and gives it to her. If she’s as smart as she’s supposed to be, she’ll use any DNA on it to clone a new BSD and not have to ruin a family to get some older man action.

Charlie and Daisy go to his parent’s place and she leaves him a trail of her clothes to lead the way to sexy time. When he finds her, she is in his parents’ bedroom wearing his dad’s shirt. She asks if he minds her being in his dad’s shirt and HE SAYS NO?!?! It fades to morning and they are naked under the covers. They obviously cut out the scene of her getting completely dressed like his dad. Charlie’s into some weird stuff.

Kat asks BSD for wine one night while they look at the stars. HE BRINGS HER WINE!?! I’ve yelled “NO” at the screen more times than if this was a horror movie.

MIB Bug Guy and Lili Taylor have been fooling around a lot since the canceled wedding. He loves her and he’s not happy that she seems to only want his amazing penis. Guys are complicated.

The three women steal MIB Bug Guy’s fish truck and drive over to the country club where Daisy sees HG with another girl. Daisy backs up the truck and pours two full barrels of today’s catch into HG’s Porsche. Turns out the girl is HG’s sister. They all laugh about the situation without finding out if he’s sleeping with his sister.

Kat asks Lili Taylor to babysit so she can have a romantic picnic with BSD. Boots are knocked. They come home to find the wife is back early. They play it off so poorly that it would have been less suspicious if Kat blurted out, “I had sex with your husband!” before making a circle with two fingers on one hand and moving the other hand’s index finger back and forth inside that circle.

SUPER YOUNG MATT DAMON ALERT:

BSD comes to Mystic Pizza so the kid could say goodbye to Kat. Let’s ignore that Kat and the kid kiss goodbye on the lips. BSD gives Kat a check to help at Yale. After he leaves, SHE TEARS IT UP!?! Pride is dumb. You take that money and you build a robot BSD. Robot BSD won’t hurt you and, if he does, you pull out the batteries.

This movie was frustrating. You could say teenagers are supposed to make mistakes but the adults make similarly bad decisions. Like, why won’t Leona tell anyone the secret ingredient for the pizza? That’s a terrible business plan. At least lock it in the safe. Let your pizza live on!

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The Black Elvis?

Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 25 February 1968

SAN FRANCISCO —“Will he burn it tonight?” asked a neat blonde of her boyfriend, squashed in beside her on the packed floor of the Fillmore auditorium. "He did at Monterey,” the boy friend said, recalling the Pop Festival at which the guitarist, in a moment of elation, actually put a match to his guitar. The blonde and her boy friend went on watching the stage, crammed with huge silver-fronted Fender amps, a double drum set, and whispering stage hands. Mitch Mitchell, the drummer, came on first, sat down, smiled, and adjusted his cymbals. Then came bassist Noel Redding, gold glasses glinting on his fair, delicate face, and plugged into his amp.

“There he is,” said the blonde, and yes, said the applause, there he was, Jimi Hendrix, a cigarette slouched in his mouth, dressed in tight black pants draped with a silver belt, and a pale rainbow shirt half hidden by a black leather vest.

“Dig this, baby,” he mumbled into the mike. His left hand swung high over his frizz-bouffant hair making a shadow on the exploding sun light-show, then down onto his guitar and the Jimi Hendrix Experience roared into “Red House.” It was the first night of the group's second American tour. During the first tour, last summer, they were almost unknown. But this time two LP’s and eight months of legend preceded them.

The crowds in San Francisco—their three nights here were the biggest in the Fillmore’s history—were drooling for Hendrix in the flesh. They got it: this time he didn't burn his guitar ("I was feeling mild”) but, with the careless, slovenly and blatantly erotic arrogance that is his trademark, he gave them what they wanted.

He played all the favorites, “Purple Haze,” “Foxy Lady,” “Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire” and "The Wind Cries Mary.” He played flicking his gleaming white Gibson between his legs and propelling it out of his groin with a nimble grind of his hips. Bending his head over the strings, he plucked them with his teeth as if eating them, occasionally pulling away to take deep breaths. Falling back and lying almost prone, he pumped the guitar neck as it stood high on his belly.

He made sound by swinging the guitar before him and just tapping the body. He played with no hands at all, letting his wah-wah pedal bend and break the noise into madly distorted melodic lines. And all at top volume, the bass and drums building a wall of black noise heard as much by pressure on the eyeballs as with the ears.

• • •

The black Elvis? He is that in England. In America James Brown is, but only for Negroes; could Hendrix become that for American whites? The title, rich in potential imagery, is a mantle waiting to be bestowed. Within his wildness, Hendrix plays on the audience’s reaction to his sexual violence with an ironic and even gentle humor. The D.A.R. sensed what he is up to: they managed to block one appearance with the Monkees last summer, because he was “too erotic.” But if Jimi knows about his erotic appeal, he won’t admit it.

"Man, it's the music, that’s what comes first,” he said, taking a quick jerk of Johnny Walker Black in his motel room. “People who put down our performance, they’re people who can’t use their eyes and ears at the same time. They got a button on their shoulder blades that keeps only one working at a time. Look, man, we might play sometimes just standing there; sometimes we do the whole diabolical bit when we’re in the studio and there ain’t nobody to watch. It’s how we feel. How we feel and getting the music out, that’s all. As soon as people understand that, the better.”

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience, now doing a two-month tour (they will be at Hunter College on Saturday and at Stony Brook, L. I., on March 9), was formed in October, 1966, just weeks after Hendrix came to London from Greenwich Village encouraged by former Animal Chas Chandler. Mitchell, 21, came from Georgie Fame’s band, a top English rhythm and blues group, and 22-year-old Redding switched to bass from guitar, which he had played with several small-time bands. Their first job, after only a few weeks of rehearsal, was at the Paris Olympia on a bill with Johnny Hallyday.

Their first record, “Hey Joe,” got to number 4 on the English charts; a tour of England and steady dates in the in London clubs, plus a follow-up hit with “Purple Haze,” made them the hottest name around. Men’s hairdressers started featuring the “Experience style.” Paul McCartney got them invited to the Monterey Pop Festival and they were a smash hit.

But Jimi Hendrix, born James Marshall Hendrix 22 years ago in Seattle, Wash., goes a lot further back. Now hip rock’s enfant terrible, he quit high school for the paratroopers at 16 (“Anybody could be in the Army, T had to do it special, but man, was I bored”). Musically he came up the black route, learning guitar to Muddy Waters records on his back porch, playing in Negro clubs in Nashville, begging his way onto Harlem bandstands, and touring for two years, lost in the bands of rhythm and blues headliners: the Isley Brothers, Joey Dee, Little Richard, and King Curtis. He even played the Fillmore once, but that was backing Ike and Tina Turner and long before the Haight-Ashbury scene.

• • •

“I always wanted more than that,” he said, “I had these dreams that something was gonna happen, seeing the numbers 1966 in my sleep, so I was just passing time till then. I wanted my own scene, making my music, not playing the same riffs.

“Like once with Little Richard, me and another guy got fancy shirts ’cause we were tired of wearing the uniform. Richard called a meeting. ‘I am Little Richard, I am Little Richard,’ he said.‘the King, the King of Rock and Rhythm. I am the only one allowed to be pretty. Take off those shirts.’ Man, it was all like that. Bad pay, lousy living, and getting burned.”

Early in 1966 he finally got to Greenwich Village, where he played at the Cafe Wha as Jimmy James with his own hastily formed group, the Blue Flame. It was his break and the bridge to today’s Hendrix. He started to write songs—he has written hundreds—and play what he calls “my rock-blues-funky-freak sound.”

• • •

“Dylan really turned me on—not the words or his guitar, but as a way to get myself together. A cat like that can do it to you. Race, that was okay. In the Village people were more friendly than in Harlem where it’s all cold and mean. Your own people hurt you more. Anyway, I had always wanted a more open and integrated sound. Top-40 stuff is all out of gospel, so they try to get everybody up and clapping, shouting, ‘yeah, yeah.’ We don’t want to get everybody up. They should just sit there and dig it. And they must dig it, or we wouldn’t be here.”

A John Wayne movie played silently on the television in the stale and disordered room, and Hendrix started alternating slugs of scotch and Courvoisier. He stopped and turned to the window, looking out over San Francisco. “This lookslike Brussels, all built on hills. Beautiful. But no city I’ve ever seen is as pretty as Seattle, all that water and mountains. I couldn’t live there, but it was beautiful.”

Besides his music, Hendrix doesn’t do much. He wants to retire young and buy a lot of motels and real estate with his money. Sometimes he thinks of producing records or going to the Juilliard School of Music to learn theory and composition. In London he lives with his manager, but plans to buy a house in a mews; in his spare time he reads Isaac Asimov’s science fiction. His musical favorites, as he listed them, are Charlie Mingus, Roland Kirk, Bach, Muddy Waters, Bukka White, Albert Collins, Albert King, and Elmore James.

• • •

“Where do you stop? There are, oh man, so many more, all good. Sound, and being good, that’s important. Like we’re trying to find out what we really dig. We got plans for a play-type scene with people moving on stage, but everything pertaining to the song and every song a story.

“We’ll keep moving. It gets tiring doing the same tiling, coming out and saying, ‘Now we’ll play this song,’ and ‘Now we’ll play that one.’ People take us strange ways, but I don’t care how they take us. Man, we’ll be moving. ’Cause man, in this life you gotta do what you want, you gotta let your mind and fancy flow, flow, flow free.”

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Harold and Maude (1971) starring Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon

“Vice, virtue. It’s best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. When you apply that to life, then you’re bound to live it fully.”—Maude

A detective caper. The practically unavoidable car-chase movie. What was once the obligatory Western, now passé, certainly on television. Maybe a straight, uncluttered drama. A CGI extravaganza with monsters, battles and aerial warriors doing somersaults? Maybe even the occasion musical, if loud and unmelodic enough.

Tired of some, or all, of these? What about an off-the-wall black comedy based on an absurd premise which occasionally succumbs to the risqué, often to the implausible and so peculiarly its own entity that, after proving a flop at its premiere, popularly and critically, it has now become a cult classic?

Whacky in the extreme but sometimes touching, Harold and Maude stars a twenty-three-year old Bud Cort and then septuagenarian Ruth Gordon. Cort, earlier seen as the flower child in Sweet Charity (1969) and Private Boone in the M*A*S*H movie (1970), became famous after Harold and Maude, but wanting to avoid typecasting, he has since pursued a variety of roles.

Gordon’s most memorable role is the evil Minnie Castevet in Rosemary’s Baby (1968), a supporting-actress Oscar win. Late in her career, then as a full-fledged octogenarian, she became the oldest, not to mention the cutest, of the Columbo murderers, mystery writer Abigail Mitchell in “Try and Catch Me” (1977). Also a screenwriter, Gordon shared co-writing credit with husband Garson Kanin in a number of films, most notably Adam’s Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952), both vehicles for Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

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In Harold and Maude, the title characters share one thing in common: they are eccentric—in opposite ways. While Harold is obsessed with death, funerals and staging ritual fake suicides, cocooning himself in preferred seclusion, Maude is obsessed with life and in experiencing everything she can, with lively and bizarre antics, invading other people’s space where Harold is at first afraid to tread.

In the process of Harold being won over to her lifestyle and way of thinking, by movie’s end they become “a couple,” as it were, in the most intimate sense.

The film begins—no score at first—similar to the setup for a murder mystery, the requisite FTB (finding the body) opening. Only the lower half of a man is seen as a pair of shoes descends a narrow flight of winding stairs and crosses a room. A hand writes a note at a desk. When the person, slowly, solemnly lights two candles in a candelabra, it’s then that the pale, large-eyed face of Harold is seen and a song heard on the soundtrack.

This music is Cat Stevens singing his own “Don’t Be Shy.” His songs (from a previously-released recording, typical of “scores” in the ’70s) permeate the film’s background music, along with “Honorable Death” by Mike Post and Peter Carpenter, appropriately placed in this death-themed movie.

The young man, dressed in suit and tie, proceeds to hang himself.

His mother (Vivian Pickles) enters the room, sees her son’s dangling body and casually walks to the phone. Her first words, “I suppose you think that’s very funny, Harold,” quickly disabuse an audience of any notion that this death is for real, and makes those to follow suspect.

While she cancels a social appointment on the phone, Harold makes a few choking noises for added effect. The impassive mother leaves the room, having suggested Harold be “more vivacious” at dinner that night.

Mom gives Harold a Jaguar, which, with an acetylene torch, he quickly transforms into a hearse.

Harold and Maude first meet at a funeral, no coincidence since attending these rituals for the dead is a shared hobby. She steals cars as a means of transportation—parks one, then steals another—so in one of these handy vehicles she takes Harold to her home, a cluttered renovated Pullman railway passenger coach, built in 1913.

Harold is introduced to Maude’s infectious, quirky lifestyle and to aspects of life he has never known. She plays the piano, sings (in a fashion) and paints. She believes in liberty and justice for all creatures. “I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries,” she tells him, “but I decided that was an idea way before its time.” Opening a cabinet of music instruments, she says that everyone should play something and gives him a banjo.

The contrast with Harold’s home life is now only accentuated. Further attempts to attract the attention of his wealthy, emotional bereft mother—floating face down in the family pool and blowing his brains out—are all to no avail.

Mom sends Harold to a psychiatrist (George Wood) who delivers double-talk while both wear identical clothes. Thinking the military would straighten him out, she arranges a meeting with his one-arm uncle (Charles Tyner), a supposed general who jerks his prosthetic arm into a salute with a hidden cord. A victim of war, he praises the glory of war, which prompts a gung-ho, enthusiastic, though put-on response from Harold, climaxing in a planned stunt to kill Maude.

Equally unsuccessful are the arrangements Mom makes for a potential girlfriend. During Mom’s interview, prospect Number One watches through the window as her date climbs on the pool diving board, only to abruptly burst into flames. She flees the house, as does Number Two when Harold hacks off one hand.

In girlfriend Number Three (Susan Madigan), a budding actress, Harold meets his match. After he performs realistic, convincing hari-kari, unfazed, she re-enacts Juliet’s death scene in Romeo and Juliet, clutching a knife from Harold’s collection—“O happy dagger!”—and stabs herself.

Harold and Maude’s relationship quickly grows. Besides leading a number of policemen on merry chases, they steal one officer’s (Tom Skerritt) motorcycle, and Maude, in control, takes the two on a frantic ride. At the funeral of another stranger, Maude steals the hearse. She introduces him to drugs, they share a sunset by a deserted marina, they confess their love, he proposes marriage and they dance to On the Beautiful Blue Danube.

While dancing, she tells him that eighty is the proper age to die. She has taken sleeping pills and “will be gone by midnight.” For someone who loves life, in contrast to Harold, it seems a contradiction of her character.

She dies at the hospital and a distraught Harold drives his Jaguar-hearse frantically through the streets. From a distance, the car is seen careening over a cliff and landing top down on a beach below. On the cliff edge, Harold dances around and on his banjo strums Cat Stevens’ “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out.”

One last “suicide”? Maybe.

Parts of Harold and Maude might be unappetizing for some tastes. Most critically, Maude’s suicide and a scene after the two have made love, Harold blowing bubbles from a bubble jar, may seem against the film’s established whacky spirit. For others, this very whackiness, whatever comes, may be the needed relief from the conventional film—the weak remake, the stale sequel, the dumb comedy.

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gillespialfredoe01806ld · 7 years

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Kindred Cities: Affordable Alternatives to Your Favorite Pricey Places

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America’s premier cities seem to have it all: Instagrammable park and city views, edgy bars, oodles of culture, a vibrant and weird street life, shops that sell cookie dough by the scoop. But all that awesomeness comes at a steep price. The harsh reality: Buying or renting into urban meccas like New York, San Francisco, or Denver is increasingly out of reach for many folks.

That’s why so many city-centric millennials, empty nesters, and everyone in between are finding themselves in a gut-wrenching double bind: Should they continue to fork over ludicrously high portions of their paycheck for housing, or throw in the towel and decamp to the suburbs?

Cue the sad violins.

But wait, there’s another option! Why not search out affordable alternatives for urban living—far cheaper cities with many of the same features that made you fall head over heels in the first place? Enter the realtor.com® data team. We distilled the true character of some of the nation’s most expensive metros, to find budget-friendly—and unexpected—counterparts around the country.

Nope, we’re not talking about twin cities, like neighboring Minneapolis and St. Paul. And they’re not sister cities, which are internationally matched to promote a cultural exchange. Instead, think of them as Metro Matchups™ —places that link up to the nation’s urban meccas in critical ways, but where you can buy a home for less than $350,000. Less than $350K!

You’ll never be able to find another New York—sorry, friends, Chicago’s deep-dish pies aren’t actually pizza at all—but you can find a place that offers at least some of the strange allure of the City That Never Sleeps for a fraction of the price. And techies who leave their hearts in San Francisco can still find jobs and happiness in a land where million-dollar teardowns do not prompt bidding wars.

“If you have a shopping list, you know what you want,” says Jody Kahn, the senior vice president of research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting. “You want to move somewhere that would work with your skills. You should also ask yourself: ‘What’s the vibe? Am I going to find people and activities I really enjoy?'”

If you’re leaving one of the United States’ biggest cities, you’re probably not going to move off the grid to somewhere without a reliable Wi-Fi signal (unless that’s your thing). So we limited our ranking to the 150 largest metros. All have median home prices below $350,000, plenty of gigs, and some ethnic diversity. We factored in housing stock, occupations, weather, nightlife, and a whole host of other criteria that help define an urban center’s unique personality:*

Percentage of stand-alone, single-family homes, condos, townhouses, and co-ops listed on realtor.com

Average days of sunshine per year

Dominant employment sectors (finance, government, tourism)

Dominant occupations

Restaurants per capita

Bars and nightlife venues per capita

Art galleries per capita

Number of pro and amateur sports teams

Car ownership rates

Some of our Metro Matchups™ pair up as you might expect. Others might make your jaw drop. But hey, we’ve got the data to back it all up! So let’s get going.

Prices in San Francisco getting you down? Rally to Raleigh!

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San Francisco, CA

Median home list price: $868,000

Matchup: Raleigh, NC

Median home list price: $339,200 Matching metrics: Tech jobs, tech jobs, and did we mention tech jobs?

Let’s be real: There is only one City by the Bay! But if even thinking about your monthly rent or mortgage bill makes you reach for the anti-anxiety meds, you might want to consider … Raleigh.

Hear us out. The metro has the fifth-highest concentration of high-tech jobs in the nation. And the cost of living is just a fraction of that in San Francisco—or any of the other elite urban tech hubs like Boston or Seattle.

That isn’t news to tech start-up founder Matthew Sniff. In 2014, he left his Bay Area developer job to launch Map My Customers, a software app that helps companies optimize field sales in the field. Attractive prices led him to Raleigh, where he could get 1,700 square feet of office space for less than $2,000 per month. And an army of skilled techies kept him there.

“If I had to grade Raleigh, I would say A-plus for the cost of living and quality of life,” says Sniff. He admits the culture and nightlife aren’t quite on a par with S.F., but adds: “It would surprise people how good it is.”

There’s the Contemporary Art Museum in the city’s warehouse district that features emerging talent. And a bar scene with its own brand of quirkiness. The Angus Barn Restaurant features a butt-kicking contraption that does just what it says it will. And Flex, a popular gay club, hosts karaoke every nearly every night of the week, with the occasional drag queen show mixed in. “Islands in the Stream,” anyone?

Runner-up: New Orleans, with its food and nightlife

Trade earthquakes and smog for humidity and Spanish moss.

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Los Angeles, CA

Median home list price: $699,600

Matchup: Savannah, GA

Median home list price: $249,900 Matching metrics: Movie production and beaches

Next time you’re eating butter-doused popcorn at the movies, just remember that film could very well have been made in Savannah. Yep, you heard us right: This is the Hollywood of the South. Savannah ranks No. 3 nationally in actor, producer, and director jobs.

The recent “Baywatch” movie, starring Zac Efron and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, was filmed in the Gothic Southern city, as was Robert De Niro‘s “Dirty Grandpa.” Please don’t blame Savannah for those! Let’s focus instead on Ben Affleck‘s “Live by Night” or Channing Tatum’s “Magic Mike XXL.” Or “Forrest Gump”!

But it wouldn’t be truly Hollywood-esque without a good, old-fashioned celebrity arrest. “Transformers” actor Shia LaBeouf was booked in Savannah for disorderly conduct and public intoxication while on a production break this summer.

The city’s popularity with filmmakers is in part thanks to a tax credit the state began offering in 2008. From 2010 to 2014, filmmakers spent $58 million to produce movies in Savannah, says Trip Tollison, president and CEO of the Savannah Economic Development Authority. They spent $60 million in 2016 alone.

If you plan to relocate, don’t forget to pack your sunscreen. Savannah has some fantastic beaches at Tybee Island.

Runner-up: Las Vegas, with a star-studded nightlife that never stops

Consider South Carolina if you’re finding prices in Honolulu to be a real beach.

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Honolulu, HI

Median home list price: $695,000

Matchup: Myrtle Beach, SC

Median home list price: $235,000 Matching metrics: Gorgeous beaches, scads of tourism jobs

Want to escape the high cost of the 50th state but keep your swim trunks handy?

Myrtle Beach was named one of the top 25 favorite beach towns of 2016 by Travel & Leisure and one of the best family beach vacation spots by U.S. News and World Report. It has a beautiful 60-mile string of beaches dotted with hotels, mini golf courses, and boardwalks.

You might miss the luaus, the sublime surfing, and the soy-and-sesame-bathed raw fish in poke bowls. But you’ll have plenty to do here, and lots more money to do it with. That’s probably why Myrtle Beach welcomed more than 18 million visitors over the summer of 2016.

And if you’re a business owner, you know that vacationers keep the lights on. Myrtle Beach has tons of tourists, with holes burning in their wallets. They’re well advised to hold on tight to those wallets, as the city is known to have a higher-than-average crime rate. But things are getting better, and the place is growing.

Runner-up: Orlando, with off-the-charts tourism, Disney-style

Don’t let a historic NFL rivalry get in the way of your real estate choices.

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Denver, CO

Median home list price: $499,500

Matchup: Kansas City, MO

Median home list price: $245,800 Matching metrics: Hipster scenes and car culture

Kansas City is no longer a stodgy Midwestern metropolis. The city’s downtown has been transformed over the last few years, and now it’s home to about 20 breweries. Heck, Kansas City was even the first market to get Google Fiber’s broadband service in 2012, which gave its small tech sector a turbo boost.

Looking for a hipper-than-thou bar? Head out to the Crossroads neighborhood, where you’ll find the Manifesto, a historic watering hole dating to Prohibition that’s now known for its wildly creative mixology. Or try Swordfish Tom’s, named after singer-songwriter Tom Waits. Now that you have a few cocktails in you, head over to the First Fridays outdoor event to enjoy street music, sidewalk vendors, food trucks, and art exhibits.

Denver refugees don’t have to give up the great outdoors, either. They can hike the Little Blue Trace Trail at Fleming Park, which runs alongside the Little Blue River.

When you’re packing for the move to Kansas City, just make sure to leave behind any uneaten brownies. (Wink, wink.)

Runner-up: Omaha, NE, with its numerous jobs in finance

Want to save some Benjamins? Ride on down from Boston to Philly.

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Boston, MA

Median home list price: $489,500

Matchup: Philadelphia, PA

Median home list price: $249,400 Matching metrics: Historic brownstones, tech and finance gigs galore

We’ve got bad news for Bostonians: It doesn’t matter how many healthy dishes New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady prepares from his fancy new cookbook, the man can’t play forever. But don’t worry, you’ll get some brotherly love where you’re going.

So what if Philadelphia doesn’t win the Super Bowl every year? It’s a darned good sports city in its own right. Indeed, the city is sixth in the nation for pro sports championships, four spots behind Boston. Plus, there’s nothing like eating a Philly cheesesteak at a Phillies game.

“Philly is a great sports town,” says Ed Mastripolito, a cook at Philadium Restaurant & Tavern. “It is a hotbed when the Phillies are winning games. And we have football fans who show up the night before to tailgate for Eagles games.”

Built in a similar colonial era, Philadelphia has housing and city architecture that many a Bostonian would appreciate. The Philadelphia cityscape is a mix of Georgian, Greek Revival, and Victorian architecture.

Rest assured, you wouldn’t be the first Bostonian to leave for Philadelphia. Mr. Hundred-Dollar Bill himself, Benjamin Franklin, did the same almost 300 years ago.

Runner-up: Chicago, another city that goes gaga over its sports franchises and St. Paddy’s Day parades

Ditch the deluge in Seattle for the “Purple Rain” allure of Minneapolis.

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Seattle, WA

Median home list price: $485,000

Matchup: Minneapolis, MN

Median home list price: $311,300 Matching metrics: No shortage of condos, tech jobs, and music legends

Seattle had Kurt Cobain. Minneapolis had Prince. And while these luminaries are gone, their songs live on, just like each city’s music scene.

Live-music aficionados can check out the Soundset Festival in Minneapolis, which draws more than 35,000 fans each year. This year, the event featured performances from Ty Dolla $ign, Travis Scott, and Gucci Mane.

And that’s not where the similarities between the cities end. Minneapolis is a bona fide start-up Eden.

John Malone, a software engineer at Apruve, a local credit network start-up, worked in San Francisco through the dot-com boom. But he left it behind to return to his hometown.

“Minneapolis is comfortable in its own skin,” Malone says. “It’s not a place that feels the need to compare itself with the coasts.”

Runner-up: Philadelphia, with its aerospace industry and fondness for damn good coffee

Love deep-dish but don’t have deep pockets? Chicago may be the place for you.

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New York, NY

Median home list price: $472,500

Matchup: Chicago, IL

Median home list price: $279,700 Matching metrics: Unbeatable nightlife, financial capitals, pizza obsession

You’d think a city with more than 8 million inhabitants crammed into tiny apartments paying astronomical rents might have lots of folks eager to move. But if they did, they’d be giving up so much: Central Park, daily celebrity sightings, 77 Michelin-starred restaurants … also 24-hour subways that keep passengers waiting for ungodly stretches, cat-sized rats, ill-tempered hot dog vendors. OK, maybe there is a reason to leave the Apple. But once you’ve tasted it, where else can you go?

There really is only one more affordable city that could hope to do the city justice: Chicago.

Even the most stubborn New Yorker might be won over by Chi-town. The Chicago skyline is gorgeous, with Willis Tower doing a fine Empire State Building impression. Once a laggard in the foodie department, it’s now home to some of the best America has to offer. They’re just cheaper. And yes, the city also has its own public transportation system. (Sorry, it, too, tends to keep you waiting.)

The two cities are also known for their mob roots. New York had the Five Families. Chicago had the Chicago Outfit and Al Capone. You decide if this is a good thing.

Runner-up: Baltimore, a port city with lots of condos

Portland scene getting a little old? Discover Columbus!

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Portland, OR

Median home list price: $450,000

Matchup: Columbus, OH

Median home list price: $241,300 Matchup metrics: Hipster havens

The warning signs were there: man buns, artisanal pickle shops, and rooftop bars. So the Buckeye State shouldn’t be too surprised that hipsters have invaded their state capital. Yep, Columbus has even fallen for avocado toast.

“Both Columbus and Portland are known for supporting small business and shopping local,” says Shane Prather, a social media coordinator in Columbus. “We both love our brunch, coffee, and craft beer. We take our dogs everywhere around town and love being outdoors whenever possible.”

Nearly 20 craft breweries have opened in Columbus over the past five years. Want a taste? Attend the Columbus Ale Trail, where you’ll try suds from the 37 total breweries located in the city.

Prather recommends that those looking to grab a beer or dinner head to the Short North neighborhood. Squeezed in between downtown and Ohio State University’s campus, it has become a hotbed for millennials, and also hosts the annual Columbus Pride Parade.

Runner-up: Madison, WI, a college town with a funky food and nightlife scene

Racking your dome for DC alternatives? Go from Capitol to capital.

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Washington, D.C.

Median home list price: $429,500

Matchup: Trenton, NJ

Median home list price: $290,000 Matchup metrics: Government jobs rule the roost

On a weekend walk through the nation’s capital, you’ll see the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. They’re beautiful. But are they worth the high price tag you’ll pay each month in rent or for your mortgage? Hey, it’s not easy on many government salaries!

That’s why folks may want to consider Trenton. We know it’s a stretch. But the city has government and nonprofit jobs to spare: Nearly one in three jobs here is in the government sector.

“We’re the capital of New Jersey. So we have lots of state, county, and city government positions,” says George Sowa, CEO of Greater Trenton—a nonprofit that advocates for downtown development. “There is also a federal presence here as well, with Federal Court offices.”

It may not have D.C.’s museums or “House of Cards” power scene. But does the nation’s capital have an annual Pork Roll Festival? (We honestly don’t know.)

Keep in mind it’s only 26 minutes to Philadelphia, about an hour from New York … and if you get really homesick, two hours from D.C. on Amtrak.

Runner-up: Tallahassee, FL, an even more unlikely government-driven economy

Love the sun but coastal weather got you down? Raise your spirits in Phoenix.

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Miami, FL

Median home list price: $387,500

Matchup: Phoenix, AZ

Median home list price: $317,200 Matchup metric: Sunshine and baby boomers baking in it

Hurricanes are becoming more frequent—and the cost of flood insurance isn’t going down. So maybe you’re a little less adamant about keeping your beachfront abode. If that’s the case, give Phoenix a look.

“You’re never going to worry about massive water damage to your house here,” says real estate agent Kristy Ryan of RE/MAX Fine Properties.

Despite lots of development, Phoenix still has some reasonably priced cribs. And nearby Scottsdale has grown its tourism in recent years and is trying to market itself as a party-seekers’ destination.

“There’s beautiful shopping and restaurants,” Ryan says. “And we have lots and lots of sunshine.”

Another perk? Phoenix has much lower humidity. Hair problems solved.

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