Thursday, February 15, 2007

Astronomy Will Have to Be Revised

The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season One (1993, 1994)
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix

It isn't just that Big Pete apes "Subterranean Homesick Blues" or that Richard Edson makes a mathematical heart for the numbers teacher he loves. When Little Pete finds the crossing guard who smokes looking lonely in the rain on New Year's Eve, he sits down beside him and they agree to agree on next year's resolutions. And they know they won't, even as they say it. Just like Big Pete when the girl from the Hoover Dam is gone forever. As romantic as a Sopranos testing ground - or almost anything - can be.