Okay - so for one of my classes we had to say what urban meant to us by telling a movie, tv show, book or song that described how we felt about 'urban.' (That was a really bad sentence, but I'm tired and don't feel like fixing it.) My answers were "You Suck: A Love Story" by Christopher Moore - because when you've been turned into a vampire and you're trying to go unnoticed while searching out a cure in the city, you realize how many people abound and how involved in other peoples' lives you really are. My second choice was "Honey" with Jessica Alba - a dance teacher at an inner city community center making it big and bringing it back to her peeps - Urban Extreme!! My final choice was "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega - it always made me think of the big city when I would hear it growing up . . . you couldn't really observe things happening outside a diner in suburbia - it would just be a lot of people walking in from the parking lot.
So yeah, what movie, book, television show or song defines your outlook of the urban?
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Breakin'
"'Breakin': A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features ICE-T in his film debut as a club MC."
OH Yeah - LOVE that movie!!! Definitely urban culture at its finest!! So mad I didn't come up with it . . .
Sex in the City - the clothes, the shoes, the lifestyle in general.
Whenever I hear Phil Collin's "In The Air Tonight" I get this image of Tubbs and Crocket cruising around Miami in a Ferrari.
Sex and the City was my first thought, too.
Taxi Driver.
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