aaaahhh Appalachia!
Finally watched Deliverance the other night.
This scene reminds me of the shin dig they’d hold every Thursday night in downtown Marshall, N.C., there’d be banjos, fiddles and inbreds, oh my!
If there was one regret I had about N.C. it would be not recording a video of that shin dig, because it was fucking classic, man.
January 15, 2009 at 10:08 pm
That was a big hit on the radio when I was younger than you are now. That was cool!
January 16, 2009 at 7:19 am
I like country dances, there’s no way you can be cool, you just have fun.
January 16, 2009 at 7:26 am
P.S. ha ha just read pcobb’s post, mine is in no way a comment response to it, because it kind of looks like it is. Oh well even in text you can trip over things you haven’t seen. It’s a good clip BTW.
January 16, 2009 at 6:54 pm
I am from Appalachia and when I hear that word I hear such sweet things- survival and home-made wine, gospel music and mountain trails, my relatives and friends. I don’t like this movie because it perpetuates this fear and hatred people have of poor country people- as if we are all inbred and waiting to hurt others, which is so far from the truth. The deformities and such are caused by poverty, not incest.
Sounds like a good time and I am not trying to knock your description, but my experience of real country people is one that is so familiar to my heart, these “Other” portrayals of them bother me.
January 16, 2009 at 6:58 pm
oh i just watched the scene. pretty cool. this movie is a horror movie right? don’t they all get killed in appalachia by the weird inbred country people?
January 16, 2009 at 7:03 pm
yeah this movie is full of hate. If country people found you in the woods they would help you get back to where you are going, fix your car, give you food, not rape you and try to murder you. This movie relies on the Appalachian region and people being UNKNOWN, Other, and Weird to people who watch it and therefore, like Indian Burial Grounds always serve as the de facto explanation for all hauntings in movies, this region can be portrayed any way the filmmaker wants and people have no idea that it’s full of classict bigotry.
I’m sorry I am ranting on your blog, but this makes me so mad.
January 16, 2009 at 7:13 pm
thats cool…I loved living in N.C. for the short period I did. Any reference to inbred folk is purely sarcasm and should be taken as such. I loved the shin dig they held downtown, it was fucking classic and I thought served as a true picture of America for the world forum completely contradictory to MTV version which currently rules.