People Who Died

Patrick Swayze has a posse. Monday.

Jim Carroll has a posse. A few days earlier.

Um... where does "People Who Died" get played in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial?! Pretty punk song for a movie that's synonymous with treacle, wouldn't you say? (I remember it from the "Dawn of the Dead" remake but not E.T.)

[UPDATE: "People Who Died" can be heard briefly/faintly playing on the radio during the opening scene where all the boys are playing D&D. Easy to miss.]

[BTW: Later in the movie, there's a scene where the older brother has just come home and he's looking through the fridge singing snippets of a song that's actually Elvis Costello's "Accidents Will Happen".]



I'm a broken record here but my world is insane right now.

This is one of those times that I will look back upon and laugh. A weary sort of laugh, marveling at the resilience of the human spirit.