JoOngle
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And what a fine street it is, now that the runboard is open, new visitors & newcomers will be coming along pretty soon, I´m one of them.
My passion for this movie is kind of weird, it kind of looks familiar because I grew up in a neighborhood pretty similar to the Universal "street" in the movie, Hinkley Hills, Mayfield Place, neighbors where curious, met & spied around the neighborhood...with the newcomers and so forth, if you where a strange loner...you´d either team up like Art, or have a family like Rumsfield & Peterson...and they´d all wonder about the loners or newcomers, the good-for-nothing-probably-criminals-if-we-dont-know-them people...
I´ve probably watched that movie hundreds of times by now, it´s almost mental. :escher:
I suppose...somewhere deep inside, I kind of like the togetherness in the neigborhood idea, the idea of loving your street to the level that you want to spend the rest of your life there, just mowing your lawn, fixing the house, dab on some paint...and party with your peers, greet your old neighbor who never trusts anyone, and who´s trust you´ll only gain in the next 20-40 years or so.
I believe the movie did some mental magic on me, and created much of the way I wanted my own neighborhood...
The place I live now, IS virtually Mayfield Place, and I´m not kidding! Looking at this weird little (now secret, won´t tell ya yet) street in Sweden, this little town...is a MODEL copy of Mayfield Place, and where I live...Hinkley Hills. You´ll soon find out, as my membership in here...probably will reveal quite a bit of stories from my street.
God I love this street! Seriously!
I looked all over the world for a place to live, I had cash in my hand and wanted to buy a house, and I´m pretty sure I ended up here by subconcience and choosed this place for a reason, namely...it fit the movie like a GLOVE, didn´t think about that when I bought it...but I´ve been there for a while now, and ...I´d not be surprised if this was the model for Universals model.
It´s like a flashback from the 80´s, people around here literally live the 80´s. The people behave the same way as people did in the 80´s, they dress pretty much the same way, have big fluffy hair like the 80´s...and I could go on.
The neighborhood is pretty much like in the movie, perfect lawns, always someone trying to have the better yard, people going out to get their mail, greeting each other...the houses are PERFECT (I call them Perfect-Svenssons(tm))
The PerfectSvenssons aka burbanites here, all have their own little dirty secret, which they are more than happy to share with me...I guess I´m their Ray Peterson around here now, I don´t shy away from visiting our neighbors, and we frequently babble about things happening around the hood.
The nights are amazing, just like taken out of E.T & The Burbs, lot´s of houses but also lots of trees & nature, with it´s fog & earth gases, misty lawns...all lit up by an Amblin moon, because we live in the suburbs, we don´t get the enormous city lights around here..so the skies are amazing, starry nights even more moody and amazing.
My house is kind of like Rumsfields house, I have the same view...so I can watch the hood at night, except it´s a brick house...but pretty much the same design otherwise.
Oh...I better stop here, I´ve got to save the good stuff for you guys in the other forum sections.
Anyway - glad to be here!And what a fine street it is, now that the runboard is open, new visitors & newcomers will be coming along pretty soon, I´m one of them.
My passion for this movie is kind of weird, it kind of looks familiar because I grew up in a neighborhood pretty similar to the Universal "street" in the movie, Hinkley Hills, Mayfield Place, neighbors where curious, met & spied around the neighborhood...with the newcomers and so forth, if you where a strange loner...you´d either team up like Art, or have a family like Rumsfield & Peterson...and they´d all wonder about the loners or newcomers, the good-for-nothing-probably-criminals-if-we-dont-know-them people...
I´ve probably watched that movie hundreds of times by now, it´s almost mental. :escher:
I suppose...somewhere deep inside, I kind of like the togetherness in the neigborhood idea, the idea of loving your street to the level that you want to spend the rest of your life there, just mowing your lawn, fixing the house, dab on some paint...and party with your peers, greet your old neighbor who never trusts anyone, and who´s trust you´ll only gain in the next 20-40 years or so.
I believe the movie did some mental magic on me, and created much of the way I wanted my own neighborhood...
The place I live now, IS virtually Mayfield Place, and I´m not kidding! Looking at this weird little (now secret, won´t tell ya yet) street in Sweden, this little town...is a MODEL copy of Mayfield Place, and where I live...Hinkley Hills. You´ll soon find out, as my membership in here...probably will reveal quite a bit of stories from my street.
God I love this street! Seriously!
I looked all over the world for a place to live, I had cash in my hand and wanted to buy a house, and I´m pretty sure I ended up here by subconcience and choosed this place for a reason, namely...it fit the movie like a GLOVE, didn´t think about that when I bought it...but I´ve been there for a while now, and ...I´d not be surprised if this was the model for Universals model.
It´s like a flashback from the 80´s, people around here literally live the 80´s. The people behave the same way as people did in the 80´s, they dress pretty much the same way, have big fluffy hair like the 80´s...and I could go on.
The neighborhood is pretty much like in the movie, perfect lawns, always someone trying to have the better yard, people going out to get their mail, greeting each other...the houses are PERFECT (I call them Perfect-Svenssons(tm))
The PerfectSvenssons aka burbanites here, all have their own little dirty secret, which they are more than happy to share with me...I guess I´m their Ray Peterson around here now, I don´t shy away from visiting our neighbors, and we frequently babble about things happening around the hood.The nights are amazing, just like taken out of E.T & The Burbs, lot´s of houses but also lots of trees & nature, with it´s fog & earth gases, misty lawns...all lit up by an Amblin moon, because we live in the suburbs, we don´t get the enormous city lights around here..so the skies are amazing, starry nights even more moody and amazing.
My house is kind of like Rumsfields house, I have the same view...so I can watch the hood at night, except it´s a brick house...but pretty much the same design otherwise.
Oh...I better stop here, I´ve got to save the good stuff for you guys in the other forum sections.
Anyway - glad to be here!And what a fine street it is, now that the runboard is open, new visitors & newcomers will be coming along pretty soon, I´m one of them.
