{"id":1093,"date":"2009-07-30T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/07\/crazy-for-the-big-lebowski.html"},"modified":"2009-07-30T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:33:00","slug":"crazy-for-the-big-lebowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/07\/crazy-for-the-big-lebowski.html","title":{"rendered":"Crazy For The Big Lebowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SnHNwZ8-KOI\/AAAAAAAAAXA\/pME8p7GpyFo\/s1600-h\/Biglebowskisoundtrackalbum.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SnHNwZ8-KOI\/AAAAAAAAAXA\/pME8p7GpyFo\/s320\/Biglebowskisoundtrackalbum.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>DO you spend your free time dressing up like figures of speech, drunkenly bowling for endless hours and memorizing non-sequitors from an obscure film? if so, you must be &#8220;an achiever,&#8221; one of the group of \u00a0&#8220;big lebowski&#8221; zealots who gathers to celebrate the coens brothers movie at least once a year. the film, of course, was considered a disappointment upon opening but has become &#8212; thanks to a few gen-x dreamers in louisville &#8212; the biggest cult picture since &#8220;rocky horror.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>today i have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-lebowski30-2009jul30,0,1650079.story\">piece<\/a> in the LATimes, most of which is an interview with eddie chung, the director of a documentary on the phenomenon called &#8220;the achievers.&#8221; some of the fans he tracks seems to NEED their &#8220;lebowski&#8221; friends so badly you kinda wonder how they avoided accumulating companions in other spheres&#8230; tho chung said most of them are pretty well adjusted. &#8220;they&#8217;re not, as far as i know, criminals,&#8221; he told me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>either way,\u00a0more proof that in an atomized, media-obsessed post-industrial culture, anything is possible.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DO you spend your free time dressing up like figures of speech, drunkenly bowling for endless hours and memorizing non-sequitors from an obscure film? if so, you must be &#8220;an achiever,&#8221; one of the group of \u00a0&#8220;big lebowski&#8221; zealots who gathers to celebrate the coens brothers movie at least once a year. the film, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[482,481,76,236,126],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-big-lebowski","7":"category-coen-brothers","8":"category-film","9":"category-louisville","10":"category-subculture","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}