August 8, 2007
Nueva Onda Movie Night: Austin Stories & Hunky Dory
The new wave takes it old school with an evening that's part movie, part Austin, and all fun and games. Let's hope nobody gets hurt.
Hip Mexican joint Nueva Onda will host a free show featuring Hunky Dory and an episode of Austin Stories this Thursday (that's tomorrow) at 8pm to keep your brain entertained as your mouth snarfs San Antonio tamales and sips Shiner beer. Propose a toast to slackerdom and misfithood as you watch these two films.
Austin Stories was MTV's first ratings smash. Chronicling the journeys of Laura, Chip, and Howard through the decidedly un-mean streets of Austin, the show provided laughs when it first aired. Still as funny as ever, it's now a reminder of what Austin was like 10 years ago, before condos and Californians ate our souls. Nueva Onda will be showing episode #3, which involves European hotties and, of course, a certain unmistakable scent.
Everything's rarely "Hunky Dory" in the workplace, as coworkers Nick and Bill discover. Sidetracked by female troubles (Nick finds something to like about almost any woman, and Bill's girlfriend Barbara has decided she will no longer talk to him) and uncertain of the future, Nick and Bill soldier on. Produced by former Austin resident James Cotton, Hunky Dory also tells the tale of Work Inc., a California nonprofit that employs Nick, Bill, and other disabled and disadvantaged individuals.
There you have it--a night of authentically Austin entertainment, with Mexican food to boot. What's not to love? Besides that diaper smell, of course...
Nueva Onda Movie Night featuring Austin Stories and Hunky Dory
Thursday, August 9th
Nueva Onda (2218 College Ave)
8pm, Free!
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Go for the movie, stay, and then come back at least once a week for the rest of your life for the food. I do.
I liked seeing Austin on TV as much as the next person, but when was Austin Stories a rating smash? This was years after Real World and MTV cancelled the show because it didn't hold an audience and it didn't jive with their other programming. If it was a smash, it may have had more than the initial limited run of episodes.
Not down on the show here, I remember it being fairly funny. It just was never a hit for MTV or anyone else.
Dallas and Houston "refugees" who felt they were too good for their former towns had as much to do with Austin's soul consumption (?) as Californians.
And Austin Stories was a great show. It was probably Austin's last true slacker hurrah.
I don't know about that. Texans share common values just simply by being raised here that people from other states just don't get. Like how Texas is the best state in the US and how good it feels to shoot a beer can with a b.b. gun.
@2: "Austin Stories garnered MTV the highest rating ever for a non-video show." -http://www.geocities.com/austinstories2002/auschron698.htm
my sources may be wrong, but i do have them.
@4: yes, yes, yes. even though i was in oregon the first time i shot a beer can with a bb gun, i wish i'd been here.
How much for the hubcaps?
$25 each
That's too much man
How about I sell you 4 for $100
Deal
TV dialouge at its best. Austin Stories was pretty damn good. Sadly, watching it again will only remind me of how badly the tech boom and Californians and other HDBs have ruined the soul of this town.
Ya'll are kidding yourselves. Austin Stories? Not that great. I mean, it was cool to see some local exterior shots on TV, but I always thought that show sort of sucked. Low production values, stilted script, but maybe I just missed something. I don't know how much stock I put into your geocities source. If it was such a ratings success, why did they pull the plug so quickly?
And PS, Commenter #6, Austin lost its soul a LOT more than ten years ago. Despite that, it's still a rockin place to live and I love it deeply.
Amen, #7.
Austin just hasn't been the same since they closed _____.
Fill in the blank:
1) The Armadillo
2) Liberty Lunch
3) Factory People
4) Some other "iconic" business.
5) Hard Rock on 6th.
go, craig, go!
guest is starting to give me the paranoias...
You go Scooby, better not leave out Tambaleo, people felt that was an institution, then again they are the same people who say the Electric what? We better hope Foundation doesn't close, its one of the last true iconic Austin clubs left!
Oh please. Nobody thought Tamableo was iconic. Anybody who told you that was pulling your leg and you were dumb enough to believe them.
No, I'm quite sure it was someone who posted on here when it was about to be torn down. I had someone tell me recently that the Mean Eyed Cat had been here since long long ago and they were adamant that it had been here before they moved here 10 years ago; it's funny what people want to believe about the places they go.
No, I believe it was someone who posted on here when it was about to be torn down, stating how much of a staple of Austin it had been for so many years and how it survuved through the changes. Sort of like my recent encounter with someone who swore the Mean Eyed Cat had been here since before they moved here 10 years ago. It's funny what people will/want to believe about the places they go and how they tie to Austin history; usually they have nothing to do with it, but they want to be known as someone who hung out at an Austin institution.
http://austinist.com/2007/05/07/snapshots_urban_development.php - no mention of "iconic"
and i was here when austin stories aired, and while it wasn't a big deal to me, it might have been to other people, including my older brother who thought it was so cool that his home town was on mtv. people's perception of the past will always be subjective.
You're right now mention of iconic, no mention of or anyone saying it was iconic here either. Just reiterating that there were those who beleived it was an insitution or different than the other hundreds of clubs that have come and gone in Austin. there were a few that were/are Austin, but most are just flavors of the day that don't last. If no one considered it a big deal, why a story on tearing it down? Sort of like Mohawk, when that's gone in a few years people will be talking about how Spoon played there once (or 123 times) and how Austin has lost one its most cherished venues blah blah blah.
It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all