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Slacker (1991) More at IMDb Pro »

• Was the movie that directly inspired Kevin Smith to become a filmmaker; inspired the movie Clerks. (1994).
  
  
• The average movie has 500-1,000 cuts in it. This movie only has 163. And almost a third of them come from the last five minutes during the super 8 film scene.
  
  
• The "Oblique Strategies" cards that appear in the movie were originally invented by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in 1975.
  
  

• The "Anti-Artist" in the bar about 3/4 through the movie is a prominent Austin musician and spoken word artist. Wammo is a founding member in the band the "Asylum Street Spankers". The spankers have released numerous CDs and Wammo has also released several solo CDs. His music/poetry are either artistic or anti-artistic depending on your taste.
  
  
• The passage read by "Guy Who Tosses Typewriter" is from James Joyce's Ulysses.
  
  
• There is a still from Eraserhead (1977) on the hit-and-run driver's wall.
  
  
• Was originally called "The Nobody Boy" but the studio changed it
  
  
• The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy that gets ripped off by the newspaper machine is lead vocalist, musician and founding member of Poi Dog Pondering. The tune that he whistles after he passes the Sidewalk Psychic is "Postcard From a Dream (Toast and Jelly)" from their first studio album, recorded in Austin. The woman that claims to have change but doesn't give it to him is Abra Moore, though she had left Poi Dog by then.
  
  

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