I have been watching the excellent TV series “Freaks and Geeks” the last couple of weeks. It is an excellent portrait of high school life with a lot of great characters. There are a lot of laugh-out-load-even-though-you-are-alone-moments and one quote that really cracked me up the other day was when some of the kids were talking about the future and what they wanted to be. The Neil Pert wanna be drummer Nick Andopolis said:- I wanna be a DJ.. and a lumberjack!
My favourite characters is Bill Haverchuck played by Martin Starr. It is hard to think that this guy is playing a role, he is Haverchuck.
Unfortunatelly the series only lasted one season. But it is one of few series that did not “jump the shark”. But then again if you only get one season on the air… but we are all thankful for the time it got and it is a TV serie I can highly recommend.
I will leave you with one last quote from Harold Weir, the father in the central family in the show, were he is talking about music and drummers with Nick:
- Neal Peart couldn’t drum his way out of a paper bag!
