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Johnny Utah: Bodhi! This is your wake up call! I… AM… AN… EFF… BEE… EYE… AGENT!
Bodhi: I know! Isn’t it wild!

HOT DAMN! Hecklevision: Point Break—when we screen the 1991 surfing/bankrobbing/skydiving classic, during which your texts will pop up on screen—is this Friday. I’m gonna give out a few pairs of tickets throughout the week—a pair today, and then, I don’t know, a few more pairs later in the week. Whenever I feel like it. It’ll be a surprise!

Here’s how to win today’s: Email me before 3 pm today (Monday, May 21) and make sure the subject line of your email is “Wake-up call.” I’ll pick a winner at 3 and email them back to let them know they’ve won. PLOT TWIST! Please note that subject line of your email will refer not to the wake-up call Johnny Utah thinks he’s placing to Bodhi… but rather to the infinitely more meaningful wake-up call Bodhi has already placed to Johnny Utah:

If you want the ultimate, you’ve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.

Point Break is profound and amazing and has surfing and skydiving and Gary Busey in it. Hecklevision is going to make it even better. Fri May 25, 7:30 pm, Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy). Tickets available here.

With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.

6 replies on “Win Tickets to Hecklevision: <i>Point Break</i>!”

  4. Haha, Patrick Swayze… His Wikipedia entry has an entire paragraph under the heading “Cultural Impact.” It begins by discussing how “Swayze’s name has become a commonly used term in hip hop songs. Lyrics will use the phrase ‘…and I’m Swayze,’ meaning that the speaker has become ‘like a ghost’, meaning he disappeared or is otherwise gone.”
    I understand what a ghost is, and I guess its sort of interesting that there are a bunch of raps that namecheck him because he was in Ghost, a film beloved by MCs everywhere. But what else is there? Unfortunately, that’s all: the paragraph ends with that. Swayze’s entire cultural impact is that there are a bunch of raps that namecheck him for Ghost. Shwayze, you so crazy.

  6. Have fun Nerding out to this “profound” and “amazing” classic. I honestly thought you did this in jest. Please tell me I am not wrong

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