(I know “movies” was last week’s flavah, but I woke up yesterday morning thinking, how could I not mention….)
Some movies change your life. Some validate it. When I was in high school, Repo Man validated mine, or at the least the one I aspired to.
It became an anthem for those of us even well-behaved Catholic school boys who, if we didn’t rebel beyond the normal teenage parameters of weed, booze, and the occasional loogie hocked out of a rolling car, at least knew enough to admire the real deal.
Born in Shanghai in 1917, Wong immigrated to the United States in 1949. In the 1970s and ‘80s, she owned two restaurants/clubs—Madame Wong’s in L.A.’s Chinatown and Madame Wong’s West in Santa Monica—that became the beacon for some of the greatest punk and rock n’ roll bands of the era. 
