Roller Girls: Whip It, Anna Karina, and T-Shirts

We were excited to hear about Drew Barrymore directing, Drew being in a strange way like our pop-culture sister since the 90s. She had her cute-kid years, then her wild-child years and she's still projecting goodheartedness and optimism now that's she's basically a movie mogul and mega-successful film producer. (And still, you know, acting and stuff, although Drewsy, please find a better movie than Lucky You to stretch yourself as a thespian in!) So we were way psyched to hear she's directing Ellen Page in the upcoming production of Whip It, which is billed as a coming-of-age tale in which a girl finds her identity through...roller derby! Psyched! We think there could be a lot of potential to ride some kind of pop culture wave. Can't you imagine "Whip It" on a cute t-shirt with a pair of skates or two colliding chicks or something beneath it? And couture rollerskates? After all, rollerskating is always classic, as Anna Karina demonstrates here in her video for "Roller Girl":

No entry about roller skating would be complete without a Xanadu reference, of course. But I am a little scared of this clip; this movie kind of freaked me out as a child, and not in a good way:

And to be literal, you could buy a roller skate t-shirt and then go to the National Museum of Roller Skating in Lincoln, Nebraska! Yes, there really is one!

And this is our favorite song to roller-skate to, ever:

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