You want to know what The Sixth Sense, World War Z, John Adams, and National Treasure all have in common? Philadelphia. They also all star actors in Twelve Monkeys. Looper is about getting out of a time loop, that's all Twelve Monkeys ever is. "I see dead people," M. Night. Hawaiian shirts, Pulp Fiction. Detective Frankie, Filko. Crawling through the vents, Die Hard. 1996 isn't that far away people, it all just happened forever ago in Philadelphia. "A symphony of fear," Lynch calls it. "Hellhole." The City of Brotherly Love & Birthplace of America deserves a title of such honor. Philadelphia is all we have ever been, all we are, and every little thing this rotten world will succumb to when Archangel Michael beats the living shit out of Satan or when we all blow up in a silent void and our scream is forever lost in the cold of space. The bullet has already been fired and the gun that lost it was Philadelphia and the absolute freedom of its people. So please, come see the rotten dead in the asphalt. Come see the business expenses in the strip clubs and hookers of the twilight. Come see our perfect statue of a brawler in the spotlight that does not exist. Come see our outdated, stupendous, overweening beams of steel that overlook your every gaze and all of your judgment to its all-seeing eye. Come to Philadelphia. -My pitch for the opener to the 2024 Philadelphia Visitor's Guide
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