Lol you should totally hit the next customer with this sales pitch. Gotta substitute Annie Green springs for maybe Boones Farm but still, good schtick!
prop in scene fail. On glass entry door,Marlboro has a sign for miles. That campaign didnt start until early 80's. This movie is based early/mid 70's. Cool easter egg
El Paso BBQ and the gas station are both on Ventura, supposedly there were a lot of locations on Ventura. There's a Michael's on Ventura in Encino, and it looks like it could have been the one in the movie (large parking lot); right next to the Liquor World.
he's not a hippie. he's a metalhead stoner (the character he's playing anyway). I don't know the actor from anything else, but his performance as Joe in this movie was great, everybody in the film was.