I was very excited to catch "the basketball diaries" right from the beginning tonight. every time i think this movie is on, it turns out to be that other movie, "hoop dreams".

I was a little surprised to notice that the lyrics to one of the songs in the movie matched up with the plot. So, i looked it up online, and it turns out that the song "people that died" is moderately famous. And, the artist, jim carroll, [hmm, i can't phrase this sentence correctly. jim carroll's life is the inspiration for this movie.]