May 12, 2003

I don't mind you coming here, and wasting all my time

Well, I've got cable teevee (and a clear picture) for the first time since sometime in 2000, and I have no idea how much older celebs and music people and such have gotten in the past three years because right now I am watching VH1C, and they are playing old 80s videos. Right now they have the Kinks doing a live version of "You've Really Got Me Now," and they just finished playing the Cars "Just What I Needed." Aaagghh! The clueless limp-spaghetti-armed dancing! The in-between-fashion-movements look of everyone's hair and clothes (basically everyone looked as if their 70s Farrah Fawcett shags had grown out and they were making do with their over-laundered old disco clothes until someone thought up new ways for people to look)! The shine all over everything that was "different" from that washed-out matte look popular in the Seventies but was not yet Eighties glitter! And... everything was pink. Weird. Did I actually live through all that?

Posted by Andrea Harris at May 12, 2003 10:43 PM
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I spent the entire '80s with my nose stuck in a book, only briefly surfacing to look around me. When at long last I was finished, I said, "Gosh, that looks like fun. Stupid, but fun. Can I try?" But it was too late, and it was the '90s.

And... everything was pink.

Everything was aquamarine...aquamarine...

Posted by: Angie Schultz at May 13, 2003 at 12:05 AM

That was the next year.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at May 13, 2003 at 12:37 AM

Funny. I remember when everything was teal. Maybe I should have my color vision checked.

Posted by: David Perron at May 13, 2003 at 10:47 AM

I remember when it seemed like everything built in SoCal was pink and aquamarine...

Posted by: Brian Swisher at May 13, 2003 at 11:07 AM

I remember when it seemed like everything built in SoCal during that time was pink and aquamarine...

Posted by: Brian Swisher at May 13, 2003 at 11:08 AM

Try PLAID...those were my class colors believe it or not!!!

What I hated was the neon on white when Wham! showed up. UGH!! That was TOO cutsy...

But then, there was ALWAYS The Fixx and A-ha to turn to.

sigh I miss the 80s!

Posted by: Sharon Ferguson at May 13, 2003 at 03:59 PM

But then, there was ALWAYS The Fixx and A-ha to turn to.

Don't make me come over there. The Fixx, at least, had talent, and several very cool songs. All A-ha had was Take On Me. I saw them at a club in Orlando in the early '90s, and they still kicked ass.

Posted by: David Perron at May 14, 2003 at 09:46 PM