May 12, 2003

Eighties flashback continued

Geez. I had forgotten all about double-wrapped belts with studs, wearing suits with the jacket sleeves rolled up, singers with bleached ivory hair and black eyebrows, and androgynous guitarists who were nevertheless actually attractive instead of merely creepy.

Posted by Andrea Harris at May 12, 2003 11:28 PM
Comments

How could you forget about the 80's!

Posted by: marco at May 12, 2003 at 11:35 PM

You forgot about the androgynous take over? What about Michael Jackson? Eep! He was considered HOT in the early '80s. Hot as in SEXY.
(I graduated from high school in 1980.) I never could understand the attraction; were some girls so scared of sex that they wanted someone around who didn't look capable of performing?
He was an okay singer (his one album I liked--"Thriller"--came out in the early '80s), but my tastes at the time ran more to the Arnold type (Terminator and Conan came out around this time too)...

Posted by: kellyds at May 13, 2003 at 12:05 AM

I never thought of MJ as androgynous. As far as I was concerned, he went from being recognizably male to freak without any stop-offs at androgyny.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at May 13, 2003 at 12:17 AM

True. Jacko now belongs to a species to which sex is about as relevant as eyeliner to a jellyfish.

Posted by: McGehee at May 13, 2003 at 08:59 AM

I've never understood the appeal of androgyny. I mean, no wants to fuck something androgynous. Everyone of any sexual preference wants to know what team they're playing against...or with.

Posted by: Yahmdallah at May 13, 2003 at 01:34 PM

"On."

Not that I'm trying to preposition you...

Posted by: McGehee at May 13, 2003 at 02:20 PM

'I mean, no wants to fuck something androgynous. Everyone of any sexual preference wants to know what team they're playing against...or with.'

I've heard there's quite a flourishing business in it.

Posted by: Jack Tanner at May 13, 2003 at 02:32 PM

Ack! Pfffft! 80's flashback! LOL! That was evil funny McGehee. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to dig out my Deathtöngue CD and listen to a little Billy and the Boingers! "Clearisil Messiah", does it get any better than that?

Posted by: Robert Modean at May 13, 2003 at 02:33 PM

Apparently Mr. Modean has PEGUIN LUST!!!!!!

Like, get thee to a De Lorean and DRIVE....

now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go plaster my walls with posters of Harrison Ford as Decker, Far Side comics, and Men At Work concert items.

it's so bitchin, you know?

Posted by: Sharon Ferguson at May 13, 2003 at 03:45 PM