Tuesday, February 28, 2006

80's revisited

Big hair. Stone-washed jeans. Cheesy synthesizer pop music. Even cheesier heavy metal music. Mullets. Before there were called “mullets”, or even considered a bad thing. Pot galore. Mad Dog 20/20. Boone’s Farm. School dances. Break-dancing. Zipper jackets. Levi’s jean jackets. Pegged jeans. Tight-as-hell Jordache jeans. Tight-as-hell Jordache jeans with holes in the knees, or rear end. Super short basketball shorts – FOR GUYS. Tank tops, NOT wife-beaters. Jams. Jovan Musk. Guns n’Roses. Richard Marx. Journey. Foreigner. Debbie Gibson. Tiffany – before she was a complete mess. Baseball caps with no crazy flames on the sides. And we took the effen tags off of them immediately. Izod. Polo. Those cool shirts with the little penguin on it. Hair spray. Three’s Company. ET. The Breakfast Club. Culture Club. Wham!, or anything George Michael related before he turned druggie perv (or at least got caught). Bueller? Bueller? Big earrings. Michael Jackson. Cyndi Lauper. Bon Jovi. Bananarama. Dance parties in your friend's garage. Sneaking around drinking SoCo and smoking ANY form of tobacco. Airplane! and Sixteen Candles and being able to quote them verbatim (at least guys can). Any John Cusack movie. Tom Cruise when he wasn’t an alien worshipping, anti-medication, couch-jumping lunatic – or has he ever not been that? Miami Vice. Valley girls. Valley girl wannabes. Bad ass white jackets with the collers up. Wayfarers.

These are a few things associated with the 80’s and what made them so bitchin. If you lived them, you were lucky. If you didn’t, it sucks to be you. Feel free to add to my list!

I invite you all to participate in 80's Revisited week - I did by a few blogger cohorts (see sonya for lots more) .

Look at those guns! Girls beware!


Me and our old doggie Jena. She definately improves picture quality.


1987 College ID. Freedom!! I was a stupid freshman, but oh, was it fun.
Checks out the cascading locks of power....

Rock on!!

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Comments:
Great mullet! I totally love these. I'm linking it my post now.
# posted by Blogger Sonya : February 28, 2006 10:05 AM
 
Thanks sonya! It was sweet, wasn't it? I bet you and your 80's girlfriends loved guys with neck blankets.
# posted by Blogger Barry S. : February 28, 2006 10:30 AM
 
I agree with Sonya Great Mullet!! I luved Cyndi Lauper!! Girls just want to have fun!! I wore out the cassette !
I just watched a dvd of Journey the other day, was singing my heart out.
# posted by Blogger Linda : February 28, 2006 10:45 AM
 
thanks beading....Journey was cool as hell!
# posted by Blogger Barry S. : February 28, 2006 3:15 PM
 
Not the mullets and the big hair... but I loved all the rest. Even George Michael in Wham. I still have fluoro socks!

And nothing says 80s to me more than Don Henley's Boys of Summer! Here is my musical ode to the 80s.
# posted by Blogger ChickyBabe : February 28, 2006 5:52 PM
 
I love and miss the 80's. I'm listening to an on-line music station right now that plays all the music I loved back then. Cute mullet!
# posted by Blogger Carnealian : March 01, 2006 10:26 AM
 
chickybabe - I used to like Duran Duran as well! I knew you had good taste!

carnealian - I love the 80's music, too! Hair bands, forever!

sonya - And a Happy Thursday to you, now!

mack - Glad you like it, or at least thought it was amusing. And, please, don't judge me on my headwear...I had this hat before they were so annoying!
# posted by Blogger Barry S. : March 02, 2006 8:25 AM
 
Yes! Janestarr, consider yourself tagged! I cannot wait to see your pics...
# posted by Blogger Barry S. : March 02, 2006 5:26 PM
 
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