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The 80's were my teenage years, look back on them fondly now.
Loved the thriving underground music scene, "garage" bands everywhere.
The Young Ones/ Liquid Television/Night Flight.
Living in the shadow of nuclear war ...
A sea of horror flicks being released every week ( most of them awful...but fun)...
That's what I miss most...the 80's were fun...
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
snurl wrote:MTV when all they did was show videos.
Yeah. Before 'the real world' and 'MTV news'. I did enjoy the segments where they just had a band come into the studio, play a bunch of songs, answer 'chill' questions and talk to the audience. What a strange piece of crap it's turned into. MTV was one of the shaping forces of the 21st century, for sure.
Howard A Treesong wrote:Star Fleet, a lot of people don't seem to remember this. But just hearing the music makes me tingle and a tear very nearly come to the eye. I must get it on DVD some time.
Yes I remember this! ♫ "Star fleeeet - star fleeeet - star fleeeet!" ♫ (now you've set me off!) It had these three guys (well, puppets anyway) that went about in these spaceships that joined together and formed this huge robot (called something like Di-ex) that crushed everything before it - I could do with one of those in my army! Happy days.
Howard A Treesong wrote:Star Fleet, a lot of people don't seem to remember this. But just hearing the music makes me tingle and a tear very nearly come to the eye. I must get it on DVD some time.
Yes I remember this! ♫ "Star fleeeet - star fleeeet - star fleeeet!" ♫ (now you've set me off!) It had these three guys (well, puppets anyway) that went about in these spaceships that joined together and formed this huge robot (called something like Di-ex) that crushed everything before it - I could do with one of those in my army! Happy days.
Loved that series as a five year old, along with Battle of the Planets!
The bad guys flew in a giant millipede and the leader had a face in her eyeball that talked.
The 'Star Fleet' song was Brian May yes?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, the nature of Monkey was Irrepressible!!!!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Aha! here you go!
Brilliant! Only Brian May's floating head can save us now!
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As a side note, Red Dawn is actually on right now on the TNT cable channel in the US! I haven't seen it in probably 20 years and forgot alot about it. For instance, Charlie Sheen displayed his tiger blood way back in the 80's in the movie!
Long ago, White Dwarf really was something worth buying, and copies from that era still are.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
monkeyh wrote:
Blimey! Even I can't remember that far back! You're the man!
I take you you are not.
IIRC Monkey was touching if not from the seventies, I remember being into it at a school I left in 1981. We all picked a character at playtime, based mostly on closest physical approximation, I got Sandy because I was tall and had a black bowlhead haircut. Happy days.
On the White Dwarfs:
Just yesterday I was looking for an online copy of the Irilian campaign, and wondering if I will ever see scenario work that good again. I have a hardcopy somewhere both in the Best of and in the relevant individual White Dwarfs.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
IIRC Monkey was touching if not from the seventies, I remember being into it at a school I left in 1981. We all picked a character at playtime, based mostly on closest physical approximation, I got Sandy because I was tall and had a black bowlhead haircut. Happy days.
On the White Dwarfs:
Just yesterday I was looking for an online copy of the Irilian campaign, and wondering if I will ever see scenario work that good again. I have a hardcopy somewhere both in the Best of and in the relevant individual White Dwarfs.
Thanks for the monkey clip - that's made my weekend! - Love the irrepressible one! Used to have a huge pile of WD's but sadly got rid of them years ago
If they were post issue 90 you need not mourn. They had content back then but were still trade mags.
The indie stuff was before then and it took about ten issues for White Dwarf to find its feet. Everything wiorth having prior to Issue 30 is in the three Best Of's.
30-100 is worth collecting for general RPG info, though tailing off at the end.
For Warhammer articles etc anything prior to 160 had some useful content, but most of the fluff from back then has been roundly ignored by the current studio 'designers'.
Long gone are the days when a White Dwarf had intelligent content by imaginative designers, at least half the issues now have been past that point.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Monster Rain wrote:Have you tried watching some of those old 80s cartoons recently?
It's pretty cringeworthy.
That reminds me of one of my fondest college memories.
At my alma mater there is this buig professional functions every year just before graduation. If you're a freshman or sophomore its just an excuse to get drunk and party. If you're a junior or senior, its all about networking with alumni, and whomever else happens to show up. Everyone dresses up a bit, but the general rule is that the closer you are to graduating, the nicer the clothes you wear; for obvious reasons. My friends and I went out shopping 2 days before to pick up new suits/dresses/whatever.
After purchasing said suit, we wandered into an upscale thrift store (basically surplus theater props) and noticed that they had top hats and prop monocles. Of course, these were purchased and, once the professional mixer came around, we prepared for the occasion by wearing our newly purchased suits and top hats while drinking scotch, and watching Transformers the Movie while grumbling about its poor quality.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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