1989....it's the line between not knowing John Hughes and not knowing John Hughes and still possessing consciousness. Congrats, Link, you made it!
Excellent! Much as I love the Swedish disco phenomenon that is ABBA, this is easily one of their more annoying songs. Agnetha and Anni-Frid look like a Victorian tea party in this video. They're at their doily-est.
It's a common misconception that 1982-2004 constitutes one generation. Generation Almost, or the Missed generation, describes individuals born between 1982 and ~1990. We grew up with positive influences, like the Matrix, Braveheart, Nirvana, etc, and were just a little too old to be completely warped by the rise of smart phones, CGI and Pixar, Keisha, Facebook, and ultra PC guidelines. We're basically the delineation between being human and being a drone.
I'm sitting here, aptly enough, slightly the worse for wear. You guys have me thinking about the year I was born so I wiki-ed (?) the highlights: Music-wise, St.Pepper's was released, as was the Doors eponymous debut. Slightly more in tune with my own taste, Floyd released Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Hair opened on Broadway. Elvis married Priscilla. Andropov became head of the KGB. Joan Baez got arrested. The People's Republic of South Yemen became independent from the UK. The Pound (£) was devalued. Ilse Koch committed suicide. The Vietnam War was in full swing, My folks must have done a bit of preemptive striking themselves as I was born in January of 1967. The year of The Summer of Love. @123456789 I've never heard it phrased that way. Struck a chord. My daughter was born in 1987, so it's an interesting perspective for me to consider.
@123456789 You simply set the wheels is motion. I'm thinking in terms of the influences she was exposed to, and the person I know her to be. Parents and children grow up in very different worlds; it's easy sometimes to forget how much.
Star Wars, yes. ABBA, NO! As in NOnonononononono..... I lived through them once, and now they're popular again. Cruel, just cruel... Born in 1949. I was the right age for The Beatles! And Head Shops. Anybody remember Head Shops? Where you could buy glow-in-the-dark posters of Middle Earth to decorate your dorm room?
We still have a head shop here (Su Casa), and it seems business is booming due to the renewed/expanded interest in the smoke. Those posters always made me wonder where the counter-culture would have been without the culture to supply them.
Hah, fairly accurate, actually. Sometimes I miss that starry-eyed kid who watched the Matrix 11 times, made a Trinity costume out of those shiny black garbage bags, and fought epic kung-fu (idiot-fu) battles with a human sized, sunglass-donning teddy bear. The VHS is probably somewhere. Now the Matrix just seems awkward. Full of bad writing and bad acting. Damn adulthood.
Haha Looking back to those childhood days... with slightly awkward wistfulness or wistful awkwardness... when wrestling teddy bears was a serious business...
you had me thinking, given that the year i was born is now 21 years ago, (well my birthday is a little more that) there was quite a lot happening when i was born. a couple that struck me were -Kurt Cobains suicide and - Nelson Mandela was inaugurated in as South Africa's President. there is a lot more, and like you i wiki'd it
to be honest, it's still a questionable subject to be honest, i personally think accidental suicide (given his state at that point in time, what else could it have been?) to be honest, i don't really want to start a flame war, so, its probably best if we leave it as is now, before it gets out of hand
