Monday, November 13, 2006

The 80's were a great time.... full of awesome fashion, big hair, and great music. So when I rented the movie Totally Awesome, I expected to really enjoy it - I understood it to be a movie about the 80's. Was I wrong! Its a spoof of all the 80's movies... and its 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back. The even worse part is that I kept thinking to myself "shut it off", but its SO bad that you just can't stop watching! It made me think about what really was good in the 80's, so here's my little list. Feel free to let me know what you remember was so great about those wonderful times!
  1. Culture Club
  2. The Goonies & ET
  3. Leg warmers and wristbands
  4. Fingerless gloves (mine were the coolest - multicoloured and personalized!)
  5. Dirty Dancing (the movie, remember how young I was then people!!!)
  6. Steel Magnolias
  7. So, Like, Yeah, Totally!
  8. Vaurnet
  9. Total Eclipse of the Heart
  10. Jelly shoes
  11. Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran
  12. GI Joe & Transformers
  13. He-Man & She-ra
  14. String headbands
  15. Crimped hair (loved it!)
  16. Fame
  17. Mork & Mindy
  18. The A-Team
  19. Guns 'n Roses
  20. Alf (hehehehe, love it!)
  21. Chernobyl (1986)
  22. Howard the Duck
  23. Who you gonna call?.... Ghostbusters!
  24. Princess Diana & Prince Charles get married (1981)
  25. Tiffany
  26. Milli Vanilli
  27. Did we ever find out who shot JR?!
  28. The Smurfs (and the bad guy Gargamel!)
  29. S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night
  30. Dukes of Hazzard

Looking back now, so many of those things that we thought were cool... just weren't! Have you looked at pictures of yourself from back then? I have absolutely no problem admitting that I had the crimped hair, leg warmers, and used to wear these huge bows right on top of my head so that I looked like a helicopter ready to take off! I wish that I had a scanner so that I could show off my pictures from waaaaaay back then! Those were the days, people, those were the days that we all wish we could live over again.

I had a great time reminiscining, and hope you did too! If you want to keep going, check out this totally awesome site http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/index.htm

Till next time, dude, peace out! (hehehe, had to be said!)

Update: Forgot to add this one to the list, don't know how I could have forgotten it: THE MULLET!

4 comments:

Melissa said...

OMG!! I love that stuff. Although I was born in 1980 I can remember all of that. Dirty Dancing, the best movie ever. I know everyword by heart. Saturday mornings I wouls watch Gem and the Hollograms and Strawberry Shortcake. You also forgot my little pony. Did you ever get a hair crimper for christmas? I did..lol

Melanie said...

I used to LOVE having my hair crimped! And there's so much more that I wanted to put on the list, but then it would have gone on and on and on and I was getting tired! So I decided to stop at 30... although I just remembered another thing - the side pony tail! Did you ever do that?!

P.S. I had a few ponies and a strawberry shortcake doll too!

Anonymous said...

mel didnt you pinch ma fame lp and what about the wombles

Melanie said...

huh, I thought the Fame record was mine.... as I smile innocently! And I had forgotten all about the Wombles, but then I got thinking about them and Worzil Gummidge, Orville, Rolf Harris and Blue Peter... so many things to love about the 80'S!

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Enjoy the pictures everyone :)