FBRDM: Things I loved in the 80's but will never admit?

[jrbd]

John Hughes movies before the Home Alone series ruined him. Vacation, Ferris Bueller, and anything else set in Shermer, Ill.

My wife knew the guy who played Molly Ringwald's dad in "Breakfast Club". Probably my closest brush with celebrity ever.

[yogachik]

My wife knew the guy who played Molly Ringwald's dad in "Breakfast Club". Probably my closest brush with celebrity ever.

i'm sorry.

[Tippster]

Losing your virginity to a Fat Girl is still losing your virginity. Going to NKOTB as your first show is just pathetic.

Mine was Boston in 1978. Not much better, really, but at least they didn't dance.

[Schmear]

That first season of Miami Vice = money

I think I actually wore a Sonny Crockett jacket/shirt combo to a high school dance.

Oh and my boom box had more equalizer switches than the one pictured a couple of pages ago.

[danimal's dead]

Nope, never lived by the beach, in fact I hate the beach, more of a mountain/river guy. CJ, how did you know that just from my comment on Jams, aka tropical clamdiggers.

[danimal's dead]

Miami Vice= great call

Men wearing white pants, no socks with deck shoes, white jackets with neon pink T-shirts underneath, sweet.

[Schmear]

I had some classic Vans. One year I broke my arm and painted my cast with blue and white checkers to match my shoes. Even back then I was the epitome of style.

[skiing-in-jackson]

I liked duran duran, had Rio recorded onto a tape labeled as Metallica

LOL!!! 67890

[Bodhi]

I think I actually wore a Sonny Crockett jacket/shirt combo...

I still dress that way when I teach.



No joke, really.


Honest.

The look is coming back here in Cali.

peace,
D.

[skiing-in-jackson]

Bought a Modonna Tape...very similar to above, I was fraid to let anybody see it.

[freshies]

was in HS from 84-88: prime time-80s peeps. I grew up in the north burbs of Chicago, where all the John Hughes films were shot (many used my HS and homE town - I remember film crews over several summers). We were about rockin' the super-preppy style: izods, jeans or khakis and tops siders or vans (the white or blue lace ups) or bluchers and rockin' to the Replacements, REM, Echo, Smiths, Cure, Smithereens, Ramones, New Order and all the rest....when I would go to shows in the City (sneak out hockey practice early) @ the Metro or Riviera w/my fake ID, I would wear a trench coat b/c I thought it made me look older/cool Yeah, we stuck out like the white preppy kids we were at those shows, but we thought we were pretty cool.

Skiing, I was super stoked on my kelly green CB pull over with the giant zip front pocket, rockin' a Bone Phone (anyone rememebr these?? pre-Walkmen blue scarf like thing that wrapped around your shoulders and had speakers it in...) and Pre and Olins on the gnar in WI, MI and IL....

[cj001f]

Nope, never lived by the beach, in fact I hate the beach, more of a mountain/river guy. CJ, how did you know that just from my comment on Jams, aka tropical clamdiggers.

Because people wear them everyday on the beach at the end of my street. (boardshorts never left the CA beaches)

[Graupel]

My first concert ever was........new kids on the block

I can't believe that I am exposing this, I will never forgive my best friend at the time for inviting me. Just seeing new kids is bad enough, having that be your first ever concert is up there with losing your virginity to a fat chick.

I was in 5th grade and didn't even like them, but really wanted to go to a concert and he had free suite tickets. It still hurts to think about.....

Ok, I can't let you stand alone on this one. NKOTB was my first concert too, in 5th grade. But I went with the girl I had a crush on. I got to first base. So I think that saves me ... at least a little.

These were also cool:

Contra:


Karate Kid:



www.80stees.com - sweet

[Schmear]

So here's a question. Were you an '80s rocker, or an '80s new waver? I kinda went both ways. Scorpions and Duran Duran. Def Leppard and Tears for Fears. Then somehow I also got interested in jazz at that time. Must have been from band camp.

*sniff* After six or so years in the Maggot community, I think I've finally found a thread to call home.

[Viva]

I still dress that way when I teach.

What do your teach, D.? Abstinence?

[lemon boy]

So here's a question. Were you an '80s rocker, or an '80s new waver?

I am not now nor ever was cool enough to be anything like that.

Fill in the blank:
The 80's charecter I most associate with is __________.


Anthony Michael Hall in either TBC or Wierd Science.

[iceman]

1st four concerts:

Zep
Aerosmith (in Boston, when they rocked)
ZZ Top
The Who

Top that, 80's kidzzzzz.

[iceman]

What do your teach, D.? Abstinence?

heh...if he does, I bet it works.

[Bodhi]

What do your teach, D.? Abstinence?

Ha! Shouldn't you be out surfing or something anyway?

Funny though, I used to teach a health ed class in summer school (back in the days when I needed the extra cash)...part of the curriculum of the course was sex-education (imagine me teaching people's daughers--scary, eh?), and part of that school/parent adpopted curriculum was abstinence over using condoms...Fallbrook is a prude society.

peace,
D.

[marshalolson]

I am not now nor ever was cool enough to be anything like that.

Fill in the blank:
The 80's charecter I most associate with is __________.


Anthony Michael Hall in either TBC or Wierd Science.

hahaha - you still have the AMH steeze

The 80's charecter I most associate with is __________.

i'd have to be marty mcfly

[Knockneed Man]

Men wearing white pants, no socks with deck shoes, white jackets with neon pink T-shirts underneath, sweet.

What... that went out of style?

7 pairs of parachute pants, 2 pairs of Air Jordans (in red of course), 1 copy of Electric Boogaloo (on VHS), 1 Members Only jacket and 2 pairs of Vuarnets... So hip.

[Viva]

1st four concerts:

Zep
Aerosmith (in Boston, when they rocked)
ZZ Top
The Who

Top that, 80's kidzzzzz.

I had the chance to see Heart back in...85?

I passed on it, however.

No regrets.

[danimal's dead]

Electric Boogaloo, yeah.

I would be Turbo.

[iceman]

I had the chance to see Heart back in...85?

I passed on it, however.

No regrets.

I saw Heart on July 4, 1976 on the Esplanade in Boston with an estimated 850,000 people, the main thing I remember is my buddy Jay puking all over the bikers' Harleys.

edit: I guess that falls in the first four concerts but somehow I had forgotten about it.

editedit: What's REALLY scary is they played "Magic Man" and whatever-the-hell that other hit they had was, those tunes are 30 fucking years old and you still hear them, jesus.

[zion zig zag]

I think the first concert I ever went to without my parents was Fugazi, around '87,'88.

I don't know if I'm suppressing or what, but I'm having a hard time remembering much. I remember in the early 80's it was all about parachute pants and the OP t-shirt. Then came vans and Thrasher magazine. Late 80's is when I started drinking and spending all day on the boat at the lake, skipping school and fighting ALOT.

"The good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems."