Careless Whispers
Aside from the fact that this is maddeningly brilliant (link via TMN), and I've played it probably a good four dozen times since I downloaded it yesterday, it has completely thrown me into a mid-eighties reverie wherein I cannot stop thinking of the following:
1. Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies, two at a time. Grape Shasta afterward.
2. Spending entire days during summer vacation watching Clue on VHS over and over again, knowing how it ended but still suspecting Miss Scarlet every single time.
3. The sound of my parents fighting in the next room.
4. My 13-yr old brother chasing me around the living room couch, stopping suddenly like he was about to give up, and spitting a gigantic wad of warm phlegm across the room onto my right cheek. Me screaming.
5. The girl up the street with the gigantic boobs. She was two years younger than I was, and in order to compete I had to wear a padded bra, one that made my 10-yr old, 80-pound body look like it had been overrun by uneven alien mole hills.
6. My dad's dramatic crush on Loni Anderson.
7. Pictures of Andy Gibb, John Stamos and Scott Baio splattered over every inch of my sister's bedroom walls.
8. Smurfs.
9. Pulling up to soccer practice in that goddamn beige Ford Taurus.
10. Courtney Smith, Courtney Carrington, Courtney Price, Courtney Dees, Courtney Nelson.
11. The dream I had about being trapped in a burning building, about to succumb to the smoke and flames when David Hasselhoff and KITT show up to my resuce.
12. My brother trying to pull his socks off by the toes, giving up halfway through and walking around with them just like that, halfway on/halfway off, all day long.
13. The smell of Pond's Cold Cream in the morning as my mother took off her eye makeup.
14. Matching my socks to my turquoise Converse hightops. Pinch-rolling my Lee jeans.
15. Hardee's.
16. Sitting in my father's lap before school, listening to Air Supply and rocking back and forth, hearing him whisper in my ear, why won't your mother come back to me?
17. Hall and Oates.
18. My sister's hairdo, which I think I can safely blame for the death of my first goldfish.
19. My "Love Boat" themed Trapper Keeper.
20. My first triumphant completion of Pitfall.
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Rachel said:
Strawberry Shortcake.
01.16.03 - 08:42 AM / 1brynne said:
Ugh.. my little brother used to do that half on/half off thing with his socks too. Didn't seem to bother him, but it annoyed the fuck outta me.
01.16.03 - 08:43 AM / 2Cory said:
Andrew McCarthy. Mannequin.
01.16.03 - 08:45 AM / 3darian said:
I miss the jordache jeans and those jelly shoes!
01.16.03 - 08:45 AM / 4Tommy said:
I rememebr figuring out it didn't matter how many "cheeks" I turned. I was the new kid (again and again) and they were going to try to beat me up whether I fought back or not. On the lighter side I also remember dressing up as Obi Wan Kenobi on Halloween and continuously being mistaken for a JAWA.
01.16.03 - 08:47 AM / 5jen said:
I remember pouring peroxide on my hair over and over again to get that Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran yellow bangs thing going on. It worked unfortunately and it seemed to take forever to grow out. A year or two later I remember using my Duran Duran records as frisbees in the ravine.
01.16.03 - 08:55 AM / 6Seth said:
My Fall Guy lunchbox.
01.16.03 - 08:57 AM / 7Ariel said:
For me, it was dreaming that Automan would come save me. This show was only on for a year...why do I remember it so clearly?
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/
servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1921/
01.16.03 - 08:57 AM / 8Aarika said:
Jelly bracelets, jelly shoes, jelly everything.
01.16.03 - 08:57 AM / 9anna said:
did your mom ever come back?
that's so sad.
01.16.03 - 09:02 AM / 10Chantelle said:
Mrs Peacock was a man?
I'm relieved that I'm not the only one to have been obsessed with Clue (although I still am obsessed...others who are better and stronger than I have perhaps been able to move on...)
01.16.03 - 09:11 AM / 11Windowsill Wendy said:
Seth: I LOVED the Fall Guy.
Atari, Care Bears, Rainbow Brite and Cabbage Patch Kids.
01.16.03 - 09:11 AM / 12feelafel said:
You know, even though I've seen all three endings, including "The way it REALLY happened", I still think the Ms. Scarlett ending is the most believable.
I also think that Yvette is smokin' hot.
01.16.03 - 09:19 AM / 13ME said:
about wearing those short-shorts like George Michael in Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" video and singing and dancing along in my room.
01.16.03 - 09:27 AM / 14Sara said:
I second the Cabbage Patch thing... but need to add: Cabbage Patch Premie. That's the one you had to have. That's the one my best friend had.
I had the faux-Cabbage Patch doll that my mom made. I hated it then, but love it now.
Did you know if you go to the Toys R Us store in Times Square, they have a real, life size Cabbage Patch with a video running, in which a nurse narrates about the birthing process that the patch babies go through?! It was disturbing to hear as an adult. I never imagined where they came from other than a generic "patch".
01.16.03 - 09:28 AM / 15antisocial diva said:
my little house on the prairie lunchbox. those little ovens where you baked things. shrinky dinks!
01.16.03 - 09:31 AM / 16mole said:
it's all about the pound puppies. i loved mine. his name was 'frisky'. we had matching outfits.
01.16.03 - 09:37 AM / 17Buzzed said:
I was in college during the mid-eighties and, while older than you all, should recall some of these things. And then I remember that I was busy participating in another mid-eighties fad--cocaine usage--that occupied my time and burned a few memory cells. This is your brain on drugs, kids.
01.16.03 - 09:40 AM / 18jess said:
rainbow brite. the popples. also, i watched the smurfs recently, and as much as i love them, i realized that they just put the word 'smurf' wherever they want. it has no actual meaning.
01.16.03 - 09:41 AM / 19The Other Erika said:
My Little Ponies!!!
01.16.03 - 09:43 AM / 20Jen said:
Blue eyeshadow, blue mascara, pink irridescent lipstick, 45's and B-side songs, my little pony and anything fluorescent.
01.16.03 - 09:45 AM / 21shel said:
Hypercolor shirts. Knight Rider. The first Baywatch. Twisted Sister. Asteroids.
01.16.03 - 09:49 AM / 22Jen said:
I forgot to say, I loved The Smurfs but was usually forced to watch them in french (Les Stroumphs). I also loved The Barbapoppa's.
01.16.03 - 09:49 AM / 23Dirtybilllover said:
Ok, I am such an 80s fiend but my list of things will have to wait. I just had to post this: one of Bill's co-workers, a MAN in his THIRTIES, collects smurfs. Tell me that doesn't make your skin crawl.
01.16.03 - 09:51 AM / 24Danika said:
The Goonies, my trusty Snoopy snow cone maker & Gem!
01.16.03 - 09:51 AM / 25dirtybilllover said:
ok, I just have to write this one: Frankie Say Relax t-shirts
01.16.03 - 09:54 AM / 26paperdog said:
I still proudly own my Pound Puppy "Popcorn", and I can also say that I visited the Babyland General Hospital in L.A. and "adopted " a Cabbage Patch.
Growing up sucks.
01.16.03 - 09:55 AM / 27the propagandist said:
my first ill-conceived stab at parody:
instead of writing the english paper, filming a video (with thoes GIANT cameras- remember?) wherein michael hasselhoff (me - in a curly black wig) and KITT (my dad's equalizer in the mazda station wagon) chase edgar allen poe thru the house of usher and down the rue morgue.
01.16.03 - 09:57 AM / 28El Guapo said:
My brother and I each owned the same blue and white velour jogging suit that the '84 US Olympians wore. If only I had chest hair back then, I could have worn it unzipped with no shirt underneath.
01.16.03 - 09:58 AM / 29Cory said:
Windowsill Wendy: Thanks for the reminder of the Cabbage Patch Kids. Mine was a homemade knock-off. His belly button was about two inches too low, so it looked like nubby junk. I felt so bad for him.
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