[thechat] flashing back...

[spinhead]

I remember the 80s, but I can get therapy for it.

spinhead


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erika Meyer" <emeyer at lclark.edu>
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 5:43 PM
Subject: [thechat] flashing back...


> The usenet stuff...
> http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
> 
> I sent it to my boss who was delighted as he knows the ("Portland 
> Perl guy") who made that Star Wars episode 6 post.
> 
> I just realized how much I miss the 80's.
> 
> I still have my Atari 2600, with it's fake wood finish and black 
> plastic... and the bright pixely graphics.  Got rid of the 
> amber-on-black C/PM monster in 1997, but I still have my 1982 Ibenez 
> Roadstar II guitar, a strat copy, big chunk of blonde wood, gold 
> frets, & black knobs & inlays.
> 
> black & white, black & gold... the CA surf punk thing with the black 
> & white checkered Vans...
> http://www.scottmalloy.com/personal/Vans.html
> 
> and everything else florescent... & over-dyed jeans.
> 
> My favorite clothes were:
> 
> - dangly chartreuse earrings handed down from my mom's 1960's collection
> - black t-shirt with gold metallic hieroglyphics
> - secondhand dresses from the 50's & 60's
> - a German Luftwaffe jacket from the army surplus store
> - my dad's old army shirt
> - homemade tie dye...
> - levis: pegged.  ankle-boots: pointy.
> 
> Remember that lopsided hair?  Spiking the top & trying to get it to 
> stand up?  And the guys that could make their mohawk stand up a foot 
> in the air were so coy about their hair-do secrets...
> 
> I went from spiked to a sasson bob flipped down to completely obscure 
> one heavily-lined eye.  One half of the hair shorter than the other, 
> parted on the side.  Blond streak down the front.  Different earrings 
> on each side... lots of earrings in one ear...
> 
> I used food coloring to try and color my hair.  If it rained, the 
> color dripped.
> 
> That 50's retro thing:  big vinyl belts, polka dots... atomic 
> mentality... Rocket to Russia... Missile Command... KAAAA BOOOMMM!
> 
> Metal & punk were two completely different kinds of music.
> 
> Records were made of black vinyl.
> 
> I'm sure the 80's sucked like everyone says... we were butchering 
> Central American peasants and I expected the nukes to fall at any 
> time... but I suppose I'm getting old & my memory moldy.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Erika
> -- 
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