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Paranoimia
I was looking up New Coke on Wikipedia today, and found that the article had been vandalized; someone had inserted "fucking clown shoes" a few times in the first paragraph. By the time I looked up how to revert, though, someone had already fixed it. Go Wikipedia!
Anyway, the New Coke article was interesting, and it led me to Max Headroom's New Coke commercial on YouTube. From there I naturally progressed to Max Headroom's Paranoimia video with Art of Noise.
And while I was watching that, I was hit with a HUGE spasm of nostalgia. Music was so much cooler back then...and so were some TV shows...MTV was CERTAINLY better then, too (of course I don't watch it any more). At the time I thought that Reagan was a disaster, and destroying the country - and he was certainly laying the groundwork for it - but I never dreamed how much worse things would be in 2006.
Come to think of it, back then I had a much better social life than I have now, too. With one small red-headed exception, naturally. :D
So, in retrospect, those were good times. I'm going to listen to the video again, right now.
Anyway, the New Coke article was interesting, and it led me to Max Headroom's New Coke commercial on YouTube. From there I naturally progressed to Max Headroom's Paranoimia video with Art of Noise.
And while I was watching that, I was hit with a HUGE spasm of nostalgia. Music was so much cooler back then...and so were some TV shows...MTV was CERTAINLY better then, too (of course I don't watch it any more). At the time I thought that Reagan was a disaster, and destroying the country - and he was certainly laying the groundwork for it - but I never dreamed how much worse things would be in 2006.
Come to think of it, back then I had a much better social life than I have now, too. With one small red-headed exception, naturally. :D
So, in retrospect, those were good times. I'm going to listen to the video again, right now.
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Interesting Video, which I never saw actually. Why? Because in 1986 I didn't have MTV... actually, in 1986, I didn't have cable, in 1986 I didn't have television really. That was during my impoverished and semi-nomadic period of life. Not actually something I'm terribly nostaligic for myself.
The 80s, which was after high school for me, was not the best decade in some ways. I had to enter the work force right after high school... didn't get any actual college for a number of years thanks to my parents having been an anchor on me financially (I was not eligible for school loans thanks to their high income and refusal to in any way help or cosign anything, but had only about $1k to my name from my trust fund because they had screwed me over for years before I got ahold of it). I didn't get to college until 83 and that was thru nightschool. By 86 I was out on my own, and working where I could when I could to make ends meet. Life was unhappy, cruel and lonely.
Although I like 80s music and even some 80s films, I am not nostalgic for my life back then. In my personal life I like my now much better than my then. I'm also not nostaligic for that era's politics, to say the least.