Come on Ovah and Chat a Little

Hey there. I am doing this again. Some of my happier days were blogging days, back in the day we called it Blobbing. Now I am going to "blob" again and invite you to join me. Nothing is off topic. Let's talk about it all, or nothing. Though to talk about nothing will be muchos boringos.

So let me begin. What in your mind is the best 80's movie? There were some good ones. But you can't count Star Wars because that began in the 70s even though it might have helped to shape the 80s, and personally I didn't see it till the 90s. And same with Rocky. There was a lot of camp in the 80s. Golan Globus and their "shoot 'em up ex army guys save the western world chuck norris" flicks. Monty Python. Airplane movies. (Ooh again that wonderful series began in the 70s!) But then you had Goonies, Stand by Me, St. Elmo's Fire, Breakfast Club, and many more coming of age films. Right when I was coming of age.

I have to say, at this stage of my life, I am gonna go with Ferris Bueller's Day off. It was THE movie. And to this day I love to sing "when Cameron was in Egypt land....let my Cameron gooooo." Gotta love the state-of-the-art answering machine in that scene. I also thought of Ferris' sound equipment and sure wished I had a keen set up like that. Look at how much room it took up!

Better off Dead was a good one too. And it really made an excellent starting point for our boy John Cusack (never count 16 Candles. He was a supreme nerd in that one. No, better the John that gets to wear his collar UP). I smile every time I think of that kid collecting for the newspaper on his bike. "2 Dollars! I want my Two dollars!" Such nostalgia - when was the last time you saw anyone collecting???

Top Gun was a real classic. Did you know I wrote the sequel along with my friend Jennifer? Yes we did. We alternated writing chapters, and got three binders full. Yeah, more nostalgia. We HAND wrote the thing. Before computers could do it, before email exchanges or blogs or IM or texting. Before T9 we did it long hand. Man, I feel old. Yes, it was more than 20 years ago. I mean, I have the 20th Anniversary DVD!!!! So many cute guys. Wonder what Barry Tubb or Whip Hubley are doing now? We all KNOW about Tom Cruise. Maybe too much.

Nowadays it's Lost. WAS Jericho and Lost but Jericho is but a thing of the past. Still I managed to be part of that really big effort to bring it back and so at least we got another 7 episodes. That was something I will always remember. How maybe our little movement changed the way TV numbers are gathered. So now it's Lost. And there are more theorists than episodes of the series these days, so I will leave it to the Really Big Brains. Though maybe a little talk about it wouldn't be entirely offensive!

What 80s shows were good? A Team? Magnum PI? Rip Tide? Miami Vice? Hardcastle & McCormick? Knight Rider? Family Ties? Cosby? Soap? Yes, Soap. Gotta love that one, and Billy Crystal was just a wee thing back then. 80s was not the heyday of TV - that was earlier. But it was the era of really good and available repeats, so I saw a lot of those earlier classics like Lucy, Gilligans Island, Brady Bunch, Flintsones. But for it's own time, I guess the best it had to offer was Family Ties. Go ahead and remind me of others....

Music? Well for me it was Duran Duran, U2, Blondie, Joan Jett, and great movie soundtracks like Top Gun (there it is again, groan), Footloose, Cocktail, Flashdance. In retrospect, certain bands did a ton for the industry. Who knew U2 would end up so huge? If they aren't careful, one day they could overshadow the Beatles.

Another thing that shaped my existence was Band Aid and Live Aid. I finally learned to get outside of my box. It was a huge thing. And there was Phil Collins jetting from Heathrow in London to New York to be on both stages. I watched it all.

So, talk to me. Do you care about anything I've said? Share your opinions! You know you want to!