Flashback Session

My sister shared with me a link to a "Weird Al" video on You Tube--which goes to show that some people have way more spare time than I have. So for a few laughs, check out "You Don't Love Me Anymore" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzPIhqKaxa0. If that doesn't give you your fill then check out someone's homemade "Ebay" video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCIp7eo4MvY and if you can't get enough, check out their Ebay spoof at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR_zntVF8KI.

To continue with my flashback theme, way back when on high school trip to Europe, our friend Blake made a mixed tape which I have transferred to CD and here is what I can remember of the score: Turning Japanese, Always Something There To Remind Me, Beat So Lonely, Big Daddy of the Rhythm, Day after Day, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Falling Down the Mountain, Goodbye 17, I want Candy, I Was A Kamakazee Pilot, Living On the Borderline, The Lebanon, Three of Us, Shellshock, Safety Dance, Panic, Rock the Cazbah, Sometimes, Opportunities and a Ministry song, and Sex Pistols song. So you can look up some of those for some flashback fun.

Flashback movies? Definitely John Hughes territory: "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and don't forget "Sixteen Candles," "St. Elmo's Fire," "Some Kind of Wonderful," and "Pretty In Pink." So much teen angst, so little time.

Literature on the flashback cycle: the queen of the 80s...Judy Blume! "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret," "It's Not the End of the World," "Deenie," "Then Again, Maybe I Won't," "Blubber," and of course, the still banned in schools and libraries (can you believe it?) "Forever." She was one of the first writers to write about divorce, being overweight, having physical issues and first loves and sex. Probably not much there to make you bat an eyelash after an hour of television but for the time, she was totally revolutionary. So I hope Judy Blume lives on in all the hearts and bookshelves of book lovers.

What else do we LOVE about the 80s? Let's see...scrunch socks, jelly shoes, rubber bracelets, stretch pants, punk hair, jelly bellies, Rubik's Cube, Simon, Madonna, Wear Black Act Bored, Depeche Mode the early years, SchoolHouse Rocks and After School Specials! All we need now is a Gunne Sax dress and a date for the prom!