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Subject: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: DarkRainySkies on 06/07/06 at 5:08 pm
What do you do to remind yourself of the '80s? I blast my music really loud in the car! 8)
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Davester on 06/07/06 at 7:16 pm
What do you do to remind yourself of the '80s? I blast my music really loud in the car! 8)
Remembering, photos, music, movies & other pop culture...
But what works best, for me, is to get together with old friends, throw something appropriate on the CD changer, crush a few beers, talk about all the crazy sh** we used to do and have a good laugh. That doesn't happen much at all, but it's a kick...
Can't believe I'm almost 40...
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Sister Morphine on 06/07/06 at 7:32 pm
Watch John Hughes movies, listen to 80s artists, wear my hair in a side ponytail and talk like a valley girl. :)
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: KKay on 06/07/06 at 7:36 pm
Listen to thomas dolby....and the smell of hair mousse always takes me back!
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: robby76 on 06/07/06 at 9:21 pm
TV dvds work best for me. Oh and browsing ebay for 80s toys... my guilty pleasure.
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Foo Bar on 06/07/06 at 11:14 pm
"Well I can keep the beat, but I can't breakdance.
It's hard to look cool in crazy pants,
But I wear 'em anyway, even when they look whack,
It's my personal way to bring the '80s back!"
- Sum 41, Rock: It's What We're All About, 2002
OK, seriously. No crazy pants.
For me, all it takes is one turn of the ignition key, and one road trip mixtape (yes, on cassette, because I'm too lazy to retrofit an MP3 player into this beast and I'm so crazy that I want it to look the way it did when it rolled off the assembly line!) and it's the 80s all over again.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Success, F1-11 Love Missile, and M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction).
Because happiness is looking at a mushroom cloud in your rear-view mirror. Success is having come out of the 80s without having done so.
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Tanya1976 on 06/07/06 at 11:19 pm
Remembering, photos, music, movies & other pop culture...
But what works best, for me, is to get together with old friends, throw something appropriate on the CD changer, crush a few beers, talk about all the crazy sh** we used to do and have a good laugh. That doesn't happen much at all, but it's a kick...
Can't believe I'm almost 40...
Same methods I use, except I'm 30 this year.
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Davester on 06/07/06 at 11:46 pm
TV dvds work best for me. Oh and browsing ebay for 80s toys... my guilty pleasure.
Same here on both accounts.
It's amazing what you can find on eBay, LOL..!
edited: because fred sanford said i'm a big dummy...
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: _adam_ on 06/08/06 at 2:50 am
Smoke Marihuana or use LSD and listen to 80`s music and watch videos .
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 06/08/06 at 3:25 am
The heck you talkin' about? I still live in the '80s!
But, for those of you who do not:
Try listening to old comedy tapes & CDs. I recommend Rodney Dangerfield's "No Respect", Robin Williams's "Throbbing Python Of Love", and Judy Tenuta's "Worship Me, Pigs!"
Try to locate old reruns of your favorite shows- unfortunately, I can't find reruns of "Max Headroom".
Break out the tapedeck, or even the record player, and listen to the classics: Gabriel, Clapton, Collins, Fleetwood Mac, Info. Society, Flock Of Seagulls, Numan, Dolby, Jett, Benatar....the list goes on.
I was watching "URGH!- A Music War", and I almost felt like I was at every concert on that film.
(There were about 36 or 37 bands playing, you know!)
More ideas to come!!!
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Allie Fox on 06/08/06 at 11:57 am
Oh and browsing ebay for 80s toys... my guilty pleasure.
Tell me about it. I have spent (and continue to spend) WAY TOO MUCH on eBay.
. . .but my collection looks cool. :D
Another thing I like to do is watch "Freaks and Geeks."
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Bobby on 06/08/06 at 12:38 pm
The same way you transported yourself from Donnie Darko to DarkRainySkies, LOL!!!
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: wndysbg on 06/08/06 at 3:13 pm
Photos, talking about things I did as a teenager (Class of '84) and of course - listening to that great '80's music!
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 06/08/06 at 3:39 pm
I enjoy watching the movies, talking about it with friends and family, and of course listening to the great music.
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 06/08/06 at 11:26 pm
Hook-up an Iroc Z with a flux capacitor and an atomic thrust!
:D
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Gis on 06/09/06 at 9:26 am
I have a great 'assorted rock' video I taped back then and watching it always works.
Also the smell of Shockwaves Hard Rock Hairspray takes me right back !
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Remus on 08/13/06 at 3:10 am
What do you do to remind yourself of the '80s? I blast my music really loud in the car! 8)
I log on to Youtube, this site, and Ebay.
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: KKay on 08/13/06 at 8:43 am
i put on the 80-s music channel on cable tv. great.
i also make a mix tape. not cd, but tape. very time consuming, using LPs only.
THAT is sooo 80s
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/06 at 9:16 am
I just look at the amount of earnings on my wage slips bck then.
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: P.E.D. on 08/14/06 at 10:19 am
Play records and tapes, 80s nights on the radio, read my old papers and magazines, talk, party lol
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: CeeKay on 08/14/06 at 1:44 pm
I heard that leggings are coming back in style. That could transport you back to the 80s. But...would anyone dare to wear them again?
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 08/14/06 at 1:49 pm
I heard that leggings are coming back in style. That could transport you back to the 80s. But...would anyone dare to wear them again?
It's tempting to buy them, although it only makes me feel like I'm living in the past.. they would be really cute underneath a pair of tight jean shorts, though! :)
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Dave79 on 08/14/06 at 10:48 pm
Same here on both accounts.
It's amazing what you can find on eBay, LOL..!
edited: because fred sanford said i'm a big dummy...
Indeed, ebay does have many things, I like to go on there myself.
--
Dave.
Subject: Re: How do you "transport" yourself back to the '80s?
Written By: Dave79 on 08/14/06 at 10:53 pm
Play records and tapes, 80s nights on the radio, read my old papers and magazines, talk, party lol
Things I might do myself, also I might watch some of my fav 80s movies.
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Dave.