Chaos Magnet

I love the 80's

I have never really felt a "part" of the surrounding culture. Even when I was a teenager, I felt "outside" of it all. Apparently I was right. I'm sitting here watching VH1's I Love the 80s and being amazed how just how much I either missed or completely ignored. Yes, I was the world's biggest Star Wars fan, but I never saw Flashdance, Vacation, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scarface, or just about any of the other movies that they're holding up as icons of the era. Some of the music they're mentioning, yes. Duran Duran, Flock of Seagulls, and so on. The TV, too. The A-Team, and so on. (But not, I should mention, Dukes of Hazard.)

So how out of touch was I, really?

This is really weird, actually. Because when I was a teenager, I was sure that music was the area in which I was least cool. My parents raised me on swing music, and I never, ever, seemed to be liking what everybody else was liking. And yet just about ever song they're mentioning is one of my favorites.