03.15.07

Blast from the Past

Posted in Funny Stuff at 7:30 pm by Stoner

Every decade is identical in some respects:

  • the music radically changes
  • something is done in excess
  • many people continue to live in that decade 30-40 years later
  • many people try to deny that decade happened in their lives

The first important decade in my life was the 80’s. Ah yes, big hair, Rubik’s Cube, heavy metal, the Power Ballad…it was excellent. I was taken on the trip back to the 80’s when I stumbled upon the “home page” of Jeff Spicoli. If you were at least in your teens when the 80’s started, you know exactly who that is and why he’s so important. The movie was pretty much spot-on for the high school scene of the 80’s.

Another movie set in the 80’s is The Last American Virgin. While the two themes are universal (teenage boys trying to get laid and teenage love), this movie always comes to the forefront of my mind when I think of the 80’s. Why? I think it has to do with the movie’s ending message: fairy tale endings are only found in fairy tales.

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