Speaking of old cars, I had a moment the other day where it took me about 3-4 minutes to figure what the hell was going on. During the apartment search, I had to drive around with the agent from apartment to apartment. He had some VW Jetta or Passat from the early 2000s, thing was scratched and beat up to shit. Anyway, his AC didn't work, and it was hot as balls in Chicago. He was a nervous guy that might have been embarrassed about his car, because he didn't say anything for those 3-4 minutes awhile I was looking for the button to roll down the window. I thought I was losing my mind, and that fucker just watched me the entire time until I realized I had to ROLL the window down with the crank. I haven't been in a car with a window crank in at least 7-8 years. Every time we got out to view a place, I was halfway out the car before I had forgot to roll the window up. I always crouched back in to awkwardly roll it up.
Click, clunk, click When I was 15, my best friend was 16 and drove the old family station wagon that had an 8-track player in it. I bought one of these things so we could play my Moving Pictures cassette.
Re: Click, clunk, click I'm not much of a Rush fan, but that album stands on its own. And Lifeson is a guitar god.
Flip the Chicago Bulls emblem, and it's a robot ass-fucking a crab. and, America's two greatest heroes in the same motherfuckin' place at the SAME motherfuckin' time: Spoiler
I'm not really into Pop music, but when I was growing up it was still very listenable because my generation had songs like this: What do you younger folks have?
For those unlucky enough to have been born in the late 1980's (not me, thank fuck. I remember MJ's Thriller and Bad albums...), there was this: Also this: And finally: I'm not even going to post a youtube video of the Macarena. You all hate me enough already after those 3. I will admit to occasionally listening to old Spice Girls numbers as a guilty pleasure.
Tubthumping was an amazing song. I don't care what you say. I'm trying to convince The Husband to buy a window unit for our bedroom, so it can get down to below 60 without having to cool the rest of the house. He's skeptical though.
On the flip side, here's what else my generation had: And of course, who can forget: (That Tiffany video just slays me. I can't get over those jeans she's wearing, nor her appearance in general, really - I girl I was friends with when I was growing up looked a lot like her.)
This has got to be a fucking joke. But it isn't. It's real... and you can taste it in the back of your mouth like greasy pennies. White trash guy is having a baby WITH HIS OWN GRANDMOTHER
The first album I ever owned was Love by The Cult. The first one I bought with my own money was the Cocktail soundtrack. When I was a kid I liked The Police, Joy Division, Pink Floyd, MJ (Still have Thriller on vinyl) and of course The California Raisins.
I had a California Raisins lunchpail. It was the last one Wal-Mart had and I was the ONLY one in my school to have it. I was quite proud of that yellow bucket.
When you look at it as an adult, all they were was a cheap cover band of Doo-wop singers put into claymation. Their "fame" would be unexplainable to younger people if it wasnt for the rise of reality TV.
I feel like they may have had a Saturday morning cartoon as well. Remember when cartoons were special? When Saturday morning, 6:30 to noon, was OUR time to watch tv? When it was Garfield and Friends, and Ninja Turtles, and then Captain Planet before we all went outside and played? And when during the week, the two shows after school were Who's the Boss and Saved by the Bell?
No Saturday cartoon ever managed to top The Loony Toons/Bugs Bunny hour. WB classics defeat ALL man. Hell, The Road Runner and Sheepdog vs. Wolf ones are STILL hilarious.
Fucking love me some Duck Tales and Goof Troop. Back when the Disney Channel was a premium channel and you needed a special box for it.