Thursday, January 31, 2008
to the 1980's
This week I got a call from an old friend, inviting me to go see the new Rambo movie. In his voicemail, he reminisced about how we were so into those movies as young teens. We all had our own "Rambo" survival knives with the compass in the handle, and pretended we were survival specialists on boy scout campouts. I laughed out loud as I listened to his message, and thought fondly of those times. Then, I began to feel veeeerrrryyyyy ooooolllldddd. I had to pinch myself when I thought about how 1980 was 28 years ago. How kids that were born in 1990 (the year I graduated high school) will be graduating from high school this year. How kids now when they "dress like the 80's" for school are really like us "dressing like the 50's and 60's" when we were in high school. I am like totally an 80's child, a stud, buffed, rad, totally awesome, and whatever other words we used to describe ourselves as cool. I don't have a mullet, wear a white glove, or acid washed shredded jeans, or have "tight buns in 501's" anymore. I don't listen to Van Halen and jump everytime the song says to, I don't use the words stoner or jock. I don't wish I had a black Firebird with a little sliding red light on the grill, or drive a Ferrari 308 GT like Thomas Sullivan Magnum, and I don't swing my head around and pretend I am playing a jamming guitar solo, but I am still a product of the 80's. What a great era! Come on everybody FEEL THE NOISE!
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Sweet. What a strange, awesome era. Top 10 songs about the Cold War, tucking the legs of our pants into 2-3 layers of bunched up socks, big shirts and bigger hair, crispy with styling products, , grey and pink everywhere... the dancing was the best, though. I miss that! By the way, I still "Jump!"
So funny Trev! The eighties were AWESOME. Especially 1989!!!!
Melanie read your post to me over the phone. She was talking and blogging at the same time and she started laughing. She started reading it to me and we were both laughing. So funny. BTW. I had a really good time at your house the other day. Thanks!
Very funny Trevor! Great blog!
JIll
I'm probaby going to keep doing P90X through the summer. I will let you know. I also thought about reselling it on Ebay when I'm done. If I decide to keep it and I'm not using it, you can use it for sure.
I still remember being irked by some kid on a motor cycle weaving between cars around us on Col.Ctr. Blvd, only to find him parked in our driveway, visiting Shell. But we fell in love with him, too. You're still rad, Trev.
Hey Trev! I havn't looked at your blog for quite some time. You forgot to mention your famous hammer pants! Maybe that was 90's hmmm? Anyway, your friend Kim mentioned p90x. Carre and I just ordered that for ourselves. Have you tried it?
Craig,
you will NEED to do some things first before the P90X. Or, only plan on doing like 10 minutes at first. I am in pretty darn decent shape right now (cardio) and don't think I could do one of their workouts all the way through. let me know what you think when you get it!
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