I’m not sure what’s my favorite- the part where the punks are slam dancing in the middle of a New York street (before getting slammed into by an evil hovercraft), or when the rich jerks’ car gets sucked under (by an evil hovercraft). You know what, it’s actually where the golfer’s security guard gets thrown forward right into a tree (by an evil hovercraft. Hovercraft.)
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Ah me. I’m still working towards being this entertaining an animator. It reminds me of the ‘Everybody Wants Some’ scene in ‘Better Off Dead’, but with far superior animation. Using a song that sounds like Yaz doesn’t hurt either.
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It’s funny; I bet no one thought of ‘the 90s’ as a look until kids born at its start began dressing in teeny flower prints, piles of flannel, and Doc Martens. While it was going on, people in the 90s just dressed ‘comfortably’ or ‘fashionably’, as they saw fit, with what was available to them at local retailers. As said in the Seattle music documentary ‘Hype!’, “Wanna know why we wore flannel all the time? Because it’s fucking COLD up here.” Summing up a decade with fashion shorthand usually misses the actuality of the time period, the non-runway people living everyday lives with hand-me-downs and limited budgets.
That said, sometimes fashion shorthand is right on the nose. I was digging around for some nice Scandinavian intarsia patterns (what, you’ve never?) and came across this artifact CLEARLY, PAINFULLY from the 80s. It’s all there- the big hair, bigger tops, weird variations on beige and the masculine ideal…but it’s KNITTING patterns. As anyone who’s made even a hat knows, knitting takes a considerable amount of time and effort to create a final garment; you’re making each individual loop of the fabric. So to see something so dated and know at least one person worked at least 3 weeks to make it is one kind of sad. To open up the latest ‘Vogue Knitting’ and see the modern variant, knowing it will be dated is a whole different existential ‘I am but a brief moment in the flow of time’ crisis (one reason not to have a subscription).
Still, the recycling of the 80s has nearly run its course, the 90s are now ‘in’ ‘again’, and so we can chuckle at the folly of the following (if for some perverse reason you’d like to make any of these, I’ve linked the images to the patterns):
Post-apocalyptic wear in Oatmeal or Beige. I like the masculine ‘your seam is showing’ vs. the feminine ‘puffy sleeve’.
Guy, take the serious down a notch. You are wearing a Russian Navy hat and something with Powder Blue in it, NOT Peter Murphy in ‘The Hunger’.
I’d like to imagine the baby is seeing beyond this earthly plane, reaching out to some invisible spirit in an effort not to see the half-assed Kid Icarus on his shirt.
Speaking of shorthanding a generation’s fashion, why were the 80s obsessed with the 50s? Was it all the repression? Some yearning for the decade’s boundless optimism? And how does that relate to dolling up this poor woman like a chemical peel victim hiding the shame?
Biiiiiiig hair. Biiig hairsprayed hair.
Even the singer from Madness got into the act.
Speaking of 80s English music, wait a minute…is that…
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Just a heads-up to those of you looking for ostentatious vehicles, the Ghostbuster’s car is up for grabs.
I found this skimming across Neatorama, along with a video of an entire party doing the ‘Thriller’ dance as their wedding song. Cute, but if you’re going to go with a peak-period Michael Jackson song with high-profile directed video, my choice would be ‘Beat It’. It’s so perfect for a bride-and-groom first dance! Their respective families gather in a ring on the dance floor, the two come out backwards, ‘accidentally’ bumping into each other, their best man and woman tie their hands together as they dance around each other with shivs….I guess the priest or whoever could pop in to ‘break it down’, then everyone snaps their fingers and wiggles their hips off the floor for the next dance. Ah, romance.
What was the name of that one guy who was later in a cop show? Mario something? He’s one of the ‘dancier’ gang members in this? I always wondered if the guys on his other cop show made fun of him for his dancing talents.
Weird Al was one of my favorite singers when I was younger. I think I still have a VHS of his ‘Al TV’ special where, in the middle of all the goofy comedy one of the band members gets shoved off the roof ‘accidentally’. They play it as if it really happened and freak out, just cutting to commercial as they try and cover it all up. As a kid I thought that was peak comedy. Clearly my parents weren’t monitoring my viewing habits as stringently as they might have. Man, I’ve really been on an 80′s jag of late.
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