Posts Tagged ‘80s’

Okay, Alison’s 17. I’m assuming she’s still fairly innocent, but whatever. Let’s not examine that one too closely.

At this advanced age, she’s going through a nostalgic phase- I suppose it has to do with graduation being ever closer. She keeps talking about “her childhood,” while I try to hide the obvious- that I still consider her to be inside that childhood, while she believes she’s waaaaay beyond it.

This evening brought hand slappy games of the sort that little girls give up around 5th grade (apropos of nothing, “Hot Hands” has its own wiki page. Weird.), and waxing on about “when I was a kid.”

That led on to this Disney movie, Teen Witch, which I sort of remember, but not really. I’ve blocked a lot of really awful movies that she used to love. It was purely defensive, not even conscious, but if I’d actually let things like the Spice Girls’ movie into my brain, it would’ve exploded.

So, too, this gem. “Teen Witch” was made in 1989 (which I’m sure you’ve already figured out, based on the hair), and Ali says she hasn’t seen it in years, but damn if she didn’t know all the songs. When I found this for her on YouTube she shrieked- so did I, but for a different reason:

And, of course, when she begged, I ordered the damn thing on Amazon. I figured she’s not the only one with not a lot of high school time left in which to be nostalgic.

:::sigh:::

For Christmas a friend gave me a bit of a joke gift: a DVD of Duran Duran’s Arena, their concept/concert video from 1984. When we were kids, we both had Duran Issues.

Though we didn’t know each other at that point, and had different favorites in the band, we each watched this video (back in the dark old days, on actual tape, children, can you imagine? Be kind- rewind!) more times than was strictly sane, and recall it with sighing, wistful nostalgia.

Oh yeah, an embarrassing nostalgia, sure, and I’ll turn that sigh into a cough hoping you don’t notice, but you know what I mean. Read the rest of this entry »