[i_am_jan]

oh. my. gawd. !!! I'm so pumped I can't stand it...I love it when she acts like that ~~

[nickclick]

cool, if you love her you're gonna love her in annie. she's all drunk and messy slutty and scheming and hates kids.

[i_am_jan]

Just reserved Annie at the library...I'm embarrassed to admit it after reading this thread ~ and after saying how much I love Carol Burnette ~ that I have never seen it. Am excited as all get out to check it out!

[i_am_jan]

Joan Jett is great...Hey I was also thinking you could dress up as Pat Benatar (spiky hair, 80's cut–off sleeve t-shirt or red/white wide-striped top, black leather pants and microphone! OR: Rick Springfield! Private club jacket jujjed up at elbows (or white rock t-shirt w/cut-off slvs), feather brown hair, tight jeans/sneakers, cardboard/tinfoil guitar strapped on your shoulder/back!

***God I am still in love with Rick Springfield when I think about it. He came on the scene at a very vulnerable time for me. I was let's just say 12, nerdy as all get out, desperately in love with cute guys ala Tiger Beat. God he may have been my very first rock star I was in love with.

It's weird: do teen girls still look at Teen Beat, Tiger Beat, etc.: do they still check out boys' action? Me and my 2 sisters' room was lousy with posters of Rick, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio, Leif Garrett (anyone from The Outsiders), Matt Dillon, et al.

[laniethezany]

Count me among the Annie fanatics. I had all the toys they put out and even had a dress like the one she wears at the end of the movie as my Christmas dress one year. I still have the song book somewhere - it was one of the few piano lesson assignments that I actually practiced.

The traveling production of the Broadway show is going to be in St. Louis over Thanksgiving weekend, and my sister got tickets for my whole family to go see it. It's gonna be a riot!

[nickclick]

whenever i hear 'sweet dreams' by the eurythmics i think of roller skating; that was the big song at my roller rink! and what a great song.

rocker halloween party sounds awesome. i woulda been joan jett! all i'd need is a black spiky wig and a sneer.

and i also had the annie album (yes, it was a record). i'd sit on the steps with my aunt's shaggy dog and pretend i was singing to my dog sandy.

ps daddy warbuck's mansion was filmed at monmouth university, about 10 minutes from my house. whenever we were in the neighborhood i'd make my mom drive by.

[i_am_jan]

Yes, yes...roller skating in the 80s! To MJ! And Cyndi Lauper, Go-Gos, all the great 80s hits like "Oh Mickey!" To have those days BACK!!!!

[musicfit]

Speaking of Carol Burnett, at age 6 I was a huge Little Orphan Annie fan. I wanted to be her. I asked Santa for the soundtrack and got it for Christmas that year! It made me so happy. I insisted on singing "Tomorrow" in the talent show and ended up doing that. Our whole brownie troup did a "Hard Knock Life" number that my mom choreographed. My mom played Mrs. Hannigan. Yes, those were the days!

I just heard "beat it" and it brought back some wonderful childhood memories. I remember when Thriller came out (I believe I was 6) and at the skating rink Thriller came on (I was 7, I think) and I was so excited to go out on the rink with Thriller playing and all these colorful lights. Fun!

And whoever came up with the rocker theme for their Halloween party, that's awesome. I think my friends would have come up with the same thing, since we are in our late 20s and early 30s and we don't see anything now as rockstarish.

[i_am_jan]

Didn't know where else to put this...I grew up in the 80's and when I was a little kid, my moms and pops used to always watch the Carol Burnette show which would make me laugh like crazy. I grew to love Carol Burnette! Thought maybe some of ya'll would too and if so, PBS TV is airing a show called "Carol Burnette, A Woman With Character" tomorrow, Monday, 11/5 (in my local area, it's at 9 pm)! Just go to the NPR (www.npr.org) website, find the station near you, look at the programming schedule, to find out when you can check it out! (Tug, tug on my earlobe...goodnight everybody!)

[snarky7]

New threads - love it! So, in the spirit of the season, there was a great Halloween party on Friday night. The "theme" (a new one each year) was Rockstars. It is so funny (and likely because of the age group) that the vast majority were 80s rockers. For example, a group of guys went as Motley Crue - spandex pants and big fluffy crimped hair. wow. Then there was Kurt Cobain, Billy Idol (a couple of those), 80s Madonna, a couple KISS guys, and even I went as a groupie of an 80s band with my Def Leppard t-shirt. We could have picked any era, but it was definitely 80s! LOVE IT

[nickclick]

hyterical blindness is great. jersey represent!

[i_am_jan]

One of my favorite movies of all time is HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS. It is hilariously funny, and so very touching it brought tears. It is set in the 80's in Jersey. It's Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis who are TOTALLY 80'S LATE-TEENAGERS - LIKE, they're *SO* TRUE to the 80's girl's lifestyle (*pink collar*/other side of the tracks lifestyle, culture, personality) ~ that you almost had to be from that time yourself to truly appreciate the honesty of their portrayals in this movie. I mean, I was in my late-teens in the 80s ~ in the pink collar world ~ and that is EXACTLY how I acted. Also, this movie brings back the *BAD* 80's fashion ~ that you probably won't ever see again ~ the part of 80's fashion that was JUST in the 80's. Also it has Gena Rowlands as Uma's mother!!! Did I mention the soundtrack? "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" is the theme song, and I won't give away all the other awesome tunes. This movie is underappreciated and is usually sitting on the library DVD shelf at any given time collecting dust. Shoot you can buy it new on Ebay for like $.99.

Speaking of quirky dramas set in the 80's, "The Squid And The Whale" is also fantastic.

[musicfit]

I'm happy to see this thread again. I was born in 76, so the 1980s were my entire pre-teen childhood. Brings back wonderful memories.

[sybarite]

OctoberSky, he was okay: he looked into my eyes... and asked me for a band-aid. I ran into the kitchen and pissed off all the chefs by searching frantically for a single band-aid.

He was still totally hot, but it was a long time ago. Fantastic eyes.

/still swooning, gives self wake-up slap

[nickclick]

guyliner? ohmygod that's the funniest thing. never heard that term, but loved every guy who ever wore it.

my favorite genre of music in the 80s was whiny gay british men. DD was a little too happy for me then.

freckle, you should definitely see the cure. seriously, i was emotional.

[octobersky]

Nah freckle you aren't a "fake" fan - the title is a referrence to a lyric in the song "The Chauffer" which was on the Rio album. If you only hade one DD album I'm guessing it was Seven and the Ragged Tiger. So, no you wouldn't have got the reference, but that certainly does not mean you aren't/weren't a fan!

My mom was wonderfuly patient with my DD obession. I think it reminded her of her own love for The Beatles so she was better that most parents. I don't think she ever quite got the guyliner thing though. I had a good 1/3 of my room done in DD posters/magazine pictures with some Cure, Depeche Mode and Madonna stuff worked in too.

Aww you should go see The Cure!! A friend of mine went not too long ago and really enjoyed the show.

[freckleface7]

ok, I must have been a fake DD fan, bc I do not remember 'sing blue silver' at all.
.. makes me feel sad and somewhat artifical bc I LOVED them back then.
they were the 1st and Only rock/popular type album I ever bought as a kid, the rest was all nerdy classical so it was a Big Deal for me and my parents nearly fainted after seeing what they looked like.

on a higher note, the Cure is playing near us in June & I am thinking about getting tix for the mr & I & maybe frecklette too, so she can be wildly embarrassed at the love songs that will have us all gooey eyed at each other.
then again on second hand, maybe it's best we just play her a cd?
their music was largely the backdrop to our romance, almost 20 years ago!

'80's icon sighting by my friend at an airport in DC: the band Air Supply.
she said they all seemed pretty cool, even when some of the women she was traveling w/ gushed & asked for autographs, but she also said they all had bad B. O !

[octobersky]

No sybarite it's not! If you played their albums as much as I did you would have immediate recognition. If I remember right they ran this documentary on HBO 'cause I remember watching it with a couple of friends. We squealed everytime one of our favorites came on the screen. What can I say? We were 11 or 12 at the time.

What's funny is I still think they are very, very attractive and I can't honestly say that about any of my other adolescent crushes. Really they have all aged quite well.

I would have turned into a swooning, stammering idiot if I waited on John Taylor. Was he nice or an ass?

[sybarite]

Is it bad that I instantly recognised the lyric 'sing blue silver' and the song it's from?

I once waited on John Taylor. I swooned; it was embarrassing.

[octobersky]

AHHHHHHHH!!!!

I *love* you raisingirl!!!! I just asked my brother a few weeks ago to try and bittorrent for me and he couldn't find anything. Squeee!!!

Thank you,

The Other Ms. John Taylor