Childhoods defined
Recent events have really shown the effects that real stars with real talent can have on the world. Not one generation, but many, around the world, are mourning the losses of David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Faucet, and Michael Jackson. As one author wrote on Time.com, "these guys were on our lunch boxes". Being a child of the 1980s, Michael Jackson was always there. Thriller showed me that music videos can be more than just 3 minute clips. The first View Finder I ever had that could do audio had only one disk and one tape: Thriller. I can't tell you how many times I played through that View Finder disk! I took my cassette copy of Dangerous everywhere with me! I thought it was so cool that Macaulay Culkin was in Black or White and am still floored by the ground-breaking effects they used for the transitions between the people at the end. Remember the Time had me hooked because the video was Egyptian themed. Even during and after the molestation charges, he continued to produce great music. In college, Morphine became one of my favorites (though it had been released many years earlier). I still am having trouble accepting these stories of his death as real. He's been around for so long, how could he be gone? The news will be around for a while, so it probably won't be until all of that dies down that it sinks in. It's really sad. Even Madonna, the other musical artist I could easily recognize and was a fan of growing up, said that she couldn't stop crying. It will be almost equally as traumatic when her time comes as they were both such powerhouses.
So, in an attempt to escape from all of the bad and enjoy some of the good, Douglas and I are spending the night watching TMNT and playing Ghostbusters. I do believe we've added the GB movies to our list of things to do this weekend as well (the movies are still good and a lot of fun if you haven't seen them in a long time...I REALLY hope they don't go all CGI on us in the new movie).
I do have to say that after everything yesterday, I was expecting the headline "Hasslehoff drowns" or "Hasslehoff dies after joy ride in original KITT". I heard about the rumors of Jeff Goldbloom (why him?) and Harrison Ford (now HE makes more sense) that were floating around the internet. What a crazy day.
So, in an attempt to escape from all of the bad and enjoy some of the good, Douglas and I are spending the night watching TMNT and playing Ghostbusters. I do believe we've added the GB movies to our list of things to do this weekend as well (the movies are still good and a lot of fun if you haven't seen them in a long time...I REALLY hope they don't go all CGI on us in the new movie).
I do have to say that after everything yesterday, I was expecting the headline "Hasslehoff drowns" or "Hasslehoff dies after joy ride in original KITT". I heard about the rumors of Jeff Goldbloom (why him?) and Harrison Ford (now HE makes more sense) that were floating around the internet. What a crazy day.