Why listen?
Okay, I keep seeing all these girls with their jeans rolled up to their knees, and all I can say is that just because Sarah Jessica Parker and The Gap tell us to do something, doesn't mean we have to.
It's a horrible look. That's all there is to it.
And stop with the ugly flower broaches(sp?)
I went to the Eaton's centre yesterday, and almost over-dosed on the 80's styles. All the teens(and middle-aged women) were decked out as if they were trying out to be extras on the re-make of St. Elmo's Fire, starring Ashton Kutcher and Ashley Simpson.
Uggghhhhhh.
All these repeats make me tired. First there were TV show repeats, then remakes and now all our clothes and songs and everything are remakes and repeats.
Is this what we've come to? Is this all we've accomplished?
Stupid post-modernism.
Please stop looking for the next big thing.
That's my advice.
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Then how are they going to make money? :)
Think that old game "Hungry Hungry Hippos" and replace the gumballs with venture capital. Then, switch the kids playing with industrialists. That's who is paying for all of this and we can't stop them, at least not without some sort of blood-in-the-streets revolution.
This is bad. I am all for peaceful solutions. Ghandi didn't have to bomb any embassies to get the Brits out of India. Then again, their empire was falling apart and they didn't have the cash to assert control over their overseas dominions.
I'm digressing here but the point I'm trying to make is "Don't burn yourself out hating this corrupt consumerist society we live in." We can only change things one generation at a time so if you have kids, emphasize the Right Way and teach them well. That's all we've got. Either that, or read to them about Che Guevara and instruct them in marksmanship. :)
Peace,
JB.
http://jeremybrendan.blogspot.com
8:53 a.m.
i have come to really hate the gap. for all of the same reasons you mentioned. Yeah and what ever happened to new and original styles? The 80s were cool during the 80s (exclusively thankyouverymuch) because it was original. Now we're just rehashing. So boring.
people are JUST looking for the next best thing and not looking to create, not looking to be new. it's all about the dollar and how much they can make by playing with our memories. it's like these kids wearing the NEW 80s shit always wanted to wear it when they were little kids but weren't grown-up enough to do it DURING the 80s. so now they make us all suffer by living through that shit again. it was bad enought he first time around!
nika.
agencychick.typepad.com
1:21 p.m.
jb: oh, it doesn't burn me out, I just like to complain about it... and kids never solve anything so I don't think I want any ;)
2:41 p.m.
nika: exactly, I don't think anyone who lived in the 80's even liked the 80's...
2:44 p.m.
actually, the eighties were my favorite decade. an unpopular opinion, for sure, but hear me out. the eighties were the last decade of originality. the ninties, you'll notice, had no discernable overall aesthetic besides "cyber" which doesn't count because it was (and still is) terrible. for a while, everything look like a bad rave flyer. the ninties were cheap and "virtual" and covered in tacky photoshop effects. the eighties, in my mind at least, were still actual and concrete. plus all those great tangerine dream soundtracks in "firestarter" and "risky business."
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