Remeber Monroe from Too close for comfort?
Why the 80's? Because it was my child hood. I remeber the 70's. I spend 5 years in that decade. But the 80's is when my life really began? As the last memeber of Gen X, I have fond memories of the 80's. first half of that decade I spent it in the motherland. Second half of that decade was spent in the US.
My memories of the 80's
1) Michael Jackson (Da King of Pop)
2) E.T. (First movie in a theater that I ever saw)
3) Ice cream trucks in front of Carmenita Junior High School
4) Orel Hershiser and Kirk Gibson
5) Da show time Lakahs! (Magic, Kareem, Worthy, AC, Scott, Coopah so on and so forth)
6) Buying baby chicks in front of my elemetary school in Korea.
7) Cartoons from Korea. Tae Kwon V, Mazinga Z, Great Mazinga, Dooli, speed racer, Grandizer, last but not least Candy!(girly cartoon I watched with my mom and yes I cried watching Candy)
8) GI Joe figures and Transformer toys. (storm shadow and Optimus Prime)
9) Lego (toys that I consider to be the best toys ever)
10) Wearing white indoor Kung Fu shoes inside my elementary school in Korea.
11) My first time @ Disneyland.
12) 80's Music (OMD, Pet Shop Boys, U2, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Fat Boys, NWA)
13) Everyone crying at Church retreat. Very emotional times for Hoon.
14) Learning english. (oh boy was I a fob)
15) My first crush and many that followed after.
16) Puberty (I have hair in weird places!)
17) Koreans were non existant among the whitees. They thought all Asians were either Chinese or Japanese.
18) Alpha Beta Super Markets.
19) So Bang Cha
20) Black people with Jerry Curls
21) Hair Bands
22) Porky's and Porky's revenge
23) Ferris Buller's Day Off
24) TGIF shows
25) Time Out (arcade in Cerritos Mall)
26) Drakkar Noir
27) Discovering Aqua Net
28) Stealing Playboy magazines with Al In Junior High.
29) Deloreans (at that time my dream car)
30) Rambo
31) Schwartznegger Movies
32) BIG (Tom Hanks)
33) Censorship
34) Chi from CPC (she was hot!)
35) Outsiders (Da Book)
36) Little league Baseball (i was in the Cerritos Indians)
37) Folding the bottom of my pants with a safety pin, cause it would not stay in place (Why did kids do that?)
38) Clothes from Chess King (Z. Cavaricci pants, B.U.M. Equipment, I.O.U., silk shirts)
39) T & C, Public Image, Varnet, Oakley's blades, and Jimmy'z.
40) Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray leonard, Tommy "the Hitman" Hearns, John "the Beast" Mugabi, Roberto "Manos de Piedra" Duran, and Larry Holmes. Oh and Tyson's dominance.
41) Hulk Hogan and other WWF Super Stars.
42) Pioneer Chicken
43) Comics Unlimited
44) Robotech
45) The Clash
46) Billy Idol
47) Top Gun (big fan of Ice Man, I thought he was cooleer than Maverick, Goose was cool too before he got asses out)
48) Tommy Chu and his Yacht full of girls. "I Tommy Chu, Wen I fust come to dis cuntry, I hav notting. But now I hav gurs, cars, Boats and money!" "Buy my video and you can be like me!"
49) TV commercials for Earl Shibe, Jack Stephan, Adee-doo, Cal Worthington and hid dog spot, Shadow Stephens for Phil and Jims.
50) Patrick Nagel Paintings. Very 80's. Nagel was a fellow Titan from CSUF. He died of aids in the 80's
They all looked kinda like this with Ferraris and such
I will end this blog with Da Song "We are the World"
USA for Africa (Sing it Y'all)
There comes a time, when we hear a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all
We can't go on pretending day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make change
We are all a part of God's great big family
And the truth you know
Love is all we need
chorus:
We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true, we'll make a better day, just you and me
Send them your heart so they know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stones to bread
And so we all must lend a helping hand
-chorus repeat
When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
But if you just believe there's no way we can fall
Let us realize that a change can only come
When we stand together as one
Chorus repeat x2
It's True we make better days just you and me
Have a wonderful weekend Y'all!