Posts Tagged ‘nostalgia’
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Much like a friend posted on his facebook, my high school era song-memory turns out to be pretty strong, making me think I’ve been missing out on karaoke possibilities, not looking for Phil Colins/Genesis songs. And of course, it’s off-weekend at Claire’s karaoke, so I’m thinking I might give Ozzie’s a first try. The only thing holding me back is the thought of how long a walk home it would be, at a later hour than seems safe for the route required, which means a taxi. Other people take taxi’s all the time, I suppose I could too.
Tags: karaoke, music, nostalgia, singing
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
Another part of the weekend’s nostalgia overload, a marathon session of Jason of Star Command. I had remembered the bad guy’s monocle, but there was so much I had forgotten that came back once I started watching. As a kid, I probably didn’t notice that they not only reused sound FX from Star Trek, they even reuse some of the musical cues. I’m certain as a Star Wars obsessed kid, the ‘evil’ wookie-alikes would have been notable. And now I know why the minister from Mom and Dad Save The World seemed so familiar; I was remembering him from Jason.
But the biggest ‘discovery’ was the do-anything-even-fly-through-space-yet-fit-in-a-fanny-pack robot, W1k1, aka Wiki. Wikipedia’s biography claims it comes from the Hawaiian word for quick, but obviously Jimmy Wales was a big Jason fan =p It’s a robot that is capable of interstellar travel, has a built in laser for freeing Jason from the inevitable chains in the dungeon scenes, and R2D2 like one-understandable-sided-jokes.
Tags: nostalgia, tv, wikipedia
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
Experienced a bit of nostalgic dissonance this weekend, watching the blu-ray Star Wars I got for Christmas. I can overlook most of the little edits and ‘upgraded’ special effects, though Greedo is an annoyance still, but when you get to the final movie, its bad enough that they aren’t playing the proper Yub Nub song, and have a bunch of inserted views from other planets’ celebrations, but when they get to the final glowing trio of Jedi, they put Hayden Christensen in, which made me IMDB it…he was freakin TWO YEARS OLD when Jedi came out.
Tags: dissonance, nostalgia, starwars, updates
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
The tip-of-my-tounge memory of this show has been rattling around in my head for years, and finally the internet helped me figure out that the show I remembered was Jason of Star Command
. The DVD box set came today, and even before putting it in, I’m on nostalgia level 10. There’s James Doohan as one of the good guys, and the bad guy with an retracting reticle that Last Starfighter ‘borrowed’. The cast list is kind amusing, since they list something they’d be more likely known for, as a parenthetical for almost everyone in the cast.
After having watched how unkind blu-ray was to the original first Star Wars, over the weekend, I’m not sure I’m ready to have my childhood illusions about how cool this show’s effects were, equally shattered. Or maybe it’ll engender warm fuzzy feelings for the fantasy acceptance of youth.
Tags: nostalgia, scifi, tv
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
I once met a guy, named ‘Step’ Buddy Anderson. A retired jazz man, he’d made a book that explained what he called “The Digital Clock Game”, a book filled with a beat poetic vision of life as a game, where anytime you looked at a digital clock, you ‘got’ something. I can’t remember any of the phrases he assigned for different times, so this example is just my own made up one, “10:10 it’s that time again, 20:20 you know it’s dark honey, 12:34 see who’s at the door”. They were cute, and he talked about how you should always just be ready to make up your own phrase for any time that you caught, nor limit yourself to his suggestions for times he had covered. But key in the book was the point that you weren’t supposed to cheat at the game; you had to catch a time purely by accident, not by sitting at a clock waiting for it to occur.
And so it is with pride that I can say I managed to ‘catch’ 11:11 on 11/11/2011, in my kitchen, on the microwave.
this one’s for you Step Buddy.
Tags: coincidence, digitalclockgame, kansascity, nostalgia, stepbuddyanderson, synchronicity
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Monday, September 12th, 2011
No, this is not a link to some sort of gay porn site. Rather, it’s a how-did-I-miss-this-one link to a disney-sponsored cover album of the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, The Jack 2 Pack
, with artists like Marilyn Manson and Rodrigo & Gabriela. I look forward to some weird semi-nostalgic listening.
Tags: album, cover, nostalgia
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Back when I worked at the music company, I got access to the Star Wars music box set and was annoyed by how it was missing Yub Nub. Today on random, I discover that they did include an all new song, Jedi Rocks.
Really? I can’t get my cuteness-overload of Ewok celebration, but I can get a cheesetastic 80′s rock revisioning?
Tags: georgelucas, music, nostalgia, specialeditionsucks, starwars, video
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Hot Tub Time Machine
turns out to be better than expected. Ends on a much more sentimental and thoughtful note than I would have thought possible from such a silly premise. Good performances and lots of 80′s fashion disaster flashbacks, with of course a Better Off Dead
reference…at least one that I caught, surely there were more =p
Tags: movie, movie review, nostalgia
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Oh internet, with a billion people online (not to scale), anything I can think of to look for, someone has done, in some form or fashion. I’m getting ready this morning, listening to some tunes on the ipad, and it occurs to me how droll it would be to walk down the street with it on my shoulder like an old skool boom box. Someone thought of it, and made a gelaskin already =p
Tags: capitalism, internet, ipad, nostalgia
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
So I’m looking around online for signs of a friend that has disappeared from our social circle recently, half worried that he’s gone and got himself into some sort of trouble that would explain his absence from the usual haunt. I find no recent news articles, so that’s good, but I do find an old nwtekno thread, where someone with a handle that matches his name posts something. It’s probably not him, then again, who knows. What’s funny is that a few posts up, I spot an old raving buddy, who says “Pardon me, but I’m rather new to this whole ‘electronic’ ‘music’ thing. I only listen to Paul Oakenfold. So… what’s IDM?”
Oh how times have changed. I’m sure he knows all the colors of the ishkur rainbow by now.
Tags: nostalgia, nwtekno, raves, synchronicity
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