{"id":2807,"date":"2013-04-06T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2013-04-06T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T19:24:43","slug":"the-third-millenium-looks-a-lot-like-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/06\/the-third-millenium-looks-a-lot-like-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"The Third Millenium Looks a Lot Like 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted the following over at <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/04\/04\/behold-the-grim-future-of-a-19.html\">Boing Boing<\/a> today. It&#8217;s an old TV commercial from the &#8217;80s that I&#8217;d completely forgotten until I saw the first five seconds or so of it again, whereupon it all came flooding back. I used to think this spot was so <i>completely<\/i> awesome; it would grab my attention whenever it came on, no matter what I was doing, and keep me riveted for the next minute:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fjePe2526As?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So what was it about this I thought was so neat? Damned if I know&#8230; probably that it had a sci-fi premise and turned on the idea of loud rock-n-roll setting you free, or something.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the comments over at Boing Boing are flooded with Damn Kids(tm) making fun of the feathered hair and the obsolete technology and the whole Duran Duran music video vibe. Well, I say screw them. They weren&#8217;t there, and they didn&#8217;t live through it, so they don&#8217;t understand that that stuff used to be <i>cool<\/i>. We weren&#8217;t deluded or lame for wearing that stuff; we were in step with the times. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, the &#8217;80s was the last decade that displayed the slightest bit of style or glamour. Yeah, it all looks pretty ridiculous now, but we were at least <i>trying<\/i>, man, instead of endlessly recycling and recombining what everybody wore in previous decades. And we were having fun. Everything now is so&#8230; <i>uniform<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to see at least one of those commenters <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/04\/04\/behold-the-grim-future-of-a-19.html#comment-851975171\">gets it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know, screw all that SCA\/RenFaire\/Steampunk BS. I&#8217;m going to start cosplaying as someone from a retrofuturistic 80&#8217;s timeline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now wouldn&#8217;t that be fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted the following over at Boing Boing today. It&#8217;s an old TV commercial from the &#8217;80s that I&#8217;d completely forgotten until I saw the first five seconds or so of it again, whereupon it all came flooding back. I used to think this spot was so completely awesome; it would grab my attention whenever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}