There are many so-called trendsetters who think that an 80s resurgence has come and gone and believe that it is now somehow acceptable to start listening to Nirvana again. These people are impatient and lack understanding. Yes, Corporate America has manufactured and repackaged certain “macro” elements of 80s culture and successfully remarketed them to an unsuspecting, Bush-sick public. But that’s just the first wave, the real 80s, the 80s that you dreamed about when you were living in the 80s, that 80s is slowly beginning to find its way back into our hearts and minds. Just stay strong and believe, because if Obama gets elected, the super-awesome 80s – the 80s that promised us hoverboards and never-ending weird science houseparties – is going to make all our wildest dreams come true.
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holy crap where did you find that picture?
holy crap that’s a sweet picture.
Comment by Jesse February 5, 2008 @ 11:10 pmMake me an editor for this blog so I can fix those typos and return balance to the force. Also, random “trend-setters” brought the 80’s back, not corporate America. All corporate America can do is watch for trends, hopefully jump on them before they’re dead, and squeeze as much money out of them as possible. (Same shit, different pile – I know.)
P.S. Who is this Jesse person that isn’t me? What a name thief.
Comment by TIER ZERO February 6, 2008 @ 10:28 amBy my calculations, I would say the 80’s being cool has about 2.5 years to go. By 2010/11 It will be Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Seattle grunge all the way.
Comment by The Aesthetic Poetic February 6, 2008 @ 10:31 amI can’t wait for more 80s! Maybe I can FINALLY get an Intellivision console…
Comment by craig February 6, 2008 @ 11:16 amSoundgarden, like the USSR, ain’t ever coming back. Do you want to know why? because the soviets wouldn’t allow dance parties and you can’t dance to that grungy bullshit either.
Watch out for that spiritual communism, it breeds folk music and nonsensical chanting.
Comment by thepublics February 7, 2008 @ 12:47 am[...] to the future cooler kunst/design/krempel Blog den ich gerade *narf* gefunden [...]
Pingback by Back to the future « sieghai February 12, 2008 @ 9:00 amI find your blogs wildly entertaining…Haddow.
It’s even more weird because I read your hipster article on adbusters and made a comment about it on my magazine blog.
You should read one of the comments left on the article! My friend totally hates you! =D
At least I think it’s funny.
What were the odds that I randomly find you here, without actually trying?
COOL! ANYWAY!
All I can say right now is true originality died the day mechanical reproduction came to life. And the progression of fashion seem to move in circles…rather than straight lines. Almost every idea out there is borrowed from another time, decade, period or era. We do this so much we sometimes can’t even pin down a single creator of specifics trends. It comes from all different sources.
Comment by cloverbell August 5, 2008 @ 11:28 pmThe last thing I would blame are corporation since I can’t give a fuck about business agendas anyway.
and everyone knows that corporations are things people make up using their imaginations… like IKEA and…TARGET and….
lalaland.
…craaaazy…
Comment by cloverbell August 5, 2008 @ 11:33 pm