All Night MTV
In 1983, any weekend that didn't include a sleep-over at a friend's place was not a good weekend.
I could recognize the music videos for The Clash's Rock the Casbah, Friend or Foe by Adam Ant, Every Breath You Take by the Police, and Herbie Hancock's Rockit within seconds.
I knew how to poke a straw into a caprisun drink without poking it through the other side.
One night, I thought I saw UFO's over my house. I never told anyone. Fifteen years later, when I saw pictures of what the "Lubbock Lights" in the early 1950s actually looked like, I wondered if maybe what I saw as a kid wasn't my imagination at all.
My best friend and I started a food fight in the school cafeteria. I was a "good kid" so no one ever suspected it was me. Peas and mashed potatoes make a wicked snowball.
I spent the hours of 2am – 5am at a friend's house building a model Tie Fighter, and cracking up repeating the chorus of Freur's Doot-Doot. ("I say 'doot', 'doot-doot' . . . .")
Before everyone had a VCR, we rented one for my birthday, and watched tron (or at least went through the motions of watching it). I've still never seen it all the way through.
A best friend's twin sister stripped for me in my friend's bedroom. I didn't fully appreciate the incident until a couple of years later, when the only other witness (a girl) brought it up in class.
I jumped rope to Eye of the Tiger, just like Rocky.
I learned the facts of life, albeit from a 3rd grade point of view, from a girl at school. I didn't get the facts straight until at least 5th grade. I still thought it all had to be a joke.
I was in love with Alice (Andrea Elson) on the Whiz Kids.
I stayed up nights terrified that the Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan worm creatures would wind up in my ears, if I wasn't careful.
I got my first computer, an Apple IIe, for Christmas. I'd found a new love. (Other people had TI-99/4A's and IBM PCs, a Radio Shack TRS-80 or Tandy Co-Co here or there, and I'd heard of people with a Commodore 64 or VIC-20, Coleco Adam, Atari 4800, or even a Timex Sinclair. It all seems so complicated looking back).
I could recognize the music videos for The Clash's Rock the Casbah, Friend or Foe by Adam Ant, Every Breath You Take by the Police, and Herbie Hancock's Rockit within seconds.
I knew how to poke a straw into a caprisun drink without poking it through the other side.
One night, I thought I saw UFO's over my house. I never told anyone. Fifteen years later, when I saw pictures of what the "Lubbock Lights" in the early 1950s actually looked like, I wondered if maybe what I saw as a kid wasn't my imagination at all.
My best friend and I started a food fight in the school cafeteria. I was a "good kid" so no one ever suspected it was me. Peas and mashed potatoes make a wicked snowball.
I spent the hours of 2am – 5am at a friend's house building a model Tie Fighter, and cracking up repeating the chorus of Freur's Doot-Doot. ("I say 'doot', 'doot-doot' . . . .")
Before everyone had a VCR, we rented one for my birthday, and watched tron (or at least went through the motions of watching it). I've still never seen it all the way through.
A best friend's twin sister stripped for me in my friend's bedroom. I didn't fully appreciate the incident until a couple of years later, when the only other witness (a girl) brought it up in class.
I jumped rope to Eye of the Tiger, just like Rocky.
I learned the facts of life, albeit from a 3rd grade point of view, from a girl at school. I didn't get the facts straight until at least 5th grade. I still thought it all had to be a joke.
I was in love with Alice (Andrea Elson) on the Whiz Kids.
I stayed up nights terrified that the Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan worm creatures would wind up in my ears, if I wasn't careful.
I got my first computer, an Apple IIe, for Christmas. I'd found a new love. (Other people had TI-99/4A's and IBM PCs, a Radio Shack TRS-80 or Tandy Co-Co here or there, and I'd heard of people with a Commodore 64 or VIC-20, Coleco Adam, Atari 4800, or even a Timex Sinclair. It all seems so complicated looking back).