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Signs that the 1980s revival has gone too far

Posted: March 18th, 2008, by Stan Tontas
  • skinny trousers
  • massive asymmetrical hair. (We didn’t ban CFCs because of the ozone layer…)
  • banks collapsing
  • house prices falling
  • stock market crises
  • Chinese government crushes citizens with tanks
  • Your pal sells 10 copies of Class War‘s magazine in under two hours.
  • Rambo in the cinema

Any more?

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Posted: February 21st, 2008, by Stan Tontas

Watching: John Sayles’ new film Honeydripper at the Glasgow Film Festival. Good stuff. Full post later, I hope.

Listening: No scope for lying to make myself looking cooler, since it’s all on my Last.fm profile but Honeydripper sent me off to lots of old blues and rockabilly stuff like Hank Williams’ Move it on over. Either public domain recordings rule, or I’m getting old.

Reading: Not enough books, too many webpages. Damn RSS aggregators.