For those of you who remember the 80s,
there was a humanitarian crisis at the time known as “Ethiopia”. Lots of starvation due to a Marxist government’s attempts to centralize agriculture & eliminate rural opposition, combined with Cold War attitudes about starving opponents into switching sides.
Well, North America did what it does best during times like these – ignore it until the last moment, and then raise a bunch of money to assuage our guilt until something else comes along to distract us. After Bob Geldof got the whole thing rolling overseas, the US finally got on board with “We Are The World”.
Well, that wasn’t the only charity fundraiser from this side of the pond! A crop of Canadian musicians – and, because Canada, English & French – got together to record a fundraising song of our own. Written by Bryan Adams, “Tears Are Not Enough” showcases Canadian music from the 1980s, and sends a message that dammit, we care too!
Well, in the face of COVID-19, and last week’s GaGa-initiated festival, Canadian artists are getting together to do our own thing once again. The “Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble” TV special will run 90 minutes on all Canadian broadcast networks. To quote the press release,
Airing commercial-free across all markets on Sunday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. NT, as well as hundreds of platforms, Canadian artists, activists, actors and athletes will share their stories of hope and inspiration in a national salute to front-line workers combatting COVID-19 during the 90-minute show.
and the funds raised will go to support food banks across Canada.
Also because Canada, it will only air live in the Atlantic time zones. It starts at 6:30PM AT, 7:00PM NL, and runs 90 minutes. It will start at 6:30PM everywhere in Canada after that, no matter your time zone. So don’t worry about rushing home on the West Coast because 6:30ET usually means 3:30PT, it will be available once the rest of the country has gone to bed.
Tonight’s other entertainment?:
- Spy Wars with Damian Lewis – 8:00 PM | Smithsonian Channel
- A spotlight on Vladimir Vetrov, who was once the star in the KGB but eventually helped in taking down the Soviet system.
- “The Last Dance” – 9:00PM | ESPN
- Episodes 3 & 4 – The Worm Cometh
- Bob’s Burgers – 9:00 PM | FOX / City
- When Teddy finds himself doubting his abilities as a handyman, the kids build up his confidence.
There’s other stuff available, but really these are your only viable options.
Let me apologize now for what it seems like several very depressing posts by me over the last several hours. Let me just say that i am not suicidal, despite being very cynical about the future of Western Civilization, and all the horrible shit I might have to say is just that. I come in here at DFO for “Wing Beneath My Wings” moments., however inappropriate they might be. Y’all fucking rock.
Bette Midler is here?
Where is here?
She was “Ottoman”.
It didn’t explode, but damn close.
In other news,
https://vm.tiktok.com/vLTJVm/
Kristin Cavallari: Jay, I want a divorce!
Jay: DOOOOOOONNN’TTT CAAAAAAAAAARRRE!!!
Thank you for breaking that news so I didn’t have to read it elsewhere
DAMMIT! There goes my Op– Actually, it’ll still be the main topic of the Open Thread.
Highlander (1986); the movie of a million memes.
Spaceballs (1987)
Scanners (1981)
Greatest head exploding gif of all time.
Actually, only head exploding gif of all time.
Okay, I’ll stop.
I’d love to see that exploding head shot with a certain current president of the USA front and center.
DUDE! Relook at #2 EHG
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1982)
Those are just some of my favorite 80s movies and GIF sources.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Das Boot (1981)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Re-Animator (1985)
Ran (1985)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
I love that movie.
Blue Velvet (1986)
They Live (1988)
GIF city.
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
In the Connery division, Zardoz is good too.
I’m trying for the 80s thing, but absolutely a trippin’ balls movie.
Blade Runner 1982
Just finished watching the bottom (heh) of the 7th inning of 2002 ALCS game 5. Angels were down 5-3, finished the inning up 13-5. Adam Kennedy’s third HR of the game. I was there. In a suite thanks to a random brother-of-a-guy-I-knew. My tix were upper level near home plate. Instead, a suite with all food-drink, in the loudest stadium I’ve ever been in. And watching my team make their only World Series evar. And they replayed the game tonight. And I have a semi.
Thanks for attending my Ted Talk.
I am happy that you have a favorable memory of this moment.
Thank you. Won’t be topped ever as a sports fan moment. (I mean the whole 2002 postseason; I was at game 7 of the World Series too)
Maybe sports will be back someday. If Emperor Trump allows.
The great Mathilda May and her award wining tits in Lifeforce 1985. Some of the oddest acting that year.
That’s the energy vampire one right?
Nice!
Waaaaaait…… that’s depressing.
Fellini, City of Women, 1980
The remake of Cat People (1982) with Nastassja Kinski.
1986 One of the best homoerotic movies of all time.
And unbelievable special effects; to have a 5’7″ guy tower above a regulation net while playing in sand.
SO HOT.
Hot sex at the Scientology building; GRIP THE READERS!
I swear to God, as someone in a position of ‘essential work’ if someone tried to take my picture after a 10 hour shift I’d cough in their stupid face.
I’m also really tired of being told who my heroes should be and that technically I am one. I’ll keep that in mind as I develop heat rash while unloading the fifth trailer filled with gaming chairs that are all being sent priority air. No one is getting ‘essential’ shit and you’re a rube if you think they ever were.
Any other time of the year I’m a degenerate who unloads trucks because he hates school a little bit more than this job but now because some bat virus has gripped the world I’m a conditional hero. Fuck off.
Think of all the strange you can get (from six feet away)
All this is to make themselves feel good. If they had real appreciation, they would restructure the pay scale, worker protections, healthcare, and retirement options. All that is getting ignored and will be forgotten shortly.
At least the bail out money is going towards huge public corporations and other rich folks as opposed to the intended small business where it should. But maybe I am painting too much of a sunny day, rosy picture here.
You’re my hero, Buddy. For whatever that’s worth.
There goes my hero, watch him as he goes.
There goes my hero, he’s homo-nary!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s great and all, but I ordered some T-shirts a week ago and still haven’t seen them. Could you make sure they’re on the next truck? Thanks, sport, here’s $5.
/sets self on fire trying to light a cigar
Coogan’s Bluff – 1968, Clint back in the day before talking to chairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyKYswSxWgQ
Am I the only person whose tolerance has gotten weaker in quarantine?
Most definitely not.
Tolerance for assholes?
I haven’t had a drink, believe it or not. So no.
I, too, was a child of the 80s. They were overrated.
Youngest GTD made soft pretzels from scratch today. Mmmm good
Alto sax.
In Spanish, “alto” means “tall”.
(I’m practicing my español)
Not a dwarf sax player…..
It’s a high C.
Sir? Sir? That’s not a blow j..Sir!
The drummer was a LOT better.
Evening
[raises glass of rum & coke]
Cheers.
[raises coupe glass full of bourbon and randomness]
L’chaim
Cheers.
What little I remember of the 80’s involves mostly cartoons and hunger. I was born in 1983, homeless and dirt poor, under the shadow of trickle down economics. We bounced around from friend to relative and such until I was 3, when we moved in with my great grandmother, then to a shittastic upstairs apartment in an inner city rowhouse turned duplex when she died. The exact years are a bit fuzzy now, but there was a period from maybe 89-93 where my family cleaned out the 4 story furniture store my mother worked at as a secretary every Sunday. We were almost certainly paid under the table. It almost seems like a different life at this point, but there are certain sights and smells from the time that are burned into my memory. I was probably 7 by the time I was actively working, myself. Remember clear as day vacuuming dimly lit upstairs display rooms and taking bags of trash to the basement in the service elevator. By the time I was 11, I was spending time after school running credit checks for their what should have been criminal financing programs. Fun times. That building’s been closed since maybe 99? While the owner was dying (I think?), he shut it down, and gave my mother what must have seemed like a massive severance at the time (about $15,000, if I remember properly) with an explanation that he’d been paying her so little the whole time that he basically spent 15 years stealing from her. Apparently, it’s been torn down for a 90 unit apartment building.
That little bit standing there was all that was left of the Cooper’s Furniture building when they did their photo-op for the ground breaking. It ran the length of the entire city block from Market to King. That was a lot of building to clean.
That’s been this week’s edition of Grat’s Repressed Memories, where I remember and then relay how much more interesting I was as a child than as an adult.
There’s a reason that the saying “may you live in interesting times” is meant as a curse.
“Trickle down economics” is a fine shower of piss.
In 1983 I was only halfway through my 4 year tour of duty with the Finest Navy in the Fucking World. Thanks for making feel really fucking old, whippersnapper! 😀
The Reagan years, Meese commission, dismantling of the psychiatric healthcare system, deficit spending with tax reduction for the rich and large corporations, the deregulation of the financial system resulting in wholesale corruption and robbing of funds, especially the pension system, Iran Contra illegal scandal, steady reductions in funding of consumer and environmental protections, etc., etc., etc.
But fun club music, concerts, available cocaine, weed, women, and a body that could take all that shit and still get up for work the next day. A big group of fun, interesting friends, mum ‘n’ dad still around…. personally it was good.
Also a golden time for sexual harassment.
Fuck. Now I just want to hold my 1911 up to my temple. Guess it don’t matter. Western civilization is done.
jesus dude don’t even joke about shit like that
you and unsurprised are the most negative wave motherfuckers on this site, and i don’t think you mean to be
lighten up; you own two red cars
That’s a good point; two GREAT cars. Nobody else can care for them babies like they should be cared for.
I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer. I’m just a cynical fucker. To be honest, hanging out here at DFO kinda stabilizes me. I’m sorry if I come across as a total bummer. I am a little unstable. Any reference to Kelly’s Heroes or Heartbreak Ridge always lifts my spirits, though.
Naaaw, don’t do that; you and I will be long gone before the worst of it.
Also a lot of this stuff coming up will be beautifully hilarious. You can’t let that go.
What city is this?
Wilmington, DE, where I grew up. About 25 miles SW of Philly.
“I was born a poor black child…”
I will never not love this scene. There is so much going on here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQM9JSux3Ew
That is one fucking brilliant movie. Still can’t figure out how they might have actually disposed of the gold, though.
The beauty of Kelly’s Heroes is the care the filmmakers took to make it historically plausible (the rapid drive across France in the summer of ’44, the confusion of units, etc). It only breaks down at the very end when they lift crates of gold bars that would probably weigh a thousand pounds each. And where are they going to go? But the end is just a fantasy anyway so it’s forgivable.
That always bothered me. ‘well, cool, you got all the gold, now how are you going to get it across the fucking Atlantic!?’
In the end I just assume that Crapgame has some connections and got an extra 15% to make it work.
That’s why all of these gold heist movies fail, but are still fun. First Italian Job move is a good case in point. Kelly’s Heroes same shit. At least Three Kings they rationalized it a little bit.
The book I am currently using as a coaster (Cryptonomicon) has the weight of gold as a plot point.
I have read Cryptonomicon at least 5 times since I bought it in hardbound when it was first published. I’ve read mostly all his output, but Neal Stephenson has never topped it with anything since, although he has come close (I pretty much dug Seven Eves).
A DEAL, deal! Maybe he’s a Republican. You know, “Business is business.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASyns7OEq24
Donald Sutherland’s best role, and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
Especially Keifer.
I’ll fight you; he has been great in a shit tonne of movies. Some movies that sucked around him.
Holy shit what a career.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000661/
Watch the wedding scene in Little Murders which was made the exact same year as Kelly’s Heroes and he is Oddball as a hippie reverend and it is fucking amazing. He’s the same character in both movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kCrrjp2epY
That scene is brilliant. The rest of the movie was pretty disturbing for me.
Fantasy? Isn’t that Going After Cacciato? Also that’s Vietnam…
BEEF MOE is on Bar Rescue
Oh good I was hoping she’d ditch that loser she married.
Well, Monday coming up should be “interesting”……..
Probably more like……
Crazy or eccentric or what will you, Terry Fucking Gilliam is/was a fucking genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu1iND6vtcE
Great movie.
After pulling up the last of the snap peas, I have been trying to figure out how to fill in the garden for the remainder of the summer, and I decided to grow more green beans. I put some strawberry seeds in the ground but I don’t expect much out of them. There are a few broccoli plants that grew underneath the peas I’m hoping will produce seeds. I still need to figure out what to put into the plot where the brussels sprouts are growing once they finish. Maybe more peppers?
A little bigger frost zone at my place…….
Not nearly the frost zone in Canada…..
I already have a bunch of potatoes growing in buckets. I can’t wait to see if it works.
Just finished another season of ‘Westworld’ and am happy to report that I still don’t understand a fucking thing that is going on.
Would it help if I told you that the “hosts” in the park are actually robots?
OBVIOUS SPOILERS!!!
LOUD PAINTING
you’re the worst!
Fuck! It makes so much more sense now!!
Have you ever watched the original movie with Yul Brynner? Etcetera etcetera etcerata…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uRngZxWgVE&t=6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iuc2Pxhp24
Had an afternoon out today. Drove the Corvette for the first time in 5 months over to a Navy buddy’s place, retired 34-year Command Master Chief. Joined there by another ex-Navy guy, he did 9 years as Sonar Tech, and after making Chief, the navy sent him to college where he got a degree in Nuclear Physics, and ended up retiring at 24 years as an O-4 mustang. I guess the pinnacle for him was serving as an SWO Navigator on a gator freighter. I have worked with him for a dozen years where he is a contractor doing projects for me as the govt project manager. Both of these guys are a lot of fun; I refer to them as “Master Chief and Lieutenant Commander”, in homage to the Russell Crowe movie.
Funny thing is that I only ever made E-5, but they kind of defer to me as far as command decisions regarding drinking and other important civil functions go. Pretty weird. The alpha-male second-class petty officer, who’d have guessed to ever see that.
LCDR makes his own whiskey out on his ranch, and he brought at my request a quart of his best moonshine when he came over today. It’s pretty potent, but I won as far as the remaining half of the bottle is now in my possession. Bwahahaha.
It was a very pleasant day and nice to tell sea stories to each other for a few hours and forget about the current international shit show. We are already discussing a rematch next week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmuk2Es8pF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UAy1UGNRPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECVGN4Bsgg
“She’s got Marty Feldman eyes…”
—Kim Carnes
This is good…..
I lived through the 80’s. Saw some killer concerts, got married and had kids and have damn few actual memories because I ate a lot of acid.
I think it was fun though.
First half of the 80’s saw me in the Navy, cruising the Westpac and paying pennies to exotic women to have sex with me. I spent the second half of the going to college, becoming politically aware, and feeling guilty about taking advantage of those same women. Still pretty embarrassed about that even today. But, fuck man, I was a kid. I even voted for Reagan twice (in my defense, he did give us military a big pay raise when it mattered to me, and also I figured out once I got out that voting republican was really not in my non-millionaire best interest). I did convince my dad to start voting dem in 1992, which I consider a lifetime victory.
In addition I had drivers licenses in California, Illinois, Iowa, California, New Jersey and California in that order during the 80’s.
Damn, that was a busy time for you!
I graduated high school, started college and threw up a lot after drinking punch laced with grain alcohol and peachtree schnapps.
I’m not a proud man.
Been watching “A Football Life” all day: 2005 Stillers, Bill Cowher, Jerome Bettis, Pat Tillman…
I miss sprots.
(January 8, 2006)
Omega26: “Damn it. I can’t believe the Bengals lost the playoffs this way. I can’t imagine a loss to the Steelers being any worse than this.”
Redshirt: “You poor, naïve, son of a bitch.”
As I commented in a reply (because I didn’t read the above page contents), the 1980s was so great, it carried over to another decade. It didn’t matter who was in charge, there was unbridled growth and development in everything. Economics. Entertainment. Technology. Culturally. True, there were some negatives and dark pages in this time, but overall it was a tranquil era. Speaking as an American, a Republican President showed that America could still be a shining, city on a hill and a Democratic President showed that the promise of America wasn’t beholden to one political philosophy.
Personally, much like Lincoln’s assassination, the 9/11 Attacks robbed us of a chance to see what would’ve happened if we moved into the 2000s and American didn’t fall into a defensive, nationalistic posture. Would we’ve continue the trend started in the 1980s or would we’ve lost momentum and fallen into a plateau?
This is the height of comedy
I remember the 80’s for the scare of nuclear weapons and the very real possibility that a nuclear exchange could happen at any time.
I remember it mostly because I was one of the guys who would have launched the nuclear MIRV-tipped Trident SLBM rockets. Well, I wouldn’t have, but the Weaponettes up forward would have, using the 250v 60Hz AC and the 120v DC main electric power, plus the 400Hz static-inverted weapons power, plus the 3000psi hydraulic system, plus the 4500psi stepped-down compressed air system we provided from back aft in Engineering. In fact, fuck those guys we were the real heroes.
AC is so lazy though, it just ends up back where it started.
Bullets would have bounced off everything. Tom Clancy couldn’t paddle a fucking canoe.
I don’t know. Some of the plastic buttons could’ve cracked under a direct impact. Or the light bulbs.
Everything on a US boomer, probably. Not so much on a Soviet sub with a cook who knew how to detonate a ballistic missile.
But yeah, Clancy was a tool.
Clancy was a khaki worshipper. And a landlubber.
Fuck that republican motherfucker. and come on, I don’t think Petty Officer Jones, who was a black guy in the movie but not in the novel, was as critical in the movie as he was in the book.
Clancy was a racist mother fucker. But I will forgive that to a certain degree for his first couple of novels, kinda like Edgar Rice Burroughs. Different world back then. But not totally forgive.
Also I made a mistake I can’t believe. It was 450v 60Hz AC power.
The 80s were a wonderful decade. Best one for me.
80s and 90s were both pretty good. The post 9/11 era where Bush declared you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists charted us on this course we’re currently in how. He didn’t start the culture but he cultivated it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgpytjlW5wU
00’s were a slam dunk for me. 90’s were good too, though.
I think I had a great time.
I ordered some toilet paper thru amazon. Dude I have never been more nervous for a delivery to arrive on time.
Plan B: Use a garden hose and clean your ass on the compost pile.
Country bidet style!!
So FOX is airing Super Bowls in backwards order. Which means if we continue to not have sports and FOX continues the trend, in three weeks we’ll have see the Bills’ Super Bowls in backwards order which if you think about it is worse than forwards order.
Sports has to return soon, because I don’t think Bills fans can handle that.
The Deep was an underappreciated movie.
So was Dead Calm.
Yes… then there were others.
“Remember” the 80s.