Re: Under a rock

[rhys daily <shadow at teuton_org>]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jeff McCloud wrote:

> Rhys wrote:
>
> > what's this about the 80's and men wearing makeup?
> >
> > those were the rhys lived under a rock years
> >
>
> I say:
>
> I'm emerging from lurkerdom...

thanks (:

> So how much under a rock did you live?

let's see. until i was 13, i had never seen a movie. my first movies were:
Labyrinth, and Neverending Story - they were shown in art class in my
second public school in as many months (as in, the previous school was my
first public one, and then we moved)

i don't think we had TV until i was 12 or 13 either, or we did, but never
plugged in the cables.... (:

we went to some pretty reclusive churches. iw on't detail, since i have no
desire to start a huge discussion on that sort of thing.

and we also moved a lot. when i was akid, i lived on bases. i dunno -
somehow the outdoors was way more interseting than the kids next door. i
was busy finding out where everything lived, and trying to take one of
them home for a new pet. (my nonchalant questions of 'dad, what does a ...
eat?' fooled no one)

there were books to read, and the great backyard to use to emulate said
explorers. (: and have new adventure with north wind.

> From elementary school until I graduated, I immersed myself in popular
> culture. I listened to Casey Casem's American Top 40 *every* weekend.
> When the local radio stations do their '80s weekends, I am in heaven.

wow.

> And, like Rhys, my wife sits there and says, "That's when I lived under
> a rock." She has no clue what most of the popular music was then. She
> remembers coming back from Christmas break right after "Thriller" was
> released, and her teacher asked everyone what they got for Christmas.
> "Thriller" was on everyone's list, and my wife didn't even know what it
> was -- she didn't even know it was an album. It could have been the
> latest action figure. Or a new kind of cheese.

thriller?

huh. sounds like fun

rhys still lives under a rock, evidently


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