Livin' in the 80s Month: Day Twenty Nine

movies:

• back to the future (1985) holy shit, christopher lloyd was only 46 when he filmed this movie! i mean, i know he was somewhat made up to look older (hell, crispin glover played michael j fox's dad & he was 3 years younger than him), but still!

• back to the future part II (1989) in what i found to be a bizarre revelation, kyle said that he'd watched part 2 the least of all three movies & that he'd probably seen part 3 the most. i thought part 2 was the one everyone had watched a million times, then part 1, then part 3. i'm right, right? BLEW MY MIND. 3 more years to 2015! i have full faith that all technology featured in this movie will be commonplace by then (we can do it!).

tv shows:

• full house (1987-95) season two, eps 13-15. episode 14 is a valentine's day episode & danny, joey & jesse give the girls presents. ok, little weird, but whatever. maybe some families roll like that, i don't know. i always thought it weird that some of my friends got presents from their families for easter, but maybe my family is just cheap. i got presents for my birthday and for xmas, other occasions were not present warranting occasions. anyway, then the girls get cards from all the kids in their classes. this i am sure is not done here. unless it really was & i just went to crappy schools whose budgets didn't allow for the extra paper required to make the cards (this is entirely possible). i've seen it in a few american shows, i guess it's a common tradition over there. i don't think aussie kids could hack it, the temptation to take the piss would be too much.

music:

• there's this six disc 80s hits compilation at lush work that i've had on decent rotation this month, but i'd always skipped the yellow disc for some reason. maybe it'd been hiding behind another disc. anyway, put it on today & not only does it contain the ghostbusters theme, but divine's 'you think you're a man' is on there too! winner!

food & drink:

• twinings lady grey tea & sara lee carrot cake.

• 2 cadbury furry friends. loved these as a kid, but was disappointed to discover they're no longer packaged in foil & a paper sleeve. i loved straightening out the foil with my fingernails & collecting the paper sleeves. bummer.

• glucojel jellybeans.
  

• spicy asian vegetables in crispy baskets (recipe from the women's weekly vegetarian cookbook).

challenges/comments:

in the late 80s, we used to go thing finding around the alleys behind our house in brunswick & one day we found our wonderful stray cat, who we called usagi yojimbo (a character that had been appearing in teenage mutant ninja turtles at the time). he was a great cat & i loved him very much, rest in peace usagi!