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Me So Happy, Me Could Cry
Monday, February 27, 2006

I added two more movies to my awesome '80s dvd collection: The Lost Boys and The Outsiders. I'm watching The Lost Boys right now. Man, the '80s were a really good time for curly hair. Jami Gertz is workin' five tons of frizz. It was a good decade for mullets, too. Jason Patric has the wavy Jim Morrison mullet, that little "Bill and Ted" vampire has the ultra-extensions-added mullet and of course Keifer has the uber-platinum-blond mullet.

Oh my god, Corey Haim has a giant Swatch watch and huge poster of Molly Ringwald from Sixteen Candles on his wall.

I was really into vampires back when I first saw this movie in the theater. I'm actually still into vampires, so I guess not much has changed. If I turn my head upside down and ruffle my hands through it, I can have the same gigantic hair as Jami Gertz.

I've just now realized that this movie is a parable on the evils of peer pressure. The vampire gang is basically every parent's nightmare of "if your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?". The vampires actually do jump off a bridge, all the while taunting Michael to "join us" (in a very sing-song manner). How much more literal can you get? Jeez.

I never went in for that whole "peer pressure" thing. Maybe because I was a little weird, but peer pressure actually had the exact opposite effect on me. What ever everyone else was doing, I did the reverse. Everyone's wearing jeans and Reeboks? I'm wearing a blue mini-skirt, a big white belt and black tights. Everyone's listening to Bon Jovi and WPLJ? I'm listening to Skinny Puppy and WLIR. Everyone's got big hair? I'm shaving off half of mine and ironing the rest. Everyone's drinking beer and I'm...not. I still hate beer. The first time I got drunk was my last week of college. See? Opposite.

I was the Bizzaro Long Island teenager.

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[[[[ It was a good decade for mullets, too. ]]]]

Ah, the mullet. Well, I started writing my thoughts on the term "mullet" and it just got to be so long (and essentially off topic from what the crux of your post was). So I had to move the ol' comment over to my place as a full blown post.

But I can comment here on this part:

[[[[[[[ I never went in for that whole "peer pressure" thing. Maybe because I was a little weird, but peer pressure actually had the exact opposite effect on me. ]]]]]]

I can relate to this in a way, too. Admittedly, I wasn't as anti-establishment as you seemed to be, but I used to hate when "everybody" latched onto something. People used to say to me, "You've gotta mellow out. The only reason you don't like this band is because everyone else likes 'em. Get over it." I use to say, "That's not entirely true," but it certainly was partially true in the sense that I used to find it very annoying when people who were really nothing more than sheep started walking around and singing praises in a flavor-of-the-month-way about something.

By Steve, at 3/02/2006 3:22 PM