eighties, baby
Back in the ’90s when the magazines were saying the ’80s were back, I swore I’d never go down that road again. Now that Trickle Down Bullshit Economics are back, however, it’s like there’s something in the air. Suddenly I find that, for the first time in a decade, eyeliner under my bottom lashes doesn’t look as slutty as I thought. I’ll never wear it inside the lid, though. And I don’t think I’ll ever wear tapered pant legs again. But who knows? I remember a time when I swore I’d never wear bellbottoms, either. But what of the “flared” trousers I love? And why are they looking so big to me lately?
My hair is “wild” and full of sticky crap. It gets wilder every day. My friend Dat is a big fan of ’80s pop culture. He says my teen Glamour Shots look like Joanne Catheral of Human League. (The brown-haired one.) I told him he just thinks all non-Asians look the same.
The other day we saw a young woman wearing a teal, asymmetrical-collared sweater and a white skirt with a black, pink and teal butterfly/floral print. I know she must have gotten that stuff from the thrift store. At first I scoffed at her, but then Dat opined that her outfit was so sad, it went all the way around the scale to good. Weirdly, I found myself nodding in agreement.
Yesterday I saw a man with a mullet, but the special ’80s mullet with the temples clipped shorter than the rest. I assumed that he had recently moved to the US and therefore didn’t know what he was doing. But the more I looked at him, the more I considered that maybe he did know what he was doing. By the time I left the grocery store, I was wondering why that hairstyle had ever gone away.
Last night we saw Belinda Carlisle’s I Get Weak video. We agreed that it was a very good video that worked well with the limited technology available at the time. And, dammit, I loved Belinda’s hair. I wanted to grow my hair out and wispify some bangs and make it just like hers.
I don’t know why. I’m telling you — it’s the shitty economy. Desperately bold colors and shapes that distract from poverty are back.
link time
Kung Faux is my new favorite show.
’80s cartoons
this cool literary phone thing I’m gonna do in September
