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Posts Tagged ‘1980s’
I Have Opinions – Volume 1
Jeff Pickett | November 14th, 2008
For the purposes of my OpEd columns, I had intended to pretend the 1980s never happened. Take a couple generations of kids with misplaced affinity for a decade in which they were barely cognizant and the highest rate of pretension per capita, and you can make a fairly accurate conjecture about how many ridiculous “Top 5 movies of the 80s” lists have been posted on the internet (a Google search of “top movies of the 80s” yields 544,000 results – really people?). I have nothing against the decade – on the contrary, I’m quite fond of the aesthetic developed during that time – but all the rampantly dogmatic assertions people spout about the period have borne a profound apathy in my outlook. A survey of 80s polls would probably yield very convincing support for the theory of acatalepsia. All that being said, what few strands of idealism still hold my psyche together would not allow me to sit idly by while this esteemed organization basks in the epicly atrocious Top 5 list posted Wednesday. So, I began compiling an alternative Top 5 for those of us who actually watch movies… Before we get to the selections, I need to highlight an often overlooked designation: in these postmodern times, “The 80s” is not only a decade but a genre classification. Accordingly, I’ve selected the “Top 5 80s Films” (genre) as well as the “Top 5 Films of the 80s” (films released between January 1st, 1980 and December 31st, 1989). So, without Continue reading…
Tags: 1980s, Academy Awards, AFI, Ally Sheedy, Amy Heckerling, Anthony Michael Hall, Brazil, Cameron Crow, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Down By Law, Emelio Estevez, Empire Strikes Back, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Film, Forest Whitaker, Full Metal Jacket, George Lucas, Indiana Jones, Jack Nicholson, Jason Patric, Jim Jarmusch, John Hughes, Judd Nelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Martin Scorcese, Molly Ringwald, Mystery Train, Nicolas Cage, North Shore, Pop Culture, Rad, Raging Bull, raiders of the lost ark, Return of the Jedi, Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, Stranger Than Paradise, Temple of Doom, Terry Gilliam, The Breakfast Club, The Last Crusade, The Lost Boys, The Shining
Posted in Blogging, Editorial, Google, Random!, Wpromote | 3 Comments
How iGoogle Changed My Life (and the Top 5 80′s Movies According to Wpromote)
Amanda Moshier | November 12th, 2008
Some say it’s the best thing since sliced bread. I don’t eat much bread. But iGoogle rocks. I began using iGoogle as my homepage about two weeks ago and my life has been utterly transformed. Allow me to explain. Everything In Its Right Place (with iGoogle) I love that Radiohead song, too, but that’s not what I’m referring to here. I’m talking about how easy it is to check email, note to-do items, update my calendar, and read the news from my iGoogle home page. I’ve put my go-to apps like G-mail, Google calendar, Google Bookmarks, and Google reader on my homepage, and added to that a few key news feeds I want to see right away (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Digg, for blogging); a YouTube, Wikipedia, and Craigslist search bar (gotta have those); a time/date and a weather app (not that the weather changes much here in SoCal but I like the little blue and yellow icons that show the sun and the sky, they’re nice) and two inspirational quotes, one by Einstein (he seems pretty smart) and one by a ‘famous’ author that rotates daily. Yesterday’s literary quote? “There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one’s coffee and fill one’s pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.” – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist Hmm. Never heard of Mr. Hamsun (a Nobel Prize winner), but seems like he might be Continue reading…
Tags: 1980s, iGoogle, movies, Philippe Starck, productivity, Radiohead, Wpromote
Posted in Internet News, Wpromote | 17 Comments
