John Hughes, the underrated yet well-known writer and director of a slew of ’80s teen angst movies, passed away today at the age of 59. Hughes’ films included The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Now just hold it right there. Those were the films he [...]
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Eighties Eulogy: John Hughes
Posted in Film & Video on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eighties Eulogy: Michael Jackson
Posted in Film & Video, Musicology, Television, Travel on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Certainly when you look back at the 1980s and the icons of the era, you won’t ever get far on that list without thinking of Michael Jackson. So his death comes at perhaps one of Eightiesology’s greatest tragedies. Obituaries and speculation and contemporary invocation are best left for other websites. They’re going to bring up [...]
Back to the Future: The Ride
Posted in Film & Video, Ninetiesology, Travel on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In 1992, our senior class at Wood-Ridge High School visited Orlando for our senior class trip. We lodged outside of Walt Disney World and visited Disney parks as well as Universal Studios. This new theme park and competitor to Disney had only opened up a couple of years prior. The trip certainly put a different [...]
Back to the Future Part III
Posted in Film & Video on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Back to the Future week at Eightiesology continues with the last of our features on the Back to the Future trilogy. But stay tuned after this as we have a few more BTTF treats left this week! When Back to the Future Part II ended, we already knew we were getting another sequel so [...]
Back to the Future Part II
Posted in Film & Video on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing our time-travelling adventures, here’s the latest post about the Back to the Future franchise, highlighting the long-awaited, much-anticipated sequel that finally resolved the first movie’s cliffhanger and gave us a peak INTO the future… At the end of the first Back to the Future, we were teased with the concept of Marty McFly [...]
The power of love is a curious thing…
Posted in Film & Video, Musicology on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Continuing our week long concentration on all things Back to the Future, we take a detour into the musical realm, highlighting a hit song from the soundtrack of the film, a song that itself ranks high in ’80s musicology. That’s “The Power of Love.” The Power of Love really is a curious thing. The #1 [...]
Back to the Future
Posted in Film & Video on March 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The ’80s spirit moved me once again, rousing from its slumber with an impromptu viewing of Back to the Future. Hopefully this reboots the site into a more frequent rotation of posts and other features. As a gift to my reader(s) and myself, I’m starting up the time machine with an entire week dedicated to [...]
Twenty-Five is Alive
Posted in Film & Video, Musicology, Television, Toy Box on January 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It really hits you hard as a thirtysomething when you start to see the celebrations of 25th anniversaries of things that you were wholly conscious for in your youth. As it is, I’m witnessing the birth and growth of friends’ children and reconnecting with long lost friends on Facebook, many not talked to in 10-15 [...]
Eighties Eulogy: Michael Crichton
Posted in Film & Video, Ninetiesology, Television on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Crichton, who passed away yesterday at the age of 66, was not someone who had an impact on my interests until the ’90s but I felt compelled to offer my condolences in these quarters anyway, perhaps because he exemplified interests of mine that defined the next phase of my life after the ’80s and [...]
Raiders of the Lost Art
Posted in Adventure, Film & Video, Travel on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In my exploration of the media that forms the foundation of Eightiesology, I’ve come to realize that each medium has carried much of its enthusiasm into the current era. A band can still incite intense emotion during a concert and their music still soundtracks essential memories-in-progress. Television shows have very clearly never been as well-crafted [...]
