The Nostalgia Thread

[xita]

I am being selfish, I wanted to talk about something today and couldn't find a thread for it.



Anyway, as I age, nostalgia begins to creep into my psyche. It's when something reminds you of the past and the feelings you had then. I think we've all had that. Anyway this thread is for everyone to talk about nostalgia.



So, anyway I wanted to talk about the Go Gos. I've been looking for this one video of theirs for years, "Turn to You." The reason is that the girls do drag in this video. I was 13 back in 1984 when this video came out. It tickled me pink and lit up my imagination. Everyone on stage at this prom/type party was dressed like men except for the drummer who was wearing a dress. In turn they were also in the dancing crowd posing as their own gender, except for the drummer who was in drag in the audience. By the end of the video they are hooking up with each other. Belinda and Jane reach for each other to kiss, of course they don't show it. Now, of course my 13 year old mind filled in all the gaps. Anyway, I finally found out which video collection had this video and I found it on a reseller through AMazon. I got it today and watched it and I was tickled pink. So happy and excited. It brought me right back and I loved every second of it. To be so young and getting such a fun lesbian kick out of something so simple. My burgeoning sexuality. Go Gos! yay



So , yeah what brings you back to the old days?

[Scout]

Well your post brought back some very nice memories, Xita. I had a crush on Gina Schock (the drummer) when I was younger, and I’ll always remember dragging my mom to a Go Gos concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion outside of DC. I’ve never danced so much as I did at that concert and I think my mom even had a good time. The girls were at their peak and they were a blast! Yes, very nice memories indeed.

[urnofosiris]

I too suffer from nostalgia at times, it usually comes on suddenly, like now. I am not one to plan ahead very far nor do I tend to look back a lot, if I would I probably would come across too many regrets, heh. Sometimes the strangest things as well as the obvious ones will trigger memories. Nowadays I ride my bicycle to work and I come through the street I grew up in and through a park near my home. It wasn't the sight of my old home that made me remember things but rather the smell of a nice spring day that just brought back feelings from 20 years ago. When I put my mind to it I actually can remember quite a lot from way back when I was like 2 years old, but it doesn't always feel like it was me, but the other day it felt the same like it did 20 years ago.

Old tv clips bring back memories as well, I can remember when I first saw it on tv, what that ugly old tv, no remote control :o, my cat, my school and my family, sometimes it is nice to remember.



Now look at what you made me do. I have been looking at old piccies. I was a cute baby and then something went horribly wrong.

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Coffee, Food, Kisses and Gay Love........Get it while you are hot

Edited by: DrG at: 5/11/03 1:35:54 am

[TaraManiac]

Oh yes, I do feel Nostalgia remembering some past things... First of all, i remember some times of my childhood when i used to travel by train (when it used to be good to travel by) to the city where my dad lives.. I traveled there with my mom, and we really had good times there, there was this childish song she used to sing to me , well together with me , by this little mouse (Tv mouse of course) , called Topo Giggio, something like that, and it would be like: "Tomorrow's gonna be another day and we have to live it with Joy" before i'd go to sleep, don't know, It has to be something like that, Hehehe, I've heard that mouse now as i'm a grown up, and It brings me those timeback, like when i was like 5... *sigh* It amazes me how a Song, a smell or something else can take u far away in time, and make u live it again like that... It's just incredible... Anyways, there are so many things that give me Nostalgia about the past, but that's like the one i remember now...



-Lila-

She's My Everything... -Willow (Tough Love)

[xita]

Probably because I grew up in Latin America , but I love Topo Giggio. I haven't heard since I was a child though lila, lucky you!

[TaraManiac]

Wasn't he the cutest? well, he still is, hehe those Eyes, Anyways i got to hear him again surfing on the Net, looking for things from the past, i Love Internet !!



Xita for you:



www.todo.com.uy/memorias/...noches.mp3



-Lila-

She's My Everything... -Willow (Tough Love)

[rduffy24]

Topo Giggio!! I have never come across anyone else who knew who he was!! I used to have a Topo Giggio puppet; and carried it and my teddy bear around with me for years till I was around 10 and my mother threw them out (on the grounds that it was a childish toy, and why couldn't I play with dolls).

Ah , nostalgia.......*drifts off to watch crap satalite t.v. and see if any old programmes are on*

[Nix42]

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.......*drifts off to watch crap satalite t.v. and see if any old programmes are on*

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Just looking for old programmes .. no other reminiscing going on?

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

[rduffy24]

Ah nostalgia....Buffy Season one is begining a repeat run on Sky t.v. - how nice it will be to see real Willow, real Giles and quippy Buffy - even Xander and snarky Cordy. I'm feeling that rush of love for Principle Flutie.



Reading this thread, I got all nostalgic about crap t.v. from when I first had satalite t.v. I was fascinated by the shopping channels - i couldn't believe that people watched them, called in and actually bought things! I got quite hooked by the lovely Debbie and her sexy laugh....still didn't buy anything though. I just checked the channels and there are even more shopping channels now! I may go off and explore them after Buffy....

And Nikki - want to share anything about t.v.nostalgia or your favourite personalities?



Dammit - Buffy was good all those years ago! How I miss it....

[Nix42]

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And Nikki - want to share anything about t.v.nostalgia or your favourite personalities?

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Ok, I confess, I am also missing Debbie with the dirty laugh who used to present on QVC... not that I ever watched it



I wonder what ever happened to camp Steve?

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

[molsongrrrl]

i caught this series on vh-1 -- i love the 80s -- i tell ya i was really feeling nostalgic after that - particularly the early 80s.

A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants

[Garner]

I caught the I Love the 80s thing on VH-1 (speaking of the nostalgia channel!) and loved it. That was awesome! Very funny, though I avoided a lot of the 80s fashion stuff.



Getting older I have found a lot of nostalgia creeping in for Christmas, other holidays, and many other good times I had when I was really young. I still watch the Peanuts specials whenever they are on for a lot of that. I need an "I love the 70s" show for more of that though.



Garner

[SJ]

Debbie Flint was great on QVC

Steve was on another shopping channel namely Ideal World.

[rduffy24]

Ah yes - I'm glad someone also watched Debbie and even remembered her name! Steve, Debbie and the other bloke with the permatan were all on QVC and then moved to Ideal World. I do remember there was actually a documentary on the setting up of Ideal World......and yes, I really did watch it!



I was getting nostalgic for kids t.v the other day. I doubt anyone else is old enough to remember Noggin the Nog or Poggles Wood?

[tommo]

Yes Rhona! I do! God, I loved Pogles Wood. And Nogbad the Bad, hee! Ah, memories...

"Dude, you just rescued a puppy!"

[rduffy24]

Nogbad the Bad - he was just so eeeevvviiiilllllll !!!



Really Ruth - I can't believe someone as young as you remembers these, but you've made my evening!

[tommo]

Well that's what comes of being the youngest in the family. I tended to like what my brothers and sister did, y'know, just to be cool.



Clearly, it didn't work. Ahem.

"Dude, you just rescued a puppy!"

[wolfwynd]

Whoo, nostalgia! I've ben going through it at at the moment they seem to be bringing out like re-runsof the mid - 80's cartoons that I grew up with! .



Who remembers The Gummi Bears? Ducktails? Fraggle Rock? Man they totally rocked! (and yes I do have the theme tunes on my desktop - ask BGB she'll tell ya! )



Anyway I'm gonna go listen to them



Keep the love alive.... + =



Wolfy

The Greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and to be loved in return

[Nix42]

Without turning this into the QVC reminiscence thread, Ro look what I found for you here

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

[rduffy24]

Nikki! how kind of you, and hasn't Debbie been busy. I wonder how you knew all about her website.....



Anyway, I'm really in a nostalgic mood now. Anyone know if they still sell Sherbert Fountains? I could really do with one right now.

[Nix42]

and now I am monopolising the thread, but Ro it isn't an instant cure for your sherbert desire, but you should try www.aquarterof.co.uk. All those sweets that you ruined your teeth with as a child, in one handy website.

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

Edited by: Nix42 at: 5/17/03 5:43:34 am

[tommo]

Oh Nikki...how amazing! You know, I introduced my girlfriend to Kola Kubes when she was here; they sell a lot of these old sweets at our local market; I suppose that Macclesfield does have something to offer after all.



Well, it's either that or we really are behind the times...heh heh.



Anyway, Kola Kubes and Rhubarb and Custards. They're my favourites. And now I have an instant longing to sit here and eat them all day. I must buy some. I must!



Thanks so much for the link, Nikki; it's brilliant!



ETA: I just bought a crapload of sweets. Heh.

"Dude, you just rescued a puppy!"

Edited by: tommo at: 5/17/03 6:33:39 am

[rduffy24]

mmmmhhhhhhh.....liquorice pipes and pontefract cakes....yum!



Not to mention the flying saucers and penny chews.



Did anyone else live through a school craze when people bought love hearts but didn't eat them, just took the ones they wanted and left them on other people's desks with the appropriate messages.....and threw the rest away?

[SJ]

Those black Jack sweets were very nice too

[urnofosiris]

Last year they aired a I love the 80's series on Dutch tv, where each year of the eighties got reviewed. Great fun to watch and see things I have not thought about for ages and still be able to remember them clearly and also to remember at what point in my life I was at at the time and how I felt back then. I am glad I don't have to do all the things I have done since then, even if I did have a good time doing them. Amazing how much things can change in just a few years. Ah why am I bringing this up, I saw I love 98 on the BBC yesterday and it made me remember the other show and made nostalgic about the 80s, heh.

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Coffee, Food, Kisses and Gay Love........Get it while you are hot

[rduffy24]

I kinda got nostalgic for the nostalgia thread. I knew it was somewhere, so hunted for it. And there it was, about 7 pages back.



So I'm feeling nostalgic about breakfast today...I think its because I didn't have any and I'm hungry, but for years I ate cereal for breakfast. My favourite for about a year was Puffa Puffa rice - then Rice Crispies, followed by Corn Flakes and then Bran flakes. Oh - and in the winter it was porrige. These days I have toast, which means if I need to, I can eat it in the car while getting to work.

I don't think that Puffa Rice has been available for years, so I doubt anyone else will remember it. I guess I'm just way too old!

[Urn of Osiris]

having two teenage girls in the house for month made me think back on my troubled youth but also reminded me constantly that they weren't alive when I was in highschool. Which also drove home the fact that I am old enough to say I remember when a vcr was amazing or cassette tapes would allow me to walk around with music. That 8-tracks were "technology" and beta wasn't someone that edited your fic.



When I graduated high school the salesman at the electronics store tried to sell us an $800.00 CD player, to which we all wrinkled our noses. I remember my dad saying nothing would be better than records. He got me a turntable instead. Ahhh the sound of a skipping needle and the crackling and popping between songs.



*runs off to put on her Donnie and Marie album*

Urn of Osiris

Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the absence of inner conflict. Unknown
When we stand up, we are standing up for everybody. Each of us needs to know, in fact, that we are rainbows in the clouds... for everybody. MAYA ANGELOU

[LadyBrymstone]

Ah yes, the $800.00 CD player. LOL. I think my mom, at the insistence of my brother, bought one for probably $600.00. Our family had a good stereo at the time, so she bought it as a family gift...oh but we had to be careful! We had to learn to hold the CDs properly, and everyone had to read the instruction book.



I remember my brother putting Tchaikovsky's (yes, I know I butchered the spelling, but I'm too lazy to look it up) 1812 Overature on at full blast and scaring the neighbours because the cannonball blasts shook the windows of our house and theirs!



This was around the time that my brother worked a part-time job so he could save up for his obsession...a video camera! Now, we're not talking about the wee little digital ones you see now...no, no...this was the big honkin' behemoth from the early 1980s...had to either hold it on your shoulder or with a big tripod and the actual recorder was a VCR that you had to harness and use a shoulder strap to carry. I think the battery was like 15+ lbs and lasted like an hour.



I think he used that thing to tape me playing Santa Claus in the 2nd grade play.



*Sigh* Good times.

~LadyB~

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"I am just your ordinary...average, everyday, sane, psycho, super-Goddess." - Liz Phair, "Extraordinary"

[Nix42]

I hear what you're saying about cereals, I'm an addict. The ones that I used to like were corn pops, but I haven't seen them for ages

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

[xita]

Try working with kids, it's so hard sometimes. The way you have to phrase things. "Yes it was kind of like a big CD, only black and made of vinyl (like a plastic)."



The other nostalgia news is that I found a site that had short video clips of old cartoons I grew up with in Latin America. The weird thing is it turns out it all was translated Anime, some of my favorites were Candy and another series called Heidi. Wow, really took me back , I even got a bit teary eyed listening to the opening sequences.

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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."

-Willie Wonka

Edited by: xita  at: 8/8/03 12:30 pm