80s MUSIC MEMES like DURAN DURAN

 80s MUSIC MEMES

Duran Duran. Simon and the gang were so awesome to listen to in the 80s. They had the biggest egos too. Loved the Rio album, and the song Rio. Who was Rio anyway? A lady friend?

Duran Duran meme

Which Duran Duran guy is RIO?

Her name is RIO.

I love Duran Duran stuffs.

Duran Duran, love it!

Dance, into the fire!

Dance, into the fire.

You can never quote Duran Duran too much

I heard a Duran Duran song at the gym the other night. I ran, ran so far away.

I ran, ran so far away

Then Madonna came on. She would make a great personal trainer. Really demanding!

Madonna - demanding 80s lady.

Then I went home and watched some classic 80s movies. Like Bill and Ted, the original Tedx talk - excellent!

First Ted Talk - excellent!

Then The Princess Bride. Inconceivable that anyone doesn't like that movie.

The Princess Bride meme

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Duran Duran Greatest Hits

1980s BOOKS - LICENCE RENEWED JAMES BOND

80s BOOK REVIEWS - Licence Renewed / James Bond

I love 80s music, 80s graphic design, 80s fashion, 80s architecture, 80s computers...all things 80s. Which is why I've been turning the pages of books published in the 80s. My latest read has been License Renewed by John Gardner (not Ian Fleming).

Check out the book cover:

James Bond Licence Renewed

You can tell right away this book is going to be a classic James Bond story, but modernized for the 80s! Judging by the jumble of images: you've got handgliding (new to the 80s!), you've got an excentric looking old guy who is obviously the villian, you've got some horse racing (80s gambling at its best), you've got a blond haired beauty wearing a nice conservative early 80s outfit, then you've got the car in the front. A SAAB! A car fit for any secret agent in the 80s. No more old 60s jaguar. All the classic ingredients for a good spy adventure story.

JAMES BOND MEME

The novel begins with a classic Bond story - a deranged ultra-rich man appears to be teaming up with terrorists to destroy the world. The theme is very current for the time, nuclear energy and nuclear explosives. The evil villian this time is a disgruntled nuclear scientist who also happens to be connected with a line of Scottish Royalty. He is on a mission to monopolize the world's nuclear power and he does it by scheming up a plan to take numerous nuclear power plants hostage and threaten the world with nuclear catastrophe that will destroy the world as we know it.
In a predictable fashion Bond gets tangled up in this potential world destroying scheme and is sent undercover to infiltrate and possibly stop this crazed madman. From that point on the story goes from suspensful scenes to tasteful romps in the bedroom, from villians revealing their secret plans to action filled shootouts...in few words - a BOND story.

James Bond - Villian's girl is my mistress #likeaboss

Even though this book was not written by the Bond creator, Ian Fleming, Gardner does a great job of putting together a page turning, action packed, suspenseful novel that is worthy of the Bond franchise. I did feel he overdid the stereotypical Bond descriptions in the beginning of the book - almost as if he felt he had to overcompensate his Bond knowledge and prove he was worthy of writing a Bond novel. But, apart from that I didn't want to put the book down. I love that it was both modern (for the 80s) with the nuclear theme and the updated cars/gadgets, but still stuck to the over-the-top undercover spy stories of the past. A great book.

FUNNY 80s MUSIC MEMES

MURDER SHE WROTE MEMES

GHOSTBUSTERS - WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

GHOSTBUSTERS SONG AS BIG AS THE MOVIE

1984 - The movie Ghostbusters escapes the vault and is released unto audiences. It is a huge success, and still has a cult following. The theme song by Ray Parker Jr is just a big - creating that familiar phrase "WHO YOU GONNA CALL".

The song has a rather interesting story - stayed at #1 on the Billboard charts for three weeks, nominated for an academy award for best original song, and it also caused a lawsuit.

HUEY LEWIS SUED Ray Parker Jr for plagarism!

Huey claimed the melody was straight from his 'I want a new drug' song.

Strangely, Huey was asked to work on the theme for Ghostbusters, but, turned it down b/c he was working on the music for another huge 80s movie - Back to the Future! You think he was just jealous? He wanted to be known as the 80s movie theme song master?! Maybe.

Who you gonna call?

To me, the song lacks adultness - as in I wouldn't listen to it loud if I were driving in a T-roof 80s Pontiac Firebird with the windows down. And, my kids listen to it on their own free will. But, I still use the catchphrases - "I ain't 'fraid of no ghost" AND when someone asks , 'who you gonna call' I reply with 'ghostbusters'....everytime.

Help find Fang

William Shatner could well be in the next Ghostbusters movie

Paraplasmo levels must be off the charts - janitors with masks too!

Remember, you are wearing a nuclear device on your back - don't cross the streams!

Mmm ecto plasma juice - tastes like chicken

Didn't stay puffed

 I do like the movie, and the song, but, one thing I really remember liking was the Atari Ghostbusters game. It has a special place in my heart. It was one of the first games I remember playing. And, one of the first games I remember losing badly at and getting frustrated and swearing I was never going to play that stupid game ever again...then coming back 15 mins later to rehash the frustrating cycle.

Remember playing this on Atari

Harder than it looks

I do think it would be cool to have a ghostbusters shirt...

I've been slimed

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Until next time... 

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