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Happy Monday!
The influence of the ’80s aren’t going anywhere on TV, movies or music–both in nostalgic throwbacks and as a pop-culture golden age–and that’s a good thing.
Actually, that’s an awesome thing.
Exhibit June 4, 1984:
At least we can rest easy and listen to The Midnight after midnight while eating food without fear, unlike some furry friends who first showed up on June 8, 1984…
Have a Better Week Than Last Week.
That ’80s Music…From 2018
On this Throwback Thursday, it’s time to venture back to the ’80s.
All I have to say is ‘Ready Player One,’ ‘The Goldbergs,’ ‘Stranger Things’ and Weezer’s “Africa” rendition and you understand how beloved that decade remains in 2018 with all of us who lived during it. And now new generations are getting a nostalgia-high for a decade that solidified Steven Spielberg, was driven by a robust economy and discovered that Guns N’ Roses had an appetite for entertaining destruction on and off stage.
Add The Midnight to the aforementioned mix above who–in 2018– is proving why the ’80s was one of exploration that discovered a lot about ourselves individually and collectively.
This song should’ve been in ‘Ready Player One.’ Maybe it’ll be in the forthcoming book (and film) ‘Ready Player Two’?
That would be totally bitchin’ (the second throwback this Thursday).
In How Many Years Will ‘Replicas’ Be Certifiability Science-Fiction?
Keanu Reeves is starring in a mind-bending replicating a science-fiction movie.
Enough said.
Promising big ideas like our role in scientific innovation, the future of AI that is on the equal intellectual ground as humans and control versus independence, ‘Replicas’ starring Keanu Reeves and Thomas Middleditch seems to have the ingredients for a memorable–and perhaps prescient–show that merely begins in the form of cinematic entertainment. The inspiration for some of society’s great inventors can be cited in films just like ‘Replicas.’
The question may not be what someone will attempt to do within this field after seeing this film. The key question to wonder about is what people are doing right now in this field of study?
Or will do…?
At least for us moviegoers, we’ll discover what ‘Replicas’ is all about soon.
Happy Monday!
Mondays are not fun. Mondays are stressful. Mondays give Tuesday an extra glow because it’s, well, not Monday.
Despite all this unflattering criticism of that lonely day that starts with the letter “m,” we won’t abandon you. We won’t take off in the middle of the night. Mondays serve a purpose during the week. One of the days has to be the buzz-kill. Mondays took that bullet for us. And for that, we’re thankful.
And even more than that, dearest Monday, we won’t ever…
If that’s not ’80s nostalgia worthy of an epic ‘Goldbergs’ dance, then I don’t know what it is.
Have a Better Day Than Yesterday.
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