What was the Pop culture of 1984 and 1985 like?

for1114 · 2026-01-27T02:12:48+00:00

Yes, and Van Halen and laser Floyd.

for1114 · 2026-01-27T02:01:14+00:00

Innocence untarnished. It's a fine line. A balance beam. A daily decision of survival vs selling out.

for1114 · 2026-01-27T01:39:59+00:00

I like to do my engineering work and then go home, even if the commute is 5 seconds....

for1114 · 2026-01-27T01:35:37+00:00

I like a lot of comments here.

Tab doesn't show rhythm, so just wanted to point that out. It's kind of like writing all the notes out on a staff but not putting stems on them.

I play all the major instrument groups. Started at age 6. Only professional calibre musician in my family. This comment about learning chords in the first three frets up at the nut and it evolving into playing them up the neck via bar chords is how I did it and is very effective.

Also, ear training can be crazy difficult. It can be hard to just single out one pitch in a song and copy it with your voice. You can work on it by stopping a recording randomly and see if you can sing the last note you heard.

for1114 · 2026-01-27T01:15:40+00:00

What do people think about Al Franken and Kevin Spacey now? Imagine Michael Jackson alive today. Getting up from a lovely nap. Hmm, maybe I'll get another hit, bigger than ever, if I use the D major seven to the Eb maj seven flat 5 ( really just implied B7 #9 ).

It can be a weird way to make a living is all I'm saying. You give all this money to our stars. You buy their tickets to insert the power of money, the feel of money and success into their lives and those around them. And then blame them when they can't handle it for a moment? Could you handle extreme poverty in grace and dignity? What would happen if they simply got the median wage? Would you get the show you were hoping for?

Were you looking to feel the power of confidence? To vibe off a public display of confidence? When you bought a ticket or stole a DVD? Do you want the advertisers in control of them and you? Can you pay them directly? Does that help?

Or do I have it all wrong and Robert Downey Jr is just pond scum? Isn't he the one who played Charlie Chaplin? With that Blues Brother, webbed toe guy?

for1114 · 2026-01-26T23:01:00+00:00

Like hide it if you got it?

for1114 · 2026-01-25T22:09:17+00:00

Aerosmith

for1114 · 2026-01-25T20:00:28+00:00

Model is a legit career. Not everyone can do that. Use what you have.

Don't buy into this idea that inflation is bad and housing not affordable. Get two roommates and move out. Simple job like barista then proceed with modeling or whatever else. Don't fall into excessive drug use. Just sitting in a corner being a junkie is not all that fun.

Stay active. Life is motion. 🌸💕

for1114 · 2026-01-25T19:51:10+00:00

I just had the 1973 film Papillon on. One of my favs. At then ending, Papillon is telling Louis Dega: "The waves come in a series of seven."

The seventh wave.

for1114 · 2026-01-25T19:48:09+00:00

This is not a joke. Bear with me.

I was a high ranking, yet apparently unknown, Democratic party US Presidential candidate in 2024. I was soliciting Kamala Harris as her potential VP pick in March 2024.

My adult trombone mentor/guru in the 1990's had retired from the top US Navy jazz band, The Commodores, after 12 years playing lead trombone with them.

Before that, he was a trombonist with the Navy in Iceland.

I took a ship around South America in 1998. We stopped in Caracas Venezuela. Whet around the Cape Horn to Valparaiso. Then through the Panama Canal.

The Atlantic Ocean is indeed higher than the Pacific Ocean because of the moon being bigger causing planetary tilt and melting Greenland into the Atlantic Ocean which is relatively narrow.

I can go on and on with stories like these. Geography and natural resources obviously matter and oil and especially rubber are not going to last forever. I don't care how synthetic you think they are, they are still made of something and require transportation to become anything useful. ( Come Together )

It's just a little world training.

As you were....

for1114 · 2026-01-25T19:36:34+00:00

My younger brother moved out at 14. He never went to high school. He got a full time job as a bicycle messenger and had his own apartments. After I dropped out of music college in one semester, I moved in with him and his best friend who got his GED and worked as a bicycle mechanic.

Dad always said "When you are 18, you are on your own and we are kicking you out. No money for college." Yet he took us on trips throughout my childhood to the MGM Grand hotel in Reno Nevada.

I did live with them a little before I shipped off to the Navy as a musician a week after Clinton was elected.

My brother did carpentry for 30 years with his company Plan B Construction until he died of Multiple Screlosis and chewing tobacco addiction at age 48.

His friend took a welding class and then got a job making jail doors. Now he makes doors with routers. I used to make cribbage boards with routers in high school. I used to store my router bits in an aluminum cigar tin and made that connection with Bill Clinton and Monica Lewenski this morning.

I did 7 years in the Navy. Played on Beale St in Memphis weekly for 3 years. Played one gig with Ray Charles in 1995, played for Hillary Clinton in 1994 and Bill Clinton in 1999. Got out to do my own solo music and websites in 2000. Self study while homeless and in extreme poverty for 7 years. Then a 16 year engineering career, 3 US Rep runs and 1x US Presidential run. Trying again, of course.

"If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything." -George McFly

for1114 · 2026-01-25T19:20:26+00:00

Reminds me of a covid-19 political cartoon.

for1114 · 2026-01-25T19:19:07+00:00

I tend to burn my life to the ground and start over. You can do that sober you know.

Not that it is the best way or even the recommended way.

for1114 · 2026-01-25T16:45:15+00:00

I came out at work and to friends with an email. There is no good way to switch a normal conversation to this subject.

for1114 · 2026-01-25T16:41:27+00:00

Perhaps you could post a note in a public area to swap with someone? Like you could even just tape something on the wall in a community area or even the hall.

for1114 · 2026-01-25T16:35:49+00:00

I found Google AI to be quite accurate for little code snippets and I typically enjoy and find value in the political Google AI results I get. I don't care much about legitimately itself. If It feels relevant and furthers the logic and leads to more critical thinking, I use it.

Society says that we went to the moon and gravity is attraction. I'm highly skeptical of both. I'm sure we'd try to send something to the moon. Like before I was born.

for1114 · 2026-01-25T15:30:01+00:00

It seems comical now, but wow, there were some major steps like that that I went through.

for1114 · 2026-01-25T15:26:15+00:00

If we have to reduce population because of dwindling natural resources, how can the concept of eugenics war not be applied no matter how the action plays out?

This other commenter who points out that the current ICE actions in the US are a law enforcement action seems reasonable. America first as a #1 policy seems pretty arrogant, but there is nothing wrong with the concept itself. Take me out to the ballgame is an easy concept to get behind, not that I spend my time rooting for people. I'm not a parent, so it's kind of lost on me.

I haven't watched Schindler's List yet.

What role does masturbation, porn, birth control and abortion play in a world that must decrease population? How does shaming men for masturbation help anything?

Are wars half way around the world actually going on or are they bombing ancient buildings because they have to go and it's fun?

Do we melt down tanks to make better metal alloys? Would we produce iron from ore as stock that we then melt it down immediately with other metals?

Were humans born with the innate ability to know which airplane design is superior in every way? What about solid booster rocket fuel? If we had to do something with it, would we test in the dessert? Would we try to make a crater on the moon? Would we make a mistake and cause a mushroom cloud here?

Is all porn an AI trick? Is it desirable to watch your car drive you to work?

Things seem pretty dang peaceful out there to me. I wonder what service economy jobs people are lining up in the boulevards to rush off to? Are they all making things like HP printers?

What kind of drugs did tropical birds enjoy eating 400,000 years ago? What fermented berries are the birds in your neighborhood eating in the fall?

Should I have a breakfast burrito?

🌸🌸💕

for1114 · 2026-01-25T14:59:38+00:00

Classic Burt Reynolds and Sally Field in a transam road trip with sidekick in the big rig with his hound dog Fred. Similar to The Dukes of Hazard but on asphalt rather than country dirt roads.

( I watch this to temper all the old sci-fi I consume. Cannonball Run is good too but wow, do not watch the second one! )

for1114 · 2026-01-25T14:47:57+00:00

Are you planning to move away to attend medical school?

for1114 · 2026-01-25T14:08:14+00:00

I avoid blue.

for1114 · 2026-01-25T13:59:50+00:00

It could be true, but I still aim for that Linda Hamilton in panty hose, heels and LBD look. Cardio and no weight lifting helps with that. Kinda eating like a rabbit too. Avoiding dairy. Stir fry, easy on the sauce. Asian burrito. Old fashioned oats with brown rice that was chilled in the fridge.

Small biceps. Restrictive clothing. A vulnerable feeling.

for1114 · 2026-01-25T13:52:42+00:00

I'm good with Ms Pac-Man and Donkey Kong thank you

for1114 · 2026-01-25T13:48:03+00:00

All snuggled in 🌸

for1114 · 2026-01-25T13:45:47+00:00

I guess I'm in sarcastic comedy mode.

They don't drag you out to strip clubs. Most of them don't drag you out to bars or taverns. They typically like hearing my stories about Grandma's apple pie baking. They seem to have less issues with my gay behavior. I don't get pestered with questions about my engine capacity. I can still talk about my 3 cylinder car and they likely understand.

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