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Countdown to 2012: 1982 was 30 years ago
Dec 28th
2012 is just around the corner! Let’s take a few minutes to reflect on the past year. Done? Me too. Now let’s reflect on everything that’s coming up on 30 years old (other than Philip and Jenny). In 1982, New Wave reached a peak, several genre-shaping sci-fi and fantasy flicks were released, and the personal computer was named Man of the Year by Time Magazine.
1982 in Music:
- Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
- Michael Jackson – the album Thriller, which included Thriller, Beat It, and Billie Jean
- Madonna’s debut - Everybody
- Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
- Men At Work – Down Under
- Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
- Modern English – I Melt With You
- Prince – 1999
- The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
- Joan Jett – I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
- John Cougar – Jack & Diane
- Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf
- Cats debuts on Broadway
(hot sweetrolls, that list of tracks just exploded my brain with its awesomeness, gimme a sec, okay let’s move on)
1982 in Film:
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Blade Runner
- Tron
- The Dark Crystal
- Star Trek II – The Wrath of Kahn
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Rocky III
- Conan the Barbarian
- The Beastmaster
- The Thing
- The Secret of NIMH (but let’s be honest, that movie was seriously terrible)
- Annie (yes, that Annie)
1982 in Video Gaming
- Tron (Bally Midway)
- Dig Dug (Atari)
- Super Pac Man (Atari)
- Donkey Kong Jr (Nintendo)
- New companies: Electronic Arts (EA), Lucasfilm Games, MicroProse
1982 in Electronics:
- The Commodore 64 8-bit computer
- TIme Magazine’s Man of the Year is awarded to the computer
- Compact discs start to appear in Japan and Germany
Sources: Wikipedia, my media library, and random corners of my brain
Meet the Walkens
Apr 7th
Hayee… you guyees… you’ll… NEvuh believe… the SNL clip… I suaw… on Hulu!
In other news, it’s great to see a comedian who’s comfortable enough to surround himself with several horrible impersonators.
The Big Bang Theory
Mar 31st
This is what happens when producers who brought us “Two and Half Men” decided that a sitcom with beauty and geeks would be a whole lot funnier than that reality show “Beauty and the Geek”. But funny is a relative term, and in this case, you’d probably have to know geeky trivia, like when precisely Spock had a beard, or why 42 is the meaning of life.
O’Reilly on Oprah
Oct 27th
Forget Kyl vs. Pederson. Forget Graf vs. Giffords.
Oprah asked Bill O’Reilly on to her own “No Spin Zone” for a little “Town Hall” discussion. Yeah! I’m actually watching as I’m writing this, so we’ll wait and see who “wins.”
It’s getting a little tense. I love a good fight!
Update: To make things clear, I don’t think Republicans are the only idiots in Washington. Democrats are idiots, too.
Google Has Acquired YouTube
Oct 9th
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a special information update – Google just BOUGHT OUT YouTube for $1.65 billion. This is Google’s largest acquisition, and one of the largest Web 2.0 acquistions to date. Buy your Google stock now if you hadn’t already!!
YouTube is the most popular Internet video site, with more than 100 million videos watched a day, and Google’s own Google Video couldn’t even compete with that. Now it is assumed that YouTube and Google Video will merge content and features. This is BIG news, folks!
Update: That’s $1.65 billion IN STOCK, in other words, Google traded about 1.25% of its own shares for 100% of YouTube shares. And because such a massive deal is likely to make Google’s stock go up in value, they didn’t really even pay anything for the acquisition. Amazing!