Upkeep

You'd think that I would have the time to at least post something every month, clearly I (and you) were very wrong. Today, of all days, I feel the need to express my confusion on the subject of "the 80's/90's are coming back"...

I foresaw a problem when Alien Ant Farm first did a cover for Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal", smoothly casting the spell over audiences as Michael released a new album "for the fans". Fast forward a couple year and we have the birth and rise of now pop mega-icon, Kanye West. The theme "a child of the 80's" has been streamlined as of late and we're seeing a distorted agenda from both the youth and the matured. Stars of all shapes and sizes are bringing back to life what this generation has only heard about. Is it so bad though? During the 80's and early 90's, fashion and media were outrageously outrageous. MC Hammer pants and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live vicariously though us. Please, if you can, take a stab at some of the old programs that we used to watch as children...don't make me name them as I've been having nightmares of hairish creatures with sideways pony tails and 8-bit movie soundtracks pulsating through the right side of my brain.

Is if fair to let this generation re-live the 80's and 90's? Well we have the second war in Iraq (the first one was in the early 90's), we're bringing back the colors "hot pink, hot green, hot orange, and any other deviation of 'hot' and 'color'" and, as always, we're remaking every single movie or tv show from this time. This is my problem. Have we ultimately run out of creativity? Have we succumbed to the comfort of our lives? Has the hidden hierarchy of Hollywood triggered a fixation of past loves and decided (for us all) that we will re-live their lives, their way?

I saw off with the "hot" colors and on with the platinums and aluminums... I want to dress like a spaceman and I want to do it now... why not? Aren't we in the future?