… I’ll happily settle for a Rival Schools reunion!
I just missed the Polvo show here in SD, but I’m going to do my darndest to see Walter and company on October 10th.
Rival Schools! Live!
*sigh* Quicksand, where art thou?
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Somehow, it warms my heart to know that members of Relient K are old enough to remember the pegging of jeans. Peg your jeans (details below), find some puffy Reebok hitops, a nice Jimmy’Z shirt and this painter’s cap and you’re good to go.
For your educational instruction:
There’s a world of knowledge just waiting to be found on the YouTubes.
Much to my wife’s dismay, I have a firm belief that I can learn to breakdance. All I need is a good YouTube tutorial and a lot of time. This guy makes windmilling look so easy:
Maybe I’ll just start with moonwalking (in Korean, even!). Or the Roger Rabbit. I’m pretty sure this is how these guys learned all their moves.
Who needs classes? Through the wonder of these online video tutorials, you can learn how to:
- Tie a full windsor knot (for real, this is where I learned — no more lopsided, wimpy half-windsors for me!),
- Solve a Rubik’s cube
- Kickflip like Tony Hawk
- Use PowerPoint incorrectly
- Unicycle
- Play more cowbell
- Save a life (or, at least, create overwrought television soundtrack music)
- Scare the pants off a telemarketer by making him think he’s part of a murder investigation
While certain 80s fashion tropes have made a significant return of late (e.g., neon shuttered glasses, blocky fonts and gradients, oversized + brightly colored high tops), there always seems to be an air of irony about this retro movement.
However, back in the day, sincerity was king. Artists were not afraid to score earnest, heartfelt, “You can do it, friend”-type pleas set to anthemic almost-new wave musical backdrops for earnest, heartfelt films.
For a new segment we’re calling Friday Flashback, here are some championship clips to get you in the mood for pushups, sprinting, cleaning your garage and/or gearing up for a nice election brawl:
Last night at our church’s weekday gathering, in the midst of discussing the reliability of Scripture and the holy books of other religions, we ended up talking about The Karate Kid. My wife and I saw it the other night and we couldn’t believe how high Johnny’s voice was.
[An aside: Strange how William Zabka went from “Sweep the leg, Johnny!” to writing and producing the short film Most, which was nominated for an Oscar in 2004.]
We all remembered the theme song to Karate Kid 2 — The Glory of Love, of course! However, we struggled mightily when it came to naming the theme song to the first Karate Kid. We knew it was upbeat, we had a feeling it played over a fight montage…
And that’s why Al Gore invented the YouTubes — to solve such dilemmas. For your viewing pleasure, please find below the rousing anthem of the first Karate Kid film, You’re the Best!
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