Trying on jeans is far from nostalgia-inducing. If it does evoke memories of the past, it's usually unpleasant "I remember I could wear a 2 in high school" kinds of nostalgia. But lately the Gap's got a new twist - try on jeans, get a free iTunes download. Now, that in and of itself isn't conjuring memories of the past, but what I elected to do with the download is. I got it home and perused all the countless offerings of current hipsters, R&B tough guys, and sensitive-boys-with-guitars and finding them all fruitless, I began to consider the past. And downloaded "The Goonies R Good Enough" by Cyndi Lauper.
First off, the movie is one of my favorites. And secondly, it reminds me of playing Goonies in the park just 5 houses away from my new digs. My brother and I would climb all over the playground of "Shady Park" and call for Data to explode candles and Mouth to translate Spanish. Since I was there, why stop the Nostalgia Express so I picked up a few more like "Love Is A Battlefield" and "Total Eclipse Of The Heart". Call me an 80's freak, but those were some good ol' days and the music was just corny enough to be cool.
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