by shezcrafti | Jul 5, 2012 | Gaming, The Time Warp |
I know awesome when I see it. And when I look at Hotline Miami I see awesome. It’s a violent, 16-bit retro-arcade homage to 80s action movies developed by Jonatan Söderström (Dennation), who describes it like this: Step into the neon-soaked underground of 1980s...
by shezcrafti | Jul 4, 2012 | The Time Warp, What I'm Listening To |
Michael Jackson and E.T. are two of the biggest pop culture icons of the 1980s, so it makes sense that this exists: Little-known fact: the above photo was shot in Michael Jackson’s bedroom. But somehow I made it through childhood without ever having known about...
by shezcrafti | Jul 4, 2012 | Stuff I Watch, The Time Warp |
If you ever watched Fraggle Rock as a kid, you should remember The Doozers–those cute little green guys who wear construction helmets and love to work. They sang songs about working hard, being productive, and built elaborate structures made of radish dust all...
by shezcrafti | Jul 3, 2012 | Stuff I Watch, The Time Warp |
Andy Griffith passed away today. He was 86. As a child of the 80’s, The Andy Griffith Show was way before my time but its influence on my upbringing is no less present. I was raised on a well-rounded television diet that included Andy Griffith, along with other...
by shezcrafti | Jul 2, 2012 | Stuff I Watch, The Time Warp |
Up until about twenty minutes ago, I had no idea there was a documentary about GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, or that it had a KickStarter project that’s ending tomorrow, July 2 at 3:00 PM — a mere 14 hours from now. Currently the project has reached...
by shezcrafti | Jul 1, 2012 | 4 the Lulz, The Time Warp |
The clip below is from an eighties Canadian television show called Switchback, hosted by the trying-oh-so-hard-to-be cool Stu Jeffries, who says of these wack, rythmless white kids in a rather bewildered manner: “That is rapping! Usually there’s a story...