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to get the video's to work in the journal you need to put yt in brakes at ether end.

My god, my childhood is flash back before my eyes.

having been a child in the 50s, a teenager in the 60s, and seen the sacrafices of the 60s bear the fruit of an all too brief golden age in the 70s, the 80s, to me, were something of a let down and a disappointment. of course that sort of thing all depends on where you are in the world at the time and so on.

my head still has invisible flat spaces from banging it against how could anyone who had learned the lessons of the 60s, and enjoyed the creative fruit of the 70s, possibly have voted for raygun. even for governor of california, let alone u.s. president.

for me it was the 60s and the 70s that were the great blossoming of all the arts and sciences. the 80s, their great wilting.

but then that was in the u.s., where i was.
other places run on other time frames of course.
the 80s were redeemed for me, solely by the computer becoming available to common folks such as my self, even though, at first, it was little more then an 8-bit toy.

80s anime, i had no idea at the time existed. wasn't until the 90s that i had any chance to begin to discover it.

of course there was great science fiction being written all through the 70s and 80s.

every decade's had an up side and a downside, that i can point to, what each were and are for me. the 50s with their prejudice and discrimination, also still had trains, and places where you could build expressively and creatively in ways that building codes for the most part have not since permitted.

and so it goes.

i have a nostalgia for a future i can only dream. but one i know, is, at least in its broadest outlines, inevitable, one way or another.

from what I understand, governance in the Democratic party had become so boring, they allowed their opposition to cleverly manuver around them and build up a large coalition of typically disparate political groups. Many conservative defectors from the DNC took their constituents along with them, and with that came middle america. I think part of it may have also been being told what they wanted to hear about the american dream and all that, but I wasn't old enough to remember that stuff (since I wasn't politically active at the time).

What I do know, however, is that in 1976, Carter's win in the primaries was not expected, and Iowa (first to vote in a primary process in the country) voted "Uncommitted" as their first choice. He won the white house, but a confluence of events I think contributed to Reagan getting elected in '80. There's a lot of things that can be said about the 80s, but for me I feel like politics wasn't one of the shinier subjects to discuss, mainly because it was what formed the basis for a lot of our modern narrative cliches about America which prevent any meaningful change from taking place. The backs of the unions were broken in the 80s; the beginnings of the breakdown of our banking system were in the 80s; the idea of going into massive deficit spending and selling out our future began in the 80s; the income tax dropped 40% in the 80s despite us not being able to afford lowering taxes [and] increasing spending; and oh, the FTC and FCC were stripped of a lot of their power in the 80s, too. Not something I'm proud to say I was woefully ignorant of the whole time. But then again, when times were good then, maybe most people didn't seem to care until it came back to bite 'em.

My hope for the future is one where we will be able to build or re-build it ourselves. I don't want to see a continuance of the status-quo of today. Obama represented a change symbolically during the election, but in practical execution I am left a bit impatient at the incremental pragmatism this administration adheres to. Your experience might afford you more patience than I have for such things.

The 80s and 90s were fucking awesome decades to be a kid. I'm not sure if I could have survived if I had been an adult.

Personally I'm one of those crazy people that wants to visit the 1880s. Pip pip!

I have seen a bit of cool retro series but I rather prefer newer music, in fact I usually look for "new sounding" music, although it's hard to define how exactly it sounds. In general I don't like retro and don't follow any retro "kick backs". I can tolerate it but I prefer other things.

For me hardly any new anime catches my eye.
I'm all about the classics, golgo 13, Tezuka works,
fist of the Star etc lol Everything now just seems
drowned in trying to look too cool in modern
music or So. I remember my first anime film "Akira"
the Blade Runner of anime films. Also along Tezuka's
"Metropolis" retro age theme mix. Retro look throw
backs and plot themes I like, as in "Big O" anime.
I'm a sucker for retro, something about it just seems
great lol

there is one thing from back in the day that you have to see, but never made it to DVD in the US called "Robot Carnival". Great stuff which sadly is mired in a distribution rights conflict which may keep it from ever seeing the light of day here again. If you can bag the VHS, do it, though. Get it dubbed, even though 95% of the movie has no words -- the girl who did one of the voices in the movie's english dub, was one of (if not) her last performances before dying tragically young. The animation is pure and the story-telling stark. It will bring a tear to your eye.

(If you end up watching it online, try to get a video of it all in one sitting so as not to break the mood)

actually, here, check out this intro. It is a series of short films, with some links together throughout. The opening is grand and terrifying, as a desolate world which seems to have moved on to a simpler life is approached upon by a gigantic mechanical monolith; one that seemingly comes and performs its function without having any sense to realize the world it was made for no longer exists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54VEzgkMMsQ

I remember this, didn't sci fi anime days air it? I actually was impressed and
Wondered why it never showed up again. As a kid I asked about it but never
in stock. Never knew of the death though. Stinks this fine piece of work
and emotional work never made it to dvd.
Even as a kid I didn't understand the story but the emotions expresssed got to me.
Thank you for making me remember an animation I long forgotten. Its been years
since I've seen it. <:3 Been trying to remember the name for so long.