The Goonies grow up
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1. I can't believe this happened.
2. I can't believe I missed this when it DID happen (a couple of years ago now).
3. Is that REALLY Chunk???? (Martha Plimpton also looks a bit...different...)
Tapes!
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I was sitting in my car the other day listening to my CD player and I suddenly got to thinking that I miss cassettes. I think I miss the sheer physical-ness of them. I had a huge clear out of my cassettes about 4 or 5 years ago (when the cassette player in my car finally gave up the ghost), but I held on to a few of my favourites and my firsts. Just underneath Aerosmith is the ear of a Mr. Jive Bunny and his Mastermixers, and inside the player is the red cover of the Bangles compilation album 'Everything': the first and second cassettes to come into my collection! (I think they stand up pretty well as firsts - though my first musical purchase of any sort was Dear Jessie by Madonna on 45 vinyl...less cool).
A womble, 2 smurfs, and some tat...
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The first glimpse of a Womble (that's a Bendy Orinoco you can just see in shot there), 3 Smurfs, some badges, a Corgi Tom of Tom and Jerry fame and a keychain in the shape of Archie Andrews head (and a bit of my shadow).
Doing what I love
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They say do what you love and love what you do right? I love this stuff. I love collecting. I love coming across something that has lain forgotten and unloved for umpteen years.
I was born in 1979 – too young to say I remember anything about the 1970’s, but as far as the 1980’s and 1990’s go; they were MY decades. They were the decades I grew up in and most probably the decades I will be ever so slightly be stuck in for the rest of my life. COOL!