In 2011 this [tumblr] was mostly used for posting one track a night from my collection of “happy hardcore”, a late-90s British rave genre known for 180+bpm 4/4 kickdrums and incredibly cheesy vocals
Now appreciating that the ‘80s Florida thing wasn’t from Miami Vice, that and “yacht rock” were responding to a real period vogue, like the late '70s Colorado thing or maybe '90s Seattle. Like, this:
was from 1982 (Miami Vice debuted '84), released as a single with the duh-its-about-cocaine White Line Fever on the B-side
whats the 70s colorado thing
The music of John Denver, the way the macguffin of Smokey and the Bandit (1977) was cases of Coors. It was a whole thing!
I am a huge fan of the U.S. Army practice of naming helicopters after Amerindian tribes (which is a real thing for a long time – have you ever even heard of the H-37 Mojave?)
I think about her often, the DC-3 who’s a floatplane.
this airplane has interesting stories to tell about decolonization
the thing about floatplanes is even the most completely backwater undeveloped overgrown regions naturally have multiple runway-length clearings with absolutely flat and clear surfaces if you count water
Now appreciating that the ‘80s Florida thing wasn’t from Miami Vice, that and “yacht rock” were responding to a real period vogue, like the late '70s Colorado thing or maybe '90s Seattle. Like, this:
was from 1982 (Miami Vice debuted '84), released as a single with the duh-its-about-cocaine White Line Fever on the B-side
To people younger than mid-30s: I really cannot emphasize enough that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City played a huge shaping effect on later ‘80s retro and those weird Scottish Ameriboos at Rockstar left the legacy that they have now set some of the actual America’s actual sense of cultural history
This bar’s getting.… more busy after 11. I haven’t seen that for years, that’s the sign of a young adult clientele with social circles that include food service workers. That’s a very good sign.
