Hands up if you got a penpal in Primary school? I ended up with two, and I’m still in contact with them to this day! That’s around 37 years of writing to, and now messaging, each other. Another joy that children now won’t experience. #snailmail #penpals #letters #eighties #nineties

Declarations of Independence: The Cinema of John Sayles

Screening @ TIFF

📌 "The political & artistic principles Sayles refused to compromise"

“accurately captures the Schenectady-born writer-director’s dual commitments to credibly naturalistic storytelling and penetrating social observation — qualities that have been in short supply in an American cinema predicated on spectacle and escapism, especially since the dawn of the #Reagan #Eighties
— Adam Nayman

#film #politicaltheory #indie

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam!

...with FULL FORCE 🎧

#Vinyl #Eighties

... Samantha Fox!

with FULL FORCE! 🎧

#Vinyl #Eighties

NO CHEATING WITH SEARCH NO SPOILERS; just guess

Roxette: nation of origin?

#roxette #eighties

Commenters, don't ruin this.

Australia
5.4%
Sweden
82.1%
New Zealand
6.3%
Switzerland
6.3%
Poll ended at .

Ice Ice Baby (Summer Synthwave Mix) by Auralnauts, and it's lovely to see them back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51F90ii9H1E

Nice little musicless section too.

#Music #Video #80s #Eighties #1980s #Auralnauts #VanillaIce #IceIceBaby #Synthwave

Ice Ice Baby (Summer Synthwave Mix)

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For #ThrowbackThursday here's my grandad getting an outdoors haircut from someone who may well be a fellow farmer. The youngest girl is my cousin Noreen and this is likely to be my mum's family home in Mayo, early 1980s.

#Photography #TBT #Ireland #Mayo #Eighties #Haircut #80s #1980s

Excitebike - Wikipedia

Goodnight my darlings...

Beefeater - Insurrection Chant

https://youtu.be/kHEUCADMlY4

#Music #Eighties #DCHardcore

Insurrection Chant

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For #ThrowbackThursday this is a family friend in the 1980s. This is Nabil, a Lebanese Druze who married an Irish Roman Catholic and raised confused kids. He used to be in the Beirut police force before coming to the UK to work at a hotel where he met and married Ethel from Ireland, and that's how my family came to know him. He later drove the buses in #Portsmouth and was legendary for his lack of patience with passengers and other drivers.

#Photography #1980s #80s #Eighties #TBT