BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
(FOUR) PORTABLE HAND HELD GAMES
These games sucked, but they passed the time. It would be little green or brown screens. The images are bare bones. Sometimes we don’t even get an image. In baseball games we’d see a flashing dot that we’d have to “hit” with a slowly swinging “bat”. Then we’d have to press the shit out of the buttons in order to see another flashing dot circle the bases. That’s just baseball. The fighting games had like 2 characters and both of them were the same person. It sounds like I’m complaining, but times were just simpler. We didn’t need 3D, or even 2D graphics to entertain us.
(THREE) MC’s
In the 80s and early 90’s, hip hop was fun. It’s turned into pop music with very orchestrated “edge”. The PR stories are now more important than whatever shitty ringtone rap is on the market. Back then there was “M.C.s”. The idea of an MC is still there, but there were just much more prominent back then. M.C. Eshter was my fav.
(TWO) STEALING PHONE BOOK PAGES
This dramatic act is a lost art. In movies where there was a passionate moment you’d see someone rush to a phone booth, or at least a phone book. They’d frantically flip through the pages, find the information they desired, and then just in one big act of crazy the person rips the page out and rushes off. Phone books are becoming extinct. In 50 years when no one is laughing at Navin Johnson’s excitement for the phone books arriving I’ll probably be really bitter.
(ONE) SLEEP
Remember sleep? Sleep was awesome. When we’re younger we can close our eyes and be out for 10 hours. We’d argue the whole time “I don’t wanna go to sleep”, but when we did it was over. Now we spend the day thinking “I wanna go to sleep”, but when we DO actually get the time to rest our heads we’re too wired to be able to dose off. I dunno what I’m talking about. I’m sooooo tired.
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