78 luftballoons.
Yeah, it’s running up the blogdex like a thing that climbs up something else really fast, but it’s worth it: the ’80s Tarot. There are some truly inspired choices in there, and if your memory is long enough to have looked past the rather blandly mediocre nature of That ’80s Show to appreciate just how frighteningly, subtly spot-on the production designers and set dressers were in capturing That ’80s Look—not so much the bar or the record shop, those were gimmies; I’m thinking of the condo they lived in, the generic hotel-lobby furniture, that weird mix of wall and decor colors, neutral cools and mellow pastels that manage to be prickly and uncomfortable despite their best efforts: slick salespeople too studied, too mannered in their insouciance, smiling too much, their hands behind their backs holding other shoes about to drop. —Where was I? If you caught more than one episode for some variation on this queasily fascinated nostalgia kick, then the Tarot will make you laugh in delight, and you’ll think of Howard Jones for the first time in ages.
Luftballoon bonus: the 99 Luftballoons installation at Project Blinkenlights.
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