Crashbox

This may sound rather absurd, but AC and I have been on an '80s movie kick for the last few weeks. It started recently, one bored Friday night, when neither of us could decide on what to watch. She had never seen a good, classic '80s flick, so I grabbed the first one that came to mind: Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Well, we both had way too much fun watching it, and my memory was jogged a bit, so we followed it up later that week with Better off Dead. At this point we were both really getting into the mode; anyone who has seen one of the greats from that decade will inderstand. Then a friend told us we had to watch Subway ; a weird, super-hip, obscure French film by Luc Besson from 1985. What an awesome movie! Unusual, thoughful and simply beautiful; a lot like the Hungarian film Kontrol. That in turn sparked a search for more Luc Besson, (La Femme Nikita; Leon: the Proffessional; the Fifth Element---most of which we have not seen yet), and other strange, little-know oldies, that will probably fill our cue for the next few movie nights. Last night we really got out there with Some Kind of Wonderful...think what you like, it was a pretty decent show. Certainly sincere and sweet if nothing else, AND she drives a beat-up '60s Mini Cooper with no windows---hot! (My brother Steve and I were hopelessly in love with 'Watts', the drummer girl with the Mini, when we first watched it 'way back' in the '90s). Anyway, the song in the ending credits was really cool: some crazy mix of '80s Pop, and Celtic/Irish jig covering Elvis. Talk about one thing leading to another! I looked them up: Lick the Tins, from 1987, a one-hit-wonder band from London/Northern Ireland with a rave-reveiw album that just didn't get enough distibution to make it. (Call me crazy, but I love stuff like this; the smug pride of knowing about something so cool and obscure that no one else has ever heard of it!) The album is so rare Amazon wants $90.00 for one! Youtube has just their one hit song; look it up, you'll dig it.