Hah! Boy did I light a fire under you. I'm not sure what your dot.com comment is, but if you're saying I should dot.com, you're right. It was hosed by some domain stealer and then someone bought it and made a lame ass site with nothing on it.

It's hard for me not to think of the 80's as good. I was young. I had no bills, so lot's of time to spend playing games, exploring new technology and just having a good time. Was what we had back then better than today's? Hell no. Would I want to go back to what I had back then? Hell no. Would I like the innocence and and free time? Hell yes.

Playgrounds were much more fun, but they were dangerous as hell. Why are they all plastic these days? Safety first. Sure, Men With Hats, were doing the Safety Dance, but kids were falling off tall slides and flying off merry -go-rounds onto asphalt. I'm not sure where you were in the 80's, but I remember enough kids getting hurt.

If you are stuck in the 80's for music, then I feel sorry for you. Sure there's good music from then, but please, if you think Britney is the only choice these days, look a little deeper. Let me know what kind of music you like and I'll point you toward some good stuff. There's so much good music these days. None of the radio stations around here play it. Radio back in the 80's was much better, before it all got bought up and turned into one national station of crap.

Movies? Sure there are good movies from every decade, but I hardly think the 80's offered up anything OVERALL that's any better than today. Sure there's always crap movies out there. Don't watch them. Special effects are a toss up. Lord of the Rings could not have been put together in the 80's. No way. Star Wars films from the 80's are better than the new ones, simply because the story was better. No wonder Lucas didn't make them back then. Lame effects + lame story = lame movie.

Sure, it's fun to watch VH1's I LOVE THE 80's, but I watch it more to laugh at what we all did. I PITY THE FOOL who can't look back and say, 'what were we thinking?'

On your movie list:

Die Hard 2: 1990
Die Hard with a Vengeance (3): 1995

I'll give you Short Circuit (I) and Ghostbusters (I). But the sequels? Uhmmmm... GB 2 wasn't terrible, but wasn't that good, either. I never even bothered with SC 2.

And I'll back monkey there on music, too. I mean I like "Living on a Prayer" and "Jack and Diane" as much as the next guy, but you know... even Bon Jovi and John "Couger" have moved on ;-)

And if you think today's music is bad compared to then, I got 5 words for you: New Kids on the Block.

:-)

Bon Jovi and John Couger have moved on, but have moved on to what? The music today sucks. As for making fun of New Kids. Who the hell do you think Ncync and the Back street boys copied. Lets compare some music shall we.

Heavy metal/rock genre
In the 80's we had Iron Maiden
Currently we have Moron, I mean Maroon 5.

Pop genre
In the 80's we had Michael Jackson
Now we have Justine Timbercrap

Female pop singers.
In the 80's Madonna
Currently Britney Spears. Need I say more

Diva's
In the 80's we had Chaka Khan, and Diana Ross
Now we have Christina Aguilara(great voice but #1 shes a skank and #2 her music is horrible).

In the 80s
President Ronald Regean (the Gipper)
Today
President George Bush (fill in the blank)

In the 80s
Cold War
Today
Planes slamming into our world trade centers

As for Star Wars movies. Are you kidding me? The current movies are better than the old ones? WHAT? Episode I and II have been very dissapointing compared to the old Lucas movies. No comparison.

TV shows.
Hmm lets see here. Can you name me one sitcom that you would want to watch with your kids. How can you. There arent any sitcoms. They are all reality garbage shows. One copying the other. I used to watch family Ties, The Cosby Show, Facts of life, Knight Rider, Chips(although 70's) MacGyver, A-Team. TV has only a few good shows now. Everybody loves Raymond is good and so is King of Queens. But lets face it. I wont let kids watch either of the two.

The bottom line is this. In the 80s society was happy. They had fun. They didnt worry about terrorist attacks. They had good movies, music and TV shows. I would go back in a heartbeat.