What music, books, films, clothes etc. do you feel are classic and timeless and stay excellent generation after generation, never becoming really dated or uncool?
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What music, books, films, clothes etc. do you feel are classic and timeless and stay excellent generation after generation, never becoming really dated or uncool?
levi's jeanswear. converse sneakers. doc martens. ray bans (even that large, pilot model). but then again i could be all wrong about everything, 'cept...
iron maiden :thumb:
well,i'd have to say fifties of course....
my Greaser roots poor out of my skin,mixed with the inner hippy roots....
it's a deadly mix :1orglaugh ....
well i'm going to have to blow off all those things and say candy. that never gets old. i'm eating cherry cola mike and ike right now.
mmmmmm mike and ike...shoul mix that with the popcorn flavore done. it's good. lol
um...........I was always a fan of the swing era. zoot suits and big bands.....hot! woo! tex avery cartoons never get old.........dirty vodka martinis never get old......elvis never gets old (i love elvis) the blues never get old.....specially when done with some soul. (amen!)
far as clothing-black tees and slacks never ge told. lol (thats pretty much all I wear) and tittie bars that charge five bucks for a beer never get old either....or atleast they try not to. lol
Books, to me, are timeless no matter what. (ie: Dune series, the Lord of the Rings series (+prequal), etc., etc.) Same thing with pictures/paintings/drawings, unless you're talking school pictures. Those have a...style all their own.
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Originally Posted by cheinara wraithwalker
I never get rid of any of my books, that could explain why I need a whole room in my house for them all.
But as for true pop culture concepts, I would also say "candy" and in my opinion, Batman and Coca Cola. :D
coca cola
levi
converse
docs
50s styles
the little black dress
the pinstripe suit
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Originally Posted by scabre
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i still got my striped Swing 3-piece.....every so often i'll put it on ,just to reminisce.......
haha, nice! i looove pinstripes! :D
i agree, books never get old. that's what makes a book a "classic" anyway, its timelessness.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheinara wraithwalker
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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
I'm tempted to add Star Wars to the list, but the prequels may have quashed its "classic" status.
- Looney Tunes (the early days - not the ones from the 60's onward - they've lost their way)
- classical music (not trying to be ironically self-referential)
- I Love Lucy
- the little black dress
- tuxedo, basic black
I think it's called mainstream.... Mainstream never gets old and is biger and biger trought time:)Quote:
Originally Posted by AmeliaG
p.s. thinks like fashion, music, etc tends to repeat trought time, mainly... same fun that hippies had listening to psychodelic music in 60's ravers have with psychodelic trance, just a example, so only thing that changes is technology, ways that we aporach our problems and everyday dificulties.... blah
classic music stays allways on same place :) before every other
the goonies
Moxie Soda
Cheesy Horrorfilms
Droopy The Dog
Monty Python
Film wise...Fellini...his films have such a dreamlike quality and so surreal at times that you can't really place it with an certain age or era. Even his weaker films are better than most working today. Everyone can find a handful they like and it's doubtful anyone will ever come along to match him...he had such an amazing way of taking his imagination, enviornment, and at times true individuals and making them all work together in some grand tale.
It's one of the things I like about L.A. it's like living in one of his films (Clive Barker made that comment way back when and he was dead on about it.)
Angst ridden youth, with more fury than fear.
im gonna keep this to a few movies before i go on a huge tangent
terminator 2
the never ending story
edward scissor hands
the exorcist
akira
all classics, will remain forever so
slasher films
Neverending Story! Damn that was a good book. I want to get a crate and throw it at my loser Harry Potter-obsessed friends. We don't need another round of bad fanfiction.
Speaking of books like that: the Princess Bride (book and movie) and Dune (never saw the movie series but from what I can see they nailed the visual style dead on). I have some other books I love and will never let go of, but the author is pretty unknown. Oh well.
I have to second candy. No matter what your age, candy is awesome. I remember going to the store when I was a kid, getting ten Ring Pops, and walking home sugar-high and happy like some sort of sticky, saliva-soaked watermelon pimp. That and the five-cent gums and gummy things that probably have all sorts of unfortunate chemicals inside but you could buy like a ton for a buck. When your weekly allowance is five bucks, a good deal!
Litter. Ugly, but laziness prevails. Speaking of, jaywalking. Has anyone been caught for this?
Game Boys. Whatever they are. I still have my cherry-red plastic oldass Game Boy Pocket, and I love it. It's bulky and tremendous and plays Shadowgate and Final Fantasy Legends. Every other handheld that's out and ever came out, despite whatever it is and whatever it does, wants in its little plastic heart to be a Game Boy.
Speaking of: arcades. The big expensive awesome ones or the ones on the corner with old games and some bitter middle-aged guy handing out change. My favorite one is the one up here right between a tattoo parlor and leather shop, with paintings of the Four Horsemen and nearly-naked women with giant swords on the walls. Also, I believe it's a rule that every arcade, no matter what it is, must have a copy of Area 51 in it. Never seen one without.
they used to have an arcade where you paid like five bucks to get in, and then that five bucks was convereted in dimes, which each game cost to play and then a bunch of the games like the more classic one's were free. I only went there once as a kid and then the place closed and turned into an archery store, which amazingly, it still is today.
chucks (chuck taylor's)
donnie darko
..... flapper dresses (the whole 20's/30's flapper style)
Anything from the 50s. The music, clothes, furniture, cars, pin-ups, movies, and style are timeless.
Chronicles of Narnia! -dorkness shining through-
Mario!