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...the 70's! Has anyone else been watching this? It comes on and I'm glued to the television for hours, like a gnat to 60 watt light bulb.
It's not as impressive to me as I love the 80's was because I was much too young to remember much of what they were talking about from the 70's first hand. But it's been educational. For example, I knew that Americans failed to take on the use of the metric system. What I didn't know was that the changover to the metric system was an edict that was actually signed into law by the president. It's nice to learn new things.
Also, it gave a nice insight into the general cultural consciousness. According to the program, punk sprang full-blown into the public awareness in 1977. No air time was given to what lead up to punk, or even to the fact that it originated in America, and specifically, in NY. No mention so far of Blondie, Talking Heads, or Television and the most that was said of the Ramones is that they were ugly. They showed a brief, brief clip of the New York Dolls and the cover of Raw Power, but that was it, folks. I suppose to the average person it did seem to come virtually from nowhere. All of a sudden, here were some kids sporting oddly colored hair and safety pins...It couldn't have been all-inclusive, I know. Somehow they failed to mention that I was born in 1977. An event of positively historic proportions, oh, my brothers. But, oh, well. Still a wonderful way to while away an otherwise sucky evening ending up a sucky day.
Mo Rocca was funny in some parts, yes. But the absolute kings of the I Love the whatever-f***ing-decade-we-at-VH1-are-doing-this-week are unquestionably Hal Sparks, who seems to be miffed and outraged by most things in American culture over the 70's and 80's except for Kiss and Star Wars, and Michael Ian Black, who I decided last night is my secret husband. Secret because he is already married. But I can't linger over small details like that. This man is amazing. He is deadpan, he is sarcastic, he is softly spoken. As we learned during the 1988 section of I Love the 80's, he could have gotten in there with the hippie chicks and worn tie-dye to get laid, but he was listening to Morrissey instead, so of course, he wins massive points right there. His head is an almost perfectly round shape, which I find attractive in a demented sort of way. What more can you want in a husband? I don't watch Ed. I never will. But I live for Michael Ian Black on I Love whatever-the-f*** shows. He pumps my gnads.
Now, having said that, is gnads spelled with a 'g'? I'm afraid it's going to have to be for the purposes of differentiating it from that green, slimy Australian hair removal product Nads that was sweeping the nation a few years back. You could use it to make a failed attempt to remove large sections of hair from your legs, painfully, and then eat the excess because the ingredients were all-natural! Wow. If that stuff had anything to do with gonads...well, that's a sentence best left unfinished. What was I babbling about?
Oh, yes. I Love the 70's. Watch it. And coming in October? I Love the 80's Strikes Back! where they tackle all the things overlooked in I Love the 80's...like jazzercise...
It's not as impressive to me as I love the 80's was because I was much too young to remember much of what they were talking about from the 70's first hand. But it's been educational. For example, I knew that Americans failed to take on the use of the metric system. What I didn't know was that the changover to the metric system was an edict that was actually signed into law by the president. It's nice to learn new things.
Also, it gave a nice insight into the general cultural consciousness. According to the program, punk sprang full-blown into the public awareness in 1977. No air time was given to what lead up to punk, or even to the fact that it originated in America, and specifically, in NY. No mention so far of Blondie, Talking Heads, or Television and the most that was said of the Ramones is that they were ugly. They showed a brief, brief clip of the New York Dolls and the cover of Raw Power, but that was it, folks. I suppose to the average person it did seem to come virtually from nowhere. All of a sudden, here were some kids sporting oddly colored hair and safety pins...It couldn't have been all-inclusive, I know. Somehow they failed to mention that I was born in 1977. An event of positively historic proportions, oh, my brothers. But, oh, well. Still a wonderful way to while away an otherwise sucky evening ending up a sucky day.
Mo Rocca was funny in some parts, yes. But the absolute kings of the I Love the whatever-f***ing-decade-we-at-VH1-are-doing-this-week are unquestionably Hal Sparks, who seems to be miffed and outraged by most things in American culture over the 70's and 80's except for Kiss and Star Wars, and Michael Ian Black, who I decided last night is my secret husband. Secret because he is already married. But I can't linger over small details like that. This man is amazing. He is deadpan, he is sarcastic, he is softly spoken. As we learned during the 1988 section of I Love the 80's, he could have gotten in there with the hippie chicks and worn tie-dye to get laid, but he was listening to Morrissey instead, so of course, he wins massive points right there. His head is an almost perfectly round shape, which I find attractive in a demented sort of way. What more can you want in a husband? I don't watch Ed. I never will. But I live for Michael Ian Black on I Love whatever-the-f*** shows. He pumps my gnads.
Now, having said that, is gnads spelled with a 'g'? I'm afraid it's going to have to be for the purposes of differentiating it from that green, slimy Australian hair removal product Nads that was sweeping the nation a few years back. You could use it to make a failed attempt to remove large sections of hair from your legs, painfully, and then eat the excess because the ingredients were all-natural! Wow. If that stuff had anything to do with gonads...well, that's a sentence best left unfinished. What was I babbling about?
Oh, yes. I Love the 70's. Watch it. And coming in October? I Love the 80's Strikes Back! where they tackle all the things overlooked in I Love the 80's...like jazzercise...
