Desperately Seeking Fletcher

he/him they/them Absolutely obsessed with the 80s and 2000s, hockey, the beach, and Jakob Nowell.

[redyanderefanhappily]

Violet Moraine from Friday The 13th Part 5: A New Beginning

[desperatelyseekingfletch]

google how do i give this

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[illyadarling]

[desperatelyseekingfletch]

i cant decide which one I am lol

[desperatelyseekingfletch]

New dress to the collection!

I found the cutest dress from the 80's a bit ago, and got it to treat myself. I ended up pairing it with a faux pearl necklace, and a velvet suit jacket, and I wanna get a pair of heels to go with it for a dinner party I went to with my friends. I really love it so much! I can't wait to do more looks with it :)

[desperatelyseekingfletch]

my collection drive....

I like to consider myself a bit of an archivist or at the very least a collector. With everybody realizing at any moment, the things we love can be lost or put behind a paywall, I wanted to combat that by having a hard copy of things I constantly return to. It's a huge project of mine to collect various 80s content and one that I'll never finish. I would like to add that these are from the Internet Archive but some of the things are from the various home tapes I've found posted online (of course of public places, not people's personal lives, that's far even for me!)

Is it unnecessary? Extremely! But does it make me happy knowing that as long as the hard drive itself stays uncorrupted, I never have to worry about things being taken down or locked behind a paywall! This ones for my own viewing, but I highly encourage everybody to take advantage of the Internet Archive, there's so many great resources beyond magazines, and movies, there's books, audio, software, anything! So many of my favorite movies that aren't streaming anywhere, and I can't find physical copies of, it's up on there!

That's really all from me, everybody start collecting content (legally!) for your own personal viewing pleasure!

[elektroblues]

Depeche Mode by Claude Gassian, 1986

[tyger-land]

Imagery created by 𝗞𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 to promote artwork and merchandise at his Pop Shop stores in New York City (1986) and Tokyo (1988); a visual lexicon evoking movement, joy, friendship and the raw energy of being alive.

[byruit]

Pac-Man phone - The Price is Right (1982)

[eightiesfan]

Pinball Alley (1982)

From "La Balance" by Bob Swaim

[orangejulii]

[illyadarling]

[desperatelyseekingfletch]

music rotation for the week.

After converting an old phone of mine to be a MP3 player, i realized I should actually talk about the music I play so here's the songs I've been playing the most, and while I know this is an 80s blog, you'll simply have to forgive my more modern music tastes, I'm the kind of person who has music on at any given moment, so I listen to a LOT of different things across the years. First up!

obviously with the Michael Jackson biopic, everybody's pumping his music lately, and I am no exception. Dirty Diana is probably one of my favorites of his, along with Billie Jean and P.Y.T. I think Bad and Thriller are some of the top tier albums of all time, and there's a reason Michael Jackson still holds such a huge role in pop music as we know it.

Next on the list.

I'll be honest this one's stuck on my head partly due to this interview with Jakob Nowell but I also just really fuck with Butthole Surfers stupid heavy lol.

Last song on the list

I almost always have at least one song from Rio on repeat, it's one of my favorite albums of all time, next to Sublime by Sublime (obviously lol), Enter: The Castle by Jakobs Castle, and Collide With The Sky by Pierce The Veil (What can I say? I'm a person who adores most genres, call me polyjamorous) Rio is a work of pure art, it's one of the few albums I listen start to finish, and will sit down with a good pair of headphones, in the dark with no other distractions, and listen to.

[formlab]

National SG-J500, 1984

[twixnmix]

Prince photographed by Allen Beaulieu, 1982.

[flashenondeux]

Culture Club Profile (1984)

[desperatelyseekingfletch]

i just wanted an excuse to show this jacket off.

thats it, that's the post.

[aardwolfpack]

I always wondered what the real Wacky Warehouse was.

I mean, Kool-Aid points were being delivered somewhere, and free stuff was being shipped out of somewhere.  What did the building(s) look like?  That’s the kind of thing I thought about in the late Eighties (and, periodically, during the years since).

Fast forward to a couple nights ago, when I found an excellent use for my time.  Image searches brought me several Kool-Aid order forms from back in the day, all with the same address. 

Kool-Aid Wacky Warehouse P.O. Box 6125 Kankakee, IL 60902

A post office box is not a warehouse, but let’s follow this trail.  As far as Google knows, there is only one post office in Kankakee.  The cornerstone shows it was built in 1939.  It’s not in the 60902 Z.I.P. code.  Nothing is anymore.  But a house in 60902 that was listed for sale before the redistricting is only a block from this post office.

While I have no info on where the free stuff was stored, the building pictured above is probably where your Kool-Aid points went.  Why do I care?  If you have to ask, you’ll never understand.

Images from X-Entertainment, Panoramio, and Post Office Freak.