The 80s - Why I ain't 'moving on'

One thing I never did was to mistake 'moving on' for a virtue. 

If I did, that would only makes me little more than a self-negating hologrammatic projection of the billboards of the day.  Do you discard the memories or perspectives of yesterday just because it is a feature of the past.  If we thrived from the nutrition of yesterday, do we not replicate or incorporate it into the diet of today.  Same thing mate, when it comes to the 80s.  Its experimental and critical persona, it's non-arrogant fun-loving spirit, its 'I ain't gonna be sucked up by the corporate machinery' flamboyant attitudes, perspective and fashions (various aspects of which were more a feature of the 60s and 70s), etc, etc, is the kind of perspectival nutrition that enables me to become more of a Renaissance Man than I might otherwise be - one of the reasons why I have spent some perspectival time in the 70s, 60s, 50s, and in various periods of history throughout the world through history, cultural studies, philosophy, etc, etc. So nay, I say, to The Retards who are 'held back' by the present that they can't do as much tomorrow because they have made a virtue out of 'moving on' and hence discarded the perspectival nutrition of the past.

Damn!  I love this song!  Bespeaks of innocence and simplicity.  People laugh at 'kitsch', the 'backward' effects of past music videos, films, etc,....I relish in its simplicity.

Heaven is closer now today
The sound is in my ears
I can't believe the things you say
They echo what I fear
Twisting the bones until they snap
I scream but no one knows
You say I'm familiar cold to touch
And then you turn and go

Feels like heaven...

See how we planned for saddened eyes
And tears to pave the way
I fought the fever as I knew
My hair returned to grey
Study your face and fade the frame
Too close for comfort now
We can recall the harmony
That lingered but turned sour

Feels like heaven...

You wanted all I had to give
See me I feel, see me I live

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