Have a Michaelicious Monday!

And you know, nothing says the 80′s like Mr T. Am I right?

MJ was good friends with another 80′s star, Emmanuel Lewis.

And it wouldn’t be 80′s MJ without a sparkly jacket, now would it?

No doubt about it, folks. Michael Jackson ruled the 80′s! Gawd I miss those days. You know, when Moonwalking had nothing to do with NASA;  when glittery socks and a fedora meant MJ was getting his Billie Jean on; and when Thriller was the number one selling album of all time. Oh, shamone…wait a  daggone minute…

IT STILL IS! (Take that, Justin Bieber!)

Have a great Monday, everyone!

Hope you have a Thriller of a day!

Thanks for Thriller, the first album I ever owned that I actually wore out and had to replace. (And yes, it was an actual album…I am that old.)

Thank you for wearing highwaters and white socks, which looked silly on anyone else, but made absolute sense when you wore them (to enable us to focus on your feet when you danced).

Thanks for the Moonwalk, which I could never, ever do, though I repeatedly tried to learn, despite looking like nothing more than a dorky chick walking backwards. And nice touch, borrowing your mom’s sparkly jacket the night you Moonwalked into history wearing it.

Thank you for the trademark Fedora. You rocked it. And if I could own one thing in the world that you had ever owned, it would be one of your fedoras.

Thanks for the Jam video you made with Michael Jordan. After showing it to my six-year-old grandson, Dylan, I became cool for a day…and Dylan wanted to learn to Moonwalk!

Thanks for the Blood on the Dance Floor video too. Three words sum it up for me quite nicely: Red. Leather. Pants.

Thanks for the curls. Seriously. No one does curls like you did.

Thank you for that Smile. You know…
the one that only lit up the whole world?!

Thanks for making glitter accessories cool (even to those–who shall remain nameless–who still deny that they Bedazzled a white glove and wore it to school every day for a week in high school back in the 80′s).

Um, thanks for stealing Elvis’s signature move–the up on the toes pose. Yeah, Elvis did indeed do it first…but YOU did it best. And with sparkles!

Thanks for having a sense of humor about yourself. It’s just too bad that much of the world never got to see it.

Thank you for This is It. We’ll never forget all that you sacrificed trying to bring it to us.

To the man and the legend, thank you for the music, the magic, and the memories that I will cherish forever.

Michael Jacskon
1958 – 2009

]]> http://www.tinalicious.com/remembering/remembering-michael-jackson-2/feed/ 6 http://www.tinalicious.com/flashback-friday/ferris-buellers-day-off/ http://www.tinalicious.com/flashback-friday/ferris-buellers-day-off/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:05:48 +0000 Tinalicious http://www.tinalicious.com/?p=291 Ever have one of those days when you just want to stay home from school (or work!)? You know, hang out with your friends, borrow your best friend’s father’s Ferrari, take a trip into the Windy City, and jump onto a float to sing in a parade that has the onlookers dancing, as the float travels past your father’s office building? Well, Ferris Bueller does that and more in what I think is one of the best movies ever made.

I don’t care how old I get, I absolutely love to watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It just never gets old. It always makes me laugh and smile, and what more could you want on a day you don’t feel like getting out of bed?!

There are some great young stars in this flick too..

Matthew Broderick, of course, plays Ferris, the kid that all the kids know and love–with the exception of his sister, Jeanie, played by Jennifer Gray (Dirty Dancing). Ferris’ girlfriend, Sloane, is played by the lovely Mia Sara (Legend), and his befuddled  and tormented best friend, Cameron is played by the amazing Alan Ruck (Spin City).  You’ll also see a young Charlie Sheen in the movie, whose role as a drugged out misfit rebel is quite small, but memorable.

And then there’s his principal, who’s out to prove that Ferris is indeed playing hooky, rather than hacking up internal organs at home, as he would have his parents believe; and he goes to great lengths–and pains–to catch Ferris in his big lie. Only Ferris’ sister wants to catch Ferris more, because she’s tired of his tricks and his ability fool his parents and get away with anything he wants.

It’s impossible to explain everything that’s in this movie. So here’s a short trailer I found online that will do a better job.

You might also be interested in some great trivia about the flick posted at IMDB. Some great tidbits there! And FYI, the parade scene was filmed during an actual annual parade in Chicago, and it includes dancers doing a great reproduction of the moves in Michael Jackson’s Thriller video.

If you haven’t seen this movie, well, you just don’t know what you’re missing! And if you have seen it, isn’t it time you re-watched Ferris Bueller?

Bueller? Bueller?

Anyone?