New York Young Republican Clubs' Back to the 80's Capitalist Ball

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[rmlew]

Back to the 80's Capitalist Ball You are invited...

The New York Young Republican Club's

Back to the 80's
Capitalist Ball

Harken back to one of the greatest era's in American culture, otherwise known as the "Reagan Years"
or the "Decade of Greed" by those who just didn't get it.

Remember everything that contributed to making the 80's a very unique decade:

Music - Madonna, Prince, Cyndi Lauper, Run DMC, Bon Jovi, Boy George and Duran Duran

Movies - Scarface, Wall Street, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flashdance, Ghostbusters, The Breakfast Club
and Ferris Bueller's Day Off

TV - MTV, Miami Vice, Magnum PI, Cheers, Family Ties, and L.A. Law

Fashion - Power Suits and Ties, Big Shoulder Pads, Big Hair, Big Earrings, Big Boots, Big Belts and Leggings

Politics - Ronald Reagan, Glasnost, Battlefield Nuke, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Japanese Invasion and Political Correctness

Pop Culture - Rubik's Cube, Video Games, Personal Computers,

Come join us as we celebrate all things 80's

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Culture Club

NYC's only 80's Theme Nightclub

179 Varick Street (bet King & Charlton)

8:00pm - 11:00pm

There is no admission for this event and attire is 80's theme.

So break out your best power suit, shoulder pads and leggings or Joan Jett garb and come join us for this special celebration as we take a trip back in time and pay tribute to the things that influenced our childhoods as we relive the good old days.

Please RSVP so we can make the proper arrangements for food and space. You may RSVP to info@nycyr.org or (212) 533-4940 to register in advance.

Light food will be provided along with a cash bar.

[rmlew]

Take a short break from campaigning and from mourning the performance of our baseball teams and have some fun this week.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Half of that music was crap. (Musicians strongly anti-GOP/anti-family).

Some of the movies were good, though, during that time. :-)

[bert]

NYC Young Republicans bump......

[VU4G10]

[Clemenza]

Should I wear parachute pants and a Ghostbusters T-Shirt? Maybe a guido shell suit like JJ like to wear?

[Tribune7]

Here you go. My contribution to the thread.

[rmlew]

Half of that music was crap. (Musicians strongly anti-GOP/anti-family).
This has been true since at least 1960

[Clemenza]

I would go back even farther, to the 1950s, when the likes of Pete Seegar and the Kingston Trio were singing songs praising Cuban Communists and 19th Century anarchists.

[rmlew]

Pete Seeger was an open communist.
You do have a point about the 1930's "folk singers", who got their marching orders from the Kremlin.

[Clemenza]

There was a movie that I saw years ago (Bob Roberts) which starred Tim Robbins as a right wing folk singer. Although he meant it as an attack on Reaganite Republicans (it came out in GHWB's first term for those who are interested), some of the songs are hysterical parodies of old Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger songs, my favorite being "This Land is MY Land."

[AmericanInTokyo]

might have a point there

[Checkers]

"WOLVERINES!!!!"

[Checkers]

Here ya go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFVTY7WLO0k

[Checkers]

"I love it when a plan comes together."

[PDR]

will they be honoring the guys who used to run the NY Young Republican club who are now in jail for murder and other such things (or at least they were last time I checked).

[NYC Republican]

bump

[The_Reader_David]

Yeah, '80's youth culture sucked.

Of course, youth culture wasn't the point of the '80's. I think the retrospective misses the really good cultural feature of the '80's: yuppie-ism, the whole cultural movement of imitating the old rich that brought us classic-styled clothing, and lots and lots of *really* good restaraunts, availability of ingredients for real gourmet cooking (as opposed to 'gourmet' cooking), imported cars with good production values, and all the other benefits of the '80's that weren't a result of the brilliant policies, both foreign and domestic, of Ronaldus Magnus.

(On FR there is no need to wax effusive about the benefits which *were* the result of Reagan's policies, since we all know them well.)

[NYCynic]

I think the retrospective misses the really good cultural feature of the '80's: yuppie-ism, the whole cultural movement of imitating the old rich that brought us classic-styled clothing,

That's not my recollection of yuppie-ism at all. I remember pony-tailed architects wearing black turtlenecks and saluting all things European. I am a big fan of Regan, but I was never a big fan of the 80's in NY: cocaine, crack, subway violence, Koch and Dinkins. Not my idea of a good time.

[rmlew]

will they be honoring the guys who used to run the NY Young Republican club who are now in jail for murder and other such things (or at least they were last time I checked).
There was no murder, no one was in jail.
There was only a conspiracy to frame someone for soliictation of a homicide. (Aren't New York Politics fun?)

[PDR]

I stand corrected... although I seem to recall Adam Kidan was an officer of the NY Young Republican Club for a period of time.

[AmericanInTokyo]

What do any of those material things you enumerated--which you cannot take to your grave--have to do with 'morals'? Or are you a moral relativist?

[The_Reader_David]

I was commenting on a rather frivolous event, billed in rather frivolous terms: the " '80's Capitalist Ball".

It wasn't being advertised as "let's get together and soberly remember the moral virtues of the 1980's", but as a celebration of 1980's popular culture, so I merely pointed out the aspects of 1980's popular culture I though more worthy of celebration (by several orders of magnitude) than Bon Jovi or padded shoulders.

Why do you raise the question of morals? Or suggest on the basis of the features of 1980's pop culture of which I approve that I might be a moral relativist? (I am not, though that has surprisingly little to do with this thread.)

[Alexander Rubin]

I saw that too on DVD. A lot of good parodies of Bob Dylan too.

[Clemenza]

I saw it in a theatre with five other people on a "teacher planning day" in high school. This was also when I used to walk around with the Communist Manifesto.

You can read all about it in my upcoming memoir: "I was a Teenage Leftist."

[AmericanInTokyo]

OK, I'll cut you some slack and admit maybe I did get up on the wrong side of the futon and probably did not mean to say some of the things I said to you.

[Alexander Rubin]

lol

[T'wit]

Long-time conservative columnist Ben Stein played the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Rather a nice bit of casting since his father, Herbert Stein, was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors under President Nixon.

[T'wit]

I'll be darned, milady and I have a chance to be there -- at least to drop in and say hello :-)

[rmlew]

Excellent.

Please RSVP at info@nycyr.org .
Thanks.

[elcid1970]

I always knew Pete Seeger was a Stalinist dirtbag, and Peter, Paul and Mary were Viet Cong cheerleaders, but the Kingston Trio!!??

Say it ain't so!!

[jjbrouwer]

You should certainly consider wearing clothes from the last century. These might update you a little.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt