i am tired and i m bored he said and i ve got kinks in my bed this work how i hate it i d much rather play nothing to do but i do need a rest let s just get started and make a mess morton stood up and said what s that it s the fifteenth of may and i m cold and i m wet he turned without stopping and smiled to the pilot people weather the terrible storm a distant space a scene from a film circa 1982 we drove down george street en route to wendy s glenn campbell was on the radio singing about cleaning his gun and dreaming of galveston what s this she said it s hall and oates or nothing for me of course this was pre house nation and i asked her what is anyone going to remember this decade for she paused for a second then said waffle cardigans wentworth jail rah rah skirts straight out of hell andrew and bmx bikes chernenko and miners strikes nikky kershaw and red ken peter tatchell and dirty den mark king slapped his bass and early issues of the face sigue sigue sputnik margaret thatcher toto coelo and spycatcher e t arthur elmo s fire not a patch on billy liar phil redmond and transformers tin tin duffy in leg warmers stu damer evil tel roger hebert what a pal steven waldorf jerry gross do the hucklebuck by coast to coast steve blacknell on the telly the classic beard of altobelli leon klinghofer baby duck blonde highlights flourescent sock steve lynex and gordon smith martin fry grew a quiff haysi fantayzee videotech shakey drove us crazy what the heck hazel o connor in breaking glass gripper stebson s in the class and i said i don t remember any of that if you can remember the 80s you weren t there uh you know i remember scott crolla in his furry freak brothers t shirt if that s anything 