Insomnimusing: Allons-y!

Here's a timeless classic. :) It's The Knack singing My Sharona for Flashback Friday.

One of my favorite discoveries of the 80s was British comedy. To this day, I'm hooked. I started out with Benny Hill at a very young age (that probably seems VERY WRONG), then I found Monty Python, and in my high school years, I was fortunate enough to find MTV airing episodes of The Young Ones. I've since expanded my horizons - but I still think The Young Ones is timeless (so far), so here's a clip for this week's Flashback Friday. By the way, Bottom is another great one - it's from the mid-90s and stars Rik Mayall (Rik) and Ade Edmonson (Vyvyan) from The Young Ones. My latest discovery is Shameless, which is more of a drama now but with some fabulous comic elements too. (Note: non-Anglos/Anglophiles probably won't get much of the humor in it though.)

Hey, here's an 80s classic for you. This week's Flashback Friday is Dexy's Midnight Runners and Come on Eileen.

This Flashback Friday I was torn. Do I go with some sappy, cheesy love song? Some equally cheesy girl-empowerment number? Some silly pop? Power ballad? Then I figured out where my head was. So it's Twilight Zone by Golden Earring.......

Spending my Flashback Friday at home alone with some wine and fearless moose and squirrel, Rocky and Bullwinkle!

It's Flashback Friday and it's New Year's Day (U2). You were expecting this, weren't you?

It's an extra special Christmas edition Flashback Friday, with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Herbie the Elf singing, A Couple of Misfits.

In honor of the massive crush I had on him when I was about 7 years old, it's Andy Gibb singing I Just Want to be Your Everything for this week's Flashback Friday.

Ah, memories! This week's Flashback Friday is from Cutting Crew. It's I Just Died in Your Arms.

Isn't it fun? Flashback Friday this week is Stacey Q's Two of Hearts!

For Flashback Friday, I used to love this one, Toto's I'll Be Over You.

This one's timely. For Flashback Friday, I give you Def Leppard's "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?" Yes, I'll admit. It's a bit pathetic of me. I've taken to heart the advice that I'm probably better off forgetting about the person who's been an endless source of frustration for so long now. But I also receive conflicting advice that he's probably worth the effort to wait out and make an attempt. Much of the conflicting advice is probably because of so many conflicting messages I get from him. And of course, I have the additional problem of the fact that, regardless of what I decide to do, how exactly do I go about doing it? It is as impossible to make oneself not feel something as it is impossible to make someone feel something that they don't. Maybe I just need suffering. Perhaps I'm an artist. :)

Claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasic early '80s for Flashback Friday! Rupert Holmes sings Escape (The Pina Colada Song).

For this week's Flashback Friday, it's Paul Young singing Every Time You Go Away. I always loved this one, didn't you?

I love this one! It's Peter Schilling's Major Tom for Flashback Friday!

This week's Flashback Friday is one of the greats of the 80s - U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday.

It's Flashback Friday, and who doesn't love Men at Work's Down Under? Exactly... :)

Bringing together two true icons of the era for Flashback Friday - it's The Police and Bono performing Invisible Sun

Hey, I almost forgot about Flashback Friday! Here's one of my FAVORITES from back then! It's Paul Davis singing '65 Love Affair!

It's a very special Flashback Friday episode: in honor of iconic director John Hughes, I give you Requiem for a Day Off, with clips from my all-time favorite Hughes film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (which happens to star one of my favorite actors from the period, Matthew Broderick.)