A Blast From The Past
If nothing here sparks a memory, I’m not sure what would…
I was flipping through HBOMax the other night and saw the collection of all eight Harry Potter films. I wasn’t up for a marathon but ended up watching all the behind-the-scenes shorts.
They brought back so many memories of reading the books, watching the movies, listening to the audio books, discussing them with people, visiting Harry Potter World, etc. Even the time when I read the pre-release version of Order of the Phoenix I got from Napster (or a related service, can’t remember) and loved it — only to discover that it was written by a couple professors and wasn’t the actual book at all!
Then I flipped through a little more and came across the Friends Reunion. Lots more memories came back about Thursday nights with shows like Friends and Seinfeld. Or, if you’re older, Friday nights with Love Boat and Fantasy Island.
So I thought it would be fun to take a stroll down memory lane to recall iconic music, movies, tv, events, and more throughout my life (and maybe yours).
I was born the year we landed on the moon so don’t really remember much about the 60s, so let’s begin with the 70s and go through today. Keep in mind, that I’m covering over half a century in a relatively short post, so forgive me if I’ve left out some of your favorites. If this is the case, feel free to list them in the comments! Think of this as a longer — but less melodious — version of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Ready? Ok. Let’s stroll down memory lane…
70s
Since I was born like two months before the 1970s, this isn’t the decade I remember the best. There were a lot of pretty memorable things though.
This was when my parents divorced (I was in 3rd grade) and the neighbor’s 3-year old bypassed our fence and drown in our pool.
I remember when my dad coached my little league baseball team. He would always put a $20 bill on home plate and tell the whole team that we would all (including him) race to the fence and back and the 1st one to reach home plate got the money. He never once lost the $20.
When I was practicing my karate moves on a door and broke the frame (mom was not happy).
Or the time when my 3rd grade class had an aluminum drive and my dad showed up with a truck full of aluminum that he had bought from the recycling center & my class won an ice cream party. He kinda missed the point, but it made me the class hero.
Another time was when we went to the father-son weekend for scouts. We shot arrows, cooked out, etc. When it came time for everyone to go to their tents for the night, my dad drove us to the Holiday Inn (they had AC). He always believed in having fun and being comfortable. Not sure he would’ve made it on Survivor…
As to more worldly events from the 70s, there were bell bottoms, platforms, tie-die, afros, disco and more. The 70s definitely had their own fashion sense. Of course, for me, it meant waking up early on the weekends for Saturday morning cartoons (Wonder Twin powers, activate!) with snippets of School House Rock sprinkled throughout. And even though they were from the previous decade, re-runs of the Munsters, the Addams Family, Gilligan’s Island, and Star Trek were definitely favorites.
Music? Just a little. Sure, nowadays we remember things like Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway to Heaven, and Lean on Me or Abba, and the Bee Gees, but what about Tony Orlando and Dawn’s Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree or Captain and Tennille’s Love will Keep Us Together?
Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell was the bomb!
This was the hey day for Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow and the Eagles, the beginning of Kiss, U2, and Van Halen, and the last number one hit of the year — Rupert Holmes’ Escape (The Piña Colada Song).
Of course, there were negatives too. The Beatles broke up. Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died. The day Elvis died was one of those moments where you remembered where you were when you got the news. I was sitting on the floor at my grandmother’s house in Kentucky watching TV when the news broke. And, sadly, his daughter just died yesterday…
As for movies, what a decade! John Travolta was a cultural icon with Saturday Night Fever and Grease.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Jaws, Kramer vs Kramer, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Animal House, Dirty Harry, Rocky, Enter the Dragon, Halloween, Silver Streak, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Superman, Smokey and the Bandit, Rock and Roll High School, and so many more!
I mean, Star Trek / Star Wars, anyone?!
TVs had like three channels and no remote, but there were still some pretty good shows. Remember the ending of every Walton’s episode (Goodnight, John Boy)? Or The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
The big question of who shot JR?
The Brady Bunch, Carol Burnett, All in the Family, Eight is Enough, Good Times, Little House on the Prairie, MASH, Alice, Happy Days (and spin-offs Mork & Mindy and Laverne and Shirley), Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Partridge Family, Taxi, Hee Haw, Charlie’s Angels, The Muppet Show, The Odd Couple, Three’s Company, The Jefferson’s, Alice, The Facts of Life, Wonder Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Roots miniseries, The Dukes of Hazzard, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Incredible Hulk (don’t make me angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry!), Good Times, Saturday Night Live, and One Day at a Time (Eddie Van Halen broke my heart when he married Valerie Bertinelli).
For me, I remember eating grilled cheese sandwiches while watching Star Trek: The Animated Series (the Original Star Trek ended in 1969, just one year shy of making this list). They just don’t make TV like this anymore!
What else? Let’s see.
Disney World opened in 1971 (admission was $3.50). Bobby Fischer became the first non-Soviet world chess champ in decades.
The Miami Dolphins became the only NFL team in history to have a perfect season. Secretariat became the first triple crown winner in 25 years.
Video games arrived with Pong followed by the Atari 2600. HBO premiered as America’s first premium cable channel.
Stephen King published his first novel (Carrie). Nixon resigned. Charles Manson and Ted Buddy. Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn) won gold. Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier.
Amtrak started service. Gas shortages, Saturday Night Live premiered (George Carlin hosted and to this day is the only host not to be in any sketches), and Apple formed.
80s
The 1980s are what I call home.
The teenage years. Fifth grade through the first years of college.
Hair metal, Madonna, MTV.
What a time to be alive!
Fun Fact: My 3rd year of college roomate bought a 80 megabyte hard drive for $800 and I just laughed, saying he would *never* fill that up!
Many people (myself included) feel the 80s had the best music ever. Check out this video of every #1 song from the 80s for a taste!
I mean, several icons continued from the 70s while others just got started.
Sure, there are the obvious ones like Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA, U2’s Joshua Tree, Madonna, George Michael, Prince, the Police, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Joel, Queen, Chicago, NKotB, Journey, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Metallica, and many others, but what about bands that were huge then that you may not remember today? Some examples include Hall and Oats, Air Supply, REO Speedwagon, Rick Springfield, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Survivor, Men At Work, John Cougar (Mellencamp), Huey Lewis and the News (whom I saw at Disney World), INXS, the Bangles, etc.
Lionel Richie was all that! So was Olivia Newton-John.
Kenny Loggins had everyone going Footloose.
USA for Africa brought us We Are the World (recorded by more than 45 American singers, would go on to raise $75 million to feed people in Africa).
La Bamba was what passed for crossover Latin music (I still bring this up to my Dominican wife). Milli Vanilli was caught lip-synching. The decade of one hit wonders.
For me personally, it meant long hair, an earring (ok, more than one), and playing Heavy Metal guitar. I mean, I played *all* types of music — Iron Maiden, Ozzy, and Metallica.
Concerts by Motley Crue, Poison, Triumph, Styx, Megadeath, Judas Priest, Dio, Rush, Guns and Roses, Def Leppard (both before and after their drummer lost his arm), and so many others. Life was just something to do between concerts!
Tragedies? Of course. The one that hit me (and many others) the hardest was when Randy Rhoads died in a tragic plane crash (I had tickets to see him later that week!). Of course, I also remember the day John Lennon was shot. I cut the headline out of the newspaper and pasted it on my bedroom door.
As for movies, John Travolta redefined pop culture, again, with Urban Cowboy. But there were just so many other great films.
Some that come to mind are The Karate Kid, Big, Back to the Future, Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Coming to America, Rain Man, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, Back to the Future, E.T., Caddyshack, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Beetlejuice, Die Hard, ET, a couple of Star Wars films, four Star Treks, Rambo, Cocoon, Ghostbusters, Overboard, Stripes (I was in love with PJ Soles), Police Academy, Predator, Pretty in Pink, The Princess Bride (an all time favorite — I have multiple shirts!), Indiana Jones, Revenge of the Nerds, Risky Business, Scarface, The Shining, The Terminator, Lethal Weapon, This is Spinal Tap, Top Gun (my wife’s favorite), Trading Places, War Games, Weird Science, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, When Harry Met Sally,…
The list of awesome 80s movies is long enough to fill a blog post by itself! Some of these movies are the most iconic of all time!
When it came to 80s TV, just as with the 70s, there were some truly great shows.
Do any of these ring a bell? Cheers, The Facts of Life, Family Ties (one of my personal favorites), Alf, Saved By the Bell, Growing Pains, Night Court, The Smurfs, The Wonder Years, Inspector Gadget, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Magnum P.I., The A-Team, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Full House, Murder She Wrote, The Greatest American Hero, Punky Brewster, Silver Spoons, MASH ended, Married With Children, Miami Vice, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Quantum Leap, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and, of course, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
What else happened in the 80s? Well. Where to begin?
Video games — PAC Man launched along with a host of other games. Mario anyone? I spent so many quarters in arcades.
If you like non digital games, how about the Rubik’s Cube?
CNN was announced. Mount St. Helens erupted. The Empire Strikes Back was released. And this was all just in 1980!
Pope John Paul II was shot, the space shuttle Columbia launched, the CDC published the first report on what would later be known as AIDS. MTV began (and actually played music). Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female on the Supreme Court. Prince Charles and Princess Diana wed. And we’re only up to 1981.
The Commodore 64 personal computer is unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It would become the highest-selling single computer model of all time. Disney’s Epcot opened, the internet was born, MLK’s birthday became a federal holiday. Great Britain agreed to hand over control of Hong Kong to China. New Coke, Nintendo, Challenger exploded, the Amir space station was launched, Microsoft went public, Chernobyl, Iran-Contra, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviets left Afghanistan, Tienanmen Square, and The Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway.
Yeah, I’d say a few notable events happened during the 80s…
90s
Ah yes, the 1990s. When adulting began for me (adulting is hard). Grad school and my first house. Another eventful decade…
Music saw legends continue (Madonna, U2, Michael Jackson, George Michaels, etc.) but also saw changes.
Boys II Men got huge, Latin music became more mainstream (Shakira, JLo, Enrique Iglesias, etc.), and grunge took off (technically from the 80s, but was a major thing in the 90s due to Nirvana and others). Hair metal declined and punk, alternative, ska, etc. took over (Green Day, Blink-182, No Doubt, and much more!).
Alanis Morissette got angry.
Country-pop crossovers became the real deal. Garth Brooks has sold like 130 million records. Swing saw a revival (Brian Setzer Orchestra anyone?).
Mariah Carey was Billboard’s US Artist of the Decade and Selena was the Top Latin Artist of the Decade.
Fun fact: A 2022 study from research group Luminate revealed that 60% of American music listeners born in the 1990s listened to music from the decade they were born, compared to 53% of those born in the 2000s, 52% of those born in the 1980s, 41% of those born in the 1970s, and 35% of those born in the 1960s.
When it comes to movies, Nicolas Cage was the man, starring in 3 of IMDb’s top 5 movies of the decade.
Shawshank Redemption is #1 on IMDb’s all-time list of movies.
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King.
American History X is a movie everyone should see.
Four more Star Trek films plus the long-awaited 4th Star Wars movie.
Braveheart, Independence Day, A Time to Kill (a personal favorite of mine), Blair Witch, Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Indecent Proposal, and more.
Solid entries, to be sure, but I think the 80’s has them beat.
90’s TV was interesting.
Nickelodeon and Seinfeld dominated.
Johnny Carson said good night. Cheers also said goodbye.
Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Beverly Hills 90210, Charmed, X-Files, Law & Order SVU, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Fresh Prince, In Living Color, Will & Grace, Boy Meets World, Home Improvement, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, …
What else? Well, the 90s had good, bad, and ugly.
Harry Potter was released. This was way better than other events like Beanie Babies or the Macarena.
The internet took off (kinda impactful).
Nelson Mandela was freed but Kurt Cobain died and Lewinskygate happened. Germany unified. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait (1st Gulf War).
Dr. Jack Kevorkian (aka Dr. Death) was convicted of murder (putting down our pets is humane but doing the same to our loved ones is murder, interesting…).
Remember any of these names? Rodney King, Jeffrey Dahmer, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Olympic Dream Team, Princess Diana, Monica Seles, Tupac Shakur, Lorena Bobbitt, Nancy Kerrigan / Tonya Harding, OJ Simpson, Tiger Woods, Ted Kaczynski (aka Unabomber), Kerri Strug, JonBenét Ramsey, Mark McGwire / Sammy Sosa, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong, Mother Teresa, Garry Kasparov, Mike Tyson, Dolly the sheep, and John Glenn.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched. The European Union was created.
World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, and US Embassies bombings as well as the Branch Davidian raid. Columbine. Genocide in multiple countries.
Not sure if violence picked up this decade or if news coverage of events just made it seem so. Either way, to me, this was the decade we all lost our innocence.
00s
2000 was when my first daughter was born and my second was born in 2004. So, yeah, another memorable decade.
Y2k was a mainly non-event but, of course, there was 9/11 — another one of those days where you remember where you were. And you had no idea your life was about to change.
Before 911, you could go to the airport gate to see loved ones off or greet them when they returned. You could bring water through security while keeping on your belt and shoes. Not so much anymore.
The era of lost innocence marched on with a vengeance…
According to Rolling Stone, “The music of the Aughts was all over the map in the very best way, with file sharing and randomly produced personal playlists encouraging eclecticism and experimentation in both artists and listeners”.
We still had physical (CD, vinyl, and cassette) but moved to digital and streaming. What were some highlights? Well…
Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Evanescence, Rihanna, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, The Killers, Pitbull, Fallout Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Amy Winehouse, Black Eyed Peas, Maroon 5, My Chemical Romance, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Alecia Keys, and P!nk, among others. Not too shabby…
This decade gave us some pretty solid movies as well.
Avatar (aka Dances With Wolves in outer space), Gladiator, Slumdog Millionaire, a couple each of Star Trek and Star Wars films, Finding Nemo, V for Vendetta, A Beautiful Mind, Up, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, The Incredibles, The Bourne Identity (and sequels), Taken, The Pursuit of Happiness, Saw (and many sequels), Ocean’s Eleven (and sequels), Minority Report, and the first four Fast and the Furious installments.
Although Reality TV existed prior to 2000, 1965’s The Dating Game and 1989’s Cops just weren’t the same as what the Aughts gave us in Survivor (currently 43 seasons and counting), American Idol (which gave us some megastars) and the onslaught of Reality TV that was to follow!
Of course, there were other things on TV and premium services as well. To name but a few: The Wire, Dexter, Six Feet Under, The Office, 24, The Shield, Star Trek: Enterprise, Lost, Entourage, True Blood, Da Ali G Show, Firefly, Rome, House, Breaking Bad, How I Met Your Mother, The IT Crowd, Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, Monk, Heroes, and Prison Break.
After 9/11, the War on Terror erupted. The US invaded Iraq and, to a far lesser degree, Afghanistan. Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein died.
We saw the 2008 Financial Crisis, 2005 London Bombings, Hurricane Katrina, Mumbai attacks, Iran Protests, a Tsunami in East Asia and the Virginia Tech Mass Shooting.
We lost Michael Jackson and Ronald Reagan, elected our first black president, found water (ok, ice) on the moon, and demoted Pluto.
What else? Technology anyone?
This decade brought us Garmin GPS, Jabra Bluetooth Earpiece, USB Flash Drive, Text Messaging (in the US), the iPod, Wikipedia, Blackberry, Roomba, XBox, IEEE 802.11g Wi-Fi, Xlerator Hand Dryer, Facebook, Google went public, the first cyborg was recognized (Neil Harbisson, UK), Dyson’s Air Blade available in US, YouTube, Cloud computing (AWS), Sony Playstion 3/Blu-ray, Twitter, Wii, the iPhone, Amazon Kindle, Netflix introduced online streaming, Airbnb, Google Chrome, Spotify, the Tesla Roadster, Bitcoin, Fitbit, GPS on smartphones, Uber, and much more.
Can you even remember what life was like before these?
10s
This decade also saw a lot, both good and bad, both for me and the world…
Let’s take a look at songs that spent several weeks at #1:
- Despacito (16 weeks)
- Uptown Funk (14)
- Blurred Lines / See You Again / Closer / Shape Of You (12)
- God’s Plan (11),
- We Found Love / Happy / Hello / One Dance / In My Feelings (10)
Yes, a good decade for Drake!
This certainly doesn’t tell the full story, but gives you a bit of an idea.
This decade is still pretty fresh so no classic movies here, but there were notables.
Comic movies were like printing money (way too many to name here).
The Greatest Showman, Two more Star Trek movies.
Five more Star Wars (getting out of hand now — less is more, guys).
Moonlight, Parasite, 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Straight Outta Compton were other notables.
TV wasn’t what it used to be. Streaming had taken over with the likes of Netflix, HBO, Prime, Hulu, and many more. Folks these days can’t even remember life with 3 channels where you had to be there at a certain time and sit through commercials.
Notables (besides Game of Thrones)?
Mr Robot, Rick and Morty, True Detective, Westworld, BoJack Horseman, The Good Place, Silicon Valley, Barry, Better Call Saul, Star Trek: Discovery (ok, I’ve never actually seen a single episode), The Boys, The Witcher, and The Mandalorian.
World events? This decade saw some things.
Trumpism, earthquakes, hurricanes, and terrorist attacks.
Mass shootings became almost commonplace with just some of the events including a nightclub in Orlando, a movie theater in Aurora, a historic black church in Charleston , and a country music festival in Las Vegas.
Not to mention mass school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, and dozens of others.
Really? This is where we’re at today?
We also saw more technology.
4G, the Android phone, the iPad, Instagram, Instant Pot, Curiosity (Mars Rover) launched and discovered water under the surface of Mars, Snapchat, Lyft, Keurig, Cultured Meat, Gene Editing (CRISPR), Large Hadron Collider, Amazon Echo, Multi-use rockets landed (Blue Origin and SpaceX), Fully operational quantum computer, Solar Shingles, 3D Metal Printing, 3D Printed Housing, 5G, Amazon Go, Gravity Jet Suit, High Energy Laser Weapon System, Holographic Car Assistant, Tesla models S/3/X/Y, Making Food from Thin Air, Solar Roadways, and the Predicted Global Mobile Web Traffic Equals 16 exabytes (Global Internet Traffic Grows to 158 Exabytes).
Not enough?
Sophia (social humanoid robot) was activated and became the first robot to receive citizenship of any country (Saudi Arabia) and was also named the United Nations Development Program’s first ever Innovation Champion, and is the first non-human to be given any United Nations title.
20s
Well, let’s see. What happened in 2020 that was memorable?
Anything coming to mind for you?
I guess the first big event was Australia being on fire.
Of course, that was soon overshadowed by COVID-19. The year from hell, as some referred to it. Social distancing, Zoom, masks (for and against), and toilet paper shortages.
Mass protests across the world for racial equality, against police brutality, and for other causes. Black Lives Matter and Brexit. Of course there was (still is) also a pretty divisive political atmosphere where unfriending those with different views than you became pretty popular (can’t we all just get along?).
Meghan and Harry quit the royal family. Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, Eddie Van Halen, Neil Peart, Alex Trebek, George Floyd, and the notorious RBG died. The stock market crashed. And this is all just the first year of the decade!
2021 picked right up with our capital being assaulted. Apparently the election was rigged (sarcasm heavy here). We withdrew from Afghanistan and things there improved dramatically (sticking with the sarcasm theme). Juneteenth became a federal holiday.
More mass shootings and a condo collapse. Hurricanes, winter storms, power failures and record heat.
We lost Colin Powell, Betty White, Bob Dole, John Madden, Desmond Tutu, Charlie. watts, and others. Britney Spears gained her freedom and Captain Kirk went to space though, so that’s something.
2022 saw Russia invading Ukraine and morality police induced Iranian protests.
COVID eased, inflation and climate change not so much.
Roe v Wade was overturned.
Kanye went crazy (crazier?) and Elon bought Twitter (causing Tesla stock to plummet).
The world population topped 8 billion.
More issues with politics when we saw folks like Dr Oz and Hershel Walker run for senate.
More celebrities died, including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Barbara Walters, Pelé, Kirstie Alley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn, Olivia Newton-John, and QE II.
At least 2023 started off with sane politics where it took the House Republican majority only 15 votes to elect a new Speaker and only one publicized school shooting thus far, albeit by a six-year old that brought a gun to school and shot his teacher. So, yeah, there’s that…
In music, streaming has taken over. For example, 180 artists achieved more than 100 million streams in the UK in 2021, and nearly 2,000 artists saw their songs streamed at least 10 million times that year.
As to songs and artists, some new, some old, but not much truly memorable.
Yet.
In movies we saw a Dune remake, Avatar sequel, new Bond, and more comics.
Entertaining, but nothing earth shattering.
Again, yet.
TV is now owned by streaming. What you watch is dictated by which services you subscribe to and how much time you have.
Survivor saw season 40 (and 41, 42, and 43).
GoT and LotR both got prequels.
Squid Game was fun.
The Queen’s Gambit, Star Trek: Picard (still need to watch this!), and Tiger King.
So many shows.
Some were really good, but most were pretty meh, to be honest.
We already talked a lot about what has happened so far this decade, but there’s more!
GPT-3, AlphaFold 2, Living Robots, Quantum Supremacy, America’s first 3D-printed neighborhood, First AI-powered hearing aid, First 3D printed eyeball, AI-powered lipstick, Malaria Vaccine, Cancer sniffing worms, 3,000+ Starlink Satellites, AI wins state fair art contest, ALS patient speaks using computer-brain interface, 5,000th Exoplanet Discovered, James Webb Space Telescope, and a Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable.
See? Not all climate, politics, violence, and COVID…
I realize that my take on the past couple of decades sounds bleak — less good shows/movies/music, more mass shootings or political turmoil, etc. — but that’s unintentional.
I actually have a lot of hope for the future (this is one place where Star Trek trumps Star Wars, the positive vision of the future).
Activists like Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai, speakers like Simon Sinek and Jay Shetty, how Democrats and Republicans came together to codify gay/interracial marriage and support democracy in the world (Ukraine vs Russia), and technology being developed to cure cancer and address climate issues.
These are just some of the examples of amazing people doing amazing things to better our world. It’s too bad that the news doesn’t focus more on this as opposed to the negatives. I sure do miss Some Good News.
So there it is. A quick run through of the past 5.303561 decades (my degrees are in mathematics).
Did this list spark nothing for you?
Do you wanna call out any of the countless things I missed?
Enjoy reminiscing, but also look forward to tomorrow.
As Robin Williams once said, “Carpe Diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary”.
While we’re quoting amazing artists, here’s another one of my favorites:
“The good ole days weren’t always good, and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems”.
