Rarely a day goes by that I am influenced by the 80s. Sometimes only fleetingly, that when I with competitive instinct is at the crossing and would come first to the other side, but know I will if I washed creditors outside the white lines. So it happened in the sports commented features of television entertainment Razzel in the 80's, a hidden camera was directed down toward a crossing point in central Stockholm and at the green man was the start of the unknowing pedestrians.
Such little things in my everyday life makes me so easy to think of that particular decade, and its events, people and phenomena. Perhaps not surprising, given that it was then that I created. Not födslomässigt of course - I was born in 1971 - but emotionally. My humor, my interests, my way of being, all that I can trace back to the '80s.
Now that the TV series "Here is your life" back in the box, I get 80's overload in the brain. I loved the program in the days when Lasse Holmqvist was its Scanian sounding center, the armchairs were very flowery green and kidnappings became legendary. It was a great event every time it was sent.
It was in the days when it was really long TV shows, like evening entertainment by the very nature Razzel. The stars were often 50 +, the major artists had worked for decades. There was a sense of security in TV humor, it was the same type of sketch structure that has existed since the turn of the century and revue king Emil Norlanders days. This was before the ironic generation and stand-up humor, the asphalt over the cobblestone comic. Nilecity called Entertainment massacre. Hassan's name was Donald transmitter. And there in front of the TV and the radio was a young Mattias who sucked up all there was to see and hear.
But is it not true that it is only in my head as the 80's was big? Well, compared to today's television productions is understood that time is plain. It is easy to notice when you see old clips on YouTube or Arne Weise ponds of some old tidbit of remembrance television. The pace is leisurely , almost hypnotic at times, the humor is simple, everything is a little Taff and less professional. But in those days it was great - there was nothing to compare with. The only taste we could get of the future of programming was done by "Window to the world of television" by Ake Wihlney, or Ake Vadvillni when he was parodied.
Thanks to the popular culture references, I am still in contact with primary Mattias. I need only think of a TV show or an artist from that time to take me into the primary Mattias brain. I've never brought a diary, so I rely on my memories, but with popular amplifiers are they so much clearer.
Luckily I have saved many books from elementary school. And there are memories. How many times did you not write what you did on summer vacation, or otherwise describe himself? In the midst of writing exercises, rhyming poems and curious tales can I find these shortcuts to young parents' Mattias. In a blue lined notebook from the third grade, bearing the words "free writing" I learned that I then, in 1981, was raising money for a computer that cost 4000 SEK. "It lets you write programs. The best thing I know is that reading and writing. The best thing I know is that typing on computers. I write most songs. But also writes stories. It's fun, but a bit difficult. I think it's fun to play with the theater. "
I am looking forward among the textbooks. In a working booklet in Swedish from the seventh grade, I have been filling out various things about myself. On the line for "Music I like" it says: Povel Ramel, classical music, Swedish popular songs.
Yes, I was a little odd in my musical tastes. Yes, I sang Ernst Rolf-choruses aloud to the whole class to music lesson. But the music that her husband is still relatively unchanged. Possibly, I have cut back on the classic, but Povel Ramel, I have in recent years rediscovered as a favorite and I can not deny that the older Swedish schlager tax appeals to me. When I go and humming tunes on the town, they are rarely composed after 1970.
I remember some classmates asked me in seventh grade I wanted to join a hard rock concert in Norrköping People's Park. I thought it sounded a little dangerous, and of course stayed at home. Okay, I was not the coolest guy in the class directly, but in retrospect, I have changed my mind a bit. Especially since for me then unknown rock group that played - Europe - one year later to hear things that I actually liked using Tracks. A program that, incidentally, I sat glued to throughout 1985, I brought up to and including detailed statistics on investments in the programs. Still, in 1985 my favorites pophistorien and still I'm amazed at how strange Bryan Adams "Heaven", moving on Track list in the autumn of that year.
All these thoughts overwhelms me right now just to "Here is your life" started to broadcast again, now with Ingvar Oldsberg as presenters. This round will not the TV series to mean much to me, I have long been emotionally fully developed and changing me now extremely slow.
But there was, as I said a time when this was great. I found another old exercise book on the topic free writing, this time from the fifth grade. And it's one twenty-page story titled "A trip to Italy." It certainly reflects pretty well what I thought was funny back then, even though my teacher Britta Hörnström on Malma School in Kolsva with a red ballpoint pen on the last page has reviewed "Well, not further fun".
The story takes place mostly on board an aircraft and the passengers are a whole menagerie of contemporary celebrities: Kjell-Olof Feldt, Olof Palme, Birgit Nilsson locked in the bathroom, Ingemar Stenmark, Queen Silvia, Linda Haglund, Åsa Bodén, and for some reason a Catholic priest. It is full of contemporary television references, both the program "That's life" as the balloon's dancing with. Everything is crazy and an eleven year-old Mattias humor.
But what would the story of not even 80's major television success was part of the document. At 9000 meters, the following occurs:
"A man comes in with two parachutes. He walks up to Thore Skogman and pulls off her hair and says:
- You are now kidnapped for Here is your life.
The man was then Lasse Holmqvist. He says:
- Take this parachute, so we jump down. It is the quickest route. "
And at the same time, the quickest route to the young Matthias, a guy who I would otherwise not have known so well.
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I also remember the eighties in the same way, and also I return gladly to what it was like to live in this magical decade. It sometimes feels as if the eighties were a high point in human development before the trip down began. But I think also that it is only in my head at myself. I am also born in the seventies and that mental time when you grow up and see the world in a special way color is probably how you look at a particular epoch.
Yet still the eighties a great time ...
Got a lot of input on feelings when I read the post. Can also still stand and wait at a crossing point, and like to look over the others waiting. Check out the biggest competitor is, who sees tagged out. Look for where the camera can be placed. Hmm.
And the music. 1984 was probably my year. Getting so much good songs that year. I started listening to local radio and missed maybe Tracks, and so on. Then came the Hip-Hop: one to Sweden and then marked me completely in a few years.
Like this. Have it, Mattias.
Oh, how good and interesting writing! I recognize myself in almost everything, that which divides us is music husband and I at that time did not even know what a computer was. It seems that your teacher review was completely wrong. Naturally, I remember that I wrote a crazy little story about when I was babysitting my teacher was reading, sighed heavily and said: You should be children's authors.
It sounds good but I think he was pretty tired of my overly vivid imagination.
/ Susanna
I find it incredibly interesting that what we thought was so much fun and would seem so terribly out of date when you see it today. It struck me mainly for a few years ago when they re-posted Song Contest from 1984. So terribly amateurish everything seemed, from production to the audience. Boy, 25-year-olds who sat and applauded looked like old hags whole bunch (excuse a non-PK-expression, but it's true ...)
I was born in -64, but get the same feeling about television programs (Lasse Holmqvist was of course on the TV in the 70s as well) and this slowness and kindness. Middle Nostalgia. Give me some more!
Speaking of slow TV show: The producer of "Here Is Your Life" is on line with program control and announces that the latest script review, we suggest that the this evening becoming 40 late. Is told that it's OK, 40 seconds can be. Though the people of Malmö, said 40 minutes ...
Wonderful! I also sat and made the tracklist, even had its own scoring system. Could not miss a minute ... I think I was about 84-86 and is also frequently reminded, and keeps the 80's high. Later today came Rick Astley on local radio that played when I trained. A big smile spread and it's hard not to sing along ;-).
I was born in -63, but also remember the 80's as a very inspiring and "cozy" period. I miss Saturday entertainment visdaes of SVT with Sven Melander and comp. To say nothing of McGavier ... if it was in the 80s?
A lovely piece of reality that I, too, at my advanced age can recognize! :-)
I've actually worked with live TV shows with "open-end time", ie programs that value was so high that the editors had to decide itself when it runs out! Today it is a total impossibility for everything - except sports. Sorry. Otherwise you might as well watched a "Here is your life" where a number of actors, artists and writers run amok in an inspired way!
And it is the tempo lusigt and ideas often cheesy when you see old programs. What you then should consider is that if only ten years, today's most hyped Spice and expressions to be at least as mossy. At least as!
Fresh produce should be enjoyed fresh, pure and simple.
So there at the crossing point, I do too! haha!
Wow, what a recognition factor. Nice to hear that it is not just me who thinks of Razzel when I go over the crossing ... And here I thought I was the geeky 72-ball across the middle of Sweden who adored Here is your life and Lasse Holmkvist;) The term "free writing "I had long been repressed, but immediately get a lot of flashbacks in my head. Fun!
Oh, what fun that so many comments and recognize themselves! Sometimes one gets the impression that you are alone on the weirdest things. Type it where the crossing.
Sylvia: I agree with you that perhaps ought not to see reruns of the TV stuff from the 80s. The pictures inside the head is so mkt better.
Hakan and Kjell Ake: what a wonderful anecdote from Hakan. And surely 100% true. It was so at the time. Application times were not so important. But SVT was at least better at keeping time than Danish television was in the 80s (all Scanians look of course on Danish TV as well, especially before) - TV schedule times did not.
Lotta: Aha! Then it'll soon be time to make the Great Tracks-Statistics-post here on the blog! Damn in what this will rapas placements!
Anders: You know Amusement Massacre on DVD?
Kjell Ake: I recently saw on television the shooting of farce Spanish fly that includes Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt. Totally fantastic, just because the humor is just a bit more direct than it is today. And that the comics are so physical.
Lotta in central Sweden: You are possibly the most nerdy 72-ball in central Sweden. I was born -71, so I will compete in another age group.
Mattias, that's a neglected topic in our universities, "Was it more fun before?" Or rather, "Why, it was more fun before?" :-)
But you touch enough on two important things: the humor was more "directly" in the sense that it was straighter, not so smart and calculating (which does not necessarily mean that it lacked depth) with no clearly defined. The physical is also extremely important - now I work with far fewer resources, often with cool facial expressions (ie set to zero), while the facial expressions and physics were more expressive and powerful before. If one can generalize.
Or have we just gotten old. In the mind. :-)
Kjell Ake: I think comedians / actors were more disciplined in the world of theater at the time, which required large - and partly Supervisory - gestures to bring out the humor. It is true that the TV medium existed for some decades, but the adjustment from full-length theater to television's extreme close-ups took her years.
So accurate, that the Razzels and pedestrian crossings are on the mark, I think about it every day, literally. Are we måntro born the same year?
Catherine: I am born 1971. It should probably have been born around the early 70th century to have been in the age when they entertained and influenced by such a thing. Or maybe it's about what kind of humor you have. In any case, I am extremely glad not to be the only one who still thinks of this.
Hello Mattias!
I was born in 1964 and love 80's music, sat glued to the radio listening spirit all these lists that were sung and then in front of the mirror at home dead certain that the singer would be my future livelihood.
Now was not the case since I up the career path unfortunately encountered disgusting old men who wanted a massage in strange places and meet alone with me in strange times. My panic of being molested exceeded my sångerskedrömmar and they were put on hold.
The writing, however, when I started as a 9-year-old got my first diary, and hejades on by my football coach who was also my Swedish teacher. He gave me topics to write for and then forced myself to read it aloud to my companions. I saved everything I wrote in boxes as carefully dated, and diaries in my writing corner as a perpetual reminder of all the years gone by. It was 1984 I moved to Stockholm from my little cave in the countryside filled with the elixir of life and dressed too large a blazer with shoulder pads.
I still have cassette tapes with recorded tracks, songs ... band that I tried to mix and match with two cassette recorders and a special cable (somebody double-deckers, we can not afford at home) and a lot of diaries ... "A Voice in the Night" with Jack Killian wrote I on ... On the wall hung posters with Sweet Dreams and school photo has the typical fountain pile.
Ah, many sensations again!
Disqualification born -75.
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