Turning 30 this year....from music to movies

 

   I've talked about what turned 40 this year, now to what is turning 30 this year. From Bill Clinton's second presidency (God I miss him) to tickle me Elmo...a lot of things are turning 30. I can't believe 1996 was 30 years ago...I was eleven going on twelve that year.

   The first Scream came out that year. I never got into it and I never saw it. Now there are so many sequels of this movie that even Matthew Lillard, who played the villain in the original is going to be in the new one.

   Ooops....I gave away the killer. It was an ok movie, but it was predictable. Plus, they killed off Drew Barrymore

   It seemed around the 90's a lot of movies involved a natural disatser. Like Mother Nature was the supervillain. 

   Twister was one of those movies. I never got into that movie either since I found it to be...not worth seeing. Bill Paxton is a tornado chaser, and Helen Hunt is his ex. But they fall in love again at the end.

  Independence Day is another movie that made a sequel that bombed. The original had Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum trying to fight off an alien race. 

    It was...ok. Not bad, but it seemed a little overhyped. The movie became a big blockbuster hit as it made Will Smith a star and it was one of the movies we saw in theaters. What did I think of it? Meh

    Music has also changed. Some of their songs have turned 30. Songs like "Un-break my heart" by Toni Braxton, "Don't Speak" by No Doubt, "Wannabe" by Spice Girls, "Ironic" by Alanis Morrisette, "No Diggity" by Blackstreet...and many more songs.

    Some of the bands are still together; however, 30 years have gone by. God....time has flown by.

   Like I said, it has been 30 years since "Tickle Me Elmo" was a huge hit and became the number one selling toy.

 Like in 1983, Cabbage Patch Kids were the number one toy. That happed a year before I was born...but I remember this craze. By then...I stopped watching Sesame Street, and for some reason it felt more like a vibrator than it did a tickling toy.

 Can't believe it's been 30 years since certain songs, movies and even tv shows were on the air. I'm feeling old thinking about them.

    All the music and movies and toys and many things are around 12 years younger than me. 

  Nintendo 64 was considered a new version of Super Nintendo that made the games three dimensional. Like Super Mario 64, Mario Kart and many other games. 

   It was all right. We had one and my brother spent hours playing and winning Mario 64.

    

  30 years since Summer Olympics in Atlanta, movies that became famous, a toy that drove people crazy, TuPac's death and much more have happened. Even the death of JonBenet Ramsey happened 30 years ago.

   Time have flown and before you know it, ten years later, they'll be 40