Benny Holiday
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Edward said many people have contempt for their former vintage selves. I experienced this. I still see snobbery in "antique" and "vintage" areas. Total turn off. Explain to people what is correct instead of mocking them. They've all turned people off to "The Golden Era". I notice Gen Z with their love of the 70s to 00s are enthusiastic and love to share/compliment each other.
I just use all my waterfall furniture, read my history, watch my old movies, and just do me!
Coolest story I've heard in a long time. The closest I ever got to being Adam Ant was wearing a stripe of white zinc cream across my nose when I did my bronze star swimming course in year seven at the beach!*sigh* Oh well, here goes. For a brief period of time in the late-70s and early 80s lip-synching was a bit of a craze here in southern California. Y'know, DJ plays a song, you get up and sing along without actually singing, pretending to be the artist singing the song. Eventually a local bar that my wife and I frequented on Friday and Saturday nights held a "Lip-Synch" contest, and I participated; I won a free drink. After the contest a man walked up to me, and...well, at the time there was a TV show called Solid Gold that promoted popular new music groups and their songs. Eventually they produced a spin-off from that called Solid Gold Hits, and this man wanted me to audition because they were going to start featuring a Lip-Synch segment on each episode. Long story short, I went to their studio, did my bit as Adam Ant, and "won" $2,500 for my troubles. It was rigged by the show's producers, but what the heck; $2,500 is $2,500. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Solid Gold used to play here on Sunday afternoon, maybe 5 o'clock? "With the Solid Gold Dancers!" I can still rmemeber Melissa Manchester lip syncing her bit hit You Should Hear How She Talks About You on that show.