I'm old. 2 movies came out 30 years ago: Spinal Tap & Repo Man.

[Common Sense Party]

Both released March 2, 1984

Two formative parts of my misspent youth.

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. Couldn't have been misspent.

You still remember those movies!

[Common Sense Party]

2. To be truthful, I don't remember much from Repo Man except the soundtrack.

I listened the hell out of that cassette.

But I can quote half of the Tap.

How you doin'?

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. I'm good, man.

Started with a new trucking company - Union scale - home often - no loading 9 cars in the rain!

Get much snow up/out there?

[Common Sense Party]

4. Nice gig! That's great!

We had some in Jan and Feb, but nothing like out East. The jet stream completely missed us--Denver probably got 3 times what we did.

We're still below where we should be for snowpack, but just a bit under.

Lately it has been in the 50's up here and rain. Can't complain.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. You live in pretty countryside, that's for sure.

You'll have wildflowers on the hillsides in no time!

[ailsagirl]

5. "Spinal Tap" was, and continues to be, hilarious!!

A classic

[progressoid]

6. "ordinary fuckin' people. I hate 'em"

[d_b]

8. ever been to utah?

[edbermac]

9. "You're all right!"

[tridim]

10. I saw Repo Man last year and just didn't like it like I did in 84.

But I could watch Spinal Tap once a month for the rest of my life and never get tired of it.

[Skittles]

16. I watched my Spinal Tap DVD last week while I was donating platelets

it's one of those movies I NEVER get tired of too

[PasadenaTrudy]

11. I remember when The Exorcist came out

There was such a hoopla. Fun times!

[Le Taz Hot]

12. I was in the test audience for that.

After the original showing they cut the shit out of the really scary parts. Of course, they put them back in many years later but it skeered the bejezus outta me back then.

OK, I have to tell the story. I obtained tickets to the movie 6 months before it is released. I lived in L.A. at the time. The movie makers will show a movie to a selected audience several months before it's released and obtain audience reaction to decide whether or not they need to tweak anything before they release it to the general public.

Anyway, we got in on the 10:00 pm showing and it was assigned seating. I had one seat, there was a guy in between us and my friend had the seat on the other side of the poor feckless male audience member who had the unfortunate luck to be seated in between us. As I said the movie scared the shit outta me and at the end of the movie, when they turned the lights up, the poor guy looked at each of us and held up both of his hands. I guess sometime during the movie both of us had grabbed his hands in terror and ended up clawing the shit out of him. We offered to take him out for coffee to make up for it but for some reason he didn't want to hang out with us.

Anyway, on the way home, I dropped off my friend at her house. Now it's like after 1:00 am. At the time I had a 65 Mustang with vinyl seats. There was a slight slit on the top of the seat and I had long hair. I moved my head, the slit caught some of my hair and there was a "tug." I slammed on the breaks, screamed bloody murder and KNEW the devil was comin' to git me. It took me a second to realize what had happened (it had happened man times before) and then I started laughing. I couldn't stop. Here I was, 1:00 in the morning, all by myself, stopped in the middle of the street, laughing my ass off like a crazy person.

I slept with the lights on for 6 months after seeing that damned movie.

[PasadenaTrudy]

13. What a great story!

Remember somewhere (Rome?) lightning struck a church the night the film was released? I was about 10 so I don't remember the details. My older brother saw it and it scared him too.

[kairos12]

14. Repo Man--I loved that movie.

[Skittles]

15. I saw them both at the theater

LOVED them

[cemaphonic]

17. The DVD commentary track (for ...Spinal Tap)is one of the best ones ever too

McKean, Guest and Shearer play in character as the band watching the movie together years later, and are just starting to catch on to the idea that the documentary was made and edited to make fun of them. Some of the stuff they say in it is every bit as funny as stuff in the original movie.

[Common Sense Party]

18. I've got to hear that. I still have it on an old VHS.

I think I taped it off of Home Box Office.