Life Just Bounces

...so don't you get worried at all. (A weblog of music and otrogenerica)

Friday, 7 August 2009

RIP John Hughes (1950 — 2009)

And so the familiar landscape of the eighties continues to seep slowly, inexorably, away.


(i know i should sort be obliged to feel a certain kinship for Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club, but Molly was like a perfect sonnet in female form in that film.)

"RIP 80s dreams of friendship crossing social strata" — Pip

RIP John Hughes.

mp3: Simple Minds — "(Don't You) Forget About Me" (YSI)
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Anonymous said...

Don't You is the prime music memory from his films; some more on John Hughes and the music we learned through his movies here: http://famousblueraincoats.blogspot.com/2009/08/thank-you-to-john-hughes-through-music.html

7 August 2009 at 15:50

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