Ever wanted to skip school? Ferris Buellers Day Off is a film about just that. Although I did not watch is until several years after it was released in 1986, Ferris Buellers Day Off is on the list of my all time favorite comedies. Fortunatley, this film did not influence my near perfect attendance policy in school. When it came to attending school, I always made sure attending class was a top priority. Thats not to say I never wanted to skip school, because many times I did! But I always felt as if I was going to miss something important. I'd rather be ahead, than trying to catch up. Of course there were a few times when I came down with a cold and missed school, but I never actually skipped school for no good reason.
One of my favorite parts of the movie is the scenes with the Ferrari.
The year 1986 also saw the release of the Oliver Stone Vietnam War film "Platoon". I remember first watching this film with my father. He told me it was a good account of the real battles that took place in Vietnam. Not much else to say about this film.
Want to see Charlie Sheen during his younger years? Check out the trailer for Platoon below!
Before I continue with the blog, I'd like to bring in some concepts I have been learning in my Participatory Media class at Rowan University. To make things easy to read to the viewers who are not in class, I'm going to do my best to explain the concepts in an easy to understand manner.
YouTube as a Network. As you can probably tell, I'm a big fan of the website YouTube.com The site hosts videos of basically everything you can think of. Cars, trucks, music videos, and eveything in between. Additionally, one of the reasons I use YouTube for this blog is for nostalgic purposes. I can easily look up old tv shows that are no longer aired on television.
What do I mean when I say YouTube is a network? One of the readings I had to read for class was a article titled "The Internet Galaxy" by Manuel Castell's. In this article, he referred to networks as "a set of interconnected nodes". What do I mean by Nodes you may ask? Nodes are a set of shared spaces. If we were to step back and look at YouTube, YouTube is a node within the internet network.
Please refer to the article "The Internet Galaxy" by Manuel Castell's for more information regardings networks and nodes.
Thanks for sticking with me for the quick class lesson, lets continue on with some nostalgic fun.

Metallica! One of my favorite hard rock bands. The year 1986 saw the release of their hit album "Master of Puppets". Although I did not grow up listening to Metallica (I listened more to alternative type music in my younger years), Metallica was certainly one of my favorite bands during my teenage years.
Here's one of my favorite songs off the "Master of Puppets" album.
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