Insomniac Me

I cannot sleep after watching Hall & Oates live just now.

And then I opened up a folder of saved TV themes. That started it.

As a kid growing up in the 80s, those era still had a great influence to me.

When I reminiscent those years, especially when watching themes of old tv series, I began to remember those dreams I once had.

Watching the BJ And The Bear theme, especially, made me dream of living life as such. In a truck that is.

And I still remember a childish vow I made, of never to get married. Heh heh. Just living life as a lone ranger, I guess, and obviously, driving mammoth trailer trucks. Albeit probably with my brother as a companion rather than "Bear" the monkey.

BJ And The Bear, and the 1978 movie Convoy has so much influence in me, followed closely by, probably, Roy Scheider's Blue Thunder and Hardcastle & Mccormick. Ahhh those days rule.

Knight Rider, Streethawk, Airwolf, The 'A' Team and other more commercial releases don't stand a chance at all for me.

Another one, is the survivalist series Macgyver, and the alien favorite V. Marc Singer and Jane Badler were the stuff.

I can talk all day regarding my 80s heroes. Mike Hammer, Johnny Bukowski, Spenser,

Mark Thomas Miller in The Misfits is the coolest too. He shoots electrical bolts and runs like lightning.

And the guns and its toter in The Equalizer still make me want to be a justice seeker, like him, one of these days, especially in these complicated times.

Moonlighting, Hunter, Fall Guy, CHiPs, Buck Rogers, what else?

Oh yeah, the haunting theme of Robin Of Sherwood and Tom Baker version of Doctor Who made me think of living in hideouts too, as well as the character Sasuka in The Ninja.

And then there's the Perlman Hamilton love story, that so nostalgic Beauty and The Beast. I do think I fell in love, though with no one in particular, back then in 1986.

The heroes, Michael Praed, Greg Evigan, Erik Estrada, Will Shatner, Desi Arnaz, etc...

The heroines, Erin Gray, Mariska Hargitay, Emma Samms, Heather Locklear, Vic Principal, Cybill Shepherd, endless...

The decade closes, I think, with the father and son flick Starman, starring Robert Hays and his glowing marble. The first and the final episode has such an impact on me.

I can relax anytime watching these again.


Those were the days...