November 20th, 2009 
rberry 
This was filmed on October 11th in less than ideal outdoor situations, but thanks to Jace Whitman for helping us make the best of it! Note to self: wearing sunglasses and a tshirt during an interview indeed does make you look like a douchebag! You can CLICK HERE and read it!
Delicious Chocolate Ding Dongs
Ok…if you’re 8 or just immature like me, this commercial will make you giggle every time!
VINTAGE JORDACHE JEANS commercial
This was a pretty good jingle that’s still pretty memorable after all these years. There was no less than 10 different ads through the years that used this great tune. I wonder when Roller Disco will finally come back?
WANTED: YOUR VINTAGE CHRISTMAS PICTURES!
Got any great retro/vintage holiday photos to share! Send them to me at rberry@retrocrush.com and we’ll feature them here on retroCRUSH! The cool dude above is a 2 year old ME from around 1971. Gotta love those awesome pants and my kickin’ trike!
YAYY! TWILIGHT NEW MOON OPENS TODAY! YAYYYY!
I am so excited that the latest Twilight Movie is out. Mormon vampire novels are my favorite sub genre of tween Vampire fiction, and seeing Edward Cullen and his vampire buddies steam up the screen again is a pure delight! Usually I have to hang around Hot Topic all day and talk to fellow Twilight fans, but now that TWILIGHT 2: ELECTRIC MOONAROO is out, I can finally commune with my fellow creatures of the night (nobody understands me) in the comfort of the theater.
I saw an early preview last night and it was fantastic. I am definitely on TEAM EDWARD with this one, because he is so dreamy. I don’t know what Bella thinks about werewolves, but they are smelly and icky and don’t deserve my attention. Go back out in the doghouse and stay there with your girlfriend TAYLOR SWIFT. LOL!
My favorite part about the new Twilight Movie is pretty much every seen with R-PATS in it. That’s what cool people call the lead actor, Robert Pattinson. If you’re like me and cried at the end of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire because his character Cedric Diggory died, you’ll be happy to know that he does NOT die at the end of Twilight New Moon. In fact, he will actually live in my heart forever, regardless of what ever happens to him.
I brought an Edward doll with me to the film and he sat on my lap while we watched the movie together. It was the next best thing to going to the Hollywood premiere with RPATS himself. LOL! I don’t know what I would do if I actually got to sit by the real RPATS. I would be like flying a Unicorn over rainbows. Only that’s too happy for Goths like me so it’d have to be like a Kestral riding over dark clouds. LOL!
Anyway, if you like great movies that are great with great awesome handsome people in it that are great, you should totally see Twilight New Moon because it is a GREAT MOVIE!
An Interview with Karate Kid’s Billy Zabka
You can’t talk about great movie “bad guys” without mentioning Billy Zabka’s excellent portrayal of Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid. As Cobra Kai’s champ du jour, Zabka was able to create an all time classic jerk that was complex enough to make you feel sorry for him. It was Zabka’s first film role and he went on to play more legendary assholes in Just One Of The Guys and Back To School. Keeping busy through the ’80s and ’90s, he made a short film, Most in 2003, which was a film festival darling that ended up getting an Academy Award nomination. Johnny may not have won the All Valley Karate Championship in 1984, but decades later he’s soaking up acclaim for his film work, never having to revisit that troubled dojo again. Read more »
Mr. T Eats Undertaker Ice Cream
I was hungry, so I looked in my freezer and all I had was fish sticks and a World Wrestling Federation Ice Cream bar. No way in hell am I gonna eat fish sticks, so I guess the choice is easy. Why the hell are fish sticks in my freezer, anyway? I never have the patience to bake them the right way, I always just microwave ‘em and they end up all greasy and floppy.
The Adventures of Herbert The Unicorn
Whilst staying at the lovely Hampton Inn in scenic Hayward, California, I was inspired to team up with the hotel chain for an epic comic book story. They generously supplied the artistic paper for this endeavor, and I thank them mightily for their trust in my talent. Please let me know if you’d like me to team up with the fine people at Hampton Inn again to create more wonderful adventures of Herbert The Unicorn!
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The 15 Greatest Sesame Street Songs
Being born in 1969 was the best time to be a retro-kid. I got to grow up with the best cartoons, coolest music, and witness the full range birth and evolution of video games. Best of all, I was blessed with the gift of Sesame Street from year 1 forward. So as Sesame Street and I both turn 40 this year, why not celebrate the wonderful music that made that show so memorable? The brilliantly written tunes from the show still hold up, and I can remember the words decades later as fresh as the first time I heard them. Everyone has a favorite Sesame Street song. These are the 15 that I love the most. You can click each title to watch the video on YouTube.
#15 “MONSTER IN THE MIRROR” by GROVER
How can you not like a song with the lyric “Wubba Wubba Wubba and a Whoo Whoo Whoo?” The Ramones would have killed for a song like this to sing. In fact, they did once kill a man for the lyrics to “Pet Sematary”, and frankly it was not worth the human sacrifice
#14 “ABCDEFGHI” by BIG BIRD
I had to fit ol’ Big Bird in here somehow. This is pretty much Sesame Street’s version of “Supercalifragilistic”. Did you ever notice how much Big Bird sounds like Billy Corrigan from Smashing Pumpkins?
The Strange and Sick Truth of Stuart Little
In the original 1945 book by E.B. White, Stuart Little is a mouse born into the little family. The HUMAN little family. As fun as this premise is, it does make you wonder what that birth scene was like in the hospital? Did she go in expecting to have a human baby and the surprised doctor pulled a living mouse out of her vagina? How does the father just accept that this is OK? Is it just some bizarre cover story for his wife’s bizarre rodent fetish? Crazy stuff indeed!
Disney Revamps Mickey Mouse…sort of
I’ve long complained that Disney has been been letting their flagship character be squandered, not putting him to any sort of meaningful or relevant use, letting him be squandered as a mere corporate logo. His scant appearances on Disney TV shows like “House of Mouse” were lame, and his modern incarnation was equally bland. That’s why I was excited to see that a 2010 videogame Epic Mickey looks to bring a bit of the fun and badass Mickey from the Steamboat Willie days of 1928 back in action.
According to the NY Times article that broke the story…
Epic Mickey, designed for Nintendo’s Wii console, is set in a “cartoon wasteland” where Disney’s forgotten and retired creations live. The chief inhabitant is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a cartoon character Walt Disney created in 1927 as a precursor to Mickey but ultimately abandoned in a dispute with Universal Studios. In the game, Oswald has become bitter and envious of Mickey’s popularity. The game also features a disemboweled, robotic Donald Duck and a “twisted, broken, dangerous” version of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World.” Using paint and thinner thrown from a magic paintbrush, Mickey must stop the Phantom Blot overlord, gain the trust of Oswald and save the day.
There’s such a great wealth of Disney and Pixar characters, it’d be nice to see Disney pull the trigger on a Mickey feature film that involves most of the Disney Universe, ala Roger Rabbit. But until then, maybe this videogame will do.
CLICK HERE to read the entire NYT article
Superfriends on Water Skis!
I found this old ad in a ’70s comic book, and planned to do a story about the crazy show at Sea World, and I see our good buddies at Plaid Stallions already put a feature together with actual photos of the long lost weird event that’s better than anything we could have come up with. CLICK HERE and see for yourself!
I found my David Carradine Autograph!
My brother in law got this for me at the NAMM convention back in 2005 or so. Anyway, I promptly lost it, and just found it again while cleaning out the retroCRUSH headquarters. Oh, happy day! I’m glad it’s personalized. I always get my autographs personalized, they’re so much cooler that way, and don’t seem as fake. What’s your best autograph?
100 Most Annoying Things of 2009 – Suggestions Wanted
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Custom Miley Cyrus Shirt
Made this for my Halloween costume. I wish it was on a black shirt, but the transfers I got only work with light color fabric, unfortunately.