I don’t know what it is about Kevin Bacon, he can still make my heart flutter. If you look carefully he’s not really that handsome, not in the “pretty boy” way of many Hollywood actors.But he’s always been one of my favourite stars.

As an actor he’s appeared in many a dark role – I tried to get into The Following but failed. But to me no matter what he does he’ll always be the cool kid who arrived in the country town and taught ’em all to dance again. C’mon everyone sing along “now I gotta cut loose, footloose, kick off your Sunday shoes, please, Louise, pull me offa my knees, Jack, get back, c’mon before we crack, lose your blues, everybody cut footloose”.

I’m projecting aren’t I? Gone hook line sinker for a character and finding myself trapped in the 80’s.

Kevin’s put out a community service to try to show people born after 1985 what the 80’s were really like.

Are you a Bacon fan?

How do you explain the 80’s to your kids? 

Mine goes something like this …

Kids once upon a time we had to WAIT for stuff.

Yep, nothing was instantaneous. Mail took a week to arrive. You could only reach people by phone when they were actually home. Movies arrived in country towns  after they had finished doing the rounds of well EVERYWHERE else.

You spent a lot of time bored ’cause there were no such things as iPods, iPads, computer games (well you could play space invaders at the local take-away shop but it was a big contraption that would have given you a hernia if you tried to lift it). We did really retro things like read BOOKS. Hell I even watched the cricket on the TV because there was nothing else on the two stations that beamed into our town.

Life was tough people.