#back to the beach

[stone-cold-groove]

Annette Funicello.

[billlaotian]

[movieposters1]

[kersplosion99]

Missing the beach today

[jedivoodoochile]

Staff Pick: Back to the Beach (1987)

For the uninitiated: After decades spent deep in midwest suburbia, 60’s beach blanket boppers Frankie and Annette head back to Los Angeles - only to discover the 80's happened. A lot.

Damian Slade steals the show as their Punk son with a mean aversion to peanut Butter (80s kids saturated with Skippy commercials will know what that’s all about) and Connie Stevens, well, steals everything else.

This tubular Frank Mancuso Jr.-produced love letter to the old campy beach musicals has been a gnarly guilty pleasure since I first saw it in theaters - yes I was lured by the rad TV spot promising Pee-Wee, Don Adams and Gilligan in one big Paramount-produced music-fuelled bodacious beach blowout. I wasn’t disappointed.

Like a Stunned Mullet in a coconut shell, it’s been a perfect nostalgia cocktail ever since.

Drink up, big Kahuna.

[demaparbat-hp]

Existential Nihilism Squad™

[nikkinelson1313]

[yosoycrawford]

[stone-cold-groove]

One fully mature female Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello.

[eeverlark]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[brookeizhere]

Happy 2015 🌴

[fantastickkay]

Based on what is in my collection

[spellsword177]

Pee Wee Herman - Bird is the Word - 'Surfin Bird Rest in Peace, Paul Reubens.

[pjs-everyday]

it's not too late for a summer beach episode, is it? 🥲

[thatpunnyperson]

According to NBC here in the US, the missing titanic sub has been found. As debris. Off the bow of the Titanic wreckage.

And it looks like the sub suffered what we all suspected, and what was undoubtedly the more merciful of the two options: a catastrophic implosion from the pressure.

Also, more info has come to light about the fishing trawler with the hundreds of migrants that sank cataclysmically off the coast of Greece, indicating that the greek coast guard knew about the vessel AND how much trouble the vessel was in, and were towing it at a speed that made it capsize, at which point they unhooked the tow line and watched the trawler sink without helping the passengers to safety. Despite a bunch of other ships trying to help as well throughout the whole ordeal.

So a lot of people are dead, all because of regulations (and the lack thereof) regarding sea-faring vessels and rescue protocols. People shouldnt be allowed to make a business charging a ton of money for a ride on an uncertified, unsafe, un-seaworthy ship going deep into the ocean with no distress beacon or tether to the mothership. People also shouldnt be allowed to enact laws that criminalize the ferrying of refugees, which then force the refugees to hitch rides on fishing trawlers, and which also prevent people from helping those fishing trawlers full of refugees due to fear of legal consequences.

Hopefully BOTH of these events spark changes on an international scale in terms of what is legally allowed to be sailed, who is legally allowed to be the passengers, and what the rescue protocols are in the event of disaster for any seafaring vessel, illegal or not. It shouldnt be just the global 1% who get 24/7 search parties and remote-operated submersibles helping rescue them.