#can't buy me love 1987

[realzayn]

[shannendoherty-fans]

July 24, 1987 - Shannen Doherty and guest at the "Can't Buy Me Love" film premiere at the Showcase Theatre, Los Angeles.

[buddiebeginz]

Can't Buy Me Love Score - Robert Folk 1. Rent Me (0:00) 2. Geek Groove (1:39) 3. Thinking of You (4:13) 4. Anything You Want (5:08) 5. Broken Moon (7:53) 6. You, Me! (11:27) 7. The Target (14:20) 8. For You (16:33) 9. Don't Forget (17:41) 10. Siberia (19:08) 11. Dark Vid Game Fight (21:02) 12. Have to Talk (22:05) 13. The Real Me (22:51) 14. Rent Me (Finale) (24:23)

[buddiebeginz]

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[wilwheaton]

I have a small part in the 1987 television movie (failed pilot) version of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Lewis Smith played the titular character. Beverly D'Angelo played my mom, his love interest. (Fun Star Trek connection: Bob Picardo is also in it).

My character was a Troubled Youth, which I gotta tell you was not a stretch for me at all. I was deeply, deeply hurting at the time we made it. I was struggling not to suffocate on all the emotional and financial burdens my mom put on my shoulders, and fully aware of just how much my dad hated and resented me. You need a kid who doesn't want to be an actor, whose eyes can't hide the pain? I'm your guy.

Anyway, one of the scenes I was in took place in a record store, where Troubled Youth steals some albums, before he is chased by the cops and saved by the Man Who Fell To Earth, who uses a glowing crystal to save his life from ... some scratches on his face.

We filmed the interior of the record store at Sunset and La Brea, in what I think was a Warehouse, and at the end of the day, I was allowed to buy some records at a modest discount.

I was deep into my metal years, on my way from my punk years to my New Wave years, so I only bought metal albums. I know I bought more than I needed or could carry (I was making a point that I was allowed to spend my own money, mom), but the only ones I can clearly remember are:

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Judas Priest - Turbo and Defenders of the Faith

W.A.S.P - The Last Command

(I know this was in March of 1987, because Turbo had just come out.)

Of those, Piece of Mind is the only one I never really stopped listening to, even through all the different it's-not-a-phase phases. I still listen to it, today.

Ever since I became an Adult with a Fancy Adult Record Player And All That Bullshit, I have kept my records in two places: stuff I want right now, and stuff I keep in the library because of Reasons.

Generally, records move in one direction toward the library, even if it takes years to happen. I just don't accumulate albums like I once did, because I'm Old and set in my ways.

Earlier today, I decided that I wanted to listen to an album while I cleaned up the kitchen, and because I wanted to make my life more interesting, I opened the library cabinet for the first time in at least five years.

There was the very same W.A.S.P album from that day in March, 1987. I don't have any of the others -- I looked -- but The Last Command was right there.

Before I really knew what I was doing, I put it on the Fancy Adult Record Player and dropped the needle.

I watched four decades of dust build up with a satisfying crackle, and there was something magical and beautiful about hearing all the skips and the scratches, realizing I remembered them from before.

The title track was just as great as I remembered it. It struck all the same chords in me that it did in the late nineteen hundreds. The rest of the first side was ... um. It just didn't connect with me, and for the few moments I spent trying to find a connection, I don't think it ever really did. I would remember.

But I did remember how much I loved making those mix tapes, and what a big part of them that song was. I did remember how empowering it felt to not just spend my own money that I earned doing work I didn't want to do, but to spend it on music my parents hated, right under their noses. I did remember how impressed Robby Lee was, when I showed him my extensive heavy metal album collection.

Remembering all of that, in one of those cinematic flashes of rapid cut visuals and sped up sounds, told me why I kept this record, while I gradually sold or replaced the other records I bought that day with CDs, then mp3s, then lossless digital files, before finally coming all the way back to records, where I started.

I didn't listen to the second side. I didn't need to. I took it off the Fancy Adult Record Player, and put it back into the library, next to the George Carlin records.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

According to the description, this 1987 manor style home in Mcmurray, PA is newly remodeled to meet a Medieval Aesthetic. 6bds, 7ba, $999,900. Medieval? You tell me.

I do not recall the Medieval style having gold floral wallpaper.

Matching powder room.

I'm gonna say Italian Provincial, especially the gold angel above the fireplace.

Where the hell are they getting Medieval from?

Maybe the light fixture can loosely be called Medieval. I like the color of the double sink.

The cabinets and flooring are lovely. I like the black counters, also. Not sure about the wallpapered ceiling, though.

Wow, this is some fancy everyday dining area off the kitchen. When I saw the picture on the table, I thought it was an office.

This may be the fanciest laundry room I've ever seen.

Youch! Look at this dining room. Carved beams. There's a knight and stuff. I guess you could call this Medieval on Steroids.

Look at the bar. Wow, fancy Medieval style. They even have what looks like a church window from an architectural salvage yard. I'm disappointed that the rest of the house isn't like this.

Stunning wood in the office, plus a fireplace. Look at the ceiling. I imagine that this could be a library or den if you don't need an office.

The primary bedroom takes us back to the castles of Italy with the cherub mural on the ceiling.

Roman en-suite.

The bedrooms are very large. I wonder if this is the primary. It's very big and has a fireplace.

The en-suite has a vanity table and a marble tub surround.

Or, maybe this is the primary. I can't tell. The carpet needs to be stretched, there's an office in the corner and doors to the patio.

Look at the Zen statue in the niche and the and the etched mirrors. This is a serene retreat. This home's decor is all over the place, but that's okay.

A child's bedroom. Very sophisticated.

Interesting. An architectural salvage church pew and what looks like a confessional simulation.

Looks like we're in an attic family room.

Cool enclosed patio has a pool, hot tub, shrine, statues, sitting area, and a mural. Looks like a castle back here.

Very interesting home. I'd buy it. Looks like there's a tower- I wonder if there's a turret room.

.54 acre lot on a cul-de-sac.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/107-Treetop-Ln-McMurray-PA-15317/49791444_zpid/?

[nostalgc]

Can't Buy Me Love, (1987).

[blacknwhitemood]

Back side:

Some details - See You and It's called a heart in red:

This is my 7" DM singles collection, I put front and back side photos by the year of release order. I'm goint go buy three more rare singles tomorrow, I'll show them in another post (you can read full story here). I collect only original DM vinyls, I try to catch cheap pieces with a bit of luck. Some of sellers offer me lots of 12" maxi singles but I have to draw the line somewhere. I have only one, Live In Silence (11,5 minutes long version), I love it, I listened to it 100 times on youtube and it was very cheap because of the paper cover's bad condition. No CDs or DVDs - except... I found at the same sellers two late songs (Wrong; Only When I Lose Myself - see photos below), I sang this two songs endlessly times while I was practicing for karaoke party. And the DVD: I don't trust youtube as much as I trust something that is in my hand. I can watch my favourite videos anytime in the best quality.

7" singles

Just Can't Get Enough / Any Second Now 1981 Made in France

See You / Now, This Is Fun 1982 Made in England

Everything Counts / Work Hard 1983 Made in West Germany

Peoplpe Are People / In Your Memory 1984 Made in France

Master And Servant / (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me 1984 Made in France

It's Called A Heart / Fly On THe Windscreen 1985 Made in West Germany (red vinyl)

Shake The Disease / Flexible 1985 Made in Holland

A Question Of Lust / Christmas Island 1986 Made in Belgium

A Question Of Time (remix) / Black Celebration live 1986 Made in West Germany

Strangelove / Pimpf 1987 Made in England

Never Let Me Down Again / Pleasure Little Treasure 1987 Made in West Germany

Behind The Wheel (remix) / Route 66 1987 Made in West Germany

World In My Eyes / Happiest Girl 1990 Made in France

12" maxi singles

Live In Silence (Longer) / My Secret Garden / Live In Silence (Quieter) 1982 Made In West Germany

CD / DVD

Wrong / Oh Well (maxi CD, 2009) Only When I Lose Myself / Headstar (maxi CD, 1998) The Videos 86>98 (DVD, 2000)

[70s80sandbeyond]

Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

[bardicbeetle]

How do you do research for your vampire wips? Like do you watch movies or read and like what's your favourite inspiration

oh gods i've been experiencing every flavor of vampire media i can get my grubby little hands on since I was like, eleven. bear with me, it's been a long day and i am sleepy.

So a lot of it is reading and watching movies and finding podcasts and music and folk tales and modern opera (looking at you night library of sternendach) and vampire adjacent horror media like cannibalism and infection and reanimation and body snatchers and necromancy and the not yet dead or the not quite alive.

Technically. Technically. After a childhood reading of Bunnicula and the absolute 8 year old terror of Batman vs Dracula, my first foray into...you know. Book Form Person Vampirism would be Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Shattered Mirror. (Along with In the Forest of Night and Demon in My View). I got a lot of early things from the mythos I saw her doing there (ignoring that two of my original antagonists are straight rip offs of Nikolas and Kristopher).

Admittedly (and obviously) my main inspirations for a lot of the how of my vampirism come from 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys because I saw that movie at age 11, rediscovered it at 14, and then proceeded to watch nothing else for four straight months. I love the necessity of the first kill, I love the constant weakening of the body and the uptick in bloodlust while in the half-vampire state, I love the stupid decorated wine bottle full of blood.

But I am constantly seeking out new vampire media. It is almost the only thing I buy if I'm going to a brick and mortar bookstore. I buy them without vetting them, I watch shitty B and C movies just to see if they did anything halfways interesting with (usually no, but i've been surprised before), I dig up any video game I can find even if I hate half the characters (Crimson Spires), and I constantly screw around with my own mythos to see what works and what doesn't.

My vampires aren't even the same across all my projects. Safe in the Dark is very much more typical sort of Lost Boys/Near Dark/Grounded Mostly In Reality Aside From the Whole Teleporting Thing vampirism. And then you have Damask, 2005/Vee the Vampire where I am fucking about with religious horror and some low magic aspects and alchemy and just, adding way more supernatural fuckery.

I love vampire media, I love creating vampire stories, I love finding new vampire stories to experience. There is no monster I love more, there is no horror I gravitate towards faster.

A Favorite Book: The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis

A Favorite Movie: It's the Lost Boys, I can't not say it's the Lost Boys, I will have my card carrying Lost Boys Whore Status Revoked. I owe the late Joel Schumacher many things.

A Favorite Song: Shake It Out by Florence + The Machine has been synonymous with regretful self-despising vampirism for me since 2011 and i'm not about to give up its spot to anyone. (But shoutout to Good In Red by The Midnight as well)

A Favorite Podcast: That Vampire Show by @tandonshows (because wow if I was not Kat Wright as a teenager I am a goddamn liar)

- stevie

[joslincox]

Chick Flicks

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Clueless (1995)

Teen Witch (1990)

The Hot Chick (2002)

13 Going on 30 (2004)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Freaky Friday (2003)

Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

Heather (1988)

Osmosis Jones: Out of the Body Experience (2013)

Drive Me Crazy (1999)

Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging (2008)

Mean Girls (2004)

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

What a Girl Wants (2003)

Coyote Ugly (2000)

27 Dresses (2008)

Bring It On (2000)

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

A Cinderella Story (2004)

John Tucker Must Die (2006)

She's the Man (2006)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

The Princess Diaries (2001)

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)

Never Been Kissed (1999)

Wild Child (2008)

It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)

Sleepover (2004)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

Picture This (2008)

Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

She's All That (1999)

Easy A (2010)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Pretty in Pink (1986)

Twilight (2008)

The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)

Ice Princess (2005)

New York Minute (2004)

Aquamarine (2006)

The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)

Jawbreaker (1999)

Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead (1991)

[screensland]

Cindy Mancini — Can't Buy Me Love, 1987.

[tuulikannel]

Yesterday on the train I heard two middle school aged boys talking. They were on their way to the book fair, with their school class. "Maybe there's something cool you can buy," one said. "There's nothing cool there, it's a book fair!" the other replied. I snort-laughed so loud they noticed. Oh you young fools…

Anyway, anyway, I went there today, and as usual, dug my way through the antiquarian side. ^^ Here's my haul!

The first thing that caught my attention was an old book, from 1919… Finnish scifi! (from 1919! seriously!) Damn I wanted it, but it cost 120€. >_> Then I found another book from the same author, this one from 1922, and it was only 25€, so I got it. (Maybe it's so much cheaper cause there are also later editions available? That other one… you can't get it from anywhere. Even the library failed me. ;;)

At the Last Moment, is the title in English. It begins from the moment someone dies/has just died.

Then I found one Simak that I don't yet have! 💜 And damn I love these old covers! (I showed this to my friend, and she said, imagine cosplaying like that. Yep. XD)

Another favorite author, Ursula K. Le Guin. A short story collection.

And Leena Krohn is also among my favorites. I'd never even heard of this book though, and it came out in 1987. (So apparently it's not among her most popular ones, but whatever!)

And then, this. It was the author's name that caught my attention (a Finnish name). And it's something so utterly weird and random I just had to get it. XD

Seriously. Kalevala scifi? What the hell XD

And last but not least (or, umm, I guess it was the first thing I bought?) I got this badge XD Fits both the Covid times and my current RE obsession. ^^

[theresthesnitch]

Chapter 12: News Cycle

Chapter 13: Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

International flights were the worst. Particularly when they landed in the middle of the night. 

Sirius stumbled into his flat at 3:23 am, but he wasn’t entirely sure what time his body thought it was after so many flights in so few days. Was he still on American time? Or Italy, where he’d been two days before? Did that travel add up to somewhere in the middle, or maybe it subtracted to leave him somewhere in the middle of, um– Somewhere on the other side of the world?

Why had he decided that 3:30 in the morning while jet lagged was the time to puzzle this out? Sirius desperately needed to find his way to bed. 

Continue reading on AO3!

[clouds-of-wings]

From "Can't buy me love" (1987). Cool to see what Jreg was up to in the 80s! Also, spoiler alert --

...the title is kind of misleading though because as it turns out, love can very much be bought and it's not even that expensive. They end up together in the end, which would never have happened without the buying thing.