The fruit of my lexical loom thus earns me a spot on the A-list of any newsgroup I choose. While at a party discussing the relative merits of the new Bauhaus record, a friend of mine, who also can't seem to let go of the '80s, suggested that maybe the music sounded so good because those asymmetrical haircuts had thrown off our brains. And, my friend fell from being seen as an original wit to joke scavenger. This realization is unsettling. Worse, the merest glimmers of originality are immediately thrown on the cultural compost heap for future references.
Heathers is the prime example.
The characters in that movie inhabit their own world, the invention of the screenwriter. None of us is any better, especially those of you who found yourself thinking about Heathers when I used the word 'myriad' earlier in this article. Here's an interesting theory I read long ago. I'm not sure who said it. Anyhow, this theory goes that the only original themes are that of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk.