Please Remember

Please remember "Freakish"

2011-08-06T11:33:00.000-04:00

When my brother showed me this video (left this video up on the computer and then left) it was my first introduction to Saves the Day. This is one of the best music videos of all time.

Please remember Island of the Blue Dolphins

2009-11-06T01:25:00.002-05:00

I read this Scott O'Dell novel in fourth or fifth grade. Or whenever my Lisa Frank/marine biology/dolphins are my favorite animal phase was, because I know I wanted to read it because 'dolphins' was in the title. I remember actually owning it so I bet I got it from a book order. Book orders were so awesome. Owning that book new made me not realize until today that it was actually written in 1960. Anyway, it's a good book and it won the Newbery Medal, so that's nice.

Please remember when Celine Dion tried her hand at reggae

2009-01-10T02:56:00.003-05:00

Incidentally, this song is from the aforementioned Let's Talk About Love album which I finally listened to tonight and forgot that I wrote about.

Please remember Celine Dion's album Let's Talk About Love

2008-04-20T01:42:00.006-04:00

This is the one that included everyone's favorite, "My Heart Will Go On." You know, the one with the black cover? I got it for Christmas the same year I got one of my Ariana books. You know, LDS author Rachel Ann Nunes? Anyway, all I can think of when I hear those songs is reading that book on my bed and being so into it and crying. Favorite songs: "Immortality" (featuring some of the Bee Gees), "The Reason," "To Love You More" (killer violin part), "Tell Him" (with Barbra Streisand), "Where Is the Love," "Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)," "Us"...oh, that's basically the whole album? I really need to find that CD.

Please remember that I got punched in the arm tonight for not updating this

2008-04-20T01:12:00.002-04:00

Please remember that I got punched in the arm tonight for not updating this.

Please remember TLC's "Unpretty"

2008-02-23T15:05:00.003-05:00

"Unpretty" was the Billboard Hot 100 number one single in September 1999, preceded by Enrique's "Bailamos" and followed by Mariah's "Heartbreaker." As we can see, this was a great time for music. It was TLC's last number one single and the last video featuring all three members of the group. I listened to this song today for the first time in like eight years. I loved it then and I love it still. So empowering. You can buy all the makeup that MAC can make. I really do like what's going on here, and I remember thinking, yeah, why should I make myself think I'm not good enough? And then I remembered I was in high school.

On another TLC related note, one of my first memories of my new school when I moved in sixth grade was a classmate who loved TLC so much that she even had the T-Boz haircut. That girl really knew what it meant to combat unprettiness. We weren't really friends.

Please remember those milk mustache ads

2008-01-15T01:43:00.001-05:00

You know, the celebrities with milk mustaches and arguments for why you should drink milk. I collected at least 30 of them and hung them on my closet door. I heard they got those mustaches using some sort of ice cream/milkshake concoction, but some prefer to believe it's Elmer's glue. Sorry, but I would never drink Elmer's glue no matter how famous I was.

Please remember Please Remember

2008-01-15T01:42:00.001-05:00

I've been told I should apologize profusely for this hiatus. I apologize profusely.

Please remember the traditional definition of autumn:

2007-09-29T20:48:00.001-04:00

When the leaves fall from the trees.

NOT when the snow falls from the sky.

Please remember The Langoliers

2007-08-03T18:03:00.001-04:00

I can't remember that much about this Stephen King novel-turned-TV movie. All I really remember is an empty airport in an empty desert with no sound and no nothing. And then these silver spiky Pac-Men chew through the ground and through time. That's it.

Please remember Japan

2007-06-29T17:37:00.002-04:00

I didn't until Lissa moved there. Now it's all I think about.

please remember the phrase "same diff"

2007-04-12T19:02:00.000-04:00

I remember this almost daily.

please remember "the sign" by ace of base

2007-03-07T17:26:00.000-05:00

I guess as a 10-year-old I wouldn't realize how utterly ridiculous this song and its video are. Seriously, there is an actual "sign" floating around the video that is a little too similar to that symbol Prince started going by that one time. What does this sign mean? Is it a character in some alphabet? Some sort of glyph meaning "break up with your significant other, now"? Either way, this song was a very important part of pop culture in my fourth grade class.

While we're at it, why don't we just remember Ace of Base's entire career, which must have lasted all of six months. There were other big ones, like "Don't Turn Around" (which was so powerful to me) and "All That She Wants" (which I thought was talking about a literal baby, like she just wants to have another baby and then she'll be out). I remember listening to my Ace of Base tape on a car trip once (which was apparently titled Happy Nation??), and my older brother told me that it wasn't even music, it was just a bunch of repetitive synthesized beats. Well, that may be true, but it sure is catchy. I played at least two Ace of Base songs at a recent dance party that were very well received. Speaking of partying, that concert video of "All That She Wants" makes me wish I could see them live, because par-ty!

please remember jergens original scent lotion

2007-02-21T19:35:00.000-05:00

The delightful cherry almond smell of Jergens lotion will always remind me of my grandma and I think my mom too. It really smells so good and sweet. My sister tried to tell me the generic brand was just the same, but I doubt that. I bought a big pump bottle of it the other night and I swear it's already paid for itself.

Maybe I'm the only one who thinks about this.

UPDATE
I just read the label on the bottle and look what it says!

A sentimental journey in every Cherry-Almond scented drop, this part memento/part body lotion transports you back in time as it transforms dry skin into captivatingly soft skin. Smooth on this timeless formula daily for 24-hour moisturization and comforting relief that helps eliminate dryness.

Made with a rich blend of moisturizers to soften skin and the signature Cherry-Almond scent cherished by generations.

please remember "we are the world"

2007-01-28T15:46:00.000-05:00

How could we forget USA for Africa's super-collaboration charity hit? There are so many stars on this roster that I can't even begin to name them. And anyway, you have to watch the video to get the full effect of all the charity.

The YouTube description sums it up pretty well:

its by michael jackson and a couple of people. and its super touching :]

Please note:

1:18 Fullest Body Shot: Michael Jackson
1:54 Best Duet: Dionne Warwick & Willie Nelson
2:13 Most Pained Expression: Bruce Springsteen
2:20 Cutest Participant: Kenny Loggins
2:52 Dumbest Ad Lib: Cyndi Lauper
3:00 Most Underappreciated: Kim Carnes
3:47 Most Pleasant Surprise: Bob Dylan
4:19 Dan Aykroyd?
4:51 Best Musical Banter: Bruce Springsteen & Stevie Wonder
6:44 Best Thumbs-up: Lionel Richie

please remember the 49th street galleria

2007-01-23T18:11:00.000-05:00

I mostly remember the exterior architecture of this Murray, Utah wonderland. It was like a futuristic, space-age castle. Inside it had everything a family entertainment center could need: rides, go-karts, air hockey, a bowling alley, skating, miniature golf, some sort of baseball, and probably way more that I can't think of. I remember it being so big and so cool that figured I could never fully utilize all it had to offer. I guess that came true, because now it's a huge buffet.

I also remember wanting desperately to go a Crystal Gale concert there because it was happening exactly on my fourth or fifth birthday, but then again that may have had nothing to do with the 49th Street Galleria.

please remember pogs

2007-01-23T18:07:00.001-05:00

Seriously the weirdest trend ever.

please remember "everlasting love" by howard jones

2006-12-16T15:14:00.000-05:00

Since we're talking late 80s/early 90s music videos: I apparently did not realize this video was SO funny the last time I watched it, which was at the age of five.

please remember the fine young cannibals' one hit

2006-12-16T15:06:00.000-05:00

Please remember how awesome the video is and how British the teeth are.

please remember abba's christmas super-megamix

2006-11-28T16:56:00.000-05:00

Technically my remembrance of this could only last a few hours so far, since the first time I heard it was today. But it's worth the seven or so minutes of mega-Christmas to hear them try to say "figgy pudding" with their Swedish mouths.

I can't find it online so you will just have to trust me.

please remember rockapella

2006-11-13T16:31:00.000-05:00

How does it feel to be a group of Brown alumni singing a cappella on a street corner? Probably pretty great once you move on to Folger's coffee commercials. But we best remember them as the resident beat-boxers of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? I can't imagine the show being nearly as gripping without a theme song that is one of the most well-known in television history, according to the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Unfortunately, nostalgia doesn't make me hate a cappella music any less, and neither does geography.

please remember the key players i left out

2006-10-26T16:33:00.000-04:00

The Get Up Kids, Something Corporate, the Starting Line but only one song, the Early November, the Used but only one song, the All-American Rejects, Motion City Soundtrack, Home Grown, Straylight Run, uhh, help me out here, is that all? In addition to Brand New and Taking Back Sunday, of course. You're welcome Amazo.

please remember brand new and taking back sunday

2006-10-25T01:45:00.000-04:00

Thanks to Brand New recently coming through town, around here we've renewed our interest in the music we listened to from 2002 through 2004. I'll be the first to say it prompted me to find all my Taking Back Sunday CDs and rip them onto my computer. So nostalgic, so emo(tional).

So, Brand New, I'm sorry you aren't headlining your tours any more. You deserve better. And Taking Back Sunday, I guess you just released a new album? Heck if I know. What I'm saying is that I hope you two got over your feud with each other and also thank you for the memories. And for giving us something to shout to. Even us mild-mannered young girls.

please remember "be somebody (or be somebody's fool)"

2006-10-19T19:35:00.000-04:00

Mr. T staged this informative production in 1984 that offers great social advice for kids on topics such as shyness, frustration, styling, daydreaming, and roots. One of my favorites is the segment on respecting one's mother. Thank goodness we had Mr. T to guide us through those awkward years. Even though I didn't see this movie until 2005.

please remember ghost

2006-10-06T17:21:00.000-04:00

What a great flick. The part I remember best is when the bad guy dies and the evil angels come up from hell to devour his soul or whatever. That happens, right?

please remember kids incorporated

2006-09-18T18:33:00.000-04:00

Kids Incorporated gave us Scott Wolf, Mario Lopez, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Shanice, Martika, Fergie, and David Hasselhoff's singing career.

They were my idols. They are still my idols.

please remember when i could still wear shorts every day

2006-09-18T18:32:00.000-04:00

Oh, that was last week.

please remember the wb

2006-09-15T17:32:00.000-04:00

These corporations need to learn that it is not a good idea to change the one constant we have, our weekly television lineup.

please remember the hardee's ball pit

2006-09-13T15:48:00.000-04:00

This was genius. Silly Sacks and ball pits. Some of my favorite childhood memories.

please remember meat loaf (bat out of hell 2 version)

2006-09-11T17:29:00.000-04:00

I know no one really forgot Meat Loaf, but let's think about a few things:

The seven and a half-minute epic video for "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" What exactly is "that"? Anyone?

"Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" made me seriously question the physics of car mirrors at age 10. Also over seven minutes long and a little more familial in nature. Also has an epic video, you may cry, gets a little racy after the five-minute mark. The line "If life is just a highway / Then the soul is just a car" makes up for any of this.

Costarred in "Fight Club", not to be confused with Puzzle Club

please remember giff's corner

2006-09-09T14:31:00.000-04:00

Provo residents of the last year may remember Giff's Corner. Run by our friend Giff. Good for vintage clothes, local music, photobooth pictures, sometimes dancing, always friends. Where everybody knows your name. It was a great nine months. Now it's a hair salon.

please remember dream street

2006-09-07T13:45:00.000-04:00

Dream Street was the young and underappreciated boy band responsible for launching careers such as Jesse McCartney and...Jesse McCartney. Their first album was released in 2001, selling a million copies nationwide. In true adolescent-fame fashion, they broke up a year later over a legal dispute. Whenever I bring up Dream Street no one outside my immediate family knows what I'm talking about, so just watch the video for their hit song "It Happens Every Time" and you'll miss them as much as I do.

please remember jtt as pinocchio

2006-09-03T21:07:00.000-04:00

How could we forget Pinocchio as played by the Jonathan Taylor Thomas? Maybe because we never actually saw the movie.

please remember "today's special"

2006-09-01T14:01:00.000-04:00

Today's Special! Remember that show? Jeff (mannequin by day, human by night), Jodie (store display designer), Muffy (talking rhyming mouse), and Sam (night watchman). Just watch the opening theme song if you're having trouble remembering. Hocus pocus alimagocus!

please remember bill & ted's excellent adventure

2006-08-31T03:34:00.000-04:00

This is the defining movie of my childhood. Is that alarming to anyone else?

"Eat the pig, eat the pig, ziggy ziggy ziggy zig."

What?

please remember the sisterhood of the traveling pants

2006-08-28T22:55:00.000-04:00

So maybe it wasn't that long ago. But remember how I saw it twice, maybe thrice, in theaters and bought it on DVD the day it was released?

please remember the video for "always be my baby"

2006-08-20T04:00:00.000-04:00

Kids at summer camp and Mariah on a tire swing. Not hard to imagine why this is one of my all-time favorite music videos. Really, what's not to like about summer camp? Besides the movie "CAMP," of course, which is the worst investment Danny DeVito's ever made.

please remember squeezits

2006-08-14T15:39:00.000-04:00

Where are you, Squeezits? Please come back, and not in the form of Kool-Aid Kool Bursts.

please remember francesco

2006-08-11T03:25:00.000-04:00

please remember "the piper" by abba

2006-08-10T15:34:00.000-04:00

He came in a dream
He seduced everybody in the land
The fire in his eyes
And the fear was a weapon in his hand
So they let him play
Play their minds away

We're all following a strange melody
We're all summoned by a tune
We're following the piper
And we dance beneath the moon
We're following the piper
And we dance beneath the moon for him
And we dance beneath the moon
Sub luna saltamus

please remember g.u.t.s.

2006-07-28T17:42:00.000-04:00

I don't think that acronym actually stands for anything. I do think the Aggro Crag was one of the most intense challenges in the youth game show industry. I don't think Mike O'Malley could have been as excited as he always seemed. I do think Moira Quirk was a style icon for girl referees everywhere. I don't think the production was as good as I did when I was nine. I do think climbing rope net walls deserves more respect. I do think a future Backstreet Boy appeared on the show as "AJ 'Mean' McLean". And I do think at least one winner must've gotten cancer from their so-called trophy, a "glowing piece of [their] radical rock".

please remember polly pocket

2006-07-24T03:50:00.000-04:00

This is a very special toy to my heart. My grandma would give me Polly Pockets to celebrate milestones. Maybe for my baptism or birthday...certainly for winning the spelling bee. My favorite of all the Polly Pockets I had (which was probably two) was the seafoam green seashell-shaped compact that opened up into a waterpark that you could put real water in. Contemporary Polly Pockets are completely un-pocket-size, and it's been decided they would be more aptly called: "Polly Purses," "Polly Carry-ons," or "Polly Car Trunks".

please remember the wonder years

2006-07-20T02:08:00.000-04:00

I have always wanted to get this on DVD, well not always, but as long as I've known TV shows were on DVD. I found it online a couple months ago, for the outrageous price of about $96! The show is beloved. I should've known.

please remember sinead o'connor

2006-07-17T02:21:00.000-04:00

It's been seven hours and 15...years? "Nothing Compares 2 U" is seriously one of the most depressing songs ever recorded. But for some reason it feels so good to revel in Sinead's sorrow. This song is quite singalong friendly and is certainly featured on my Girl Anthems mix cd. You may ask, have I ever heard another song by Sinead? Of course not. I would like to keep it that way so I can remember her in her finest state, borderline suicidal.

please remember not-100-degree weather

2006-07-17T02:10:00.000-04:00

Those were the days.

please remember ghostwriter

2006-07-16T02:32:00.000-04:00

This was a PBS series in which kids just like me (except that they lived in the inner city and I lived in Idaho) would solve serious mysteries with the help of a supernatural being, which was just a bunch of words written in a spiral shape, if I remember right. This show encouraged viewers at home to keep track of the clues, I think, and I had a spiral notebook I would write in during the show. Anyway I think the point of it was either getting kids to write or freaking them out.

please remember the ban on pixy stix in 6th grade

2006-07-12T01:45:00.000-04:00

The kids were snorting them.

please remember the half-inflated dark lord

2006-07-09T19:01:00.000-04:00

Remember the episode of "The Simpsons" where Bart goes to the Spinal Tap concert and Homer waits in the car listening to that song about the little Spanish flea? Well everything at the concert goes wrong, the ice from the hockey arena melts all over the stage, and the giant inflatable dark lord above the band is only half inflated.

please remember how phil collins covered "can't hurry love"

2006-07-07T14:59:00.000-04:00

I heard Phil's version before the original when I was very young. The original's better. Phil's is okay.

please remember quantum leap

2006-07-05T23:15:00.000-04:00

Remember the show "Quantum Leap," well I don't remember it that well but I liked it.

please remember big sunglasses

2006-07-01T20:48:00.000-04:00

Big sunglasses, well they're still around, but my facial features are too petite for me to wear them.

please remember last 4th of july

2006-07-01T19:18:00.000-04:00

Last year July 4 fell on a Monday, so naturally all of the America's Freedom Festival at Provo events were held on Saturday, giving us three days of holiday. We saw hot air balloons, thought about camping out for the parade but really just slept in the living room, watched fireworks in the street outside of Chevron, lit Roman Candles, and expressed patriotism by riding around in the bed of a truck, dancing. Also we showed our British friend a real American parade and she asked where our queen was. Okay, I realize everyone may not remember my last 4th of July but now that I told you about it you can remember my memory.

please remember foil candy wrappers

2006-06-30T20:27:00.000-04:00

The other day when I ate an entire bag of Werther's Originals at work, I was a little sad that the wrappers are cheap plastic instead of foil like they used to be. I used to fold the wrappers up when I was done with them. Foil folds much better than plastic. The same goes for M&Ms and Skittles wrappers which used to be paper but are now plastic. When will candy manufacturers realize that texture of packaging is half the appeal?

please remember how kelly clarkson was the best american idol

2006-06-28T20:44:00.000-04:00

I don't care that much about American Idol, but we all know that Kelly Clarkson is the only one that has been worth anything.

please remember zoltar

2006-06-28T20:38:00.000-04:00

Zoltar is the mystical machine in one of my favorite movies, Big, starring Tom Hanks. I like to credit Zoltar with a supporting role, because without that guy we wouldn't have a plot. I saw a Zoltar machine a few months ago at Venice Beach. I wish Zoltar was here right now so I could make wishes come true. I guess what I'm saying is that if I had a Zoltar machine, I would wish for a Zoltar machine.

please remember pee-wee's playhouse

2006-06-23T22:41:00.000-04:00

Fun, educational, cartoons, scooters, pajama parties, secret words, talking inanimate objects, Laurence Fishburne. You do the math.

please remember starship

2006-06-23T01:50:00.000-04:00

Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship--whichever you prefer. My fondest memory of them (aside from "We Built This City" being named VH1's most awesomely bad song ever) is the song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," in which I once misheard some lyrics as saying: "And we can build this dream together / Santa's gone forever." A sad realization for a four-year-old.

please remember "again" by janet jackson

2006-06-22T01:45:00.000-04:00

Recently remembering this song has revived some great feelings. This is surely one of Janet's more emotional songs. My favorite part is toward the end when her voice quivers because she's CRYING. How many artists can pull that off?

P.S. My media player just shuffled to this song out of thousands of songs--not a coincidence.

please remember crystal pepsi

2006-06-20T02:25:00.000-04:00

So maybe it tasted a little different from regular Pepsi, but wasn't it so cool and refreshing?

please remember squeeze pops

2006-06-20T02:15:00.000-04:00

Arguably the most delicious gelatin-based candy ever made. I really don't care what you say, I'll probably buy some on eBay pretty soon. Only the cherry flavor though.

please remember barbara hershey

2006-06-20T02:03:00.000-04:00

Remember how scary she was in The Natural? Remember how awesome she was in Beaches?

please remember giga pets

2006-06-16T16:29:00.000-04:00

I had a koala. The only pet I ever had. Except for that time I got 30 goldfish for my birthday.

please remember hanson

2006-06-16T16:16:00.000-04:00

They didn't get the credit they deserved. Three brothers with three voices at different stages of puberty. Harmonic genius.