When Run D.M.C's video It's Tricky debuted on MTV it encompassed two very important love affairs I had back in 1986: Hip-Hop and Penn and Teller (okay, so that's three but whatever).
As a suburban white girl who toted around a huge Sony Walkman loaded with a mixtape of Raising Hell by Run D.M.C, Licensed to Ill by The Beastie Boys and Hot, Cool, Vicious by Salt 'n'Pepa (and who also had a thing for tall magicians with a seriously fabulous pseudo-mullet- Hello Penn) this combination proved highly masturbatory and led to a series of love poems written in a pink diary about Jam Master Jay and the silent Lothario Teller that will forever be hidden away from a public who couldn't appreciate the depth of my adolescent longing.
But alas, those days of innocent hard-core crushes are long gone and now I am left with only a video and the nostalgic pang of desire so fierce that I can almost smell the Love's Baby Soft fragrance that scented those times back when crimped hair was the height of fashion.
(Sigh)
I think I better go lay down.
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