Madonna's Top 10 Songs Cross My Borderline

I was just listening to Madonna's Immaculate Collection this morning. She truly is one of the best remnants of the 1980s. Those songs have stood the test of time, although I have almost no interest in anything she's produced over the past 20 years.

In honor of this list of Madonna's top 10 songs, please enjoy my lo-fi rendition of "Borderline," which comes in at #1 on my list and is also incidentally a lot of fun to play.

01. Borderline
02. Like a Virgin (her best video, wow!)
03. Crazy for You
04. Holiday
04. Into the Groove
05. Lucky Star
06. Cherish
07. Material Girl
08. Papa Don't Preach
09. Live to Tell
10. La Isla Bonita

Charlie Sheen's Tiger Blood Influences Generations of Wall Street Crooks

Cliches permeate Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street. But then again, many classic movie lines like "greed is good" do the same.

Slicked-back, only-in-the-80s hair for Michael Douglas as financial king Gordon Gekko. But then again, this was probably the best decade of my life and I can't help but feel tons of nostalgia.

Like in another Stone classic, Platoon, young Charlie Sheen is the centerpiece as Bud Fox and there might not be a scene in which he doesn't appear. It's a brilliant performance by him. Douglas, who won the Academy Award for best actor, and Martin Sheen as Charlie's do-gooder dad come in a close second.

Daryl Hannah, a highly idealistic actress (see the video I made with her last December in which she asks us all to stop eating fish for the good of the planet), is an odd choice as the materialistic interior designer who plays everyone's girlfriend and doesn't seem to be having much fun with her role. She even won a Razzie as worst actress that year. Sean Young, who was amazing in another 80s-excess flick called The Boost, apparently lobbied to fire Hannah throughout production so that she could play the role with the right amount of 80s unethical flair.

Stone was inspired to make the movie by the memory of his father, a stock broker during the Great Depression. Wall Street is subsequently said to be hugely influential in building a generation of insider-trading-minded business workers. We might never have had Enron and Bernie Madoff if not for this glamorization of heroic corruption.

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