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I had a bunch of Michael Jordan posters (I wasn't even a huge basketball fan) but never really understood celebrity crushes. I eventually decided that Joey McIntyre was the most acceptable New Kid on the Block, and dutifully taped up a single ripped-out page from someone's old copy of Bop.
Now, Cary Elwes, on the other hand... drooooooooooooooool
Every poster from Dynamite magazine for several months in row...didn't matter whether I was enamored with the subject or not. Lessee...Farrah Fawcett, Barry Manilow, the Dynamite Duo in 3-D (came with glasses), the cast of Welcome Back Kotter...then mom made me take them down because it was too overstimulating, or something, for her.
Melismata, Dynamite rocked! I might still have a couple issues. Joe, this is fun!
What am I thinking? As if (m)any of you remember who Alan Ladd was ;-)
danf, I once wishedwishedwished I had a GF who looked like this beautiful punked-out chick from a Matt Howarth comic book. I soon met her in a bar (with lingerie worn outside her clothing and everything), dated briefly, and it was a horror story too. Comic book writer Grant Morrison once wished he had a GF like one of the characters he created, and he went through the same. Of course Morrison probably did some ritual magic as well as just wishing for her, lol. "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it."
I think the order was Olivia Newton John, the Muppets, then Steve Martin's "Best Fishes". After that it was dozens of Who posters. Other than first ONJ poster I don't think I had a pin-up in the conventional sense until the early 90's when I put pictures of Brix E Smith and Cath Carroll on my bulletin board at work.
Hey, Melismata, I had that 3D Dynamic duo poster, too! A quick image search for "dynamite magazine" poster really took me back.
Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb, briefly. Both of those came out of Dynamite Magazine or the like; I took 'em down when I had the flash of realization that just because the magazine gave you a freebie poster didn't mean you had to hang it up. I would've gladly hung up a Parker Stephenson poster, though!
Carl Sagan (probably pulled from a National Geographic or SciAm). Swoon!
Duran Duran, lots of Duran Duran. I even had a scrapbook. Oh, and the inside my high school locker was totally covered with Duran Duran. Also Wham!, Flock of Seagulls, Tears for Fears.
No one in my youth (other than classical painting subjects like this kid) but lately, I have gotten pretty fond of a firefighter calendar (example here). This cracks up my husband.
I remember putting up a Beagle Brothers peeks and pokes poster (maybe this one, 10MB JPEG) right by the desk so I could refer to it. Generally though, no posters until music stuff in college.
But if there'd been a poster of Kathy Ireland on a yellow Lamborghini launched out of a spaceship that looked like old SF cover art, out into a Roger Dean alien landscape, I would have pinned that up at lightning speed.
PS - When I found out that GM didn't even like girls, I didn't believe it at first. Then I thought about it... it all made sense. I was never HIS type, and I never would be. My first crush was my first major disappointment. I would never be George's girl, 'cuz he never wanted one of mine in the first place... so sad for me!!! To this day!
Odd... I wasn't a big fan of either band, or even especially attracted to those ladies. I think I just had them because they were nakedish women that could be acquired via mail order. Mohawks/shaved-heads on women do still give me goosebumps though.
Oh, yeah, later on it was Duran Duran ALL OVER MY ROOM. Also Sex Pistols. (I'm surprised that juxtaposition didn't cause some sort of fundamental physical instability in the structure of the universe.) And David Bowie, oh so much Bowie. And Adam and the Ants.
Pjern, being a heterosexual female under the age of 35, I don't really know what poster you're talking about. But taking a wild guess, could it be this? Or possibly this?
Look, I was a necrophiliac, okay? Jim Morrison & Brian Jones had been rotating slowly in their respective graves for years by the time I fell in love with them but, well, why let that stop you?
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