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I still love music and hope to one day write a song that I have pent up  inside of me. I even know the title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Hughes Ruined My Life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You see, I watched all of his movies as a teenager, albeit one who wore a coat and  tie every day to an all-male high school. I was also painfully shy around  girls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bratpackbook.com\/bpb\/images\/covershot_inner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"353\" \/>So everything I knew about the social mores of teenage life came from movie writers like John Hughes. I thought everyone hung in specific cliques,  and, if you waited long enough, the right girl would just magically end up by  your side. Or she be charmed when you stalked her.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise when I got to college and realized that things worked a little differently in the real world. Thankfully, I figured it out before I  resorted to stalking.<\/p>\n<p>I still wanted to write a song about it because I love 80s movies, but also know  the pitfalls surrounding them. That\u2019s why I just absolutely devoured the  book \u201cYou Couldn\u2019t Ignore Me If You Tried\u201d by Susannah Gora last month.<\/p>\n<p>Kids today can find movies like \u201cFerris Bueller\u2019s Day Off\u201d and \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d  all over cable, but I don\u2019t think they can truly comprehend what they mean  to people in their late 30s and early 40s.<\/p>\n<p>I really can\u2019t think of any comparable films or programs which kids today will  hold in the same regard in a few decades. The Judd Apatow movies made so many  people laugh, but that humor is fleeting and didn\u2019t really affect any other  areas of life, with the exception of the bank accounts of those involved.<\/p>\n<p>While I love \u201cJersey Shore\u201d and other trash reality television, that genre will never stand the test  of time even though it holds cultural sway over so many people right now.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why someone needed to write the book that Gora did. The movies that came  from Hughes and Cameron Crowe and others writers and directors of the time  affected fashion, music and even the way teens looked at each other.<\/p>\n<p>The book gives so much insight over how all this happened, thanks to interviews  with many of the stars and behind-the-scenes people. The process of how this cultural shift took place is as engrossing as the movies themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I remember watching \u201cSt. Elmo\u2019s Fire\u201d a year before I left for college and hoping I  would have a group of friends like that (minus the cocaine addiction) when I  finished school. Sometimes I think I only really care because I\u2019m on the other  side of 40, but I realize that the movies mean just as much to others.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that John Hughes ruined all of our lives helps me get through it all a  lot easier. Because we\u2019d be much worse off if he hadn\u2019t done that for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don\u2019t have any musical talent. Thirteen years of Catholic education only provided me with the knowledge of how to sing hymns. Or how to pretend to sing hymns. 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