Work, young D?  Of what description, might one ask?

DJing at a ball for student ballroom dancers at my local uni.  A strong quantity of cheese may well prove necessary.  I'll also get to play my favourite cha cha chas and rnb (they can jive to the latter) so I can't complain.

Is 40 young?  All relative I suppose.

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What's the dress code and what time should I arrive?  Will I be the only person under 60?  Will I be the only person?

Yuca's balls have already dropped.  He's forty years of age, dingbat.

I attempted - and more or less succeeded - in cheering myself up on Sunday evening by watching this for the first time in years.  I loved every second of it, then watched the (lengthy) documentary and enjoyed every second of that too: especially the gorgeous, enchanting Kathleen Quinlan (who may, as my wife said sneeringly, have had work done, but looked - as Toyah Wilcox does now - fabulous). 
The clothes...  doesn't that white t-shirt under the button-down make all the difference?  I swear I used to see that look on Jeff Garet and Ken Lovegrove at Russell Street often and often.  The chinos...  the belts...  white socks and loafers...  Then there's what the girls are wearing...  The English teacher in a button-down with no roll is a bit of a let-down (but maybe that was deliberate). 
I love the music.  All of it.  Even Bill Haley and Buddy Holly this time.
And the cars...  Watching 'Godfather Part Two' again recently set me alight over the cars...
But how come the black faces could be counted on the finger of one hand?
George Lucas...  almost a genius...

Not seen this for years and I never really got it. Isn't it a feature length version of 'Happy Days'? Richie Cunningham and The Fonz in it? Perhaps I'm being unfair, but I bloody hate Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry. Will watch one evening with my 17 year old who has become very clever at watching, thinking about and interpreting various types of 'text'. And I do love the white T under button-down thing, very 2 Russell Street, and Chensvold hated it as it looked too proletarian, rather going against his pseudo-patrician nonsense, so it much be good, though sadly I don't really do it as I hate all that extra material shoved down by strides. Great look though. I'm more 62/3, birth of soul, sta-press Ivy. The greatness of the 40s and 50s happened in the wonderful world of modern jazz. Rock and roll is Squaresville daddio.

Maybe worth another look.  A very sad film about loss of innocence, the setting around the Bay Of Pigs and the assassination of JFK.  Two of the four characters (male) meet a bad end, including one MIA in Vietnam (a war which was still being fought when the movie was doing the rounds).  And Candy Clark is an erotic delight!