Late June Update

1. I'm headed to Bristol Bay for two weeks. This wasn't my plan months ago when I took on this lil project so if you are looking for me I'll be back mid-July. 

2. Frontier Air bought Era and have screwed us on web specials to the island. They are now around $269 RT, close to the cost of a regular ticket. 

3. Does anyone want to volunteer to put an iPod together of 80's music?

4. El Chicano's will be the location of the Saturday gathering.

5. If you can NOT attend the reunion I'd like you to send pictures or even a two-minute video of your life I can share on a projector. We'd love to see how old you look now. You can e-mail the pics and/or video to sandinyerface@hotmail.com or snail mail to Box 1223 da da da 99615. Don't wait on this, do it today!

6. Those of you in town I want you to start hoarding pallets for the Thursday night burnfest. I'll even come get them from you and store them in my garage to keep them dry. 

7. Has anyone seen Mark Dicang lately? Last I know he was in Anchorage. FIND HIM! 

If you had an iPod in 1989 it would have....

After reviewing the top 100 songs on Billboard in 1989 I've concluded we graduated with the worst music ever made. Just my opinion. Maybe we better utilize all the 80's has to offer and not weight too heavy on the last year of the decade.

• 1. Look Away - Chicago
• 2. My Prerogative - Bobby Brown
• 3. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
• 4. Straight Up - Paula Abdul
• 5. Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
• 6. Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
• 7. Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
• 8. Girl You Know Its True - Milli Vanilli
• 9. Baby, I Love Your Way-Freebird - Will To Power
• 10. Giving You The Best That I Got - Anita Baker
• 11. Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
• 12. Waiting For A Star To Fall - Boy Meets Girl
• 13. Lost In Your Eyes - Debbie Gibson
• 14. Don't Wanna Lose You - Gloria Estefan
• 15. Heavan - Warrant
• 16. Girl I'm Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli
• 17. The Look - Roxette
• 18. She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
• 19. On Our Own - Bobby Brown
• 20. Two Hearts - Phil Collins
• 21. Blame It On The Rain - Milli Vanilli
• 22. Listen To Your Heart - Roxette
• 23. I'll Be There For You - Bon Jovi
• 24. If You Don't Know Be By Now - Simply Red
• 25. Like A Prayer - Madonna
• 26. I'll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids On The Block
• 27. How Can I Fall? - Breathe
• 28. Baby Don't Forget My Number - Milli Vanilli
• 29. Toy Solider - Martika
• 30. Forever Your Girl. - Paula Abdul
• 31. The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
• 32. Eternal Flame - The Bangles
• 33. Wild Thing - Tone Loc
• 34. When I See You Smile - Bad English
• 35. If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
• 36. Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
• 37. When I'm With You - Sheriff
• 38. Don't Rush Me - Taylor Dayne
• 39. Born To Be My Baby - Bon Jovi
• 40. Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
• 41. The Lover In Me - Sheena Easton
• 42. Bust A Move - Young M.C.
• 43. Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Great White
• 44. Batdance - Prince
• 45. Rock On - Michael Damian
• 46. Real Love - Jody Watley
• 47. Love Shack - B-52's
• 48. Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
• 49. Hangin' Tough - New Kids On The Block
• 50. My Heart Can't Tell You No - Rod Stewart
• 51. So Alive - Love & Rockets
• 52. You Got It (The Right Stuff) - New Kids On The Block
• 53. Armageddon It - Def Leppard
• 54. Satisfied - Richard Marx
• 55. Express Yourself - Madonna
• 56. I Like It - Dino
• 57. Soldier Of Love - Donny Osmond
• 58. Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears
• 59. Cherish - Madonna
• 60. When The Children Cry - White Lion
• 61. 18 And Life - Skid Row
• 62. I Don't Want Your Love - Duran Duran
• 63. Second Chances - .38 Special
• 64. The Way You Love Me - Karyn White
• 65. Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc
• 66. In Your Room - Bangles
• 67. Miss You Like Crazy - Natalie Cole
• 68. Love Song - Cure
• 69. Secret Rendesvous - Karyn White
• 70. Angel Eyes - Jeff Healey Band
• 71. Patience - Guns N' Roses
• 72. Walk On Water - Eddie Money
• 73. Cover Girl - New Kids On The Block
• 74. Welcom To The Jungle - Guns N' Roses
• 75. Shower Me With Your Love - Surface
• 76. Stand - R.E.M.
• 77. Close My Eyes Forever - Lita Ford
• 78. All This Time - Tiffany
• 79. After All - Cher & Peter Cetera
• 80. Roni - Bobby Brown
• 81. Love In An Elevator - Aerosmith
• 82. Lay Your Hands On Me - Bon Jovi
• 83. This Promise - When In Rome
• 84. What I Am - Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
• 85. I Remember Holding You - Boys Club
• 86. Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
• 87. Iwanna Have Some Fun - Samantha Fox
• 88. She Wants To Dance With Me - Rick Astley
• 89. Dreamin' - Vanessa Williams
• 90. It's No Crime - Babyface
• 91. Poison - Alice Cooper
• 92. This Time I Know It's For Real - Donna Summer
• 93. Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
• 94. Heavan Help Me - Deon Estus
• 95. Rock Wit'cha - Bobby Brown
• 96. Thinking Of You - Sa-fire
• 97. What You Don't Know - Expose
• 98. Surrender To Me - Ann Wilson & Robin Zander
• 99. The End Of The Innocence - Don Henley
• 100. Keep On Movin' - Soul II Soul

Reunion Outline

Here's the almost confirmed outline for activities.


Thursday, August 6th

Family Swim at USCG Base Pool 1pm

OPEN TO ALL unless you are on the sex offender list

20 years ago there wasn't a pool on the base. In fact, if you weren't a coastie it wasn't easy to get on the base but those days are no more. There is a kiddie pool and a water slide. The KHS pool is closing for good on July 24th and the new pool opens August 22nd which is located where the woods yall used to smoke and fight in.

Burn Mofo Burn 8pm

OPEN TO 89ERS and their squeezes so long as you are dating/married to someone who is 21. If your partner is 19, we need to talk.

Well start with some drinks at The Rendezvous Bar in Bells Flats and if the weather allows we'll make our way to the Rodeo Grounds to recreate history. I need someone with a truck with an obnoxious stereo system. Someone call Scorps.



Friday, August 7th

SPAWN OF LeDOUX's ARMY UNITE 3pm-7pm

OPEN TO 89ERS W/ KIDS and/or BRATS depending on their sugar content.

Aaron Walton will host a kid-friendly event at his home. Particulars and directions to come.


MISSION: IMPAIRED
6:30pm
OPEN TO 89ERS AND THEIR LOVERS

A walking tour of self-destruction to any and all of Kodiak's pubs, bars, clubs, and dark places starting at the Kodiak Island Brewery next to NAPA.

From there we shall hit:

The B&B
Henry's
Tony's Bar/Nick's second home
The Village
Bernie's (formally The Breakers)
The Lil Bar/Tropic Lanes
and for those not 86ed for life...
....The Mecca


Sorry, the Beachcombers is long gone.




Saturday, August 8th

I'm leaving the day open for people to do their own thang. I'll recommend you visit both the Baranof and Alutiiq Museums and the WWII War Museum at Ft. Abercrombie while here. Go to the top of Pillar and check out the brand new wind turbines. Might be a good day for taking fishing charter if killing one fish at a time excites you. You are Kodiakians, nothing less than a net with 500 to 1000 sockeye should make you blink.

GATHERING OF THE CLAN

LOCATION TBA: El Chi's or Powerhouse?
89ERS ONLY
6:30pm-9pm

Ditch the family and folks for exclusive time with the fellow survivors of the Kodiak Island Borough's last product of the eighties. We'll eat, we'll drink, we'll make bad speeches and cry. It will be awesome.


Sunday, August 9th

BEARS HAVE A PICNIC
Noon to 4pm
Ft. Abercrombie or White Sands
EVERYONE is invited

We'll go potluck style. I'm looking for a back-up spot of the weather is poopy.


This concludes the event you have feared for 20 years.



I'm trying to keep costs down and not ask for much help with paying for anything but I might need $20 from each of yall to help out so roll those quarters in that Crown bag in the kitchen.

See you in August

Nick Sandin
(907) 486-0971