Aural History.

[conformer]

One of the stronger stigmas of having the bad luck and poor timing that comes with belonging to the so-called "Generation X," is the fairly high probability that one is also a child of the 1980s, a decade that continues to fascinate and remains the subject of intense emulation, more so than its chronological neighbors. Despite the scarlet fashion

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[papiergeest]

Everyone was on AOL and using Hotmail as i left jurnior high and entered highschool, but living in a somewhat small town my parents didn't get the internet until around my sophomore year. I remember being excited about it, but still not using it that often, other than napster, hotmail, and occasionally grossing myself and my friends out by things on rotten.com. Other than that...it really wasn't a huge feature in my life.

On the bus i eavesdrop unintentionally a lot. Adolescents talk about the internet. A LOT. Things like "Oh my god did you see her status update? What a bitch!" and "I haven't gotten to check Facebook in days, i think i'm dying!" and "I'm tweeting this." I just try to think...what did i have that was even like this? I guess my friends and i gossipped, talked about what we had seen on TV, or who we had talked to on the phone. But in a way it seems so...different. Like they are obsessed and sucked in in a wayi never could have been about anything, except maybe music.

The music i listened to during my formative adolescent years molded me and has stuck with me in some way that is almost undefinable. Some of it i still love (The Cure, Nirvana, REM, Kraftwerk, My Bloody Valentine, Unwound) and some of it i feel slightly embarassed about but it is just too deeply ingrained in my head for me to say i don't like it (NIN, Skinny Puppy, Ministry)