Been thinking this decade is gonna have the same role in the culture cycle as the ‘80s so to figure out what I should do with it I look back at what I should have done then (I was single-digits years old, dude!)
And like\u2026 okay, what would have been a good use of time, if you weren’t just having a family and nesting (which was quite '80s!)? What was a good scene?
Like, AV geeks? Okay, there’s an angle, there was stuff opening up there with cable TV, digital media production, the internet\u2026
But like, what media tribe to join? What music to listen to? Rap was too proto-, it was an age of “pop” I promise got better with distance, hair metal? Even The Pixies aren’t til '88.
Movies, uh, it was a good action decade I guess? And as VHS became a thing you could hit up the rental on the reg for stuff from decades back and make your house a revival house. You could be early on really appreciating slasher movies?
Like, I’m trying to think of particularly good stuff, that’s Spielberg’s Golden Age but that’s not a scene, who’s in the Steven Spielberg fandom? Dawson Leery? (I wonder what his take was on Tiny Toon Adventures)
Move to Brooklyn (maybe even the Upper West Side!) and renovate a brownstone? Or like, Athens, Georgia or Austin?
Like even stretching my parameters, I’m having a hard time evoking period things that went anywhere. Like, San Francisco did become a more important and happening place for young people in the '90s, and it had fuck all to do with being a bicycle messenger.
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