1993

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I was 12 and in 7th grade at the beginning of 1993 and 13 and in 8th grade at the end. My mom started taking care of an 88-year-old woman named Viola Brakebill that year, and I was often at her house after school. I entertained myself with YM and Sassy magazines, cassingles of songs like "Mr. Wendell" and "If I Had No Loot", and making up back porch dance routines (to TLC songs and Janet Jackson's "Janet" album) clad only in a sports bra and shorts. A lot of hours spent conquering Zelda: Link's Awakening (and talking to my friend Travis on the phone about it, passing notes in Pre-Algebra on the subject, etc. We discovered an elaborate cheat, and couldn't decide if we felt guilty or not).

Solitude. Transition. SWV!

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^Painfully otm, and simulatenously confirms my suspicion that this was the year my brother moved back home. All we did was listen to Aerosmith.

this was the year i graduated from highschool

Wikipedia believes that Link's Awakening came out December 31st, 1993, but this is impossible.

OH, the pix I could put up here.

Went out with this girl, and every night I stayed over at her place, it would rain. Well. Mid-Missouri suffered its worst flood in 100 years during the summer of '93.

I remember walking into the big house I shared with like five other dudes (I didn't even know all of their names) and the A/C was actually on for once. My roommate Barry was watching this video of a band whining about being a Creep and a Weirdo, and I remember thinking, who are these Stone Temple Pilot rejects?

Cigarettes cost $1.33, and I actually filled my tank once that summer in Rolla for .88 a gallon.

I had this friend who delievered pizza for Domino's. He was fat, like hugely, immensely fat. 400 lbs. He'd come over, get drunk, and pass out on the porch. My neighbors thought that we were hardcore because even the pizza boy would get fucked up at our house.

One night, one of my roommates who lived downstairs in the basement, heard all this thumping and stomping going on upstairs. He sneaked around the back and around to the front to see the pizza boy in our living room, playing Tecmo Ball on the NES. Everytime he'd miss a pass or get an interception or have a TD scored on him, he'd flip the TV off with an outstretched arm and scream FUCK YOU! and stomp on the floor for a bit.

My roommate says he watched that fat guy do that for an hour.

That was the one thing that sucked about living in that house. Everyone was downstairs while I was stuck in the converted attic. I'd bump my head on the ceiling everytime I went up the stairs. And it was so hot, too. Hot & muggy. The basement roommate and I tried lining up a trail of fans up to my room, domino style, but it didn't work.

I had a box fan in the window, but I broke it one night when the girl stayed over and I accidentally kicked it out of the window, causing it to fall two stories into the parking lot out back.

I could probably just as easily post this to the Columbia All-Stars thread.

the way-hip annual convention of her generation

Lollapalooza

Main Stage: Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr, Fishbone, Arrested Development, Front 242, Babes in Toyland, Tool, Rage Against the Machine

Side Stage: Tool, Sebadoh, Cell, Unrest, Mercury Rev, Mosquito, Free Kitten, Royal Trux, Tsunami, Mutabaruka, The Coctails, Scrawl, Luscious Jackson, Genitorturers, Truly, Eggs, Girls Against Boys, Thurston Moore, A Lighter Shade of Brown, Glue, The Karl Hendricks Trio, Hurl, The Goats

^^^ wow ^^^

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i was 8 years old and for halloween i was a british policeman

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A suspected car bomb has exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York killing at least five people and injuring scores more.

The bombing has shocked America which had seemed immune from acts of terrorism that have plagued other parts of the world.

An emotional Mario Cuomo, New York's state governor, told journalists: "We all have that feeling of being violated. No foreign people or force has ever done this to us. Until now we were invulnerable."

"It felt like an airplane hit the building," - Bruce Pomper, eyewitness

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EGGS!?

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Eggs were like generic indie rock/pop with a trombonist.

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^^1992, which in Blount County-ese is 1993.

mr que otm

I was way not listening to any indie rock yet. I was listening to Snow, Tony Toni Tone and the "For the Boys" soundtrack.

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i was 14 and was in my first band, which was called viscid lemon

i was probably listening to a lot of faith no more and public enemy

man dude, 1993, the first WTC attack. i was in 3rd grade and my dearest father was working in there. I remember the day well ... it was snowing and none of the phones worked. and it turned out the mastermind behind it was Islam's answer to Santa Claus.

for some reason I associate the time with really ugly, colorful patchwork caps. I think it might have been some kind of grunge thing

i moved back to nyc after school and got a job that paid $18k/yr LOOOOOOOOL. I mean that was seriously shit money even back in ye olden early 90s. it was pretty cushy and i quickly got sizable raises but still.....

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i was just entering 6th grade

i didn't start getting into music until 7th/8th grade

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jokes about that lasted well into 7th grade

lol my first marriage crashed to a halt in 1993

so did mine:-/

ah, middle school

I was 15 for most of 1993 and was in 10th/11th grade at all girls catholic school. I was chubby and awkward, wore big green glasses and had never been kissed. I wore a lot of plaid and purple doc martens and listened to a weird mix of Erasure, The Ramones, Yaz, and The Cure. Got drunk of the first time ever off of Sambuca found in my parents' liqour cabinet.

me and my bestest friends had a concert, drugs and art defined an era, i turned 17.

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i had mono

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^I always think of this when I consider 1993.

Dr. Janetopus

I started kindergarten and turned 6.

Somewhere in between there I shat my pants.

(Obligatory "lol u young" to Crut1s.)

I am reminded of MTV's Dan Cortese when thinking of 1993. I wonder if this association is based in historical fact.

a friend of mine in 1st year university 1993 re-created janet cover photo for photography project. can't remember who the hands-guy was or who the photographer was but do remember that my friend had way bigger boobs

this is also the year i starting using mac computerators

and the internet

(unrelated to boobs story)

It felt like an airplane hit the building

WOAH

john norris who tried to pick up a 14 year old boy

link/elaborate

it's all upthread, bro!

ok i assumed i wouldn't get 1993 lulz so i passed on this thread

yeah def john norris

pp: Said VJ tried to pick up a fourteen-year old boy at Blue Note show.

are you referring to the blue note in columbia mo?

I like how PP has been googleproofing and dodging saying anything outright in case JOHN NORRIS comes to find him!

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lol u skert

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I totally loved the first season of this series when I was 14. But I think it didn't get enough viewers or something, because at some point it was totally rewritten into a ridiculous soap opera, and all the characters I'd previously thought were nice and cool turned into these horrible people.

one summer i watched 90210 for like weeks on end and got so caught up hardcore

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My favourite TV show in 1993 was this though.

It was probably the only American TV series that actually had a tribute episode to Federico Fellini after hedä died in 1993.

I loved that show, too, Tuomas.

I just didn't want J0n NOrr1s looking for me, like a hellhound on my trail.

I was a bit scarred from the whole experience.

And yeah, the Blue Note in Columbia. Also see The Grifters thread.

angsty road trip with my family, listening to this over and over on my walkman
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also this

and an adam sandler tape that my mom literally threw out of the window because it was inappropriate

there was a song on it about shoving a shampoo bottle up his ass i remember...

Ha. I remember a time when Siamese Dream was known as their sell-out record. Then came Mellon Pollie...

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o_O + <3 to the design of that top flyer

"how much 3d shit can we pile on this thing!! do it up"

"storming the heavens with midi rain"!

how AWESOME IS THAT

digital chemist and cerebral craftsman

These two records totally define 1993 for me:

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I was just listening to Black Sunday, it still sounds great, and not quite as dated as you'd think. (Though Temples of Boom is even better.) I've lost that Mayday compilation, so I can't say if the same applies to that. In general I still have lots of love for early nineties German rave anthems.

I don't know what that Mayday album is, but otm on Cypress Hill.

I guess German techno wasn't a big thing in the US back in 1993?

Or, like, ever?

haw, perhaps not, but even if it were big at all I was like 12

i really only heard thigns that were massive and on the radio, and techno has definitely never been played much on the radio, at least where i live

Well, I turned 14 in June 1993. It's not like that Mayday stuff were difficult or anything, they were basically big, anthemic dance tunes. Gangsta rap, Eurodance, and German house/techno/trance were pretty much the mainstream in here back in 1993.

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Hahaha...

Heard that Moby on this tour travelled in a separate van cuz all the other acts were smokin/boozin/druggin.

"Storming the Heavens with Midi Rain"!

I remember up until 1995 I used to think Moby was a woman, I'm not quite sure why. I think he looked like a woman in one of his early album covers.

Cuz he is a big girl's blouse, amirite?

john norris/fallout boy pic upthread = stuff of nightmares

stuff of PP's nightmares

But I think it didn't get enough viewers or something, because at some point it was totally rewritten into a ridiculous soap opera,
-- Tuomas, Friday, March 7, 2008 1:40 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Tuomas, it was a spin off of BH90210. of course it was a ridiculous soap opera.

who the hell is that girl on the bottom left??

According to Melrose Place's Wiki page:

During the first season, the show was a relatively earnest serial drama with low-key storylines, and focused on how young people come to Los Angeles to realize their dreams[...]

Producers were faced with mediocre ratings and attempted to revamp the series during the first season. This revamp came in the form of the first-season arrival of Dynasty and T.J. Hooker alumna Heather Locklear as the opinionated and assertive Amanda Woodward. Initially intended as a high-profile guest, Amanda was retained on the series on a permanent basis, but Locklear kept her "Special Guest Star" billing throughout the show's run. Amanda soon vied with Alison for Billy's affections and became a vice-president for the company, D&D Advertising, where she and fellow resident Alison worked, and had affairs with several male residents. Amanda's crudity, catty one-liners, and sexy-but-tough wardrobe helped make Melrose a guilty pleasure for many millions of viewers around the world. Over the course of the show, Amanda hooks up with every male character (except the gay Matt Fielding) during the first five seasons. The show became less of an episodic series, and more of a soap opera with ongoing, interwoven stories, beginning with Michael Mancini's love affair with lonesome co-worker Kimberly Shaw (Marcia Cross) and Alison's affair with a married man who eventually stalks her.

I remember Melrose Place was initially very low-key for an Aaron Spelling series, dealing with everyday dramas rather than over-the-top plot twists. And the characters were all quite likeable in one way or another, before they slowly turning into horrible caricatures.

I mean, one of the most dramatic moments I remember from the first season was Billy having problems telling his parents that he loves them. But soon those sort of issues were replaced by people faking their own deaths and burning down their lovers' houses.

I guess it wouldn't have mattered if MP would've been a cheesy soap opera right from the beginning, but I really liked the first season for being so down to earth, so it wasn't nice to see the tone of the series and the characters altered so radically. I don't think I really watched it anymore after season 2.

i hated pretty much every character on that show EXCEPT amanda (HL's character). the rest were whiny wusses.

actually, alison was kind of fun when she drunk.

Billy having problems telling his parents that he loves them

oh god

that was like, a season-long arc?

No, just one episode.

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ha i remember being home sick and watching the waco debacle on tv

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