I see a lot of nostalgia for ‘00s fashion and music today, but surprisingly, no cultural memory of the proto-hipster types I spent my teen years around, who listened to Radiohead on loop and watched Requiem for a Dream as a kind of endurance test and pretended Chuck Palahniuk books were good
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(I never read his other books so I have no comment on them)
(And Hunger Games, but that happened a bit later)
Remember the music tho ❤️
There's lots of songs I really like from that timespan and looking at images from that time just makes me wish I was there to experience it.
But alas, I was born too late
Stranger Things was nothing like the eighties that I lived through.
Still feckin' love China, though.
Sometimes when you’re swimming through filth, last thing you notice is the filth
I stopped listening to Penn Jillette when he admitted he screamed at a naked woman on his set when she didn’t want to be naked. Awful.
And I think some of the tolerance is combination of subtextual (even to the viewer) homophobia, married to an intrinsic; but unstated misogyny because "gays are feminine, ergo it's not misogyny, it's just being catty, like *other* women".
(I grew up in the movement)
May I present to you the entire ancient Greek and Roman canon?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
-the Greeks
Also, we really do need to get more comfortable as a culture with the concepts of homosociality, because that’s a big driver of misogyny at all points on the Kinsey scale, and we don’t talk about how men perform masculinity for men.
*dies from the vapors*
But yeah, Chuck was something else in hindsight. Uffda. 🤪
Oof
All my peers were edgy kids or teens and I had no patience for them. But I was also a pushover back then. Ope.
Anyway, that's a whole separate conversation, I think.
I was at the peak of my powers in the aughts. That was before I almost made it big in film several times but am now just sort of a failure, so the decade does have some nostalgia
Ah, college (for me. He was a grown man)
Both characters, of course, monumentally fucked up.
I know. Wrong impulse.
But ALSO, YOU WERE RIGHT.