five year track back

[lauralh]

20 years ago I was:

* worried about not believing in god
* best friends with a girl who lived down the street
* listening to nothing but Weird Al Yankovic and Phil Collins
* playing D&D with my brother as DM

15 years ago I was:

* dealing with my first periods
* friends with the only black girl on the honor roll
* listening to lots of Def Leppard and Helloween
* initiated into the church youth group, every wednesday my older brother and I would drive up to church
* worshipping the older brother
* reading his GURPS books

10 years ago I was:
* barely coping with my first breakup, and subsequent reconciliation
* about to be a senior
* working my summer job at the local library, and staying at my grandmother's till my mother got home from grad school
* getting CDs from BMG by the Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys

5 years ago I was:
* running up a five grand credit card debt
* freaking out about living alone for the first time um, ever
* visiting my boyfriend in Seattle once every month
* going back to Durham every weekend to see the only people I still knew
* listening to lots of shitty ass techno and going to rave parties sober
* downloading mp3s over dialup in Linux Napster

2 years ago I was:
* spending money thanks to the only "real" job I've had in Seattle
* living the good life with candid, hotcrab, and corn_e
* visiting hfloyd in Boston
* scared about the end of summer
* listening to a buttload of KEXP indie rock and skanking out at the Contour
* doing very little in the way of drugs

Comments

[candid.livejournal.com]

Frighteningly enough, I think 20 years ago I was also listening mostly to Weird Al and Phil Collins.

[verybadlady.livejournal.com]

even more frightening is that I was listening to mostly Weird Al and Phil Collins less than 20 years ago!

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

Whenever you do one of these things I always find myself seriously disturbed for about 20 minutes. I need a drink.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

er, why?

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

Mostly I just like being antagonistic-but-not-really.

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

That, and the idea of you listening to Wierd Al Yankovich and Phil Collins and playing D&D is fundamentally strange, but also hilarious.

oh, and here i thought it was because you thought I was old

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I HATE YOU MILKMAN ANDREW

you are way more hardcore than me

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

* downloading mp3s over dialup in Linux Napster

have they finished downloading?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

three or four megs didn't take more than an hour, ever.

I wasn't being literal

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

I was trying to be Teh Funney (c).

as a side note, but not unrelated, I was also a hideously devoted weird al fan for years -- I've still got most of his albums on tape in a box somewhere (and I saw UHF a couple of days ago).

it was for the benefit of the viewers at home

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

UHF is like $10, so I own it. and same thing with the tapes.