She's a riot

So I wasn't old enough to realise at the the time but how good were the 1990's?

I am not really referring to crap teen movies or really bad Australian game shows, no I am talking about that 90's grunge.

There really isn't anything like it today. There is however, a lot of people that try to imitate it. Like a corpse though, when the 90's come back to life it's a horror. You don't get that minimalist era, you get a flesh-eating mutant that simply doesn't belong in contemporary society.

What was so good about the 90's though? Well like I said, they were grungy baby. You don't get any third-wave feminist RIOT GRRRLS these days. You don't get a sense of individual uniformity either (like in the Calvin Klein ONE advertising campaign [that's a link btw guys, any coloured text in my blog is a link except for titles, no one noticed in Mariachi, Baby!]).

The best parts of the youth-society got chucked out the window in 2000. The cassette culture went out the window. So did zines. We should bring back cassette culture. By a cheap cassette recorder and crapily record your own music and hand them out to all your friends to play. I love cassettes and I really wish cassette culture was still around. It seems redundant now that you can record your own music on your computer and upload to youtube or myspace or whatever. Wouldn't you rather that crackling crackling warmth of a cassette? Something to hold in your hand, and keep forever? I know I would.

As for zines, they've been replaced by...can you guess it? Blogs. Hate to say it but I am part of a blog society and though I didn't cause it, I am definitely a part of the decline in zine culture. Maybe I should start making zines as well as blogs. If you think I should start making zines then please comment and say so.

I guess I am actually opposed to the rise of technology. I wish I lived in a world were people didn't download mp3s and burn CDs. I wish I lived in a world were people recorded cassettes for each other and shared them around. I wish I could buy a brand new record for less than $40 or so. I wish I didn't have this stupid computer, when I could instead have a sweet old typewriter to make zines with. Yeah. I wish it didn't cost me $50 per roll to have Diana's 120mm film developed. I guess I just wish it was the 90's.

About my day? Exams, what can I say? Chem = fail. Accounting = pass of some sort. Other than that I hung out with Courtney in the 2 hours I had between exams and I realised that if I fail at school and end up on the dole, it's all the people that studied their asses off to pass who will be paying their taxes for people like me. Jack hearts socialism.

Well I better go an put on my sweatshirt and sling my backpack over my shoulder whilst listening to some Nirvana or Bikini Kill on my cassette Walkman. That's another thing, backpacks used to be cool and satchels were lame. Now satchels are cool and backpacks are lame. Society you dizzy me, I think I might go back to a simpler time, to the year I was born at the age I am now. Rocking in the '93.

Chilllllout 90's kids!