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heard this at the grocery store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wxcWLgOfNA I always liked it as a kid, because it reminded me of the X-Files and fox mulder searching for his sister. I was not cool.
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Ambitious Spider posted:heard this at the grocery store: This song is exhibit A as to why some songs should be forever forgotten.
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Sex Hobbit posted:This song came on at Walmart tonight and holy poo poo I had forgotten all about it. I remember my best friend was OBSESSED with Fastball in middle school. Bobby Digital posted:Fastball is inextricably linked with this band in my mind and I’m not sure why I literally thought the first was by the second no lie, or by any one of the interchangeable sorta softrock grunge bands.
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Jul 1, 2019 14:51
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Bobby Digital posted:Fastball is inextricably linked with this band in my mind and I’m not sure why  I guess they both feature driving-related lyrics? I can't think of one without thinking of the other.
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Jul 1, 2019 18:48
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Iron Crowned posted:This song is exhibit A as to why some songs should be forever forgotten. Up to that post I had forgotten it. I’m not even sure I included it in my ~600-700 song Google Play ‘90s playlist. From the little I’d heard of them, The Nixons were just another Matchbox Twenty knockoff to me, part of the reason my excitement for music that started in 1994 had died down so much by ‘96. I put some of the blame for that on being in rural Ohio as a teenager; I mean, for christ’s sake, they were playing Jewel and Joan Osborne on our local “rock” station, and the reception for the actual good stations was really poor where I lived.
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Jul 1, 2019 21:54
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Up to that post I had forgotten it. I’m not even sure I included it in my ~600-700 song Google Play ‘90s playlist. From the little I’d heard of them, The Nixons were just another Matchbox Twenty knockoff to me, part of the reason my excitement for music that started in 1994 had died down so much by ‘96. The Nixons had some legit good songs, that's not one of them. I used to see them play all the time in East Texas before they got famous.
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The McD chat in obsolete tech reminded me of something; were the "special themed McDonald's restaurants" a global thing in the late 80's/90's/early 2000? I remember seeing pictures of sit-down versions of McD in pictures although we did not get one, they came with table service and normal cutlery, plates and glasses and stuff, I think they also served pizza. I know these existed because one goon mentioned being in one, and the general concept was also mentioned in the book "Fast Food Nation" I read ages ago. We, well Helsinki at least, had one 50's themed (think Pulp Fiction) and other sports themed (baseball and motorsports which sort of translates to pesäpallo and Formula 1 for Finnish consumers) McDonald's... Or were these just bastardized versions by the local franchise owners in the era when the oversight was not completely airtight? Der Kyhe has a new favorite as of 18:56 on Jul 2, 2019 |
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Jul 2, 2019 18:07
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Cartoon Man posted:Action Park’s most infamous water slide: I can't say I knew much about Action Park, but the other day I watched the Johnny Knoxville movie Action Point, and after seeing that, it had to be inspired by Action Point. It's a terrible movie, but if you like to see Johnny Knoxville get injured repeatedly it's worth an hour and a half.
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Jul 2, 2019 19:11
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Der Kyhe posted:The McD chat in obsolete tech reminded me of something; were the "special themed McDonald's restaurants" a global thing in the late 80's/90's/early 2000? There’s a 50s diner themed Hungry Jacks (Australian Burger King) in Adelaide. I think they might have all been vaguely 50s themed because I remember another one having a jukebox next to the self-serve Coke machine, but this particular one was over the top, full of memorabilia and such. It was a bit weird, to be honest.
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Jul 3, 2019 00:24
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Der Kyhe posted:The McD chat in obsolete tech reminded me of something; were the "special themed McDonald's restaurants" a global thing in the late 80's/90's/early 2000? I think McCafe came from this in Australia, if nothing else.
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Der Kyhe posted:The McD chat in obsolete tech reminded me of something; were the "special themed McDonald's restaurants" a global thing in the late 80's/90's/early 2000? I remember seeing a lot of variety in design back in the 90's when it came to McD's. One was even inside an old house. Ah, here we go: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mcdonald-s-restaurant-1200
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Jul 3, 2019 16:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SKMRExoVQ This song will be forever entwined with the 90s for me. I had no idea who even sang it until recently. It occupies the same space in my brain as Blues Traveller and Barenaked Ladies.
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Jul 3, 2019 17:04
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Thermos posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SKMRExoVQ I heard this yesterday on the Sirius 90s channel, looked at the artist, and realized then that I never knew who sang the song until just then.
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Jul 3, 2019 17:45
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Bloopsy posted:I heard this yesterday on the Sirius 90s channel, looked at the artist, and realized then that I never knew who sang the song until just then. I never knew the artist or the song title, but I could sing along to almost every word
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Thermos posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SKMRExoVQ Man, you literally can't find the video with the bands heads on babies bodies anywhere unless its one that's purposefully bad. Wasn't that Fastball song based on a super sad story about an elderly couple that drove off into the desert and died?
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Jul 4, 2019 08:29
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Thermos posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SKMRExoVQ Holy poo poo until right now I thought this was a Blues Traveler song. I only know this song from the trailer for the Flipper movie starring Elijah Wood. It sounds a lot like Run Around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ousaiByU1ko
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twistedmentat posted:Man, you literally can't find the video with the bands heads on babies bodies anywhere unless its one that's purposefully bad. From wikipedia: Fastball front man Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading articles which described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas, who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimers and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route
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wesleywillis posted:From wikipedia: Yikes, that's depressing.
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But they managed to free themselves from, like, the society, man. They weren't shackled to systems, they weren't forced to live a shackled down life. They went out and lived man. They died knowing what the world actually was man. All natural. Not like us, the real prisoners man. Have you seen that movie Fight Club? It's badass.
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Creature posted:There’s a 50s diner themed Hungry Jacks (Australian Burger King) in Adelaide. I think they might have all been vaguely 50s themed because I remember another one having a jukebox next to the self-serve Coke machine, but this particular one was over the top, full of memorabilia and such. It was a bit weird, to be honest.
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Croccers posted:They ALL used to be 50's themed to an extent. A lot of the standalone ones still are. It's only the newer CBD ones that ditched that aesthetic.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:But they managed to free themselves from, like, the society, man. They weren't shackled to systems, they weren't forced to live a shackled down life. They went out and lived man. They died knowing what the world actually was man. All natural. Not like us, the real prisoners man. This belongs in the early 2000s thread when j finally make it
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Fight Club was ‘99, so it still fits. Though it really does feel like an early ‘00s kind of thing, but I chalk that up to Palahniuk’s edgelord writing style that really fit that era. I guess he was ahead of his time?
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Fight Club belongs to a sub genre of late 90’s movies where the main theme is about how safe, stable, and boring everyday life is. 1999 alone had Fight Club, The Matrix, American Beauty, and Office Space, to name a few. You pretty much stopped seeing it after 9/11 (the 90’s ended on 9/11 after all) and it feels pretty antiquated now, although I still like those films.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Fight Club was ‘99, so it still fits. Though it really does feel like an early ‘00s kind of thing, but I chalk that up to Palahniuk’s edgelord writing style that really fit that era. I guess he was ahead of his time? He was way past the 90s. So over Pottery Barn and Ikea and Starbucks. Boxers? Briefs? No, problem?
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Jul 8, 2019 02:01
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Hah hah American Beauty and that loving bag...
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Jul 8, 2019 02:19
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The most Pretentious Literature Professor Writes Fiction About Banging His Students movie ever.
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Jul 8, 2019 02:23
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I'm 90% sure the bag scene is intentionally pretentious, to highlight that they're just dumb teens and to trap pretentious people into thinking it actually is beautiful.
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Der Kyhe posted:The McD chat in obsolete tech reminded me of something; were the "special themed McDonald's restaurants" a global thing in the late 80's/90's/early 2000? There's some great video of one of those places in the show 'Americana'. I saw this in the early 90s as a kid and thought it was so cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_DJXiPu10&t=2829s
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ryonguy posted:The most Pretentious Literature Professor Writes Fiction About Banging His Students movie ever. A genre that still exists: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/26/dancing-in-the-dark-fourth-volume-my-struggle-karl-ove-knausgaard
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Alhazred posted:A genre that still exists: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/26/dancing-in-the-dark-fourth-volume-my-struggle-karl-ove-knausgaard I'm reading volume 1 now, and while Proust he isn't (though only read volume 1 of isolt) it's well written, maybe a smidge pretentious, but haven't run into anything too egregious, though I can totally see being done with the literate dude writes about his life pretentiously genre. And I'm sure a lot could happen between volumes 1 & 4 A worse example is  which... again, well written, but midlife crisis white dude who has the problem of too many younger attractive ladies want to sleep with him while he finds out exactly how engaging it can be to live in another culture is super gross
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Yes, but Dave Eggers writes pretentious garbage.
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Cartoon Man posted:Hah hah American Beauty and that loving bag... I still joke with my wife about that dumb scene.
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I remember my parents dropped me at my grandparents because they didn't think I would like the movie since I was 9 or 10. When they picked me up I got a brief rundown of what it was about and thought yeah this is dumb. Except I couldn't remember the name. So for years I thought that was American Pie.
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Election came out in the same year and is a much better "middle-aged white guy sabotages his life" movie. I'm sad it doesn't get nearly as much credit as American Beauty. The ending is loving great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYt6asKb5bw I blame the weird movie poster for it. 
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Thermos posted:I blame the weird movie poster for it. One time at Hollywood video I discovered that I had a late fee from returning this movie late. The cashier was really cute, and I kept accidentally calling the movie "Erection" 
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This PSA from the mid to late 90's (although video says 2001) has stuck with me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMKNtc4RJHc
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Mad Hamish posted:Yes, but Dave Eggers writes pretentious garbage. be that as it may, even as someone with a high tolerance for that kind of thing (though I can't stand franzen) hologram was dreck. to get back to the 90s though I impulsively picked up Pure Moods vol 2 on cassette from ebay. Never listened to it, but vol 1 slams. 
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Ambitious Spider posted:be that as it may, even as someone with a high tolerance for that kind of thing (though I can't stand franzen) hologram was dreck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08
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