You know... the more I look back, the more I think if you didn't go to college in the '90's...

you missed out.

Good music.

Good art.

Good attitude.


But I'll bet other decades were just as good for those who went to school then. :)

Personally, I miss the unpretentious slacker attitudes, the entrepreneurialism, and the edginess of that time (artistically). It wasn't all about dot-com companies and high stakes venture capital. There was a great resourcefulness back then and a need for alternative expression that I didn't experience in the 80's or in this last decade.

But then I went to school in Austin. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Just reminiscing,

~Writer the Slacker~

We found it kind of funny, but indicative of our status as liberals. We were both dirt poor back then, struggling to make a living, but we lived every day to the fullest, and had fun when we could. We had engaging hobbies and large circles of friends. We were financially deficient, but had everything else. We contrasted it with today. He is a successful businessman, and I have a rewarding career and a comfortable life. We are much better off financially then we were in the Clinton 90's. But we didn't make the mistake of confusing personal prosperity with national prosperity. We didn't fall down at the altar of George W. Bush just because we were doing well. We still remember that back in the 90's, even though we were poor, the country was a better place and we had a better class of leader. I think the classic re-election question "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" ought to be changed to "Is the country better off now than it was four years ago?"

my Rusted Root C.D.

Poli. Sci. during the "Republican Revolution" and "Contract with America." (I think we're particularly suited to enjoying current events)
And weed.

I remember being down at the Austin Convention Center watching the returns come in November of 1994. Not a good night.

:eyes:

it isn't on the major labels or radio anymore, making it inaccessible to most people. I'm not sure what happened in the 90's that brought alternative music into the mainstream.

and didn't get the chance to go to college? Someone had to pay the bills while the slackers got the thrills.

Which were all that seemed available at the time.

while some of us from the "slacker" generation were working our asses off working any job we could find (I found myself working in the construction field for most of the 90's) because we were sick of the rest of the stereotype of our generation living in their mom's basement.

I was just thinking about a franchise-wide meeting we had where they told us all to start charging for extra napkins and ketchup.

And the big proletariat rants I would go on with my friends complaining about that.

No college for me either. Her father took full advantage of the slacker movement though. We had little contact with him until the decade ended. :rofl:

:toast: to living the "other" kind of life.

the 80's, 90's and 2000's, I know, i am such an over-achiever :P

and what's your take on this, oh accomplished one?

I was too stupid in the 80's to do anything but service frat boys and by the time the 2000's rolled around I was too serious and matronly to do anything but actually apply myself so the 90's were in fact the best time to attend college ;)

:grr:

tea service at noon and stuff sweetie O8)

*the fever makes me delirious, I know not what I post*

:loveya:

ILY

at least you could have said Marines.. :patriot: :mad:

:D

Wow--um, seen Richard Linklater movies? (Being from Austin.) Um, my experience is more Kevin Smith (being from the Northeast), but I think we're talking about the same difference--the Gen-X cynical, earnest, "stick it to the man, don't become the man", listening to grunge and loving flannel and decent beer, for once, times. The '90's were a good thing.

For me, they were about poetry readings and older guys and developing my literary persona--part wise-girl and part savant. I wrote more prolifically then, but threw more of it in the bin. I remember that once I heard Nirvana and STP on the radio, I felt like a new chapter opened up in pop culture, and I found that little piece of my own Woodstock I merely glimpsed at when seeing Live Aid as a preteen, and felt it was going to go large into commercialrevivals. I accumulated the mosh injuries and the "I was there" psychic tattoos, and even the multi-piercings (three on one ear, four on the other) and actual ink tattooes (two, to date) that brand me as one of my Generation. I drank lager pints by the side of house bands churning out classic rock and married a "starter husband". I drank a whiskey drink, I drank a cider drink, I drank a lager drink, and kind of almost got late '90's music--since it was the noise of my "first" divorce. (Not that I have any plans for bailing out on my current hubboo--divorces are kind of expensive. And I like the guy I'm with.)

The '90's were a neat decade to become an adult in. The '00's have been a neat decade to practice being an adult in. I sometimes feel like I'm still practicing, though.

i was in college and then in grad school.

i remember lots of sunny days and good music too.

and this new thing called the internet.

Duke Nuke'em. Doom. RotT.

And the X-wing and Tie Fighter demos.

a different online world.

sex. The 90's was a lot of preaching about aids. Then the heavy dose of bullshit about the "sensitive 90's man." I was in high school during the early 90's and was unfortunately impressionable enough to buy some of that.

:D

That was just after people started seeing teal colored Saturns driving around the place.

:)

Late 80's underground music (real underground not mainstream at all)... political activism on human rights against the Reaganites... Convening dinner every evening with my college's version of a more hip Algonquin round-table quite appropriately in a gilded-age dining room looked over by Tiffany windows.




Asking Jeb Bush annoying foreign policy questions about Poppy... Sigh, those were my days

Beautiful school. Beautiful city. Almost went there myself.

Would've been cool if I was actually going to college there at the time.

Maybe.

nonstop, freshman year.

:puke:

Oh, and my initial realization that college was just like high school, only without parental supervision. I was surprised by how dumb so many people at school were.

how did I get so old?

Some of the best times of my life, bar none. That said, I would argue that the 1990s certainly didn't have a monopoly on good art, music, attitudes or whatever. Every decade has brilliant music -- at least, every decade AE (After Elvis). Every decade also has a phenomenal amount of crap. I suppose all art forms re like that, though.

in the Obama era.

As do the young people of the 60s. And I know the 80s kids do (except half of them hate the music...lol.)

I do think art experienced a pretty good decade during the 90's, but a lot of that may have had to do with the fact that generally the economy did well and more people had enough disposable income to invest in it, so I saw a groundswell of new artists fulfilling those desires. The same goes for attitude. It's easy to have a good attitude in times of relative peace and prosperity.

As far as music goes, the 90's will forever be known as the decade that gave us rap "music", so in that regard it will be much like the 70's and disco.