What did you use to look like? Old photos.

x-post The main character from Freaks and Geeks actress = http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004802/

Her style in the show was very similar to yours in that pic. Hair too.

One night in college I drunkenly made out with some kid while wearing my Cure Paris shirt (sadly since lost to time). I distinctly remember hanging out afterwards and him saying to me, "I don't normally make out with girls who wear Cure shirts." to which I responded, "Well, I don't normally make out with jerks who like Phish." I left.

Ah, I never saw Freaks and Geeks. Far too flattering a comparison, of course, and to be fair the army jacket/band shirt combo wasn't exactly the most outré sartorial choice one could make in 1996. But thanks!

Also, I lived in Alabama
With a name like Johnny Fever, it always made me think you're from Cincinnati.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/juniornoodle.jpg

near 20 years ago, shit

haha awesome

another one from the hippie look era:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8105/urgh.png

(the date is wrong tho)

I've argued with a lot of people on here, but I don't think with you. I'm glad; you look mean and scary!

SLAYER \m/ \m/

I'm sure this'll be way too big, which is never a good looke for me, but here's one of my favourite photos:

http://phildellio.tripod.com/candy.jpg

It was taken right after an interview in either '87 or '88. Just before it was snapped (same guy who did the photos for the piece), Candy said, "This one goes on the album cover." He was such a funny, likeable guy.

Omg, I am beyond jealous. He was my absolute favorite when I was little!

Funny sidebar: the magazine I was writing for promised him the cover, and when the issue came out, he was stuck way in the corner, and most of the cover was given to Pee Wee Herman. We heard back that they were pretty angry.

ouch, lol

clemenza you are my hero <3 <3

awesome picture

I am pretty sure I've posted these somewhere before. Maybe the LOL college thread?

Here's me and some members of Belle & Sebastian, circa 2004

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/meandbands.jpg

Me in 1999 at my friend's dorm. Nice Vision Streetwear high tops with mismatched laces.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/toughstance.jpg

2000 - my friend and I put on my mother's clothes and pretended to pose for prom pics. WTF bored teens in Greeley, CO.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/gayprom.jpg

Random college drinking. Urgh... yeah, that's me giving a BJ to a vodka bottle. For shame. :/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/vodka.jpg

At a party in 2004. My friend and I tried to look like scientists whose beakers just exploded in their face(s). Also, Zima XXX R.I.P. I miss you.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/glassesohmuhgod.jpg

damn, wish I had been around for Zima (though in 20 yrs ppl are probably gonna be wishing they'd been around for 4 Loko)

(okay maybe not)

they still sell it in japan!

brb

some members of Belle & Sebastian

Shows how much I know--I always assumed there were just two of them, a guy named Belle and a guy named Sebastian. That sounded as odd to me as saying "some members of Simon & Garfunkel." But I've done some reading, and now I feel pretty stupid.

lol zima

I never had any other flavor besides just plain ol' zima, but I did drink it on the regular for a short while in the 90s.

John Candy photo = <3

"Well, I don't normally make out with jerks who like Phish."

I think this is a good rule to live by.

With a name like Johnny Fever, it always made me think you're from Cincinnati.

Nah, I'm just a Howard Hesseman stan.

OK JOHN CANDY

<3 <3 <3

lol at final words said in that Black Flag clip.

John Candy pic is incredible

A couple more of mine.

This I've posted before somewhere I'm sure - possibly in better quality but I lost the original scan so had to take a photo of a photo. This is the most 80s John Hughesy looking thing I've ever been in:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs253.snc6/180125_486280087756_726857756_6396326_975991_n.jpg

And here's me in 1993 or 94 rockin the indie dress and tights/boots look as one did then:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs068.snc6/167822_489463537756_726857756_6434006_817129_n.jpg

Cuet!!!! <3

Great pics!

I miss the guy in that B&W pic like woah. No idea what happened to him, I think he became a radiography specialist (or whatever you call ppl who do xrays and CT scans and such) but lost touch with him 20+ years back.

He used to make me mix tapes of live Bauhaus gigs and Brian Eno albums.

Sigh.

Love the glasses in the 93/94 era pic.

where have u gone, long haired boys of youth

They're still around, but they all listen to Jack Johnson now.

LAME

i thought only cougars and lame girls listened to JJ

He's big with the easygoing laid-back guys too, so I've noticed.

I happen to be one of those guys, but am the exception to such a rule.

bc you wore a Cure shirt in your youth

This is true. But that was just so hot sk8r/goth girls would notice me (also, because I liked The Cure).

a dastardly plan.

This is also why I wore Bauhaus tshirts.

Not that it worked.

When you live in a place where your "type" is few and far between, wearing a Cure shirt is equivalent to sending a bat signal or something.

^^ tru

love the expression of the girl behind homo² in the blowing-a-vodka-bottle pic

xpost I hear you, Johnny : grew up in a country town in Australia. Cliques were practically uniformed guards. A Janes Addiction shirt basically said to most of the town HI! WE WILL NEVER HAVE A CONVERSATION

lol

And who'd have wanted it with those mullet heads anyway? I grew up in a country town too.

Same here. Half the people in my school lived on their own farms. (The town has become considerably more suburbified since then and the school I graduated from is now the largest high school (enrollment-wise) in Alabama.) I'd consider living there again if I absolutely had to, but for now I'm just happy going back on occasion to see friends and family.

Funny, spent my primary school and early high school wanting so bad to fit in, then boom turned 15 & did my worst to not fit in from then on, lol.

My family are all still there, and a couple of friends but yeah, not exactly nostalgic for "my hometown" in any other real sense