What did you use to look like? Old photos.

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

elvis telecom pics waaay up thread are so so great

clemenza with John Candy is so great.

me and my bro as kids

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6398/familyu.png

i still wonder where that face went :(

Thanks for the nice comments on the Candy photo. I’m going to be really self-indulgent and put up one more brushes-with-celebrity encounter:

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

I think Tony’s explaining why you have to knock three times on the ceiling and twice on the pipes, rather than the other way around.

This also dates to the late ‘80s. A photographer friend and I accompanied my grandmother’s seniors club to see Orlando (sans Dawn) play in Niagara Falls. Same magazine as the Candy interview, one where I had a lot of latitude. We figured we’d get a funny story out of the trip--not mean or condescending funny, that wasn’t the idea at all (this was my own grandmother...), just weird funny. The finished story was never used; I honestly can’t remember if we had second thoughts, or whether the editor decided it was just to confusing for a general-interest music magazine. Anyway, I was already sort of a fan of Orlando’s (for “Knock Three Times” and “Candida,” not “Tie a Yellow Ribbon,” and for the fact that he was an old Brill Building guy), and ended up more of a fan after the trip; he was, as expected, a very nice guy. He had every reason to be suspicious of us, but he gave us some time anyway.

I wish I’d taken more photos in those days. I don’t know how many people on this thread are like me, but my dad used to be so fanatical about family photos, by the time I was 10 I hated getting my picture taken. I never started taking photos until my 40s, when I started teaching. Although most of my favourite interviews when I was writing regularly in the mid-‘80s took place over the phone (Bob Mould, Paul Westerberg, Joey Ramone, etc.), there were still a number of in-person ones (Pet Shop Boys!) where I could have come away with photos and didn’t. It’s something I very much regret.

I don’t know how many people on this thread are like me, but my dad used to be so fanatical about family photos, by the time I was 10 I hated getting my picture taken

*raises hand*

Can you maybe give us a hint as to what this magazine was? I am so so curious

Not well known: Graffiti. It originated in Montreal, then relocated to Toronto in 1985. Thing was, they had a decent amount of money behind them, so what they put out--big and glossy, with lots of money for writers--was all out of proportion to how many people actually read it. I think I got a $700 cheque for a fake Madonna interview in 1986; that seemed like Bill Gates money at the time, and it's more than I've earned in total from freelance writing since Graffiti folded a couple of years later. Which it did, which was kind of inevitable.

maybe 10 years ago now? on the stairwell of our first house.

http://i55.tinypic.com/hrg5uh.jpg

I used to wear a Sandman (the comic book) t-shirt in high school, in fact you can see my friend wearing it in the very first pic of this thread. Sadly, no one ever recognized what it was, the people in my school thought it was a t-shirt for some metal band, even though I listened to techno and not metal.

Daniel, Esq., that picture of you, your wife upthread is just about the sweetest thing I've ever seen

Johnny Fever, lol the "california roll"!

thanks, del. that made me smile.

For me, the most amazing thing about the pic of clemenza and John Candy is that John Candy looks exactly like John Candy and not some behind-the-beat version of John Candy.

It's like an alternative version of 'Uncle Buck' with Macaulay Culkin replaced by clemenza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMWgW6QNuw

I love Uncle Buck so so much.

One of my all-time sentimental favorite movies.

I only saw it for the first time a couple years ago. I know, right? Shameful.

I loved it tho.