What did you use to look like? Old photos.

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.

Career Opportunities is my favorite JH movie. Candy is in it, too, for a bit part.

There's a running joke among some of my friends re: Career Opportunites that the real star of that movie was Jennifer Connelly's rack, which I guess is true based on the stills I've seen. I'll have to watch it someday.

"rack" is their favored term, not mine.

Her rack plays an important supporting role

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPYM2-CmOoI

Oh man I wish I could remember the thread where I posted the GIF of that scene. I love CO.

I have never seen Career Opportunities...

oh to be the mechanical horse

15ish years ago on Juliet's balcony in fair Verona
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/5408744825_1ae29fde84_z.jpg

1974 i guess? would wear both these dresses now tbh
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/5409355994_6af183f1ab_z.jpg

Only a couple of years ago but missing the blonde hair lately for reals
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/5409315190_80c9e0bc6e_z.jpg

I think my fave old pic of you Sunny is still the gothy one you posted way upthread <3 It reminds me, for some reason, of my gothy penpal from Brisbane who was in the band Batswing Saloon in the 80s.

Was meaning to scan this for forever, but I finally got around to it. I sure do wish I still had that shirt! (ca. spring 1991)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TVDtIHEPV5I/AAAAAAAAAbo/g7wlShX-Q2M/paul-joydivision.jpg

That is the best photo ever.

I walk through her hills because she knows who I am.

oh my word

Hahahah PP

Now I do have Under the Bridge running through my head.

http://i55.tinypic.com/qxwg8o.jpg

how to live

omg<3

lxy has a baby picture of herself that i am dying for her to post on here but so far despite my entreaties she won't.

http://i56.tinypic.com/6qzhvs.jpg

LOL is that a glass of wine!!

O_O yep

that was totally normal when i was kid, too

iirc i had a fondness for black russians and wine coolers as a 5 yr old

i liked blackberry nip.

i also liked white wine, but maybe not quite that young

germans amirite

Family member recently posted v old photos on fb. I'm in the lower left, maybe 4 years old, with a cousin and our grandpa, the former fire chief.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/MahwahFire.jpg

Same cousin, maybe 5 years later?

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/FloridaSpringBreak.jpg

aw!

All the photos from that family vacation, we're all wearing those matched Health-Tex shorts sets, the kind where you buy the shirt and shorts together? All of us. My cousin's shirt is cooler than mine, though, and less PINK.