Letters to the Editor
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1991 into 1992
Phish taking hold with me.
acid for the free at the pearl jam concert and for everything else that year.
failing college algebra for the second time and eventually metamorphic petrology
smells like teen spirit was an obscure cd for half a year, then boom.
omega festival
kelly granahan
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Daydreaming.
But I do remember going to the Bob Dylan concert and enjoying his new album's rhythm. I cold not understand a word he sang in a crowded baseball coliseum, so I had to buy the 8-track tape for my bOOBBOOBBOOB box bLASTBLASTBOOMBOOM tape recorder.
Watching back-to-back WILLY WONKA 'flicks', old and new, got me brushing my yellow lookin' pointy corn-teeth with pepsodent tooth paste. Who ever thought one could have good hygiene by flossing with shoe strings? The neurons sure are corn-fused.
Remember the old dental advertisement, "You'll wonder where the yellow hollow cavities in the corn-teeth went, after you scoured your false president's teeth with Peptobysmal?
That is my favorite Salon TT song, before and after, each and every every meal here I remember the most. Then I continue daydreaming and hope for some pointed vanilla ice cream cones.
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hmmm
vietnam and if you flunked out you got drafted
endless punch cards for computer science
simon and garfunkle concerts
watching the first peace demonstrations with ten people
going to chicago's old town on saturday
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Austin-Drenched (1989-1990)
Daniel Johnston beginning a stay at the Austin State Hospital
Slacker beginning a year-long run at the Dobie Theater
I bought my first CD, which may have been the Stone Roses "Fools' Gold" single at Waterloo Records
I don't think I watched television that year, but I did play a lot of Tecmo Bowl
First bad experience with tequila in an upperclass dorm
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1979ish things about my freshman year
1. Carter loses, Reagan moves in, the hostages in Iran are released.
3. Grain alcohol punch at frat parties.
4. Long and frustrating hours learning Basic, punching in key cards, and trying to get my program to run in the basement of the computer science building.
5. A tornado warning the first day at college. Having to sit against the walls in the dorm basement hallway. (Back home was tornado-free.)
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Five 1970 - 71ish Things About My Freshman Year
1. Pay Phones with dials,
2. Manual Typewriters that dinged,
3. Everybody smoked cigarettes,
4. Drunks still were considered cute,
5. Hair past my shoulders, because I was away from my dad.
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'81-'82
1. Tainted Love
2. Watching Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park followed several days later by a George Thorogood/Journey/Rolling Stones lineup at the stadium in Philly
3. "The Only Band That Ever Mattered"
4. the shanty towns set up on campus to protest apartheid
5. hating Ronald Reagan
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The real seventies--70-74
1) The Dead, CSN&Y (Deja Vu), Joni, WAR... what is it GOOD FOR, absolutely NUTHIN.
2) The sense that our demonstrations were futile.
3) the drinking age went back to eighteen, when I was nineteen, along with the voting age.
4) Being disillusioned the first time I voted, right from the get-go.
5) The end of college curfews, segregation, rules... Unlimited everything, and learning the difference between freedom and license... the hard way, of course.
It continues to offend those of us who came to consciousness between 1968 and 1975, to have the seventies lumped together including disco. 1964-1975 was an entirely different time from 1975-1985.
Thanks for the article. It was fun
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1993-1994
1) Israel-PLO peace accord (Rabin and Arafat)
2) The Brady Bill passes
3) Michael Jordan retires for the first time after his father is murdered
4) Tonya Harding vs. Nacy Kerrigan
5) Kurt Cobain's suicide
*) (summer school) OJ Simpson and the white Bronco
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The Jive of 1985
1) We are the World
2) PMRC (led by Tipper Gore) Senate hearings on the effects of of Rock Music on Teens. (Now we blame Rap).
3). New Coke
4). Windows 1.0 (yes I was a computer geek)
5). The Debut of "Moonlighting" starring Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard
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5 Very 1990 things about my first year of college
1) Right here. Right now.
2) Galt Sand T-shirts
3) Chunk of the Berlin Wall.
4) Doc Maartens.
5) College downtown was still mostly old houses.
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hmmm-mid-90's
later 90's
1) Neo flowerpower bobo female musicians: Sarah Mclachlan, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, Alanis Morrisette. On a similar note constant radio belting out of Wallflowers, Third Eye Blind, Jewel, Sister Hazel, Chumbawumba
2) Dot com boom: straight outta college kids being paid ton of cash, companies offering perks such as sending gifts to employee's parents, walking their dogs and other unheard of pampered perks
3) Cargo pants for college kids, Gap Chinos for professionals
4) Bill Clinton scandal
5) 99 cents gas
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'79 and then some
1. Down with Khomeni! Free the Americans now! (I still have the T shirt but alas it does not fit).
2. John Lennon assassinated.
3. A little fling with a theater professor...he was 43; wouldn't he hang if it were today!
4. The preppy look meant that everyone looked exactly alike.
5. After a brief experiment with a political science major, I decided to take some more psyc classes since I liked the introductory one so much.
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1986
1) A petition to declare my (very small) college a nuclear-free zone. (I was one of the skeptics who would not sign, asking if any such plans were in the works.)
2) School-tolerated psychedelics festivals at a nearby college. I stayed sober for this: if you're awake for three days straight you don't need Ecstasy or acid.
3) Going barefoot all year and damaging my feet permanently once the weather got chilly.
4) Reading Mother Jones.
5) Learning how to take care of records: you play them once, then record them to tape, then never play them again. But a friend also had a new gadget called a CD player that he swore let you hear more of the subtleties of The Wall. Personally, I couldn't hear any difference.
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2001-2005
Classes canceled on 9/11.
Modest Mouse in the top 40.
Bush elected for a second term.
War in Iraq part 2.
The Teaches of Peaches.
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1964 -65
AT Loyola University, New Orleans.
The Lousiana Intelligence Digest, a right wing screed rag, was still being circulated on campuses (Tulane, Loyola) by Guy Bannister - the right wing nutcase involved in the FPCC handbills that Lee Harvey Oswald had distributed barely a year ealier on Canal Street.
Downtown, the 544 Camp St. address was still being used.
Big events:
lecture by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Fieldhouse
concert by Peter, Paul and Mary - same venue
CORE civil rights meetings, planning for students to join marches in AL, MS
Most enjoyable aspect of college: late night "bull sessions" where 7-8 students would gather to argue, war & peace, philosophy, religion etc. The whole 9 yards.
Took my draft physical in March, '65- got classified IY. From then, I would not have to worry after 'Nam heated up.(Still a year or more away)