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mutenostrilagony · 1 year
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runningthruthe90s · 5 months
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Segaworld London || 1996 to 1999
"SegaWorld London was an indoor theme park located inside the Trocadero in London, England. The venue opened up in September 1996 and operated as a joint-venture between Chorion, the owners of the Trocadero, and Sega. At 110,000 square feet, it was claimed to be the largest indoor theme park in the world. It was Sega's flagship venue in Europe and the first Sega theme park outside of Japan." - Wikipedia
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zzoupz · 6 months
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I don't even want to click on the video but I saw this facebook reels thumbnail and burst out laughing and wheezing
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Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, 1990
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gijoe-forever · 14 days
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catandgirlcomic · 3 months
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This is just an advertising sandwich!
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ubeerosophy · 4 months
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Old Song I Know
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I consider the music playing in my car to be a critical part of the experience for my passengers when I’m driving for Uber/Lyft.
I’ve had thousands of people in my back seat, and trying to ensure that whatever song is playing when they get in my car appeals to them is no easy feat. Whether they are with me for 3 minutes or 2 and a half hours, I want that time to be as enjoyable as possible. Often a passenger is heading somewhere undesirable, like work, and other times they may just be having a bad day. If possible, I want to help them escape for a few moments.
The first couple of weeks I did Uber/Lyft, I didn’t have anything playing in my car. I was still navigating the whole process and I wasn’t sure what was normal or comfortable. In hindsight, the silence was probably pretty awkward for those early passengers. At some point, I began putting on a local radio station that played the most current and popular music. That was okay, but then I found that after a couple of years I was still listening to the same songs 9 or 10 times in a single day. More often than not, songs I hated. I decided there had to be a compromise to where I wasn’t spending my entire workday trapped in a car listening to what I considered to be insufferable music. I made a playlist of just the popular songs I didn’t hate and began using that. It worked for a while, but then I grew tired of it as well. Eventually, knowing that on some level 80’s music appeals to most people, I threw together a playlist of instantly recognizable and upbeat songs like “Take On Me” and “Beat It.” It proved to be a pretty successful move, and passengers would regularly hum or sing along to artists like Prince or Don Henley, while in-between rides I would serenade the empty space with The Outfield or Depeche Mode.
About a year ago, I started producing a 90’s themed podcast and YouTube channel. (the90sweekbyweek.com, thanks for asking!) While deep diving into the music of that era, which is far more representative of my formative years than the 80’s, I decided to switch to a 90’s Uber/Lyft playlist. As I watch people my age reminisce over a song or a moment they associate it with, I’m offered a sense of shared nostalgia. For instance, I had a passenger the other day talk about a tour they recently attended that included the band New Edition. While New Edition itself is more closely associated with the 80’s, they spawned several acts that are considered quintessential 90’s. In this case, the song “Poison” by Bel Biv Devoe had come on while they were in my car. “Poison,” by far, elicits some of the most positive reactions from my passengers. Rightfully so. I’ve heard it a thousand times in the past year and still haven’t gotten tired of it.
Selecting songs from the 90’s to put into a playlist for an extremely diverse group of random people is a lot harder than it may seem. Especially when you’re trying to find music that you yourself don’t hate or will get burned out on quickly. Obviously, if you’re trying to bring someone’s mood up or give them a positive experience, you can’t just go with what were considered the most popular songs of the 90’s. Many of them have inappropriate lyrics or intense musical arrangements, and others tend to be too mellow or melancholy. In addition, what I consider to be the best songs of the 90’s may not be the best choices for an Uber/Lyft ride. I long considered Pearl Jam’s song “Black” to be my favorite of any era. After years of playing it over and over, I’m not as high on it as I once was, but still consider it a vital part of any 90’s playlist I’m making for myself. Honestly, every song off the “Ten” album could go on a 90’s playlist and I’d consider it acceptable. Not a single song on that album, however, has made it on my Uber/Lyft 90’s playlist. I just don’t see them helping anyone’s mood for the amount of time I’m taking them wherever they are going. On the other hand, “Jump” by Kriss Kross or “Fantasy” by Mariah Carey have a pretty high success rate.
Sometimes, after I’ve listened to a song for the hundredth time, I start to question my decision to include it in the first place. And I’m not going to lie, “Ice Ice Baby” is still in rotation, but every time it comes on, I get a little embarrassed. God forbid that anyone who doesn’t know that I compiled a list of popular 90’s songs think that I just chose to listen to Vanilla Ice on my own accord. I’m not judging anyone that chooses to express their inner Rob Van Winkle on a regular basis, he’s just not real indicative of anything I choose to associate with. Another example of a song on my current 90’s Uber/Lyft playlist that I second guess is “So What’Cha Want” by the Beastie Boys. It’s one of my favorites on there, but with such a heavy beat and staticky vocals, I wonder if the appeal is broad enough for the myriad of people entering my car. Conversely, while it’s also currently in rotation, I fear that “Plush” by Stone Temple Pilots has a tempo that is too slow to bring or keep people’s spirits up.
It's difficult to separate your affinity for certain songs and the memories you attach to them from the unknown experiences of others. Especially complete strangers. I’m constantly questioning and refining my 90’s playlist. Imagine you are getting in an Uber or Lyft, and the driver is playing 90’s music. If you are looking to be in a festive or positive mood, what songs would you want to hear? What songs would it be hard not to smile at or begin humming along to? Feel free to leave your thoughts and suggestions in the comments and thanks in advance!
And now…a haiku:
though the songs differ
everyone has a soundtrack
if you will listen
“Where words fail, music speaks.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen
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grlbts · 5 months
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Hi Octane - Episode 2 (1994)
Long lost variety show staring Sofia Coppola & Zoe Cassavetes that aired on Comedy Central in the early 90's!
Episode 2 featuring The Beastie Boys, Martin Scorsese, Anna Wintour, Thurston Moore, and Mike Watt
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parasiteicons · 2 years
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polaroidblog · 1 year
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josiepugblog · 3 months
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My extremely objectively correct media favorites for 2023:
Books
Fantasy
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torsz
The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Other Fiction
The September House by Carissa Orlando (horror, arguably fantasy)
The Winter Guest by W.C. Ryan (mystery/historical drama)
Kala by Colin Walsh (mystery)
The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel (historical drama, arguably fantasy as well lolll)
August Blue by Deborah Levy (contemporary fiction (for once!))
Nonfiction
No Ordinary Assignment by Jane Ferguson
A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy
Nazi Culture by George L Mosse
Movies
Polite Society (action/comedy, dir. Nida Manzoor)
Rustin (historical drama, dir. Colman Domingo)
Saltburn (dark comedy, dir. Emerald Fennell)
Flora and Son (comedy/drama, dir. John Carney)
Past Lives (drama, dir. Celine Song)
TV
The Bear
Slow Horses
Succession
Doctor Who (RTDv2)
Beef
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lasersheith · 7 months
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I never thought I'd be the kind of person who enjoys reading non fiction but over the last year and a half I've gotten really into a lot of history and culture nonfiction. I just finished "The Nineties: A Book" by Chuck Klosterman and had a great time with it. I was a little kid during the 90s and have very little concrete memory of basically any of it so it was really cool to learn more about the things that were happening around me that I had vague knowledge about but no real understanding of.
It wasn't super in depth about any one thing but touched on a lot of important topics that made me want to go learn more immediately, which was really cool to me. There's an entire chapter about sports that kind of had my eyes glazing over because I'm not at all a sports person but it was overall very interesting.
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maddie-grove · 1 year
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Little Book Review: Nonfiction Round-Up (May-December 2022)
Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine (1997): a self-help book with a somatic approach to dealing with trauma symptoms. It contained some advice that was useful at my old job. Unfortunately, I was too traumatized from said job to concentrate properly on the audiobook, so I was kind of in a Catch-22.
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman (2022): A deliciously disconcerting series of essays about the fractured last decade of the twentieth century. It wins the coveted "book I'm most determined to lend to my mom" award.
Yes, I'm Hot in This by Huda Fahmy (2018): a cute collection of comics from Fahmy's Instagram, covering subjects from strangers being stupid about her hijab (hence the title) to lighthearted scenes of domestic life. I found it in a Little Library.
Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson (2022): an exploration of the life and writing career of Beatrice Sparks, author of multiple "real" diaries by troubled teens, through-and-through grifter, and coiner of the immortal phrase "freak wharf." This fucked, y'all. Emerson seamlessly delves into multiple topics of interest--Sparks's hardscrabble youth, the discovery of LSD, the Satanic Panic--with plenty of compassion and humor.
The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber (2013): the true-crime account of Charles Cullen, a Pennsylvania/New Jersey nurse who murdered possibly hundreds of patients by poisoning their IV bags in the late 1980s to early 2000s. The subject matter is shocking, and it's horrifying how the indifference of the large medical systems he worked for kept him from facing consequences other than getting fired for years. The style/organization of the book is kind of pedestrian, though.
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (2019): an account of Farrow's efforts to write a story for NBC about the decades-long sexual predation of producer Harvey Weinstein, including NBC's sideways attempts to get him to back off. Farrow's a solid narrative writer, not great, and the book gets less interesting when he strays beyond the inner workings of NBC.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1968): In her first collection of essays, Didion talks about murder, movies, mental distress, and Sacramento. It's incredibly fresh in some ways (the essay where she talks about raising her daughter away from her extended family) and incredibly dated in others (her incredulity at people who ascribe artistic vision to Meet Me in St. Louis). I genuinely appreciate her ability to make me go "girl, what are you even talking about."
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (2020): an illustrated memoir/series of comics, focusing on coping with mental illness and the unexpected loss of a loved one. There are some very funny passages (particularly one involving a troublesome dog), some devastating ones (Brosh's montage of memories of her late younger sister), and some aimless ones.
Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith (2012): part memoir and part general information about anxiety (the science of it, how different people have written about it through history, etc.). It's more interesting as a memoir. I remember that it had some good advice at the end for managing anxiety, but I don't know for the life of me what it was. Still, I feel like I should give him credit for it.
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Younger generations despise older generations for creating a world they must inhabit unwillingly - an impossible accusation to rebuff. Older generations despise new generations for multiple reasons, although most are assorted iterations of two: they perceive the updated versions of themselves as either softer, or lazier. Or both. These categorizations tend to be accurate. But that’s positive. That’s progress. If a society improves, the process of growing up in that society should be less taxing and more comfortable. … If new kids aren’t soft and lazy, something has gone wrong.
- The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman
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Kyle MacLachlan & Elizabeth Berkley, "Showgirls" (1995) ✨✨✨✨
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gijoe-forever · 5 days
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