So I guess this has been a long time comin’, but what can I say - I’m a sucker for closure! This is, officially, the final post of Dealing With The 90s.
As the title of the blog denotes, I’ve been using this blog not to celebrate, but to cope with, my nostalgia for the 1990s. I recognized something weird about my constant immersion in nostalgic feelings I had for the first ten years of my life, and I wanted to get to the bottom of it. But like most things in my life, the answers ended up being a little more vague and unclear than I was hoping.
I think I’ll mention, though, that nostalgia doesn’t seem to actually be about the songs or the movies or the video games. I’m not nostalgic for Pokemon, I’m nostalgic for battling Pokemon in Scott’s backyard sleepover with six other kids. I’m not nostalgic for the Goo Goo Dolls, I’m nostalgic for listening to the Goo Goo Dolls with my sister in the play room with action figures. Nostalgia is nothing but affection for something you’ve lost and can never get back, and it’s healthy in small doses - emphasis on the small.
But one thing’s for sure - I’m not nostalgic for the times I felt nostalgic. All those things I posted about in this blog were once immediate and real. So at some point, you have to stop running google image searches of Rugrats and get back to living. Gotta experience those real, immediate things while they’re staring me right in the face, right?
Anyway, thank y’all so much for all the follows, reblogs, and likes.
Holy crap you guys, it’s been longer than a decade since this song came out. Take a moment to actually think about that. It’s been well over a decade since radio stations played “Fly” every other song. (Because they did)
Over a decade. I feel old. I need to check into a nursing home, my youth is over.
It sort of blows my mind that The Mighty Ducks came out the same year as Reservoir Dogs. The Mighty Ducks is so purely a film of my youth, and Reservoir Dogs is so purely a film of my early adulthood - produced from the same fertile ground of the 1990s. Thankfully, they cut the ear-ripping torture scene from The Mighty Ducks.
(I can’t help but wonder if some kid in 2020 is going to marvel about how The Princess and the Frog came out the same year as Inglourious Basterds. The circle of life?)
[Cool submission! Thanks, Herm10ne, for bringing the GIRL POWER to this blog!]
I have to admit I was a nerdy kid…While I too played pokemon while sipping mondos, being a girl, there are a few 90’s moments that I felt I must share. Take what you want and leave the rest. 1. Polly pocket. Inevtiably ended up in the vacuum cleaner. I held a grudge every time my mother refused to dig through the vacuum cleaner bag to find them.
2. Babysitters Club Books (and movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112435/) I hid many of them under my mattress because I wasn’t allowed to read the ones that discussed “boys and crushes and things like that” So, under the mattress they went. I think I went as far as tearing up a section of carpet to hide them Under the carpet, Under my laundry hamper…
And - naturally - Harry Potter. Parents either thought Harry Potter was fine or thought it was from the devil. I just read every one of those books - in four months time. Decided not to take the risk of my parents finding “devil-books” in my room when I was a child. Too bad I realized I loved them so late. Should have just hid them under the mattress…
Well, that long vacation from the blog is over. Rest assured, I spent the entirety of it coming up with new posts and watching my Goosebumps VHS tapes.
She’s Alex Mack. She was just an average kid until an accident changed her life, and since then, nothing’s been the same. Her best friend Ray thinks it’s cool. Her sister Annie thinks she’s a science project. She can’t let anyone else know. Not even her parents. She knows the chemical plant wants to find her and turn her into some experiment. But you know something? She guesses she’s not so average anymore.
I’m not certain that 1990s nostalgia will color this decade, but I desperately hope that it does. If this blog in any way contributes to people remembering that the aesthetic of Lovefool blows the 2000’s out of the water, if I can convince just one girl to wear that lead singer’s hair cut(s) again, then I’ve done our generation a great service.
In the 1990s, it was alright to terrify children. How old was I when I saw Jurassic Park on VHS - maybe six? Yeah, it was definitely scary, dinosaurs ate people alive, etc. But a little mortal peril is healthy at an early age.
Let’s pretend that this is day seven. Anyway, from the very beginning, I knew I was going to end up with Kool-Aid, but I didn’t realize how perfect this advertisement would be. Kool-Aid and Gameboys went together like Kris and Kross. And that’s the point of this week, I guess - Gushers and Kool-Aid and Capri Sun, it’s not just food. It’s part of our giant collage of media and memories, too. Even if it gave us health disorders.
Ingredients Highlights: Maltodextrin, Calcium Phosphate, Our Collective Nostalgic Past
