Something about the quirkiness and awkwardness of it … and the soundtrack. I became obsessed. It’s still my #1 years later. I was bleaker for Halloween and my friend was juno and wore a pregnant belly to the bar.
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I was blessed to come of age at a time in which both physical media and streaming were prevalent. One of my friends/neighbors got sent away to a boarding school run by monks in alaska and gave me his crate of CD‘s for safekeeping. this led to a lot of classic hipster /mu albums like in the aeroplane over the sea, oracular spectacular, hospice, gorillaz/demon days/plastic beach (i got rise of the ogre from the library and asked my mom what cunt meant bc it was in the book), the suburbs, the reminder, and bands like TMBG, james blake, eels, sleighbells, etc. I also was one of the only people in my school who loved lana del ray, even after her SNL performance. I had a good friend who i bonded with over born to die and after her death, i further deepened my relationship with lana’s music. She also really liked WHY? and alopecia was a big grief album for me.
I also listened to a lot of rap like the first odd future album, XXX, down from the 36 chambers, ex military (found takyon on youtube and it changed something in me) and most of all good kid MAAD city which i had on CD and blasted in the minivan on the drive to school daily.
The most cringe aspects were my deep love of ska punk and folk punk like defiance ohio, AJJ, reel big fish, but especially streetlight manifesto, who I quoted in my senior yearbook. I don’t listen to ska anymore so that’s why I consider it cringe, it’s so far from who I am now, but if i hear a streetlight song i’ll still know all the words.
Mix CD’s also had a huge impact on my music taste. The cool older hipster kids (these are all people who were unimaginably tumblr famous, especially being from a small town) who got together and created the Royal Mixtape Society. It only happened once, but we all created a mix CD and got a copy of everyone else’s in return. This lead to a lot of incredible discoveries, most of all the “Butts“ mixtape which has been the soundtrack to core memories of me and my best friends.
May 26, 2025
this week I went all in for old arctic monkeys, specially with humbug. i don’t think it’s their best album but brings me back ti specific times so it’s on repeat lol
it gives teenager vibes before the canon event so like an idea of what perfect adolescence means
Apr 20, 2024
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- low-brow televion haters.. I want to watch bravo reality shows and the SATC reboot in peace
- taking yourself so seriously
Jun 2, 2025
In middle school I ran a paramore fanpage on instagram and tumblr and told no one about it
Jun 4, 2025
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- get out of bed when you wake up instead of going on your iPhone for 30 minutes scrolling
- listen to your Instagram time limits
- stop stalking past lovers on social media… pointless
- no more hinge. Nothing good will happen
- watch more movies
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