How did I get here? Part 1

[gr0undzer0]

I was sitting in the tub reading a book for all of about 10 minutes then I got to thinking about stuff, about music and how I got so fucked up, where did it all go wrong? I can from my earliest days remember hearing Elvis, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Barbara Streisand and the jesus christ superstar soundtrack, Loggins and Messina ABBA, the Carpenters from my mothers side and my father being a so-cal surfer James Dean lookalike type I remember heaing the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, the Deltones, Jim Croce, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Buffett, the Beatles.....I thought it was all crap.

My Uncle moved in with us and at the ripe old age of 6 I was listening to his music, I was pretty fucking c00l because I was hanging with my uncle who was 10 years older then me, I was scared shitless when I heard the song Black Sabbath, I would sit for hours listening to his music, never saying a word but at certain times I would leave the room, that was usually when he would play Led Zepplin or KISS, I remember listening to ZZ Top (back in the day they kicked serious ass) or Boston or Kansas or King Crimson or Frank Zappa, Blue Cheer, The Kinks, Rush, The New York Dolls, Rainbow, Deep Purple, the MC5, Ted Nugent, Steve Miller, The Animals, The Doors, ....this music really clicked with me, then I recognized alot more of the electronic side of music Devo, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwork it was different and so unique it was like MINE, I could now make fun of my older sister armed with a bit of musical knowledge, she was caught up in the disco shit, the bee gees, earth wind and fire, the bay city rollers, shaun cassidy, and whatever happened to be in tiger beat this month.

At this point I started watching weird movies as horror was just starting to become mainstream.

I got stoned for the first time at 9.....more music followed, Jethro Tull, ELP, ELO hehehe, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Van Der Graaf Generator, YES.....I was already craving the things you never heard on the radio....Jimi Hendrix finally made an appearance in my life.

I was never able to dress or look the part but I had latched on to alot of things that most 5th graders had no interest in, therefore I was not liked all that much. I learned to fight at an early age and I never had many friends, I did not care, I had something so much better then that, I had and have something no one can take away from you, I had music.

My parents bought me a guitar and I was amazed at what these guys could create and I wanted to do it so badly I tried to copy the Dick Dales, Ted Nugents, Van Halens, Robert Fripps, and Jeff Becks of the world and failed miserably, they could create the most amazing sounds and I could do none of it, I tried but had no guidance as to what the hell I was doing, so eventually I became more interested in the vocalists, I could easily mimic them, I could mimic anybody which became a great defense mechanism growing older......

What I remember of the 70's was fan fucking tastic and music shaped my life for better or worse

[LPTrees]

Keeping it kinda short..

During the ripe ole age of around 10, when a person starts getting into music, my parents moved into the city. The neighborhood was pretty rough, and the hip hop culture was introduced to me, and inevitably, shoved down my throat. Rap and R&B was considered cool, and rock was considered lame and a suburban white bred thing.

I was not too fond of it. I found myself gravitating to the more softer and melodic R&B tunes, but that wasn't really doing it for me either. I started watching MTV and enjoyed a lot of the stuff that was on at that time, but I still did not know where to start.

One day, a commercial came on the TV promoting Green Day's dookie album. I liked the snippets on the commercial so I decided to buy the album. The album was good and more in lines of my taste, but still not exactly what I was looking for.

My next album was Nevermind. It was good, and it fueled my taste for pop alternative rock. My next few albums were by the Pumpkins and STP and all throughout HS I was listening to this type of stuff.

Alright, I'm getting nowhere with this. In college I got into the earlier Nirvana stuff, and the other Seattle bands. I then downloaded some Screaming Trees and fell in love. Bought all their albums, and the Mark Lanegan stuff, and here I am.

[maidli2]

Hope this should be clear... but you've been warned it is boring - especially with my poor english
I am the eldest and my parents didnt listen to music, or very very stupid french stuff . Music was although a part of my environment cause my aunt teached classical dance, in which I was automatically included , and her husband was a Orchestra conductor (?) at opéra Garnier in paris.
They wanted me to become a star ballerina ;D and I unfortunately danced for 10 years. Music yes, but classic. I was a lonely child, always in books, but most of all passionated by mythologies of the world.

To sum up, I grew up without musical influence, except to hearing from my parents “studying is stupid, listening to music the same”.

... Until one day just before the Christmas holidays where a supervisor - always seeing me alone - asks me if I wanted to listen to music during recess rather than being alone. A little bit of compassion ? He put his walkman on my ears. It was good. No...better than that.

I ordered a walkman at Christmas as he proposed to record a cassette for me. There were plenty of very different stuff, but I was going to listen to 3 songs, in repeating mode, ever and ever . A revelation : guitar/bass/drums !

Within 1 month i changed. My parents didnt recognize me, they even were on ire .. they told the doc and everybody i listened to violent music. From that period, they (still) thought i’m crazy.
Their perfect girl listened noise , always had guitar sounds in the head, and -hopefully for her- mythology.

And so I was still alone , but now I spent my life out of school in a record shop. Over there, I began to be known as “the rocking baby”. I wanted to listen to everything, all the time . My first purchases were Back in black /ACDC and Faith / The Cure. 2 different stuff that gave me chills.
In 1982, I finally went to my first gig Siouxsie and the banshees, my uncle waiting patiently in the car during the concert, a little bit frightened. I was 13.

[LostCause]

It is an interesting concept. How did I get here from there? My dad had a nice hi-fi w/reel-to-reel and a nice turntable and on the weekend he would turn it up and kind of let his hair down in a metaphorical sense since he was lacking folically for my entire life. There are a few songs and bands that really stand out when I think of what my dad used to listen to, Back in the USSR, Heart of Gold, Sail on Sailor (whom I had no idea was the Beach Boys until about 3-weeks ago), Smoke on the Water, Hank Williams (Sr), Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary. Kiss was my fav as a kid. I remember my grandma giving me the Ace Frehley solo album as a kid for my birthday and looking at the cover she did not have any idea what to think. I picked a good one to ask for because that music on that album was better than most Kiss records and it is still what I like probably best, good guitar rock. From there it was mostly metal in the 80s w/Motley Crue, Ratt, Iron Maiden, Ozzy and harder edged Hair Metal bands being my fav. My first live shows were metal and they were fun. They were fine until I heard Kill'em All by Metallica soon followed by Megadeth. They were brutal, they were funny, they did not (at that time) take themselves too seriously, they were themselves and above all they rocked. That was enough for a while until I went to college and got put into contact with people who were into other music, Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead were the two bands that I got into the most that I would have never thought to enjoy before. I remember walking into my dorm room the 2nd year of college and hearing Janes Addiction the first time and thinking what the hell is this? I remember my metal head buddy buying the tape but hating it and throwing it out of his car window at the sound. After a week or so I was just mesmerized and the journey away from predominantly metal started. I also remember Alice In Chains kind of seeping into the metal landscape while not being total metal they were something me and my metal buddies could enjoy. I remember the night that I heard and saw Nirvana Smells like teen Spirit the first time. It was after a Kiss, Winger and Slaughter show at Alpine Valley an outdoor show that we had a great time at. I come home and my mom is dozing on her chair after working 2nd shift as a nurse and I pop on MTV kind of dozing and then I hear the chord, then I see the video and hear the music. I am not sure what woke me up to see and hear it but it is totally symbolic because it woke me up musically as well. My friends had an independent music show on the college radio station on Wednesday nights and that opened me up to a ton of music, the Pixies, Big Audio Dynamite, Concrete Blonde, The Charlatans UK, Soul Asylum, The Stone Roses, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bob the Funky Homosapien (have not heard of him in a while), Primus...... To make a long story a little shorter, the "Grunge"/alternative to mainstream years happened right when I was at an age where I was open to new things and it helped me user in a new musical awareness. Tom Waits also got into the picture around this time with Bone Machine and there was no turning back from that after an introduction that went from "What the hell is that noise you have on?" to I need to have that CD and everything that I can get my hands on of his (which musically is all over the place). At the same time I remember hearing my dad’s music all over the place and getting into classic rock like Hendrix, The Beatles, Dylan, and Led Zepplin at the same time. That is probably what made Mark and Screaming Trees so appealing is that they fit into many of the things musically that I enjoyed. at the same time I have gone and seen Slayer, Sebastian Bach and a few other metal shows the last few years and still enjoy that. I am pretty well rounded now as far as what I can enjoy. I am pretty thankful of that because I have a friend who is still a metal head and cannot for 1 minute listen to anything else. I remember telling him that I was going to see Lilith Fair mainly to see the Indigo Girls and Sarah McLachlan and he looked at me like I had grown two or three extra noses or something. He could not fathom seeing or listening to something less than metal voluntarily. I never want to be there. I might not like certain groups or certain types of music but I am sure that I can listen to anything if I had to and at most tolerate it if I had to. Taking my wife’s niece to see The Spice Girls "live" in concert along with about 15000 screaming girls and their parents about 10 years ago made me certain of that fact.

I would call this the abbreviated version because I barely hit on some music that I love and enjoy daily....

[pie2pie]

17, met a girl
17, finished high school
20, dropped out of university
20, moved into apartment with girl
23, me and girl bought a car together
24, me and girl bought a house together
25, girl became the wife
27, became a dad
28, laid off from job
summer 2008, no work at all.
fall 2008, will be returning to school.

[m]

Aug 25, 2008 22:37:52 GMT -5 @pie2pie said:

17, met a girl
17, finished high school
20, dropped out of university
20, moved into apartment with girl
23, me and girl bought a car together
24, me and girl bought a house together
25, girl became the wife
27, became a dad
28, laid off from job
summer 2008, no work at all.
fall 2008, will be returning to school.

sounds like this should be the lyrics to a bruce springsteen song, written somewhere between The River and Nebraska...

[felixthecat]

Brought up with parents who had a MASSIVE vinyl collection - country, blues, 50's rock'n'roll, classic calypso. Of course, I hated the lot, being the pain in the arse kid I was.

First 'wow' moment came when I heard T-Rex's 'Jeepster' age about 9 - - fuck me, that was better than the disco shite that was around at the time!! I wanted to hear more stuff like this and discovered Radio Caroline, and then John Peel - a man who became my musical hero, even tho he wasn't a musician! I was the teenager/preeteen who listened to a transistor radio under the covers in bed at night, having my ears opened to great music.

Then the great god Peel played the Damned's New Rose - OH. MY.GOD. I went headfirst into punk - loved it, the energy, the excitement, the difference from turgid pop and glam metal that dominated at the time! I started going to gigs and seeing every band I could - I've tried to list all the bands I've seen since and its an impressive list ;D. Thru punk I also started listening to reggae, dub, ska and rocksteady, punk pop, goth, garage, rockabilly and believe it or not, folk...............

Since then I've had a love for music with bit of passion and for voices - not always strictly the best voices, but ones with distinction, with character. I've revisted all my dad's old stuff and developed a real appreciation of it. I've delved back and discovered stuff that I missed first time around (or wasn't even born for), fabulous blues singers, gospel singers, glorious acoustics.

Damn, so much awesome music, so little time.............

[pie2pie]

Aug 26, 2008 4:01:51 GMT -5 m said:

Aug 25, 2008 22:37:52 GMT -5 @pie2pie said:

17, met a girl
17, finished high school
20, dropped out of university
20, moved into apartment with girl
23, me and girl bought a car together
24, me and girl bought a house together
25, girl became the wife
27, became a dad
28, laid off from job
summer 2008, no work at all.
fall 2008, will be returning to school.

sounds like this should be the lyrics to a bruce springsteen song, written somewhere between The River and Nebraska...

yeah! can someone write me some music for this and i'll record it as my first single???

[Montage]

For some reason, I can picture it going really well to the melody Small Town Girl...

Not that that would make it a good song...

[okay]

My dad was into some pretty hip music... he was in the Columbia Record Club when I was young and my mom had to tel them he was dead to get them to cancel his membership. (He's still alive, though.) Anyways, by the time I was 12 I was big into R.E.M., Soul Asylum, Pearl Jam, the Who, and Neil Young, thanks to his cds. I tried to get my mom to buy me In Utero for my birthday the year it came out but she siad no way Jose, because of Rape Me, and so I bought it myself, making the first cd I called my own. Fifteen years later I'm on my third copy of it.

When I was 15 I got my first job as a screen printer's assistant, and the guy I assisted had 400 cds AT WORK got me into the Breeders and Sonic Youth and forced me to listen to AC DC against my will. He also was how I heard the Wallflowers before they got huge (he was a big Bob Dylan fan) which I promptly passed on to my Dad and felt very smug when they became huge a month after I gave him the cd.

I think MTV, when it was on it's last legs of goodness in the mid 90s, was pretty influential on me. And the awesome WFNX radio station. God Bless Julie Kramer.

How did I end up HERE? I had Sweet Oblivion in high school. I loaned it to my Soundgarden-loving little brother and he wouldn't give it back to me, so it ended up being the first CD I ever COPIED, on our brand new CD-W drive. I bought Dust at a used record store when I was in college. But it was when I was going through my boyfriend at the time's cds and found The Winding Sheet that did me in. I loved it from first listen and never looked back.

I joined this board initially because I was trying to sort out some roumers that Mr Man was in the hospital a few years ago.

And why I've stuck around, is still a mystery.

[Fields at Midnight]

I grew up in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood, so as a young child, the rap stations were what I listened to. Power 106 and KIIS FM. Early favorites were New Kids on the Block, Vanilla Ice, Bel Biv Devoe, Digital Underground, MC Hammer, and The Candyman. I was rather young so I missed NWA and Dr. Dre.

At age 10, my older brother spent the night at his friends house. I went with my mom to pick him up and he had a tape with him. On that tape was Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, and Lithium (as well as Even Flow and I Hate Everytyhing About You). I was hooked. Dumped all the cheesy 80s rap (I have since gone back. Humpty Dance is awesome) and became a Nirvana fan. My friend got In Utero for his 12th birthday and we listened to it all night. It was amazing.

One day in November, 1993 my parents weren't home and I was flipping through the channels. I came across MTV and Kurt was in a chair sining. I didn't think much of it, but I thought I should keep it there just in case they played another Nirvana song. It turns out that it was Nirvana Unplugged and it was amazing, of course. I particularly liked Plateau, and it has my favorite version of Polly on it. After Kurt died I delved deeper into Nirvana. In Middle School there was a group of us who inly talked about Nirvana all the time. We were obsessed. I bouht the book, "Come As You Are" but never took it off the shelf. When Soundgarden broke up in 1996, I thought to myself that music was dead and I stopped listening to the radio and stopped going to record stores. I was content with my 5 Nirvana albums and my Ugly Kid Joe album.

In college, Idecided to read "Come as You Are" and it talked about this band called the Screaming Trees and this guy named Mark Lanegan. I was immediately intrigued. I put the book down and immediately ordered a copy of The Winding Sheet. I was not blown away at first. I really liked "Down in the Dark" and Mockingbirds" though. I thoguht enough of it to give Mark another chance, and I still hadn't heard the Trees. While I ordered The Winding Sheet I also ordered the Sub Pop 200 CD. I loved "Love or Confusion"

The rest is history

[nanna]

I am the youngest in a flock of seven kids. My siblings are much older than me, so i didn't have that much company growing up, but i'm always thankful to my brother whose influece it was for me to start listening music. He played drums in our basement (thanks to him i learned the basic comping well before i got to any musical classes, in which i sucked by the way) and was also in a larp-group. So, as he was gone, i would go to his room and search for a briefcase he had made for his c-tapes. There they were; Blues Brothers, Kiss, Dylan, Hendrix, Pink Floyd and my all-time favourite, Queen. I sold my soul to rock'n'roll in the age of 6.

Well, i had my ups and downs in "musical career": i did hook into Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys but once i bought Skunk Anansies Stoosh from Heathrow airport, i would tear those BB-posters off my walls and put Freddie back on. I have also tried to be a punk-rocker but little i knew about the real world of punk. Same thing with hiphop and rap. Summer of '97 i spent with electronic music, loved hardhouse and ambient. Always fell back to the loving arms of rock though.

Later on my friend introduced me to Black Sabbath. And then later to stoner rock; Kyuss, Nebula, and Mark Lanegan. I can also thank her for finding out about other grunge-stuff than mere Nirvana. Phew, she's had almost as big influence on me that my bro did My ex-fiance was a musician, and had a hard-rock band - that way i found out about hard rock. He also liked Springsteen and Blues Brothers, and old-time stuff like chicago blues. I am the kinda person who merely sucks influences from those around me, and rarely just find out about things on my own. Though lately that's been a changing: i am becoming more and more interrested in the history of rock, and yeat even more of alternative-stuff. Nowadays that i study very scientific stuff, it's revelating to be around music and musicians that represent completely different world than medicine... Relaxating, i'd say.

[Stephanie]

Great thread.

My earliest music-related memories are listening to classical music in my father's car on the way to school. I remember being especially struck by Bach... there was something uncanny and mysterious sounding about this music, like being inside a clock. But Beethoven was probably my first musical love; my first tape had Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and some other pieces on it. I was really excited by the prospect of learning "Fur Elise" on the piano... I wanted to play it passionately as I imagined Beethoven did

My mom played Michael Jackson a lot, actually, which I liked but never really got into. My parents were both into music of all genres. My mom was also a one-time ballet teacher and I went to ballet lessons when I was little, so was exposed to a lot of classical music. But both of my parents were really into rock and R&B as well, from James Brown to the Doors. They shared a huge record collection (mostly my Mom's, who at one point worked in a record store) which I got interested in later on in my teen years, asking my Mom to tell me about the different artists she had in her collection and sitting down to listen to the records. I was especially intrigued by the weird 60s psychedelic shit. I stole my Dad's Doors and Led Zeppelin CDs. This was probably when I was around 15.

I don't recall having a particular fondness for any particular rock or pop artist when I was very young, though there was always some interest in music. I never really went through that "teeny" period of being into some tween-oriented group. I think I must have bypassed that phase somehow, though I don't really know why. I remember playing "rock star" with my best friend at the time (who is still my best friend), probably around when I was eight years old or so, putting on a lot of bangles and belts and playing with this sort of weird guitar-shaped keyboard toy I had called "Hot Keyz"

The first tapes aside from a couple classical tapes that I ever got, I got in fourth grade: Nirvana's In Utero, Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, and Aerosmith--whichever one has the cow on it ;D It must have been '94 or '95. My first rock obsession was Nirvana. I obsessively read Michael Azzerad's Nirvana bio and hunted down rare singles and bootlegs. I was particularly interested in Kurt Cobain's influences and collaborators and so I branched out from Nirvana at first that way, checking out everything from the Pixies to Black Flag. Strangely, I listen to the bands I discovered from this process more today than I do Nirvana, whom I still like and respect.

I really got into the whole "grunge" thing, and tracked down several Sub Pop compilations and artist releases--I loved that swirly, rustic sound a lot of those artists had. There was something about the lo-fi production and guitar sounds on those records, and the yowling, strained vocals that filled me with a sort of mysticism. I also had Charles Peterson's Screaming Life book. Those black and white photos just added to that whole vibe. I imagined these artists as living someplace out of some gothic fairy tale, with dark, dense forests of pine trees, a lot of rain, and all sorts of weird characters doing weird scary things in remote cabins in the woods.

I feel a bit nostalgic for how it was then, there was a romance to the whole process of discovering music that I think the Internet has taken away (though I also think the Internet has opened a lot of awesome new doors). I happened to get into rock just as Internet was something people were getting in their homes, and we had a 14.4 modem back when that was cutting edge--ha--and it was enough to give a person access to all kinds of interviews and articles on lovingly crafted, exhaustive fan pages, but you still had to track down and find the music yourself. It was like I was a detective hunting through interviews with my favorite bands for "clues."

I discovered two of my all-time favorite artists this way, following up on artists Cobain talked about or that I read he had played with: the Meat Puppets and one Mr. Mark Lanegan. My first memory of Mark's music is sitting on the floor next to my boombox with a copy of Scraps at Midnight around the time it was released, though knowing my Nirvana obsession, I may have tracked down The Winding Sheet even before that. I was into the Screaming Trees a bit before that, though they were never a favorite. I had a Screaming Trees poster on my wall and saw them at the second rock concert I ever went to, Lollapalooza 1996 (Nine Inch Nails / David Bowie / Prick was the first in 1995, which remains one of the most memorable and powerful shows I've ever attended).

Mark Lanegan's music has been a mainstay ever since I first discovered it--he epitomized that rustic Northwest mysticism I vibed off of--but I embraced the Meat Puppets with a more obsessive enthusiasm. Listening to the Meat Puppets transported me to another mystical place, a desert full of strange shapes and a hazy sense of dreamlike unreality. It was almost like stepping into a Surrealist painting where all sorts of weird things could happen. My enthusiasm was aided by the website that the drummer, Derrick Bostrom, ran as early as 1995, which was full of entertaining, surrealistic interviews, tour diaries, and all sorts of neat stuff.

Perhaps the apex of my fandom was when I created my own fan page for the band after Derrick took a lot of what had originally been on his site down. The Meat Puppets had almost no web sites dedicated to them at this point (compared to dozens that existed for other favorite bands like Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails) so I thought it made sense for me to take that on as a project. I ordered old magazines off of eBay and typed up articles, typed up a lot of the old things I'd printed off of Derrick's page. I even started collecting a lot of bootlegs and ultimately even shared some online on a file-sharing site called "MySpace" (I was irked when someone else bought the domain www.myspace.com , which caused me to lose the method I'd had to share these rare songs with other fans). It is odd to think that if I'd taken a slightly different direction, creating a webpage for another favorite artist with almost no Web presence at the time, I might have beat Onewhiskey to it! I think I even remember considering doing a site for Mark instead of the Meat Puppets.

At the same time I was doing all this, I was also struck hard by the force of an article called "Shooting Star" that was written about Cris Kirkwood's heroin addiction and devastating downward spiral. It moved me and I felt this need to reach out to him, to see if there was anything I could do to help, though I feared he would die. A Yahoo group got started by someone else for people who were concerned about Cris and we followed as Cris re-appeared in the media after an incident where he got shot by a security guard and ended up in jail. I even sent him a letter when his girlfriend (who was on the group) posted his mailing address at the jail and encouraged letters. I'm sure it was filled with lots of embarrassing, idealistic teenage rhetoric. The pathos of that whole experience really got to me and it was probably the first thing that inspired me to want to go in the direction that would ultimately lead me to social work.

I felt like I'd come full circle when I went to see the Meat Puppets in Brooklyn in 2007, the first year of my Master's in Social Work program, and the first year that Curt and Cris had toured together in close to a decade (I'd caught two dates of Curt's solo tour in 2001 in L. A., which remain in the top five shows I've ever attended). To see Cris up there, obviously battered, but alive, playing music with his brother and smiling--I couldn't possibly describe it to you, the way it made me feel. As awesome as the show was musically, I think the thing I took away from it the most was that sometimes, people do make it out of the darkness alive, and that sometimes even our small, blind efforts can make a difference for someone else. I took it as a good omen and a blessing for the beginning of my career, to see what can happen when you don't give up on people.

Not much after that, the emergence of the Gutter Twins project filled me with an enthusiasm I haven't felt for a band in years. It's reawakened something in me that I'm still trying to figure out. In a way, it's like this musical elixir of Mark and Greg's has brought me back to life. I'd spent years getting deep into a lot of spiritual pursuits that increasingly pulled me away from "the world," and it's as if this music called me back. I was embarrassed at first by the obsessive enthusiasm I felt--wasn't I too old for this?--but I've come to realize that it's never a bad thing when some sort of passion chooses you, affects you in ways you can't control or understand.

[LostCause]

The first tapes aside from a couple classical tapes that I ever got, I got in fourth grade: Nirvana's In Utero, Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, and Aerosmith

I don't usually feel old but you have made me feel that was a tad because I was in finishing up college when these came out. It seems like just yesterday.

[gr0undzer0]

Sept 8, 2008 12:03:27 GMT -5 LostCause said:

The first tapes aside from a couple classical tapes that I ever got, I got in fourth grade: Nirvana's In Utero, Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, and Aerosmith

I don't usually feel old but you have made me feel that was a tad because I was in finishing up college when these came out. It seems like just yesterday.

yeah I know exactly what you mean

[Stephanie]

I already feel old, so woe is me if I live to be as old as y'all crusty types

[Lungsey]

if you play your cards right, you won't remember half of it so its all good

[nanna]

I stopped ageing when i turned 24. That was... some time ago. I'll be 24 as long as i'll live

[gr0undzer0]

bah, its just a number and besides as you get older its great when people look at your ID and say WOW are you really this old ? ;D its the little things in life for us

[Stephanie]

I think youth is overrated. When you're younger, people on average are more interested in what you look like, how wild you like to get at parties, etc., whereas as you get older, you find people are actually more interested in what you think, who you are, what your life experience is, etc. I've spent the past ten years or so bored with most of what my peer group likes to do to socialize; I don't mind getting older at all. It feels like finally being able to be who I've always been without this putting me at odds with most of the people in my immediate sphere.

[maidli2]

Sept 8, 2008 12:10:17 GMT -5 gr0undzer0 said:

I was in finishing up college when these came out. It seems like just yesterday.

yeah I know exactly what you mean [/quote]

Stop, i'm crying

[maidli2]

Sept 9, 2008 11:45:11 GMT -5 gr0undzer0 said:

bah, its just a number and besides as you get older its great when people look at your ID and say WOW are you really this old ? ;D its the little things in life for us

and this is lovely

[gr0undzer0]

Sept 9, 2008 16:38:39 GMT -5 @maidli2 said:

Sept 8, 2008 12:10:17 GMT -5 gr0undzer0 said:

I was in finishing up college when these came out. It seems like just yesterday.

yeah I know exactly what you mean

Stop, i'm crying[/quote]

hehehe well that quote was not ME, I never finished ANY college, I am a dumb uneducated loser

[The Eyeball Kid]

lolz old people.
i'm young and beatufill and i'm gonna be spaceman assassin when i grow up!

[Fields at Midnight]

Sept 9, 2008 11:36:53 GMT -5 nanna said:

I stopped ageing when i turned 24. That was... some time ago. I'll be 24 as long as i'll live

My grandma started her birthdays over again at 29. She's 53 ;D