Hey, man, remember the good old days? Y'know, wars, protests, goin' to jail...

[slipjig3]

There's a ten-year age difference between rafaela and me, which often results in me having to explain certain references that she was heretofore unaware of—things like what Weebles are, or what happens when your TV's vertical hold goes screwy. The ones that throw me for a loop, though, are the ones that she's technically old enough to remember, but for whatever reason completely slipped under her radar; for example, I was shocked to discover that she'd never heard the song "Wild Wild West" by the Escape Club. (Truth be told, I envied her on that count.)

Last night, I found myself having to go looking through YouTube because she didn't understand my story about what classmates were yelling at me in the hallway when I went as a hippy for Halloween my senior year:

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For reasons unknown, she'd never seen it before, but she's been watching it non-stop ever since. And now I'm suddenly compelled to go hunting down stuff by the Electric Prunes and Strawberry Alarm Clock for a playlist that will likely destroy what's left of my delicate sanity. Bloody hell.

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[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Sort of like my friend Leo somehow never hearing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" until that snippet of it in The Lion King. He thought it was a snippet of an Elton John/Tim Rice song that had been mostly cut. Admittedly Leo spent some of his youth living in Japan, but still.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Funny how that works, isn't it? I remember hearing "Tempted" by Squeeze somewhere around 1994, and marveling at how whatever-band-that-is had captured the 70's sound so well. (I'm not proud of this.)

[fiddledragon]

aaaahhhhhh!!! That commercial!!!! Bwahahahahha...

Of course, by that point, I was listening pretty non-stop to *the* classic rock station in Los Angeles, *giggle* so I'd already made my own mix tapes off the radio that resembled something along the lines of what they were selling.

Wait...Your senior year was my sophomore year if I'm parsing the age difference correctly - so...no...that was still Guns N Roses, White Lion, Dirty Dancing sound track, Top Gun soundtrack, etc...

I didn't start listening to classic rock almost non-stop until my junior year. :)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Hee! This would've been fall of 1988, so prime hair-metal years there. I tended to listen to the oldies station or classic rock, but my sister was heavily into hair metal, so I got my share—enough so that I still remember that Slaughter was formed when the Vinnie Vincent Invasion broke up after their "Love Kills" single. (Please shoot me now.)

[fiddledragon]

Which meant you graduated 1989, same as my boyfriend when I was 9th grade - which means, yep - you were a senior when I was a sophomore.

And my love affair with classic rock only intensified when I went on to USC *bwahahahah* (now don't ask me to name artists or titles - because I suck at that - but I'll happily recognize any tune that I listened to..."Oh hey!!! I know that tune!! I can't tell you the name of it to save my life, but...." ;) )

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

the hallway when I went as a hippy for Halloween my senior year

You make me ill. I WAS a hippy in the HS Hallway in my senior year. Also Soph and Junior years. I had most of the original albums, but I'd actually consider buying this set for nostalgic times. Or finding a torrent. :)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

I envy you. I would have loved to have been a hippy back then, but I was entirely too timid. If it helps, I wore genuine certified period love beads with the costume, courtesy of my mom. (And instead of Freedom Rock, we're trying to scare up a copy of Nuggets. Back to the garage, yo.)

[curt-holman.livejournal.com]

That's the worst hippie I've ever seen.

I love the Nuggets series. 'Incense and Peppermints!' 'I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night!'

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

I know! *grooves out to "Psychotic Reaction"*

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

What were you like in high school? I really can't picture how you were and would like to know.

Me, I was managing to come out of my shell. It helped that I was on the school paper from sophomore through senior year; I edited the entertainment section as a senior. I got much more into writing then, and was already showing skills as a proofreader; people liked the job I did at it. I very briefly tried a sport, cross-country (same as my brother), and that didn't work out. And my sense of humor managed to grow a lot in high school, which was good, as I didn't have much of a demonstrative sense of humor even through junior high. I had no fashion sense (course, I still don't) and was in less-good shape; I still had an out-of-proportion abdomen that I'd had since childhood. We in my family referred to it as The Watermelon.

High school was okay, thank goodness.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Ooo, subject for a future post, methinks. (Preferably after copious alcohol consumption.)

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

Dood... I was born in '64. Freedom Rock was like the soundtrack to my CHILDHOOD! LOL

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Same thing with me and disco. rafaela takes great delight in reminding me of how old I am. Feh.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact, I do rather envy you. Something I need to give a listen to in the near future.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

*snort* I have the same issues with my coworkers, who are both in their mid/late 20's. Suddenly 5 years' difference is like a lifetime.

One of Ron's friends did a fake commercial spoofing this commercial: "Hey man, is that Freedom Rock?" "Yeah, man!" "Well, turn it OFF, man!" ...aaand then they smashed the radio to pieces.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Ah, the joys of intergenerational romance! (Keep in mind, Kent is 13 years older than I am)

I am amused, though, because one of his Pandora channels is CALLED Freedom Rock. What a goof.