Day 69 - The 90s

I liked the 90s before it was a fad and I'm not going to change my opinion just to cater to my silly instinctive counter-culture inclination to rally against the populus. Granted, it's slightly annoying that it's become a fad, but equally it's not that annoying. It's on a similar level to when everybody got into Black Mirror after I'd liked it for years - a bit irritating but ultimately fine.

As much as its a fad, I do agree with people that the 90s is cool so I guess at least I now have something in common with the average person. Of course a lot of the reasons will differ between myself and the masses, but there'll be overlap. Here is my case for the 90s:

The grainy TV/film sheen, The Simpsons, Tarantino, an amazing era of Cinema (see below*), Techno/Electronic music & rave culture, the best Hip Hop era, the best Nick Cave era, Bjork, Italia 90 & Euro 96 (Gazza, Baddiel & Skinner etc and yeah Baddiel is a bit annoying but oh well, I love three lions), Chris Morris, Iannuci, youth counter culture telly eg The Word, Lee & Herring etc, the best era of SNL (Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Adam Sandler, Norm MacDonald, Janeane Garafalo, Phil Hartmann, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Jon Lovitz).

When I'm watching something like, for example Euro 96 highlights, or old Conan clips, it seems so old and yet I was alive during this time. It seems mental but I also like it and I do feel a nostalgic (oh no I said the word!) attachment to the overall feeling that the atmosphere and environments of content from this time consists of. I agree that nostalgia is generally a flawed concept, but although I am a negative curmudgeon, I am still capable of some flawed joy.

*Amazing era of cinema as follows:
Wild at Heart
Awakenings
Slacker
Goodfellas
Misery
Edward Scissorhands
Millers Crossing
Total Recall
Barton Fink
The Silence of the Lambs
What About Bob
Bad Lieutenant
Husbands and Wives
Wayne's World
Reservoir Dogs
A League of Their Own
Glengarry Glen Ross
True Romance
Groundhog Day
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Bullets Over Broadway
Shallow Grave
Forrest Gump
The Usual Suspects
Dumb and Dumber
Clerks
Speed
Toy Story
Safe
To Die For
Mighty Aphrodite
Leaving Las Vegas
Clueless
Before Sunrise
La Haine
Se7en
Billy Maddison
Trainspotting
Happy Gilmore
Bottle Rocket
Fargo
Boogie Nights
Nil By Mouth
Titanic
Good Will Hunting
Jackie Brown
Men in Black
Austin Powers
Liar Liar
The Waterboy
The Truman Show
Happiness
The Big Lebowski
Buffalo 66
There's Something About Mary
Being John Malkovich
South Park the Movie
The Straight Story
Bowfinger
American Beauty
The Virgin Suicides
Office Space
Fight Club

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