This weekend will be mostly spent listening to 90s Grunge.
I just finished watching Chasing Amy. It reminded me of the time watched Hackers, the mid-90s Angelina Jolie film, earlier this year.
I'd forgotten how simple a time the mid 1990s was, granted, I was a fucking child. It's not like I had bills, or any responsibility in my life at all. The most difficult choice I had on a daily basis was deciding was what colour Y fronts I was wearing that day.
It's amazing how technology has had such a huge effect on the modern world. I think trying to explain a time before cell phones or skype is like trying to describe a colour, or what an extinct animal looked like. Green is, well, green...?
I'm of that generation when cell phones were just becoming mainstream, I got mine at about 16, beforehand arranging to meet people was a logistical nightmare, waiting by home phones for calls that couldn't really take in private because the fucker was still attached to the wall.
It's just mindblowing how in 16 years I've got from 'writingLYKdis2saveSPCE'* and RUNNING OUT OF CREDIT! Using your last 10p to text someone meant it was something important!
So from that, to having Penpals in Japan that I can talk to instantly, either through Skype or text messaging, well, it's massively humbling. I never get why people say "I wish I was born in the 1890s", "have fun with small pox and the fucking plague, I've got advanced medical care and Skyrim, eat shit!" - I don't get it.
*writing like this to save space.
