i was 3 and i don't really have much of a recollection of it. i lived in sarajevo bosnia. this was before my little sister was born and i'm not sure wether my dad was in the army at the time or not. so it might have just been me and my momma.

i was 10 when i left sarajevo. was a refugee in croatia for two years and then we moved to richmond, va. yelch.

the story's just a bit more complicated then that but that's the main jist of it.

don't know if this would make you feel old, we are kinda in the same boat here at SG...i was 17...
and i have a few good memories of it..and quite a few bad.

i was 10. i was listening to duran duran and the police a lot. i was also already wearing a bra. (since april fools day, 1984)

it looks like you haven't changed one bit. has anyone ever caught you smiling?

i was 6 or 7, into riding 4 wheelers and shifting from listening to Van Halen to Daryl Hall and John Oates to Run DMC. Lots of dogs, lots of cows, lots of seclusion.

i as four, i lived aon a farm and had chickens and a pony that bitmyt hand one time. that year we sold the farm and moved to the city so i could go to a good school. i remember my mom had one of the chickens shot so we could have it stuffed...we still haev it in our den. and i cried when we sold the pony that bit me. and i got a my little pony for my birthday she was purple her name was ember and she came with a tap. my new dining room (where i had the b-day party) was magenta. and my bed room had a closet thatw as really little (like as tall as me) and i used to think it was portal.

nice photo, grandpa.

i was 13-14. living in Virginia then moved to Germany in the fall, and had a tough time fitting in w/ the other army brats at Wurzburg American HS. My dad was in the army.
I had my moms Janis Joplin Pearl record and the Beatles white album and Rubber soul, but I was heavy into the Waterboys and Prince. And when I moved to germany this kid Ryan got me into Ratt and Motley Crue Shout at the Devil, but I still secretly liked Prince, and had 1999, purple rain, around the world in a day, under the cherry moon on lp. Probably started listening to the Cure then.

We had a teen party at some keghouse/restaurant in the basement and I got some serious 2nd or 3rd base action (I still am not sure of the bases) with a girl named jennifer palumbo, while were were playing 3 minutes in the closet or something. Then we slow danced to Lionel Richie or something.
now that i'm thinking about it, there was a girl named stacy palumbo who lived on my street, and another girl named jennifer, but i don't think that either of them was the one i was in the closet with.

we used to drink beer at the burger king in downtown Kitzingen. at the end of the school year I got suspended during a field trip to the soviet union for letting soviet nationals into my room and drinking heineken while we traded russian belt buckles for Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon cassettes.

whew. not pretty.

Okay, you asked for it....

I was 8. I remember going to Hawaii that year, walking from Waikiki beach to Diamondhead and back just to see Magnum PI's house. After that, we rocked out at a Don Ho show, he was pretty fascinated with me +o)

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loved that album so much i went to see them play last year at the bowery ballroom

i was 6. i remember going on holiday to wales. we drove all the way there and i got very carsick. there was a pond there with huge goldfish in it. actually, in hindsight they were probably coy . coy carp i mean, not coquettish goldfish.

when we got to the holiday home we watched live aid. i remember thinking it was very important but not really knowing why

This should never make you feel old, it should make you feel coooool...like a fine aged cheese or something.
In 1985 I was asking for tears for fears and a-ha records for christmas...I was 11. That makes me feel lame.

Dude. I was 16. How old do you feel now?

i was 9.
learning about playing drums, and having frontside-grind fantasies on the ramp in the neighbors backyard.

I wanted to be as badass as Lars Ulrich.
Now, I'd like to punch him in the neck.

that is a complicated comparison tomake. my memories of the farm were those of a child without obligation all i had was my animals my imagination and my hands and feet. i learned about deatha nd birth (kitties had babies, my goat charilie brown died) i collected eggs, and chased the chickens around, i had two friends buti dont remember hanging out with them. just playing with my brother. we were bad kids in the best sense of the werd.

brooklyn is exact inteh simiarities and oposite inthe diferences, still for fun al i have is my hands my feet and my sense of adventure. but now i have bills, school werk, people that wan tot hert me. its likt taking the life of the farm and changing it to decay. here the thing that keeps me alive is tresspassing and my friends. i never understood the importance of friends until i have lived her for a bit over two years. then you reasize somethin.

so its a jungle out htere. if you wanan look at it that way.

heyheyhey, my firend gave me an interpool tape the ohter day (ok as few months ago) its good music for me to paint to , its nice and not distracting but its got good distrotion and stuff. i guess. yeah and sutff.

1985? I was 17... feeling younger yet?

we are of the same mutant clan i see... how did you get that movie in my journal area though i must know your secret...

and for that matter... what's with the spaces? spaces at the beginning and end of your member name that is?

huppy huppy noooooo yeeer. from one old mutant to another.

i was 13. i adored madonna and wore tights in my hair and rubber bracelets. that spring, my grade 8 class went on a waterskiing trip and a cute boy helped me put my wetsuit on. that was cool. then i got my period on the boat, in the wetsuit. that was not cool.

i was 12 and busy having panic attacks after morning tea and toast. i was also hot on mad magazine.

I was 8, and the drugs have rid me of most of my pre 14 year old memories.

I was 8 still living in Chile...perhaps crossing the border...I blocked out most of my childhood

um, I was 8, I think I played soccer and liked Falco, I think that was 85

ha ha, I have a friend who played house of the rising sun while clad in a bubblewrap skirt and suit jacket, yer pic reminds me of that