GTKY: Nostalgia Edition

[soultrane]

In honor of Alanis performing on GMA this morning to celebrate the 20th anniversary re-release of Jagged Little Pill, I thought it might be fun to share some high school memories!

What were your favorites in HS?


Music:

TV Show:

Movie:

After school hangout:

Weekend hangout:

[sandandsea]

Music- all those 90s love songs and divas- smashing pumpkins -goo goo dolls. Though they may have been college.
Tv - Dawson's creek
Movie- titanic
After school hangout - whatever sport I was in that season. I was always busy at school after school.
Weekend hangout- friends houses, cruising, mall

[Andrea]

Music: Coheed & Cambria, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday

TV Show: Gilmore Girls

Movie: Donnie Darko

After school hangout: Starbucks, and random parking lots

Weekend hangout: Starbucks, and random house parties

[soultrane]

Sorry, posted and then had to deal with a work thing!

Music: Alanis, Jewel, and Smashing Pumpkins were on constant rotation in my fancy 3-disc CD changer. And showtunes. So basically, lots of teenage angst paired with happy showtunes lol

TV Show: 90210, Melrose Place, and My So-Called Life for the short time it was on. Loved me some Jordan Catalano!

Movie: Clueless and Dazed and Confused (even though it came out during middle school)

After school hangout: After club meetings, I would either drive around for a bit with my best friends or hang out at my boyfriend's house playing video games. We were wild, I tell you!

Weekend hangout: One of my friends worked at Arby's so we hung out there a lot while he was working. My sister and I also lived in the country so everyone ended up at our house a lot since we didn't have neighbors. Lots of bonfires!

[sandandsea]

I totally forgot clueless! We loved that movie!!!!! As if!!!

[pbandj714]

Music: Dashboard Confessional, Yellowcard, the list goes on. I made so many mix CDs in HS.

TV Show: I don't know why, but I can't remember? I didn't watch a ton of TV. I did like 7th Heaven.

Movie: Mean Girls!

After school hangout: I ran XC and track, so I was always at practice after school.

Weekend hangout: My bff's house.

[babyzebra]

Music: Sum41, Sublime, Yellowcard, etc.

TV show: anything on the WB

Movie: I saw a new movie in the theater almost every weekend. I was living the life!

After school hangout: sports practices, work, and maybe a friend's house of none of the other 2 things were going on

Weekend hangout: mall, movies, beach, friends' houses

[Andrea]

pbandj714, Sounds like we may be pop punk soul mates. I saw Yellowcard this past April. I took my husband, it was like it was 2001 all over again.

edit to add babyzebra, to this post.

[pbandj714]

Nov 2, 2015 10:10:19 GMT -5 Andrea said:

pbandj714, Sounds like we may be pop punk soul mates. I saw Yellowcard this past April. I took my husband, it was like it was 2001 all over again.

edit to add babyzebra, to this post.

That's awesome! I saw Dashboard with a coworker this summer and they were great!!

[soultrane]

babyzebra, how did I forget Sublime??!?

[babyzebra]

Nov 2, 2015 10:21:33 GMT -5 soultrane said:

babyzebra, how did I forget Sublime??!?

Haha I don't know, Sublime is (was) great! I still listen to their music. The rock stations where I live still way overplay their most popular songs, so I mostly listen to the stuff that's not on the radio.

[frecklesnbrains]

Hahaha! Okay, the GTKU will definitely reveal a) how much older I am than most of you, and b) what a loser I was in HS. Some of us were late bloomers

Music: Pearl Jam. Metallica's Black Album. All the dark 80's music - Cure, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears

TV Show: re-runs of The Cosby show, Family Ties, Fresh Prince

Movie: Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park

After school hangout: I was a nerd and hung out with a couple close friends in the "biology lab" at school. I had a job there, taking care of the fish tanks, cleaning, etc. And it was a perfect time to get all my homework done.

Weekend hangout: I have no recollection of what I did on weekends... not much, probably!

[kittenslove]

Music: I still love everything 90's, mostly "alternative" but a lot of pop too.
TV Show: Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek, ER
Movie: Anything scary
After school hangout: I wasn't allowed out on school nights unless it was for sports or girl scouts or theater.
Weekend hangout: My best friends basement (usually drinking) or my boyfriends (now my husband), usually drinking.

[manybellsdown]

Music: Alanis was my very first concert! I was in eighth grade, and my parents let me go ALONE with a friend. That is almost nuts to me now. I was also really into pop punk, like Blink 182 and mxpx ans The Ataris and Get Up Kids and Brand New and Taking Back Sunday come to mind. EDIT: yes, and Sublime!!! And then I had a thing for the Backstreet Boys. No shame but some shame...

TV Show: Pretty much all the WB shows. Dawson's, Gilmore Girls (CANNOT WAIT for the update coming!)

Movie: Clueless was huge

After school hangout: I lived 45 minutes from my school so there wasn't always much of this. There was a Denny's and a Baja Fresh and a specialty grocery store we frequented.

Weekend hangout: usually a friend's house

[pbandj714]

Looove me some BSB!! No shame, manybellsdown!

[littleducky]

Music: Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos

TV Show: Friends, The Real World, ER

Movie: Titanic, Crybaby

After school hangout: At friends houses

Weekend hangout: The coffee shop

[titania]

Music: Green Day, Blink-182, Offspring, Goo Goo Dolls, Nirvana, Aerosmith, Sublime, RHCP... Basically everything they played on our local "alternative" station

TV Show: Friends, ER, Buffy

Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You!!!

After school hangout: the theater at school cause I usually had rehearsal

Weekend hangout: one friend had people over like every weekend, or my BF house, or a group of us would drive around with the windows down listening to music... Cause we were so cool

[cattuccino]

Music: This changed constantly - definitely whatever was popular (but of course 90s pop like Spice girls, BSB, nsync, Britney Spears, Avril etc etc...), I remember really getting into Linkin Park in HS, and Three Days Grace, Sum41, Matthew Good and more alternative and rock stuff too.

TV Show: ER (I AM SO HAPPY SOMEONE ELSE HAS THIS ON HERE! kittenslove,littleducky & titania, !)

Movie: I can't think of just one as a favourite. During HS really big ones came out often, like all the Harry Potter ones, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings which stand out more than others. I also saw movies almost every weekend because one of my friends at the time worked at the theatre so we got free admission a lot

After school hangout: band/music room, working or a friends house.

Weekend hangout: friends houses, movies.

[chriskoo]

What were your favorites in HS?


Music: I was totally into pop country in the 90's and early 2000's -- Brooks and Dunn, Dixie Chicks, Shania, etc. My BFF and I had a huge crush on Joe Nichols. Lol!

TV Show: another vote for ER! Love me some Noah Wylie!

Movie: Grease, Remember the Titans

After school hangout: Friend's houses

Weekend hangout: I grew up on a farm, we were all about bonfire parties.

[Flair Underwood]

I had like NO FRIENDS in HS, so my list is especially nerdy.

Music:
Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Jewel, Tori Amos, Elliott Smith


TV Show:  I loooooved Freaks & Geeks, but that was so short lived. Golden Girls, Designing Women (I watched a lot of lifetime), Gilmore Girls,  I never got into any of the "typical stuff" - Dawson's Creek, the OC, etc...

Movie:
 Umm, i have no idea on this one. 


After school hangout:
Repeat - I was a loser.  I worked a LOT so I worked most days after school.


Weekend hangout:
 I have no idea!  I guess just the mall.  

[nitecheese]

Music:
Ben Folds, Barenaked Ladies, Counting Crows, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Live


TV Show: I loved Seinfeld (reruns) and also got into the first few seasons of Dawson's Creek.

Movie: My BFF and I watched and rewatched Pulp Fiction at least fifty times. We also loved Clerks and Mallrats.


After school hangout:
I was a theatre kid, so I was usually at rehearsal. Or swim practice.


Weekend hangout:
See above.

[Flair Underwood]

nitecheese, how could I forget about Jeff Buckley? i listened to "Grace" nonstop for years... I still pull it out a lot!

[littleducky]

Nov 2, 2015 10:35:32 GMT -5 frecklesnbrains said:

Hahaha! Okay, the GTKU will definitely reveal a) how much older I am than most of you, and b) what a loser I was in HS. Some of us were late bloomers

Music: Pearl Jam. Metallica's Black Album. All the dark 80's music - Cure, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears

TV Show: re-runs of The Cosby show, Family Ties, Fresh Prince

Movie: Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park

After school hangout: I was a nerd and hung out with a couple close friends in the "biology lab" at school. I had a job there, taking care of the fish tanks, cleaning, etc. And it was a perfect time to get all my homework done.

Weekend hangout: I have no recollection of what I did on weekends... not much, probably!

I loved Pearl Jam, Metallica's Black Album, and the Cure!  I will admit though that I listened to them more in sixth grade than in high school though....

[littleducky]

Nov 2, 2015 11:39:09 GMT -5 titania said:

Music: Green Day, Blink-182, Offspring, Goo Goo Dolls, Nirvana, Aerosmith, Sublime, RHCP... Basically everything they played on our local "alternative" station

TV Show: Friends, ER, Buffy

Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You!!!

After school hangout: the theater at school cause I usually had rehearsal

Weekend hangout: one friend had people over like every weekend, or my BF house, or a group of us would drive around with the windows down listening to music... Cause we were so cool

I love love love Buffy! I didn't discover it until college though.

[csat]

Music: Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Cure, The Smiths

TV Show: See my avatar! Short lived show but came out when I was a Sophomore in HS and felt like my own life in a lot of ways at that time.

Movie: I don't remember a lot of movies in HS

After school hangout: I remember just walking home most days, I didn't have a ton of friends in HS.

Weekend hangout: I was kind of a loner on weekends, so mainly my bedroom. Doubt I left it much Fri pm - Mon am. Once I got my drivers license my friend and I would drive around Friday nights but go no where in particular.

[pbandj714]

Nov 2, 2015 13:47:21 GMT -5 nitecheese said:

Music:
Ben Folds, Barenaked Ladies, Counting Crows, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Live


TV Show: I loved Seinfeld (reruns) and also got into the first few seasons of Dawson's Creek.

Movie: My BFF and I watched and rewatched Pulp Fiction at least fifty times. We also loved Clerks and Mallrats.


After school hangout:
I was a theatre kid, so I was usually at rehearsal. Or swim practice.


Weekend hangout:
See above.

Ohhh, Ben Folds! Swoon.

[frecklesnbrains]

Nov 2, 2015 13:54:34 GMT -5 littleducky said:

Nov 2, 2015 10:35:32 GMT -5 frecklesnbrains said:

Hahaha! Okay, the GTKU will definitely reveal a) how much older I am than most of you, and b) what a loser I was in HS. Some of us were late bloomers

Music: Pearl Jam. Metallica's Black Album. All the dark 80's music - Cure, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears

TV Show: re-runs of The Cosby show, Family Ties, Fresh Prince

Movie: Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park

After school hangout: I was a nerd and hung out with a couple close friends in the "biology lab" at school. I had a job there, taking care of the fish tanks, cleaning, etc. And it was a perfect time to get all my homework done.

Weekend hangout: I have no recollection of what I did on weekends... not much, probably!

I loved Pearl Jam, Metallica's Black Album, and the Cure!  I will admit though that I listened to them more in sixth grade than in high school though....

Your siggy tells me you're 5 years younger than me, so that sounds about right! That's great taste in music though, regardless of age! I still love all of the above.

[soultrane]

nitecheese, yes to the Kevin Smith movies! I'm still bitter that a friend in college borrowed my VHS copies and never returned them.

[titania]

Nov 2, 2015 13:55:07 GMT -5 littleducky said:

Nov 2, 2015 11:39:09 GMT -5 titania said:

Music: Green Day, Blink-182, Offspring, Goo Goo Dolls, Nirvana, Aerosmith, Sublime, RHCP... Basically everything they played on our local "alternative" station

TV Show: Friends, ER, Buffy

Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You!!!

After school hangout: the theater at school cause I usually had rehearsal

Weekend hangout: one friend had people over like every weekend, or my BF house, or a group of us would drive around with the windows down listening to music... Cause we were so cool

I love love love Buffy! I didn't discover it until college though.

I may or may not know all of the words from the musical episode

[littleducky]

Nov 2, 2015 14:32:15 GMT -5 titania said:

Nov 2, 2015 13:55:07 GMT -5 littleducky said:

I love love love Buffy! I didn't discover it until college though.

I may or may not know all of the words from the musical episode

Oh yes, I am sure I know all the words.  And I might recite them randomly from time to time...