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"The 21st Century hasn't yet begun, the century has to begin!"
- Alain Badiou
So, it seems that at least one philosophe believes that we're still living in the '90s. Prove him wrong (or, Klaxons and Jim Lee fans, right) by listing your favourite / least favourite things from those lost days. I'll kick things off with this rather random selection from the top of my head:
GOOD STUFF
- Fist of Fun
- A world (comparitively) free of mobile phones
- Pop Will Eat Itself ("I like Optimus Prime and not Galvatron / I like the Leader of the Pack and Do Do Ron Ron")
- Kill Your Boyfriend
- Street Fighter II ("Spinning Bird Kick!")
- Broad church UK street protests against capitalism (arguably this continues, but in a rather different form post 9/11)
NOT GOOD STUFF AS SUCH, BUT STILL PROMPTS A SMILE
- Guru Josh, the Old Wave of New Rave
- The conversational currency of the construction 'postmodern' (I realised the other day that I haven't heard anyone use that term for, oooh, ages, how about you?)
- Handwriting school / university essays
- Clinton's saxophony
- Combat trousers
- Shoreditch Twat
FRANKLY DEPLORABLE STUFF
- Loaded
- Nick Hornby
- Ocean Colour Scene
- TFI Friday
- Cable
- T-shirts that 'cleverly' subverted corporate logos ('Fuct', 'Johnson's Baddy Powder' &c)
Barbelith's Kate Thorntons / Stuard Maconies, it's over to you. The first poster to list Teh Invisibles gets a special certificate from Grant, proving you can process metaphor. |
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