Wasted on the Young: Vlogging from the Past
Yesterday, I spent way too much time watching teenagers on YouTube bleat and bitch about their daily lives. You have to hand it to these kids with regard to production values -- they've mastered the art of self-indulgence. And they're just so addictive to watch!
It got me thinking. What would my own vlog be like if I had had the tools available now, but in 1994 -- when I was sixteen years old.
I'm pretty sure it would have went something like this (watch it on YouTube for the larger size):
"I reviewed our homecoming dance in the school newspaper" is my favorite line. Very good! :)
(And accurate.)
Posted by: Benjamin Trott | 2008.04.30 at 01:52 PM
This is a riot.
Posted by: mat | 2008.04.30 at 03:00 PM
This seems about right...scarily so. Haha.
Nice music selections! Too.
Posted by: Jared Kelley-Hudgins | 2008.04.30 at 03:01 PM
That sucks about your parents taking your car away. How do they expect anyone to LIVE THEIR LIVES?
Posted by: Steve Calderon | 2008.04.30 at 03:33 PM
Was OMG! invented by then?
Posted by: Andrew Anker | 2008.04.30 at 03:51 PM
I love Dollarshort.
Posted by: Anil Dash | 2008.04.30 at 06:18 PM
You are awesome.
Posted by: dawn(m) | 2008.04.30 at 07:12 PM
HA! I totally saw Greenday at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma! And then get all bitter when the cheerleaders at my high school started liking them and going to shows. Awesome.
Posted by: Nicole | 2008.04.30 at 07:13 PM
Wow, dead on... the Mazzy Star song brought back some angst-filled memories! Bet if I dug my old diary up, I'd find a rant or two about Greenday-radio-fans ;)
Posted by: mindy | 2008.05.01 at 07:13 AM
we should just start doing videos for all the time that was pre-youtube.... we could totally make youtube seem like it was around much longer then it has been.
Posted by: Stefan Hayden | 2008.05.01 at 11:19 AM
This just kills me. Mine would've been all about BBSes and video games, with a soundtrack culled exclusively from Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Posted by: Andy Baio | 2008.05.01 at 11:37 AM
Genius. Pure genius.
Posted by: Syd | 2008.05.01 at 01:34 PM
Wow, just replace Santa Rosa & Petaluma with Hollywood and this is me in high school too.
Posted by: Amber | 2008.05.01 at 01:39 PM
Complete genius.
Posted by: Mike | 2008.05.01 at 08:47 PM
I loved the Kirk Cobain memorial.
Thanks for taking me back and making me remember that it's really, really good to be an adult.
Posted by: EricaLucci | 2008.05.02 at 07:25 AM
God, I miss Kurdt. Imagine what kind of beautiful music he could have made if he hadn't left so soon.
Posted by: Michael Sippey | 2008.05.02 at 09:31 AM
I was not ready for this so early in the morning.
Posted by: Andre | 2008.05.02 at 09:49 AM
wow. first time visiting here and that is just total genius. scarily reminiscent.
Posted by: teensleuth | 2008.05.03 at 03:26 PM
This is sooo much better than anything on TV tonight! Too funny.
Posted by: David Tokheim | 2008.05.03 at 09:35 PM
As others have already said, this is brilliant. (That said, the two Greenday albums before Dookie kind of suck.)
Posted by: ramanan | 2008.05.05 at 01:06 PM
Brilliant! Now if only you'd given "My So-Called Life" a shout out :)
Posted by: Erin | 2008.05.05 at 01:09 PM
If I do an "episode two," My So-Called Life is definitely a part of it.
Posted by: Mena | 2008.05.05 at 01:20 PM
I loved that you had a retainer in. I thought that lisp sounded familiar!
And you've captured 1994 more or less in a nutshell. I'm glad I didn't have vlogging then; talk about cringe inducing. :D
Posted by: K | 2008.05.05 at 07:34 PM
Now I want to do one of those. But I'd have to get my leather jacket back from that skank who stole it from me. And I'd have to pretend to chain smoke. And defend The Smiths against the taunts of my father. And to top it off, phone my ex-girlfriend and whisper over the phone for an hour, because my parents are totally sick of me spending all my time on her and not my schoolwork. Ah, good old 1988.
Posted by: palinode | 2008.05.05 at 08:44 PM
ahhh mena, you rule :)
Posted by: shauna | 2008.05.06 at 03:42 AM