It's definitely missing Gir and the Blink-182 Self Titled album logo.
Actually if we wanted to be pedantic, (and why else are we here?) we could argue this is too wide a spread and encompasses multiple mini-generations. For example I loved MSI and Foamy and Tenacious D, but I was already in high school when Pick of Destiny came out and likewise I hated Happy Tree Friends as I felt it was both awful and mostly for younger kids (who shouldn't have been watching it, but it beats rotten.com and some of the other early Internet stuff they missed the boat on, but I digress...) This covers a wide spread of the early and mid to late 2000s and that doesn't seem like much from an outside perspective but this was back when years felt a proper length.
I heard MSI for the first time in a minute recently, and I was hit by a huge wave of nostalgia. Followed very shortly by the thought “This did not age well.”
It was eligibly the most expensive and ridiculously produced album of all time. It’s their best album because nobody ever trusted them with their wallet like that again, lol.
They’ve been my favorite band for a long time, and I’ve even got a picture somewhere of me kissing Jimmy. But it is sad what has become of them, with the legations against Jimmy and all that.
As another big fan, I don't think there's a single surprising allegation against Jimmy. When people tell you, repeatedly, who they are you gotta believe them.
I get that he’s always been quite the deviant, but I didn’t think that extended to underage girls… but I guess I should’ve known since the pic I have of kissing him i was 16, and while I’m a guy, I know that Jimmy doesn’t seem to care either way.
I feel like every touring musician with a mostly youth audience at least up into the 2010s was taking advantage of their underage fans. It just wasn't as big of a deal, culturally. I graduated in 2009 and had plenty of friends and classmates dating older people, and I do think it's creepy now as an adult but the adults in our lives at the time certainly didn't seem that bothered. The fact that some artists have been crucified over relatively benign behavior while others are still revered despite their repeated flagrant abuse of minors I think speaks more to the fan bases of those musicians than anything else. MSI and Brand New fans are more the types to hold people accountable for their actions than RHCP fans, for example.
Looks like the closest retailer is 45 minutes away from me. Not really worth a trip for, and I wouldn't trust mailing to my address (people steal packages around here.)
But ah well, thank you anyway! Hopefully others can benefit from your link as well.
I partly want it for the drink, but I mostly want it for the nostalgia. I've got fond memories of sharing that drink with a high school friend that passed away. If I get ahold of a bottle, I'll be cheers-ing to him, even if it's plastic.
That Happy Tree Friends episode where the elk had to amputate it's leg with a spoon, only to realize he did the wrong one when he was finished, still follows me :D
Also I introduced my friend group to Donnie Darko and American History X and it gave me remarkable street cred lol All of a sudden I was "the movie guy"
Tbf given the donny darko line was next to lines about being a mental patient, and bonnie and clyde both the edgelordness and the subject matter to edge lord over were quite apparent in the song lol :3
Just a little after my teen years, but HTF and Bawls (grabbed while in the checkout line at Fry's Electronics) bring up some memories. And... is that Pixie Stix? If so, the 60s through the 90s would like a word.
JTHM was great; it actually mercilessly mocked the darklings who were its nominal following, unlike a lot of more pandering goth comics that mixed the gentlest digs at pretentiousness/formulaic music/ridiculous dance moves/wretched poetry with stock tropes (vampires, New Orleans, beauty-in-darkness). Vasquez was the kind of cranky bastard who could really write.
Donnie Darko was, IMHO, hugely overrated. It felt like a student filmmaker trying to do a David Lynch impression, overseasoning it with Hot Topic angst, missing, and somehow getting lucky. Given how his subsequent film, Southland Tales, fell flat, that’s probably not inaccurate.
i was a different person on the DDR machine. i was great. now i have morton’s neroma, and fear having to put titanium arches in the ball’s of my feet, or getting nerve scrapings to be able to walk without feeling like that exposed nerve meme. i miss the dancing though
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I feel like there should be a picture of Gir in between the hair dye and the Pick of Destiny.
It's definitely missing Gir and the Blink-182 Self Titled album logo.
Actually if we wanted to be pedantic, (and why else are we here?) we could argue this is too wide a spread and encompasses multiple mini-generations. For example I loved MSI and Foamy and Tenacious D, but I was already in high school when Pick of Destiny came out and likewise I hated Happy Tree Friends as I felt it was both awful and mostly for younger kids (who shouldn't have been watching it, but it beats rotten.com and some of the other early Internet stuff they missed the boat on, but I digress...) This covers a wide spread of the early and mid to late 2000s and that doesn't seem like much from an outside perspective but this was back when years felt a proper length.
MSI... there's a name I've not heard in forever (beyond my laptop, that is). That was a fun group for a time. And Neurotically Yours I had all of.
I heard MSI for the first time in a minute recently, and I was hit by a huge wave of nostalgia. Followed very shortly by the thought “This did not age well.”
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is there for Johnen Asked L Vasquez rep though
IF YOU’RE SO SMART, EXPLAIN THIS CLARISSA! POW!
I do love me some MSI.
I'm something of a man of culture myself.
I'm having a hard time finding a good picture, but I had a whole wall of Frankenstein Girls lyrics written in silver sharpie.
Clearly, DICKS ARE FOR YOUR FRIENDS, WISHING TO COME TO YOUR HOUSE!
They used to be, but lately idk, I'm too old to be keeping up with all the kids.
SOME OTHER WAY, SOME OTHER PLACE, YOU COULD BE REAL IMPORTANT!
I think that bottom picture gets the message across juuuust fine.
What, you don't like my collection of glass bottles including a Perrier?
Me too. This was their best album, IMO. I genuinely love half the tracks, and listen to many of them regularly.
It was eligibly the most expensive and ridiculously produced album of all time. It’s their best album because nobody ever trusted them with their wallet like that again, lol.
They’ve been my favorite band for a long time, and I’ve even got a picture somewhere of me kissing Jimmy. But it is sad what has become of them, with the legations against Jimmy and all that.
As another big fan, I don't think there's a single surprising allegation against Jimmy. When people tell you, repeatedly, who they are you gotta believe them.
I get that he’s always been quite the deviant, but I didn’t think that extended to underage girls… but I guess I should’ve known since the pic I have of kissing him i was 16, and while I’m a guy, I know that Jimmy doesn’t seem to care either way.
I feel like every touring musician with a mostly youth audience at least up into the 2010s was taking advantage of their underage fans. It just wasn't as big of a deal, culturally. I graduated in 2009 and had plenty of friends and classmates dating older people, and I do think it's creepy now as an adult but the adults in our lives at the time certainly didn't seem that bothered. The fact that some artists have been crucified over relatively benign behavior while others are still revered despite their repeated flagrant abuse of minors I think speaks more to the fan bases of those musicians than anything else. MSI and Brand New fans are more the types to hold people accountable for their actions than RHCP fans, for example.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7t1VfmIMRXJT61rOVsuqWe
Ooh! Ooh! Are we doing JTHM again? That means I get to post this picture one more time:
That you?
Indeed, holding the pair of scissors from this column.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go tend to this wall in my basement. You know how it is.
Don't let it dry out!
I have that image of Foamy as a tattoo
Oh dang. I had forgotten all about that flash cartoon. What was it called again?
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Oh yeah. Neurotically Yours. Looks like they're still making videos.
All of Foamy's songs still slap to this day.
I'm watching the new one (1 hour ago) on YouTube right now!
Is that the cartoon squirrel? I remember the squirrel from back in the day but I can’t remember the name of the show… or the squirrel..
Yep. The rude little squirrel
Respect
Wish I could find some Bawls today.
They have it at Micro Center if you live near one.
I was just reminded of that the other day. They have a store locator.
Looks like the closest retailer is 45 minutes away from me. Not really worth a trip for, and I wouldn't trust mailing to my address (people steal packages around here.)
But ah well, thank you anyway! Hopefully others can benefit from your link as well.
They're just another HFCS drink now, I don't think the bottles are even glass anymore.
I partly want it for the drink, but I mostly want it for the nostalgia. I've got fond memories of sharing that drink with a high school friend that passed away. If I get ahold of a bottle, I'll be cheers-ing to him, even if it's plastic.
That Happy Tree Friends episode where the elk had to amputate it's leg with a spoon, only to realize he did the wrong one when he was finished, still follows me :D
The one that still follows me is the girl animal (don't remember which) who has germ-phobia and scratches off her skin with steel wool. :3
Also reminded me of the "Dumb ways to die" campaign: https://youtu.be/dWSoqIKAE4o
I'd like to guess solely on the specific images in the meme that you are exactly 31.
I'm 41 and this speaks to me on a fundamental level.
A 31 didn't become a teenager until the late 00s
Suburbs 31. Back then it took a few years for the culture to permeate into the breeding grid
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Foamy!
Still call it starschmucks to this day.
Mindless Self Indulgence. Good times.
The Shut Me Up music video was great. It was all over my high school for quite a while.
yessss, JTHM! That shit was so cool to me
Also I introduced my friend group to Donnie Darko and American History X and it gave me remarkable street cred lol All of a sudden I was "the movie guy"
Hmmm, I feel like an Mp3 player should be part of this collage.
It's time for you to wake up, and take me, to the baggle shop, for a baggle with cream cheese, that creamy creamy cheese, OR FACE MY SQUIRRELY RATH!
I do have squirrely wrath you know. It's one of those, hidden nature things.
Damn you Neo!!
I feel seen...
I haven't been in a while, but a couple years ago, you could still find Bawls at Microcenter of all places.
Yeah they still carry it. I pick one up for nostalgia purposes every now and then if I’m there
I work there and I have to stop myself from drinking one constantly, because it's like a dollar after the employee discount.
Oh sure, you all had Happy Tree Friends, but some of us were on next-level shit with R-slur Animal Babies
Watched it on our university's planetarium dome when my friend worked there. Awesome way to watch!
Never watched donny darko, but it was referenced in a song I used to listen to :3
It’s a movie about a man who has the mental illness that 2000’s people thought schizophrenia was. Today, we’d call it Edgelord’s Disease.
Tbf given the donny darko line was next to lines about being a mental patient, and bonnie and clyde both the edgelordness and the subject matter to edge lord over were quite apparent in the song lol :3
Good stuff
You should it's great
Don't be dissing on Foamie
I'll give you Bawls and Pixie Sticks as for wannabe edgy kids, but DDR was mostly otaku and otaku adjacent.
I got really good at the DDR knockoff where you waved your hands over sensors so I could play it on my break at the mall and not get sweaty.
I thought I looked so cool tryharding that techno hand-jive.
Bawls isn't using real sugar anymore fyi
So they still use real bawls?
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I guess you'll just have to put unsweetened bawls in your mouth then.
Sugar alcohol versions are a thing now too but that's a good thing.
Fucking loved foamy the squirrel
Just a little after my teen years, but HTF and Bawls (grabbed while in the checkout line at Fry's Electronics) bring up some memories. And... is that Pixie Stix? If so, the 60s through the 90s would like a word.
JTHM was great; it actually mercilessly mocked the darklings who were its nominal following, unlike a lot of more pandering goth comics that mixed the gentlest digs at pretentiousness/formulaic music/ridiculous dance moves/wretched poetry with stock tropes (vampires, New Orleans, beauty-in-darkness). Vasquez was the kind of cranky bastard who could really write.
Donnie Darko was, IMHO, hugely overrated. It felt like a student filmmaker trying to do a David Lynch impression, overseasoning it with Hot Topic angst, missing, and somehow getting lucky. Given how his subsequent film, Southland Tales, fell flat, that’s probably not inaccurate.
I still have JTHM comics somewhere
Where are those belts with the fake spikes on them?
Dance Dance Revolution - Get Ready
There are still days that I really want a Kevorkian scarf.
That phrase lives rent free in my head to this day
Excuse me, but where is the town car?
I mean, if you are going to come for me like this, it might as well be classy
i was a different person on the DDR machine. i was great. now i have morton’s neroma, and fear having to put titanium arches in the ball’s of my feet, or getting nerve scrapings to be able to walk without feeling like that exposed nerve meme. i miss the dancing though
Hey you leave Bawlz out of this, I still enjoy Blue Bawlz till this very day.