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| 2795 | Who was your pop culture mentor? | As I've <a href="http://www.retro-daze.org/site/article/id/32">mentioned</a>, I got into music much later than most people I know. In freshman year of high school, I finally discovered the radio, and got into bands like Aerosmith, Nirvana, Blind Melon, Soul Asylum, Spin Doctors, Crash Test Dummies, etc. (To those of you already backing away from me due to most of the names on that list: I won't try to stop you.) I ordered ten tapes for a penny from Columbia House and almost immediately became disillusioned. Pearl Jam Ten had that one song on it that I liked from the radio, and a bunch of horrible crap. I don't even remember what was the song I did like, since I completely wrote off Pearl Jam after four listens, trying to get into the rest of the album. I saw their subsequent hits as ridiculous, and hate Eddie Vedder's syllable cramming/stretching to this day. And so it went with many popular bands of the time. Being awkward in other ways as well, I took advantage of the open seating plan in art class to sit at the emptiest table, the one with only one other person. He was a senior who was pretty creative, but mainly taking Art 1 to fill out his final schedule. Being equally weird in fashion as I tried to find myself, I drew his attention. The big thing going on for him right then was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL72Tyxe1rc">Nine Inch Nails</a>. I forget how I actually got to hear the music for the first time, but he told me all about it, and I was finally seriously into a band. Then he introduced me to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIzyoKsWTA4">Ministry</a>. Then, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0E0ynyIUsg">White Zombie</a>. Now, I was finding real joy in music. Thank you, awesome guy in high school who was willing to talk to the weird younger kid, you changed my life for the better. (I still remember your name, I'm just not putting it on the internet) Those three bands basically formed the basis of my musical taste effectively for the rest of my life. I do like other styles, but my favorite music is characterized by crunchy guitars, samples, fast, and heavy. | shakin steak | Jun 14, 2013 |  |
| 2794 | Profile Image Uploading is here | <blockquote rel="thecrow174"><b>thecrow174 wrote :</b><br> The Obamanation pic kinda cracked me up. </blockquote> :lol: Yeah. I have tons of pics in that vain. Not a fan. | Vaporman87 | Jun 14, 2013 | |
| 2793 | Profile Image Uploading is here | The Obamanation pic kinda cracked me up. | Mr Magic | Jun 14, 2013 | |
| 2792 | Profile Image Uploading is here | I've filled mine up with random goodness. :) | Vaporman87 | Jun 14, 2013 | |
| 2791 | Profile Image Uploading is here | Well, I uploaded a pic. I shall upload more later. | Mr Magic | Jun 14, 2013 | |
| 2790 | Profile Image Uploading is here | now if only we could add descriptions to our uploaded pictures, that would be awesome. because that was also a feature that rj had with their image uploader | Benjanime | Jun 14, 2013 | |
| 2789 | Retro Movie Quote Thread | "Freedom!!!" (Braveheart) | Mr Magic | Jun 14, 2013 | |
| 2788 | Profile Image Uploading is here | That's good. I remember using this feature on Retrojunk. Man, I missed that. :( | Mr Magic | Jun 14, 2013 | |
| 2787 | When were you all born? | <blockquote rel="shakin steak"><b>shakin steak wrote :</b><br> se'ndy-nahn </blockquote> Like the song... Summer of '79... do, do, do, do, do-do... Er... wait... :cool: | Vaporman87 | Jun 14, 2013 | |
| 2786 | Exclamation point | So, now I saw some numbers along with those exclamation points. | Mr Magic | Jun 14, 2013 | |
