OK! Finally back to business and back to my life story according to old movies and tv shows uploaded to youtube. Interesting i know.

So we left off (before the election that consumed all of our lives) in elementary school with a shit ton of shows on nickelodeon. Now its the good stuff where I really started to get into stuff that wasn't the main stream. Fun times.

First off, this may belong back in the first episode of this trip down youtube-memory lane, but I really started watching this show in early high school becasue they started re-airing it on TV like crazy. I now own every single season of this show on DVD and hope to god my life ends up like these ladies when im in my twilight years.....

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yes, the Golden Girls. I am slightly obsessed with them and look to them when i have problems. No, seriously. I think at first the appeal was I could remember watching the show with my grandmother, but then i realized how well written the show was and how great the characters were...GREAT show. What beats horny old ladies? nothing. This is my friends and I in a nutshell, and we arent even in our twilight....

This next one is an interesting story. While in High school I was seriously into DJ Shadow. I found out that this documentary used his music for the soundtrack, so naturally I went to see it. The documentary was called "Dark Days" and it was about the people in NYC who were homeless, and living in the tunnels of Penn. Station. The documentary instantly became a favorite of mine and has a permanent spot on my top ten films.

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So naturally, the day i made my SG profile all those years ago (almost 5 now!) i put it up there on the list. Sometime in 2006 I got an email (yes before the SG messaging system when messages would go straight to your email account) saying "Oh my god you have my documentary as your favorite, your awesome lets hang out." So, that person was Marc Singer (see youtube clip above) and now I consider...

OK! Finally back to business and back to my life story according to old movies and tv shows uploaded to youtube. Interesting i know.

So we left off (before the election that consumed all of our lives) in elementary school with a shit ton of shows on nickelodeon. Now its the good stuff where I really started to get into stuff that wasn't the main stream. Fun times.

First off, this may belong back in the first episode of this trip down youtube-memory lane, but I really started watching this show in early high school becasue they started re-airing it on TV like crazy. I now own every single season of this show on DVD and hope to god my life ends up like these ladies when im in my twilight years.....



yes, the Golden Girls. I am slightly obsessed with them and look to them when i have problems. No, seriously. I think at first the appeal was I could remember watching the show with my grandmother, but then i realized how well written the show was and how great the characters were...GREAT show. What beats horny old ladies? nothing. This is my friends and I in a nutshell, and we arent even in our twilight....

This next one is an interesting story. While in High school I was seriously into DJ Shadow. I found out that this documentary used his music for the soundtrack, so naturally I went to see it. The documentary was called "Dark Days" and it was about the people in NYC who were homeless, and living in the tunnels of Penn. Station. The documentary instantly became a favorite of mine and has a permanent spot on my top ten films.



So naturally, the day i made my SG profile all those years ago (almost 5 now!) i put it up there on the list. Sometime in 2006 I got an email (yes before the SG messaging system when messages would go straight to your email account) saying "Oh my god you have my documentary as your favorite, your awesome lets hang out." So, that person was Marc Singer (see youtube clip above) and now I consider him a close friend and one of the more interesting people I know. he is currently preparing to sail across the entire world.

This movie came out around the same time:



I was a HUGE fan of Bjork- still am- and this movie was the perfect fix for an angsty teen. Something to be depressed about really. It was moving, touching, and really fucking sad. I actually took my parents to watch it while we were all in Boston one weekend, my mom was so pissed and she said she couldn't eat for a week. I remember playing the soundtrack to that movie at the tiny little coffee shop I worked at and running around trying to serve everyone while singing those songs. good times.

as for TV during these times, it was mostly things I thought the other kids werent watching. Lots of BBC and comedy...

mostly:

Keeping up appearances...


Kids in the Hall....


and watching Star Wars (the original ones) over and over and over again because the old ones had just been re-released and the new ones were coming out...



I just realized too, that the first line of that trailer, is also the first line in one of my favorite DJ Shadow albums (UNKLE- psyence fiction) WEIRD!

OK, so also, i had a new and very profound love for hip hop, and especially this song:



that brings back memories of riding around in cars with boys on summer afternoons doing bad things. damn.

Also around that time being the kind of kid I was, of course I hang around all the skateboarders and the like. This meant I was well versed in the CKY camp, i stil think this shit is entertaining, but never the new jackass shit...



And who could forget the first time they saw this masterpiece:



I remember being high as fuck (i know right?) watching this movie, and not being able to breath because I was laughing so hard at the ashes scene. I still love this movie, i mean, who doesn't? Goodnight sweet prince.

and lastly, one day in high school, I ran into some friends at the local Subway. They said "Hey James, we are about to go to a movie, wanna come?" Being the care free teenager I was at the time, I said, "fuck yeah" They took me to see this film, without knowing at all what it was about....



I was horrified and excited all at the same time. The movie itself was a shock to the system and beautifully done. I loved it and I hated it all at once. Therefore I was instantly obsessed with the music and the film. Thats quite the movie to walk into knowing nothing about it. What a day that was.

So thats pretty much it for high school. Im sure I'll remember a ton of other things after I put this up, but I really think those were some of the most important parts about my high school years and movies and TV. I'll go back to the strange place that LA is today...snowing ash and the whole city smells like a camp fire. its really disturbing.

James