“The most notable thing to me was the dude in the back, browsing through a single rack of records for a solid 20 minutes. I was going to come here and post how it was weird, but then I realized: It’s not weird. Not in the 90s. Before smartphones and Internet and MMOs and all that shit, going out was exciting.”
—LovableContrarian on Reddit
“With the help of Reddit, Rogers says she was able to identify the year as spring of 1992, due to someone spotting Garth Brooks’ Rope in the Wind album, the Wayne’s World soundtrack, Slaughter’s The Wild Life and Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power. Tracy Chapman plays in the background. It’s strangely calming, working as a hyper-realistic art piece much better than that artist who rolled through Manhattan in a metal tube in 1998, filming everything.”
—Sophia June, Willamette Week
This time capsule appeared in 2017.
Here I am enjoying it for the first time in 2021.
The mall was entertaining.
No phones.
The idea of seeing one’s face on a TV screen was still a novelty.
CDs came in tall, half-record-sized ‘longboxes.’
I would buy FULL albums at Tower Records for ONE song.
I’ve got a head full of drought
Down here
So far off of losing out
Round here
Overground, watch this space
I’m open to falling from grace
—Sneaker Pimps, 6 Underground
—michelle cosco
Flommist Michelle Cosco is an existentialist trying to make sense of the overwhelming subjectivity of the world. Avid photographer and animal lover. She seeks to see other peoples views in the peripheral of her adventures. Copyright © 2021 Michelle Cosco.
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