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user-inactivated  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have you read the 200 'best American novels'? | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour

    In 1994, every college freshman male had a Natural Born Killers poster and a Pulp Fiction poster.

I can confirm that this is still a thing. That and Bob Marley. Because Bob Marley would totally love how Boulder operates.





user-inactivated  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bet you've seen this one too. It's bizarre how when dorm posters become a thing, they never stop being a thing. It's like all the things that looked cool to kids seeing or hearing stories about their older siblings' dorms just keep accumulating. At some point no one will remember who Bob Marley was, but students will still buy the posters.

kleinbl00  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So I shot this video for Converse. It was 2009, 2010. We needed to get some skate punks for it. Back in my day, skate punks listened to a lot of Slayer, some Peter Tosh, some Anthrax. Know what they listen to now?

Some slayer, some Peter Tosh, some Anthrax.

Back in 2012 I went and bought me an Arbor. The shop I bought it from had skate videos playing. I recognized the music.

"Is that Dinosaur Jr?"

"Close. J Mascis."

It's almost like teen culture pressed the "pause" button in the '90s in some ways. But fuck. Legend came out in '84 and that album f'n never goes away.

user-inactivated  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is a bit off tangent, but you say you had to get some skater punks for that video. How does that process occur? Like what are the steps to acquire a certain demographic for a video?

kleinbl00  ·  3727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Hey, anybody know any skate punks that'll work for beer?"

Although I'm pretty sure I actually overheard the call between the producer - a skater himself - and Rune on this one. I think they were some of the producer's buds.