It's January 1983. Where are you?

[ofrfxsk]

I'm sitting in my room. It's Sunday evening so I'm trying to tape Casey Kasem's top countdown for the week. I just got my new tape recorder and I'm holding it against the radio speaker waiting for that song. My full light and being, my very essence is in that song that I've so desperately tried to memorize. I wrote the perceived lyrics down a million times, wrote curly q's and hearts galore on my notebooks, wrote notes to my friends in class and got in trouble. I loved that song with all my heart.

I can't remember what song it was now. Is that strange?

[flamingyouth]

1. Freshman in high school

Probably listening to my Sex Pistols cassette in my room. :D

[loudestchick]

52. Also, a freshman in HS...being watched like a hawk by my family

following my New Years Eve suicide attempt. Never tried it again...came too close on the first try. Also probably depressed because my boyfriend broke up w/ me once he found out about the attempt.

[fudge stripe cookays]

108. Yikes! I'm sorry!

I was in that same place in November of 1986. I'm glad we're both still around. :-)

Hope things are better for you by now.
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[loudestchick]

124. They are.

If only I could show kids at 14 that it gets better...well, I wouldn't have listened then either. :shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

126. Good.

Yes, I was pretty stupid at 20. The whole world fell apart when my boyfriend and I broke up.

Someone needed to gently let me know that whole "other fish in the sea" thing. But there wre family probs too. Thank Goodness everything sorted itself out for me too. But it took almost 4 freaking years after that.

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[Maple]

2. Behind the times

apparently!

[Biased Liberal Media]

3. I'd have to ask my mom. I was only 4 and a half...

my daughter's age.

[Lenape85]

4. I wasn't even an itch in my daddy's you-know-where

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. lol me too...

My parents wouldn't even be married for a month yet

[Lenape85]

My parents married in Oct 83

[Reverend_Smitty]

13. They were married in Feb 83...

it was all downhill from there. I didn't burst on to the scene until March of 84. I was joking with my mom about her wedding day a few weeks ago...she said "we were both completely drunk, our parents were more than pissed off, but at least I wasn't knocked up on my wedding day, that was the only plus" lol

[Kathleen04]

16. Me neither

My parents married in '79 and waited until '86 to have me. :)

[GOPNotForMe]

5. My mother's womb, about 3 weeks from entering the real world :)

[youngred]

7. two months from being born

:-)

[tk2kewl]

8. HS senior. No clue as to what I would've been doing

:beer: and/or :smoke: probably.

Drinking age was 18 back then so we could have been at Horizons, a bar down the road from my house.

[qnr]

9. USCG, LORAN Station Sellia Marina, Italy - COCO's Asst and MEDSEA

chain Radioman.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

27. USCG Station New York fighting the war on drugs, one vial

at a time

[qnr]

47. Way too close to home for me, which at that time was on South St.

between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, across the street from the NY Post - and on a historical sidenote, I could see into Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs apartment from my apartment.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

48. That's funny. I lied on Clinton street then

right around the corner.

[qnr]

Yes, it sure was. Home was on Catherine Slip, for me. n/t

[NNadir]

55. Studying chemistry and admiring my future wife from afar.

[kaitykaity]

37. Fort Jackson South Carolina.

PV1 finishing AIT, headed for Permanent Party on
13 Feb.

On the plane the day Karen Carpenter died.

[last_texas_dem]

10. I was but a mere fetus

Couple months after conception, I guess. At that rare stage in life when the Republicans actually cared what happened to me; a few months later, and they would never give a shit about me again!

[jmm]

11. In Head Start playing Duck Duck Goose

:D

[ofrfxsk]

12. I hate you all.

Just you wait. You'll be complaining about how them yungen's don't see the value of mp3's anymore and how you all had to struggle waiting for a song to download over 2 minutes.
LOL

[yardwork]

14. Living with a crazy alcoholic bartender

who used to invite roadies and heroin addicts into our apartment at 3 am and then pass out.

A month later I got a better job and moved into a house with two other people.

A year and some months later I got married.

[7th_Sephiroth]

15. cleaining my guns

waiting for the war of January, 1984 </orwell>

[drumwolf]

17. I'm in the eighth grade in Westchester County, New York.....

...and my aunt and uncle (my mom's youngest sibling) and their infant daughter are living with us (my parents and my older sister and me) until they find their own place.

I'm spending my time playing Atari, in particular the Adventure game and this one Activision game called Pitfall.

And we have just recently gotten both MTV and Nickelodeon, so I'm watching shows like "You Can't Do That on Television" and "The Tomorrow People" and having a whole new world of pop music opened up to me with all these brand-new British new-wave bands (Duran Duran, Bow Wow Wow, Madness, the Cure, Psychedelic Furs, etc).

Actually, January 1983 was definitely one of the high points of my childhood. :)

[LudwigVan]

18. January 1983?

If I got the date right... totally BUMMED the Cowboys lost to the Redskins in the NFC championship.

[rainbow4321]

19. HS senior... was getting senioritis, probably!

Damn, these "still a fetus", etc... posts are making me feel kinda ancient...kinda like going to an antique store and seeing your childhood toys/lunchboxes!!!

[Susang]

20. Either being an underaged clubgoer, checking out local bands

Or being pissed off that my plans to hang out at a club with my friends and check out a band we'd heard about fell through.

I was pissed off a lot that year. After all, it was my senior year in high school. ;-)

[smbolisnch]

21. A wild 5 year old...

probably up at 2 am like I am now :P

[B Calm]

22. Taking a wage and benifit concession so the company

could be more competive in the market place. We find out later in the year that salary people got a raise and the product that we were making went up in price to our customers. Gp figure....

[Vektor]

23. Living in Westport, Massachusetts....

Where I wish I was now.
I was a tiny kid...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

92. Horseneck Beach and Farms

what a lovely town!

[Vektor]

95. Oh, it was!

I miss it so. I never realized how lucky I was until I left.

[koneko]

133. I grew up near there

in Mattapoisett! I went to Stang, so I had a lot of friends from Westport.

[Speed8098]

24. I'm a garage door man

Work hard, play hard was our mantra. First came the :beer: :bounce:, then came the :hangover:

If I only knew what I know now.


Oh well.....it was fun while it lasted.

[JVS]

25. Getting pumped for Saturday morning cartoons by watching...

the test patterns and then the crop report. I was an early riser.

[scarlet_owl]

26. I'm celebrating my second birthday.

[ContraBass Black]

28. Not yet concieved.

[fleabert]

29. same as you...I think it was either

Abracadabra or The Reflex?

:-D

those were our good ol' days, huh? I still have some of those tapes, they sound like shit, but are so funny. I did interviews like I was on MTV.

[Tracyjo]

30. I was riding my horse

His name was Bellcotes Chance. I rode in rain, snow, sleet and sun. Maybe I should have been a mail carrier.
Were you listening to The Police?

[Norbert]

31. Two years of Reaganomics and I'm out of a job.

I'm probably in the midst of filling out the 97 applications/resume submittals in a two week span.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

32. Freshman in HS

I reading a book of short stories by O Henry. It had been a Christmas gift.

[blondeatlast]

33. Coolidge, Arizona, working the evening shift at an infirmary for

a state institution.

[Burma Jones]

34. Living at the YMCA in downtown Houston

Just out of College and wondering what the hell I was doing in fucking Texas. I was outta there by June and back to DC.................

[donheld]

73. But tell us, was it fun to stay at the

Y.M.C.A?

[Burma Jones]

94. Well, I would say interesting was more like it

It was more a haven for burned out near homeless than what the Village People would have you believe, there was an extreme lack of fabulousness, it was very gray and depressing. I kinda remember more than a few guys like the character Gil from the Simpsons. In Houston, the Gay neighborhood was Montrose, still is I suppose, I lived there for awhile. Scared my Mom...........

One funny thing that happened was when some guy tried to cook a dozen eggs in the Microwave without piercing them first - quite the explosion. Overall, it wasn't a bad experience, just depressing and gray......

[eShirl]

35. I'm at the Megatron Arcade with a pocketful of 4/$1 metal tokens

Playing Tempest, Ms. PacMan, Defender, Popeye, Donkey Kong, Tron, Galaga, and the pinball machine Scorpion. "Tainted Love" by The Sex Dwarves is playing over the wall-mounted speakers wired to the manager's radio. It's after school, where I'm getting a D in Latin (which I will later take up studying again *voluntarily* at the age of 39).

[MadHound]

120. Hah, I was making a living off of kids like you

Owned an arcade for a few years, '83 being my first winter in business. Also working as a volunteer firefighter, putting out chimney fires in damn freezing cold and snow. Fun time all in all.

[bearfan454]

36. I was working overtime at IBM

A LOT of overtime.

[RetroLounge]

76. and only two years away from the Super Bowl Bears!

RL

[bearfan454]

91. I know it !

[Carson]

38. Waiting not-so-patiently for my 9th birthday on the 9th. nt

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

39. uhh

not born :P

[Kathy in Cambridge]

40. Freshman in college, probably home on break, hanging out at clubs

I probably went to Cantone's to see the Lyres and the Classic Ruins. Hung out at the Rat with The Neats. There was probably a loft party on Northampton Street near Doc's Cafe, an after hours party at Store 54 on Queensbury St., a record release party and Jumpin' Jack Flash, a gig with Christmas and Salem66 at Chet's, and something happening at the BFVF.

I was a busy little 18 year old...

[HEAVYHEART]

41. You sound like my brother

My brother never missed Casey Kasem's countdown and he too taped it :-) I don't remember exactly where I was on January 1983 but I was turning 18 in a month.

[Left Is Write]

42. I was 16. I was a junior in high school.

Quite likely, I was taping off the radio also, although by that time I had given up holding the tape recorder up to the radio and had moved on to taping on my dad's stereo.

[bikebloke]

43. Kibbutz Hefz-bah, Israel

My second season as communistical comrade worker. It was a nice life for a time. Especially the social life. Since then, I've turned 180-degrees from a hyper-social to a content solitaire.

[UrbScotty]

44. I wasn't even around.

;-)

[Allenberg]

45. 18 months old.

[supernova]

46. I'm sitting with my two college girlfriends

in my girlfriend Cheryl's room. We are talking about art and literature and sometimes boys. :-)

[Huckebein the Raven]

49. I was 4. Don't remember...n/t

[greendog]

50. Hanging out with the hippies in Boulder, CO.

n/t

[madinmaryland]

51. Senior in college.

It's now party time, as i have only 6 more credit hours left til i graduate. Lot's of pool and beer.:beer:

[Dying Eagle]

53. I was 2 years old

I must have been eating Cheerios and shiting myself!!

[nuxvomica]

54. Working

Sort of the same company as I work for now except there have been two corporate acquisitions and two completely different job changes since.

[DiverDave]

56. Living in Hawaii

for about a year by then.
Just had started diving, was working 3 jobs and staying out all night chasing tourist girls.
Ahh, the memory's ;)

[Coventina]

57. Oh. My. God!!!!! Are you me?!?!?!?!?!?

Help!

I've apparently developed multiple personality disorder!!!


Someone is posting my memories!


AHHHHHHH!!!!!

[Maine-ah]

58. I was eight, almost nine.

probably in my bedroom with my christmas loot. :D

[Midlodemocrat]

59. Teaching high school in Stamford, CT

It seems like a lifetime ago.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

60. An under-employed Ph.D., trying to survive on part-time teaching jobs, and

since all the places I taught had January Terms, where I had no assigned classes, probably working for a temp agency to survive the winter.

I am not nostalgic for the Reagan years.

Actually, 1/15/83 was a Saturday, so I puttered around the house and in the evening went to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis to see a Japanese film called "Demon Pond."

No, I don't have a photographic memory, but I do have diaries dating back to 1977.

[Dastard Stepchild]

61. Dreading fractions in 3rd grade...

I still do this....
I just don't care for the fractions. :)

[liberalhistorian]

62. I had just turned 18 on Jan. 3,

and was preparing to graduate from high school in a few months and going absolutely crazy trying to decide which colleges to apply to. Time seemed so damn slow then, I remember we couldn't wait until graduation and college and it seemed to take forever. Now, all of a sudden, it's twenty-two years later, I just turned FORTY, and my son will be 14 in a few months! :scared:

Reminds me of a song my high school choir sang at our graduation, Time Gone:

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept
When as a youth, I dreamed and talked, time walked
When I became a full-grown man, time ran
And later as I older grew, time flew
Soon I shall find while traveling on, time gone

[norml]

63. Picking up government cheese, and butter.

The cheese was big, and orange, and sliced like Velveeta.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

64. At home with my parents

Dad had just gotten out of the hospital after having a heart attack three days before Christmas. Was helping Mom take care of him and starting my spring semester at Wichita State.

[thedailyshow]

65. Probably about six months old

and crawling around on the carpet.

[fluffernutter]

66. PA visiting my father for the holidays

with my little brother who throws up on me every time the plane lands. I adore him anyway. And the trips to visit my father are always worth it.

[fortyfeetunder]

67. Looking for a job

Was laid off about 8 months ago so I was staying with some relatives and was still looking for work.

[Bok_Tukalo]

68. Getting ready for an evening of "Cruising" Mena Arkansas

Which means driving to the Oklahoma line to get beer (they sold to anyone that could reach the counter with money at the time) and generally running around to find out who all would be there that evening or if DeQueen was where everyone was going to hang out.

[Z_I_Peevey]

69. Trying to scrape together enough money

to get out of Texas.

[RetroLounge]

70. 22 years old, and wherever I was, I am sure

I was drunk as hell and there was a woman involved and somehow it was all her fault, really, but her sister's pretty cute too, so I'll hang around and take the abuse because her brother has some good weed, and the band is playing in the city tonight and we are going to all be crashing at the loft downtown afterwards and there might be some coke there and I'm not sure my car will make it thru the night as it is a 1965 Impala but I have restored it from scratch and it looks pretty sweet tonight, black, and fast and sounds nice and throaty and speaking of throaty that blonde with the thick, Pall Mall and Gin voice might be at the club too and I love the way she dances and shakes her hair and holds her arms out like an airplane when she sways and she usually has some good connections for more stash later on if we run out and sometimes she'll come back to the burbs with us and hang at McGreeveys because its open until 4 am and they have a good jukebox and pool tables and she brings her friends with sometimes too and they are pretty cool except for that one short chick with the cast on her left foot who tends to trip too much, and I mean with acid, not the way she broke her foot in the parking lot jumping on the roofs of cars and falling off the trunk of that Malibu, but tripping on pane and sometimes shrooms and she's good for a laugh and she's hot and all but gets annoying after a while but she's still pretty cute and she likes to mess around and doesn't mind coming back to our apartment even though it's small and my roomate is probably drunk too and his girlfriend is there and she's fun and likes to walk around naked and smokes luckies and she can cook too so we eat well, and it feels like home even if it is a bland beige apartment building that looks like everyting else in the burbs it's home and like I said, we put up with her, not my roomate's girlfriend, but the one with the cast, we put up with her if we have to because her brother is in our band and he's a damn good singer and has some good contacts in the club scene and like I said, I am probably drunk and looking for the next place to show up and meet some other women and man this is the life and I don't see it ever changing and I am so glad I am not one of those stuffy married home-owning guys with 2 kids like my older bro who has forgotten what fun is and someday maybe but not for now so yeah, that is where I am on this date in time.

RL

[ProgressiveConn]

88. 16 months old...

So probably sound asleep in my crib. =)

[AngryLizard]

71. 10 years old, living in Los Alamitos, CA

In my grandmother's house, which me and my mom moved into after she died last year. Looking forward to Return of the Jedi coming out in 4 months, although 4 months is just FOREVER. Probably doing the massive amounts of homework given to me by my private school. I might be sick, because the commute from O.C. to downtown where my mom works and I go to school is unbelievably stressful. Definitely prepping for church in the morning (although I can say is, thank goodness for sunday school, because adult church sucks).

[nickgutierrez]

72. 10 months from being born. n/t

[donheld]

74. I was attending one of the most fundy Bible colleges

in the country. Bible Missionary Institue in Rock Island Illinois. Gawd if i could turn back time.

[HEyHEY]

75. IN pre-school

[Kire]

77. I was 8 yo, listening to Casey Kasem, using the tape recorder the same way

as U, that's pretty funny

[SarahB]

78. I was in 5th grade and living in Omaha.

I just played Mrs. Claus in a play. Exciting stuff.

[baldguy]

79. Failing my first year of college.

Caused by too much drink, too many parties & not enough sleep.

In the spring the school would say "Your grades suck, we don't want you here anymore", and my mom & dad said "If you're not gonna be in school, then we don't want you here anymore either", so I packed up & moved to Boulder to live with my sister.

[Pegleg Thd]

80. Mid January of 1983

I was just out of the hospital after my second stroke at the age of 44.

[FarLeftRage]

81. Living in central New York State

and working at 24 hour family retaurant.
Still PO'd at ray-gun being prez and John Lennon being murdered...
I was 22 going to be 23 two months later.

[American Tragedy]

82. My mother's womb

[solinvictus]

83. At home..

and obsessed with the Beatles, X-Men, Daredevil, and the Legion of Super Heroes.

[IronLionZion]

84. not born yet

i was born in April of that year

[JordanTO]

85. I wasn't even conceived yet.

:)

[MrScorpio]

86. In exactly two months from 15 Jan, I will go to basic training

I'll fly on an airplane for the first time and experience that weird place named Texas for the very first time.

[grace0418]

87. I was in seventh grade

Probably listening to the Police on my turntable in my room. Probably hating life. Junior high SUCKED.

[Magrittes Pipe]

89. I'm 8, and I have a crush on Punky Brewster.

On edit: Hm. Punky Brewster didn't come on TV until '84. So I suppose I was crushing on Kenerly P., a girl in my 3rd-grade class.

Second edit: shit, I didn't turn 8 until March. So I'm only 7.

I'm not too good at this game.

[Taverner]

90. 7th Grade in a Fundie School

Probably already started smoking, listening to heavy metal, etc....

We had a school assembly where they played rock and roll backwards to show it's *satanic* influences. The week after, I went out and bought all the albums.

Shitty year, but I did discover better music :)

[NoPasaran]

93. El Paso

Working as a bench tech. Heading out in the evenings to drive around and get stoned.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

96. Just got into engineering school

And worrying sick about the physical (it was an Army-ran college).

[pink-o]

97. Playing in my band...

...the first time around. Worked as a waitress during the day, gigged at night all over San Francisco. We broke up around March or April that year, and it was like a really messy, horrible divorce. I high-tailed to Jamaica with my CD disc-man portable (the bloody thing weighed about 10 pounds, had a huge rechargeable battery pack and cost almost $300.00!!!!) and my copies of "Thriller" and U2's "War" (...All is quiet on New Year's Day).

1983 is the year I learned all about AIDS and was sickened by the disgusting fundie response and Reagan's refusal to acknowledge a crisis--since only gays and Haitians seemed to be affected. I also learned in detail about the Salvadorian death squads and US-backed JUNTA in Nicaragua--from the Jamaican media, not the American.

Goes to show, the more things change, the more they remain the same. I probably thought fleetingly about the new millenium and figured we'd be rid of Repigs by then.

Damn. Bummer being wrong.

[Rhiannon12866]

98. I am at work, at my first "real" job,

Which was compromised of at least 12-hour "days," working at night. And I'm really hoping that it hasn't snowed, since the trip home is long and very dark, and there is little chance that they've plowed at the terrible hour that I get out of work.
:scared:

[RadicalMom]

99. I'm sitting in traffic in Laurel Canyon, studying for my real estate

license. Ugh! Economy was terrible, and so I tried that for a while. Not a great job solution for a person who needed income.

[Worst Username Ever]

100. In Kindergarten

Wearing Oshkosk B'gosh overalls.

[ucmike]

101. first year of highschool

just left dads house in sunny fla., for mom's cramped apartment in a nyc housing project. yanked out of the small town h.s. i was attending and supposed to go to a school that was 15x the size, where i knew no one. the nyc board of ed placed so much bureacratic crap in the way that i won't end up going back to school until april. then i dropped out and got left back. this was the start of my lifelong contempt of our education system and general disillusionmnet with american society.

[bobthedrummer]

102. At an AA meeting in Milwaukee. Divorced.

[ernstbass]

103. I was planning my wedding to my future ex husband

[liontamer]

104. lagos

I'm probably sitting on the porch with my grandma

[ceile]

105. second grade

[ImpeachBush]

106. I think I was drunk ...

I did that a lot in those days.

[cally]

107. Starting to worry about my Masters thesis

I hadn't gotten anything done on it and a draft was due soon. I was trying to design a better punishment scheme for companies that illegally dumped hazardous waste. Trying to figure how to estimate the rate of illegal dumping.

[sniffa]

109. pLaying ms. pacman on atari

and hoping it snows so i can miss schooL.
i hated that mean oLd sister mary stevens.

[Connie_Corleone]

110. In the sixth grade.

Can't remember a thing.

[fudge stripe cookays]

111. San Antonio, Texas. A year away from graduating HS....

and getting the fuck out of Madison High School and that city.

I hated my life and everything about it. My dad had died 3 years before, and my mom had begun our descent into hell with this asshole boyfriend of hers.

No abuse or anything like that, but for 10 years their relationship carried on with her expecting him to marry her and he evading it. We were a "backstreet" family to a guy who was married.

My life finally regained some semblance of normalcy when they DID get married and agreed to divorce in late 89-early 90.

I had an older sister who never even knew I existed. Even when they were married, they lived in different houses in different cities. Fun, huh?

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[Zing Zing Zingbah]

112. I was 3 years old ( 3 months short of 4 years old).

I was still an only child. My brother wasn't born until a year an a half later. I wasn't even in preschool yet. I started preschool in the fall of 1983. I can't remember much about what I did back then. I supposed I mostly played with my toys by myself, played outside on my swing set, or played in the snow (since it was winter time).

[NewJeffCT]

113. in Cromwell, Connecticut

I would have just turned 16 the previous month, so was probably getting anxious to learn how to drive. It was my sophomore year of high school.

[iamjoy]

114. Studying For My Bat Mitzvah

(which was in March)

[ronnykmarshall]

115. 22 years old

Living in my own studio apartment, dating a total jerk working swing shift with my best friend at my first bank item processing job.

Wishing I'd get the hell out of Bakersfield.

[fudge stripe cookays]

123. Wow.

Ronny...Bakersfield.

Ronny...Bakersfield.

Does not compute.

Glad you got out honey!
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[ronnykmarshall]

130. Yeah I know

Bakersfield was not ready for me. It still isn't. I love to visit there, but glad I don't live there anymore.

[WMliberal]

116. In pittsburgh, freezing my ass off!

Even though I have a diaper on, insulating it. :silly:
Probably laying in bed, listening to Yes while my dad is running around the room playing air guitar.

[msgadget]

117. Sitting in a steam filled bathroom

with my feverish baby girl, trying to clear up her congestion. The humidifier hadn't worked. The vaporizer hadn't worked. She spit up the medicine. What else could I do?

[SCDem]

118. Second grade

and since it is 2:36 I was probably walking home from school with my older brothers.... we were latch key kids not that that term was used back then or that it was so wrong. Had a great older feminist for a teacher that I'll always remember as my first female mentor to whom I really looked up to.

[ellie]

119. I was a senior in high school,

dating this stupid guy that I run into once a year now.

[dean_dem]

121. On my living room floor, picking my nose and watching Voltron.

[dback]

122. I'm 16, and an exchange student in Osaka, Japan

I've gained some 10-15 pounds from eating too much American fast food (ironic, yes?). I'm seeing way too many movies (like "E.T." once or twice a week, which winds up being about 32 times by late spring), and feeling very confused and depressed about my life, as I'd basically run away from home to Find Myself--and still hadn't. My other two U.S. students at school are from Texas and Mississippi, so our conversations definitely run towards the hot-damn-yee-haw. (The Mississippi guy looks at me like I've sprouted a second head when I say that I think Marilyn McCoo of "Solid Gold" is attractive: "But she's BLACK.") I'm reading about Reagan in TIME and NEWSWEEK (I live for weekly magazines in English), and how James Watt is apparently a complete moron. I'm reading about how some new virus they've termed AIDS is starting to cause problems among gay men, not quite realizing how much this is going to impact my life.

And by the way, the most popular songs in America at this time--since my sister taped the entire Top 40 for me and mailed it over--include "Truly" by Lionel Richie and "Heart Attack" by Olivia Newton-John. I tape "Physical" but am not impressed by it overall, spending much more time listening to my new discoveries: the Beatles "Red" and "Blue" albums. I will soon encounter several major pop culture milestones that will profoundly affect me: seeing "Psycho" and "Rebel Without a Cause" for the first times, and hearing Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" album.

[Tafiti]

125. Well, I'm 2 years old...

...in Missoula, Montana, probably sleeping.

[micrometer_50]

127. Tucson, AZ

It was just five months before the birth of my first child.
I was working in a structural steel shop.

[GOPBasher]

128. I'm six years old and listening to my brothers Iron Maiden albums. nt

[Ufour20]

129. Freshman at Monterey High School (CA)

Just ended first year of playing JV football. Flunked my first class ever (software programming). Fell deeply in love with a girl in my German class. Became a skate rat and I think it's when I started hanging out with my best friend and got introduce to tie stick and Humboldt County skunk weed (WOW!)

[theboss]

131. I'm probably playing with Star Wars action figures.

Ah, to be young again...

[Liberal Classic]

132. Banging away on my

Commodore 64!

[koneko]

134. 7th grade

and holding up my tape recorder to the brand new stereo my mom had gotten me for Christmas - complete w/ turntable, radio & 8-track player?!?!?!? She wasn't big into music, so she must have thought that the great deal she was getting was lucky, not that 8-tracks were impossible to come by!

[clovis29]

135. casey and I used to hang around

He is as nice as his voice and is just a doggone nice guy.

He lived in Brentwood, CA and lifted his neighborhood up.

[CanuckAmok]

136. On the set of David Cronenberg's "The Dead Zone", skipping school....

...to get Martin Sheen's autograph (still have it!)