Lugaru
Sous Chef
At 25 I know Im by far one of the youngest on the board so I think this is an interesting question for all the people who somehow ended up here, on the internet, on a cooking forum.
Any way’s:
Music: In Mexico there was 3 way's you would encounter new bands if you where into the underground "true metal" scene. Those where headbangers on "latin mtv" which showed like at 2 am and had no sponsors. Great show... I remember Marlyin manson being on the show once thanking his latin fans because his band just couldent break into the mainstream in the US. Hehehe... a few month's latter he was the biggest thing ever. But back to "true metal" we got to see videos by dream theater, iron maiden, morbid angel and even some black metal like At the gates. It was a sad day when headbangers finally went off the air. Also right before headbangers would come on we had "ozono" which was devoted to trip hop, industrial and alternative electronica which was sweet... lot's of bjork, tricky, massive attack, portishead, photek, NIN, skinny puppy, prodigy, etc.
The second way we would get stuff was "a tape of a tape of a tape". I remember for example a samael tape that was soo faded to copies that you could barely make out the music... but beneath the static and junk you heard something awesome. Lastly there was the scene... you belonged to the metal scene and you knew people from high school to college who all got together for metal show's in vacant lots or at cheap bars. Also back then the origin of a band was a huge deal... lot's of people listened to "European bands" while now aday's scenes are as specific as towns... like the "Gothemburg" metal scene. Lastly you didn’t hear news until 2 years latter... for example that your favorite band had broken up or released a side project.
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Dating: if you wanted to pick up cute girls that you knew where smart enough to not annoy you well you had to join activities, like bands for example or in my case literary circles. I always kept an eye out for the girls who read Gabriel Garcia Marquez, since his books are really kinky.
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Video games: Oh yeah... the doom demo on 5 3 1/2 disks... carmen sandiego on a huge 5 and whatever inch disk... those where the days.
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People wrote letters! When I was a kid I traded mazes I drew for drawings of cartoon characters with a pen pall. Latter when a friend of mine had to flee the country with his mom cuz his dad got out of jail we traded notebook thick letters every few months or so that every one got to read... then every one would write a 4 page letter (give or take) and we would send him a package back. Even when the internet started we still wrote... me and a girl I liked sent packages back and forth and I traded cd's and tape's with metal heads from places like Australia, Japan and England.
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One last one: no widespread memes. You went to a new town... it was a new world. The otakus where different, the metal heads where different, the "ethnopunks" where different... it was always a cool and alien experience. For example when I was in the south of mexico I met these "colonial goths" who wore mixes of old spanish and indigenous clothing (looking like they where from 300 years ago) with makeup... really interesting.
* Ethnopunk: a movement that was huge in latin america in the earlier 90's... mixes of indigenous and traditional music with a punk mentality. You would see people wearing beads, handmade accesories... kinda like hippies but cooler of course... and they would play with traditional instruments too but really fast, you could mosh to it.
Any way’s:
Music: In Mexico there was 3 way's you would encounter new bands if you where into the underground "true metal" scene. Those where headbangers on "latin mtv" which showed like at 2 am and had no sponsors. Great show... I remember Marlyin manson being on the show once thanking his latin fans because his band just couldent break into the mainstream in the US. Hehehe... a few month's latter he was the biggest thing ever. But back to "true metal" we got to see videos by dream theater, iron maiden, morbid angel and even some black metal like At the gates. It was a sad day when headbangers finally went off the air. Also right before headbangers would come on we had "ozono" which was devoted to trip hop, industrial and alternative electronica which was sweet... lot's of bjork, tricky, massive attack, portishead, photek, NIN, skinny puppy, prodigy, etc.
The second way we would get stuff was "a tape of a tape of a tape". I remember for example a samael tape that was soo faded to copies that you could barely make out the music... but beneath the static and junk you heard something awesome. Lastly there was the scene... you belonged to the metal scene and you knew people from high school to college who all got together for metal show's in vacant lots or at cheap bars. Also back then the origin of a band was a huge deal... lot's of people listened to "European bands" while now aday's scenes are as specific as towns... like the "Gothemburg" metal scene. Lastly you didn’t hear news until 2 years latter... for example that your favorite band had broken up or released a side project.
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Dating: if you wanted to pick up cute girls that you knew where smart enough to not annoy you well you had to join activities, like bands for example or in my case literary circles. I always kept an eye out for the girls who read Gabriel Garcia Marquez, since his books are really kinky.
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Video games: Oh yeah... the doom demo on 5 3 1/2 disks... carmen sandiego on a huge 5 and whatever inch disk... those where the days.
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People wrote letters! When I was a kid I traded mazes I drew for drawings of cartoon characters with a pen pall. Latter when a friend of mine had to flee the country with his mom cuz his dad got out of jail we traded notebook thick letters every few months or so that every one got to read... then every one would write a 4 page letter (give or take) and we would send him a package back. Even when the internet started we still wrote... me and a girl I liked sent packages back and forth and I traded cd's and tape's with metal heads from places like Australia, Japan and England.
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One last one: no widespread memes. You went to a new town... it was a new world. The otakus where different, the metal heads where different, the "ethnopunks" where different... it was always a cool and alien experience. For example when I was in the south of mexico I met these "colonial goths" who wore mixes of old spanish and indigenous clothing (looking like they where from 300 years ago) with makeup... really interesting.
* Ethnopunk: a movement that was huge in latin america in the earlier 90's... mixes of indigenous and traditional music with a punk mentality. You would see people wearing beads, handmade accesories... kinda like hippies but cooler of course... and they would play with traditional instruments too but really fast, you could mosh to it.
Barbara
I just hope I don't embarrass myself!
