#Pre-Internet

[dowsingfordivinity]

Gerald Gardner and history

There’s currently a trend of criticizing Gerald Gardner for making stuff up, such as the festivals etc. Gardner never claimed that the Wheel of the Year was ancient, and he did not label the festivals with Celtic names (that happened much later, after his death). Each of the festivals in the Wheel of the Year was celebrated somewhere in ancient times — they just weren’t all celebrated by the same…

[fiercemillennial]

Life Before Likes: The Pre-Internet Nostalgia Boom (And Why It Matters)

Remember life before likes and endless scrolling? We're diving into the pre-internet nostalgia boom and why it might be the wake-up call we need. Read more on Fierce Millennial! #nostalgiaboom #digitaldetox #fiercemillenial

Do you remember life before the internet? Remember landlines and library cards? We’re diving into the not-so-distant past, and it’s got us thinking about the present. Okay, Millennials and Gen-Xers, gather around the digital campfire for a little reminiscing. Remember when the internet wasn’t the all-consuming vortex it is today? When “going viral” meant you caught a cold, and “trolling” was…

[rolandrockover]

Klassik Vs. Vol. 1 - Young and Wasted

Album Version '83 vs. Animalize Live Uncensored '84

Originally, I really wanted to title this one Woung and Yasted, but since it fits much better conceptually in my brand new rubric, let's just leave it at an honorable mention, which I simply can't resist.

Anyway, in order to live out a little impulse of unreasonableness, but hopefully not to become irrational in the process, let me say a few words about Eric Carr and Gene Simmons in light of this new kind of Kiss song (1).

I mean, sure, I know it was written by Gene and Vinnie Vincent, and that Gene sings it on the studio version of Lick It Up (1983). And of course I am fully aware that it sounds pretty fantastic on the album, and that Gene's insane continuous scream over the top performance on it has to be considered nothing short of phenomenal.

But as it happens I heard Lick It Up in its entirety for the first time after watching Animalize Live Uncensored (1985), so I'm pretty much influenced by Eric Carr's vocals when it comes to this song. And it's not just my mind that remains pretty stubborn, but also my emotional intelligence, because I actually don't think the live version of Young and Wasted is as good as you might think. I mean Eric sings it pretty well, plays uptempo drums at the same time, and I love his voice, but it just doesn't come close to Gene's interpretation.

To delve a little deeper into the intricate background to this situation. After my re-entry as a fan in (pre-internet) 1992, the only 80s Kiss music I'd come across that I hadn't explored before was Hot in the Shade (1989) and Smashes, Thrashes & Hits (1988) (2). Both albums on which Eric Carr sings studio tracks.

But when I held my Lick It Up CD in my hands for the first time, I simply assumed that Eric would also sing Young and Wasted on the album version, regardless of what was obviously noted in the credits. After all, Peter Criss had also regularly sung on songs like Hard Luck Woman, Mainline or Getaway, none of which he had written himself (2).

Up to this point, I was still trying to paint an unfinished picture, simply and always assuming that Eric would sing at least one song on every studio album after Music from The Elder (1981). In fact, according to Kiss tradition, he absolutely and irrevocably had to. I mean, who in blazes would ever assume otherwise, because the drummer in Kiss had always sung at least one song on pretty much all the klassik 70's Make Up albums!

How should I put it? Is it all just misfortunate kissocialization, or is there a tiny bit of justified criticism of Paul and Gene shining through here? But be that as it may, I hereby and for once and for all time officially declare Young and Wasted to be an Eric Carr song.

And that's that!

Side Note:

(1) Young and Wasted, from '83-'86, by the way, an Eric Carr vocal live standard with a focus between '84 and '85 on the Animalize tour.

(2) Eric had also (co-)written two tracks on Music from The Elder without singing either of them himself. Gene sings Paul's God of Thunder on Destroyer (1976) and Peter sang some of Ace's Paul's songs, Eric Singer singing Paul's etc, after all, that's how it goes with Kiss from time to time.

Young and Wasted (Live, 1984)

Young and Wasted (1983)

[lightyearsandbeyond]

Before the internet people did stuff...like...in person?

Image credits: https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/press-assets Plunge decades or so into the past. PRE-INTERNET DAYS (wtf? is that a thing? the internet hasn’t always been here?) The scene: A tavern in a roughshod sorta townA table made from a tree felled from the forest south of a tor outside of townTwo benches held together with spit and prayers The tavern bar that acted a barrier of entry to…

[smbilodeau]

A mainframe based programming chat group, late 1970s

*for our purposes, a youtube account only counts if you’ve used it to post videos.

reblog for reach/bigger sample size!!

[landonpricebeats]

Hey Fans! I have now moved all my Vaporwave/Mallsoft Digital Albums over to the new Bandcamp! Follow it here: https://landonpricebeats.bandcamp.com

[theoldbrewery]

[wordfather]

i miss the internet we had before ai started appearing in every corner

[krsonmar]

Okay but did you ever make a cassette recording of a song off the radio?

This is back when people used to request a song they wanted to hear and the DJs would play it. That was even how a lot of songs originally made it onto the radio. A band might submit a single for the radio stations to play, but if people who bought it liked the B-side better, they'd call in and request it and that was sometimes enough to get a track that wasn't even intended to be a single to start charting. None of this pay-for-spins garbage.

And then if you knew you might hear a song you liked coming up on the radio, you'd listen and listen and listen and cue up a cassette and then while the DJ was announcing the song you'd been waiting for you'd hit Record and your tape player would just record it off the radio. Which, of course, being FM or AM instead of sattellite or a streaming service you subscribed to, was free. Bring your own tape deck/radio setup or a Walkman with recording capability and the public airwaves, and all they contained, were yours. You could even copy it onto a mixtape of a bunch of different songs if you wanted. It was technically illegal, but what were they going to do, bust down your door and drag you to court because you stole a combined half of an Ace of Base album off the publicly-available radio?

“To protect their copyright, streaming sites do not allow for screenshotting of any kind.”

Hey remember VHS where you bought a box to plug into your tv and you could legally record whatever was playing and then own it for free forever

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

Watch "WHITE TRASH - "Apple Pie" MUSIC VIDEO (Elektra 1991)" on YouTube

The old intro of this looked so cool ---- so I tried to make a video clip but I have no idea what I'm doing.

[bethanydelleman]

RIP Mr. Woodhouse you would have loved WebMD.

[sp0o0kylights]

You know what I want to see, I want to see more of Steve, Eddie, and Robin being 1980s small town kids from Indiana, by which I mean;

Robin is The Source of Gay Knowledge purely because her parents host Hippie Christmas and she managed to sneak away to find a neat bookstore in Indiana once. 

Her knowledge is not in depth. It's patchy, woven together through rumors, stories she heard or things she picked up from her parents' old pictures. She's got a handful of zines, one book, and some movies she managed to order for Family Video behind Keith's back.

She acts like she's Queen of the Queers because in Hawkins she pretty much is.

(Max and El ask her what a lavender marriage is once, something they overheard snooping around. 

Robin confidentially answers that it's code for when one woman dresses up as a man, fooling officials into wedding two woman.

She does not live this down two years later when they find out what it actually means.) 

Eddie doesn't spend every weekend in Indianapolis. 

Gas is expensive, his busiest days of his "job" is Friday and Saturday, and he has no fucking clue what the hanky code is. 

He's wearing that bandana because Metallica front singer James Hetfield has one on all their tour posters. 

Eddie does make it down to a gay bar though, by accident. Rick needed some back up for a shady deal. Promised Eddie a boatload of free drugs to sell if he agreed to just stand there and look mean. 

He was warned the bar they were meeting in was 'weird' and to not 'freak out' --which Eddie thought was hilarious given his nickname and general appearance, but whatever.

He doesn't understand when they get there, because it's just a bunch of hot men with hanky's in their back pockets everywhere.

Then he sees two women kissing and it clicks. 

He can't out himself in front of Rick, but one of the bartenders playfully dresses him down for his own hanky, letting him know all about the code and teasing him through his embarrassment. 

He's got an offer to come back and learn what color and which pocket his hanky should actually be in, a prospect Eddie was salivating at until Chrissy Cunningham up and died on his ceiling.

(He still wore the hanky, because the feeling of that bartender tugging it out and stuffing it back in might be the closest thing he's ever had to sex and he absolutely wants a repeat. 

He's young and horny, sue him.) 

Steve Harrington may not be academically smart but he's not dumb. 

He figured out a while back that the basketball team as a unit probably crossed the queer line more than once--or at least it did before Hargrove came in. 

( Brad Handly for example, went around slamming kids into lockers and screaming slurs like a fucking movie villain one Monday because the varsity team got dead drunk at Laura's party on Sunday and hey, look, there weren't that many girls there, okay?

They all had fucking hands and mouths. Everybody but Tommy was single and hot to trot. Nothing gay about it.

Its not even like they were kissing or treating each other like chicks. It was just Brad's first time and they got to tease him later for overthinking it. 

Dude graduated soon enough after and given Steve was on the team as a sophomore, he hadn't thought about the guy and why he might be freaking out so bad in years.) 

Robin's entire panic attack at Starcourt, and a few more after had Steve replaying that whole incident. Reframed it a bit, and, yeah.

In retrospect that had been extremely gay, actually. 

It sat with him a lot easier than he'd thought it would. Partially because of Robin, but mostly because that's just who he was.

Stranger things had happened to Steve and this one didn't want to kill, maim or otherwise eat him, so it got filed under 'interesting facts he should never tell his parents if he wanted to keep his trust fund' and then he went about his day. 

(Or he tried too, anyways.

It caught up to him when Eddie and Robin somehow figured out the other was queer and dragged him along to some bar Eddie had a standing invitation at, with demands for Steve to do what he did best.

Babysit.

Their magical trip was utterly destroyed when Brad Handly happened to be the very same bartender who had given Eddie the invite.

 Considering Brad's immediate bark of laughter followed by a hug and introducing himself as "Steve's gay awakening", Steve ended up having to speedrun through Eddie and Robin both having a crisis for him.

It didn't help that Steve had politely, and laughingly, corrected Brad with a casual; 

"Pretty sure that was Tommy man, but if it helps I think that tongue of yours gave Matt Burdon a crisis."

--which ended up with him answering a lot more gay sex questions with Brad than he cared too. 

At least he, through Brad, was able to help Robin connect to some local lesbians and--after a second crisis from Eddie regarding how Steve managed to have more sex than "the resident town freak and guy who actually knew he was gay, Steve!"-- even helped Eddie out by catching the metalheads tongue with his mouth later that evening.

The last one landed him a boyfriend, trust fund be damned.) 

[owlsounds]

So happy to have an excuse to post this again...

[damian-lil-babybat]

"Eventually, I will no longer drown from the overflowing of an empty cup"

Pre-Morrison Talia would be the kind of love poets would write for.

Talia al Ghul, with all her history, faults, and flaws, have no means to have had so much love for the people she cherish. But she does...she does.

"We are immortals, Habibi. When others say they love forever, they lie. But we don't have the same luxury. For people like us, forever means eternity, beyond death and even after. It is a curse, my heart. Our curse. For such promise meant to taint such noble feelings— And yet, I will never apologize for loving you."

"Boy Wonder" (2024) #4 by Juni Ba.

[daguerreotyping]

Absolutely stunning post-mortem daguerreotype of a young man with killer cheekbones and haunting eyes, c. 1850

[wendykw]

I was writing fanfic in 1965 for The Man from UNCLE and sharing it with my friends. We didn't call it fanfic. No internet, no computers, no copiers, just notebook paper and a pencil. I discovered fanfic existed on twitter. I joined twitter to follow Nathan Fillion.

Poll Tuesday

I feel like I’m exposing myself a little bit with this bc my introduction to fic is soo random I think, but whatever your answer please tell me the story! I wanna know haha