PAST NOTES

analog instant messages


you have found my collection of passed notes from the 90s, welcome.

spanning from the beginning of 1995 to junior year of high school in 1998, a note, reproduced verbatim from the original with the exception of all names, is posted to this blog in the order I'd received it. each post contains one note, and a brief narration of the back story as best I can remember it.

there will also be, from time to time, relevant photos, songs, videos, links, objects, quotes, diaries, poems, and other ephemera (all admittedly completely self-indulgent and wince-inducing).
Oct 27
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Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 This is one of the songs that transports me directly to 1995 when I close my eyes. I’ve already written about it, but it just came on my iPod and all of a sudden I was in the 9th grade hallway, slamming my locker door shut, pulling my backpack over one shoulder, adjusting the baby barrettes in my hair and dashing off to class before the second bell.

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Oct 24
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snuh:

smashing pumpkins: disarm
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singlescoop:

suckafuck:

girlwearsmascaraboredintheburbs:

Blind Melon - No Rain 

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Page from an old diary, circa 1995

Page from an old diary, circa 1995

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Oct 23
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Page from an old diary, circa 1996

Page from an old diary, circa 1996

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Gorilla Biscuits - Slut

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snuh:

violent femmes: blister in the sun
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Page from Thorazine magazine, the zine which, without a doubt, influenced my entire adolescence (more so than Sassy, even).

Page from Thorazine magazine, the zine which, without a doubt, influenced my entire adolescence (more so than Sassy, even).

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Oct 22
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NOFX - Linoleum

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those were the days of saving up cash to buy ‘a CD’, thinking hard about which one… I first had this on a tape a friend had made for me… there is still something great about listening to this album complete with tape warp and glitches…
— Comment on Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
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(via natashavc)

(via natashavc)

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natashavc:
look how clean the layout was. i miss.
very missed…

natashavc:

look how clean the layout was. i miss.

very missed…

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lilyna:

malty:

sarahchristine:

Nada Surf — “Popular”

 Man, Nada Surf… this is perfect

 Hey 15 yr old me, remember?

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Oct 21
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Page from an old diary, circa 1996

Page from an old diary, circa 1996

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