How retro are you?

gmku · 06.21.2006, 12:58 PM

Old school, or whatever.

I'm not bragging. Part of why I'm so retro has to do with what I grew up with and am used to. Part of it has to do with this thing I've had almost all my life against technological change, especially change that just seems to be about change for change sake, trendiness. Therefore, I hated Walkmans, I hated the CD revolution, and I hate iPods.

But here is how retro I am currently:

1. I prefer LPs over CDs.

2. I actually use a Walkman radio/cassette player.

3. I make mix tapes (as in cassette).

4. I use a cell phone that is more than 3 years old and looks like a walkie-talkie compared to everyone else's.

5. I like to go to movies in a movie theater, and the best ones are not in the mall but the ones you walk into off a city street (very hard to find anymore though).

6. I have never downloaded music.

Macaulay Culkin · 06.21.2006, 01:03 PM

My room's completely retro.
Old TV with wood paneling.
Old alarm clock w/ a tape player in it - wood paneling.
Record player.
1993 Chevy Cavalier - ghetto.
My boyfriend makes me mixed tapes.

Vintage is always the best.
They always are just for the sheer fact that if it's still around, you know it won't fail you now.

Props to that cell phone, I've always wanted to find a block - just because I want cancer that bad. Ha.

fishmonkey · 06.21.2006, 01:05 PM

i'm not at all, i'm a real tech-head.

Savage Clone · 06.21.2006, 01:05 PM

I have posted enough pix of my living room to adequately answer this question.

porkmarras · 06.21.2006, 01:11 PM

I'm not retro at all.Too busy living in the future to care about the past.

Savage Clone · 06.21.2006, 01:20 PM

Porkmarras is a cyborg.
Gay cyborgs are the future.

next step · 06.21.2006, 01:21 PM

I like old stuff but I have my feet in both sides.

kingcoffee · 06.21.2006, 02:38 PM

I'm kinda retro, I suppose. But I still embrace some of the modern technological advances. I use computers for the internet, I like dvd's (but I'm not all up in the air about it, it's just a cool pregression in film technology), I have a cd player, but I fucking hate Ipod's just because they are so trendy. I think it's pretty interesting to be able to fit hundreds of song on a little plastic thing the size of your palm, but I'm also a huge proponent of albums and records. I wear old, ripped clothes and I have long, ratty hair. I don't,like whole lot of modern technology and I hate the modern music trends. Theymake me sick to my stomach.

luxinterior · 06.21.2006, 02:47 PM

I've been out of the technological loop my entire life. I'm always years behind on things, like DVDs, which took a while for me to acknowledge the existence of. That's not "retro" by any stretch of the imagination. It's much closer to laziness/apathy.

My room doesn't really have the look of any particular time period. It's just very, very cluttered.

Phlegmscope · 06.21.2006, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

4. I use a cell phone that is more than 3 years old and looks like a walkie-talkie compared to everyone else's.
c.

Haha, amateur!
Mine's at least six years old nokia. and that's alot in a country where people change their mobile phones twice a year. It's not manufactured anymore and I'm not sure if you can even get batteries for it. Vintage!

trance feeeedback · 06.21.2006, 05:46 PM

I listen to CD over mp3. Whats a CD you ask? Go ask your parents, you Ipod fucker.

Savage Clone · 06.21.2006, 05:51 PM

I have never owned a cell phone.

HaydenAsche · 06.21.2006, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Savage Clone

I have never owned a cell phone.

indie!

whorefrost · 06.21.2006, 05:54 PM

have never bought a mobile..
have been donated a couple of older cast off mobiles by friends and or parents but never used them much and am cuurently sans mobile phone
buy vinyl over cd
drive a car that has a cassette player so make mix tape cassetes thru necessity
the first post mentions not going to mall cinemas as being retro but i don't think that counts, at least not where i live...

Savage Clone · 06.21.2006, 05:55 PM

More like "hermit."

HaydenAsche · 06.21.2006, 05:55 PM

Possibly. It is hard to be a hermit and live in Minneapolis. You should move to like Sunberg or Bird Island.

Phlegmscope · 06.21.2006, 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

More like "hermit."

More like a relic that time and development once left on the side of the road.

Savage Clone · 06.21.2006, 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phlegmscope

More like a relic that time and development once left on the side of the road.

That hurts! Yowtch.
I'm on the Interweb.
I just like being unavailable when I leave home.

whorefrost · 06.21.2006, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Savage Clone

That hurts! Yowtch.
I'm on the Interweb.
I just like being unavailable when I leave home.

that's why i never took to mobile phones... i don't want to be contacted so easily

Daycare Nation · 06.21.2006, 06:08 PM

I'm SUPER old school.

1. I drive a horse-drawn carriage, not a car.

2. I wear a tophat and coattails.

3. I carry a pocket watch that I wind up daily.

4. I have one of those looking glass things on a handle, that you hold up to one eye when you can't see very well.

5. My name is Jedediah.

6. I frequently wander around at night with a lantern.

7. I use an abacus, not a calculator.

8. I only drink milk that taken fresh from cows by farmhands.

9. I named my children by opening a Holy Bible and randomly pointing at words.

10. I believe the earth is flat, and that it is the center of the universe.

06.21.2006, 12:58 PM	#1
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Old school, or whatever. I'm not bragging. Part of why I'm so retro has to do with what I grew up with and am used to. Part of it has to do with this thing I've had almost all my life against technological change, especially change that just seems to be about change for change sake, trendiness. Therefore, I hated Walkmans, I hated the CD revolution, and I hate iPods. But here is how retro I am currently: 1. I prefer LPs over CDs. 2. I actually use a Walkman radio/cassette player. 3. I make mix tapes (as in cassette). 4. I use a cell phone that is more than 3 years old and looks like a walkie-talkie compared to everyone else's. 5. I like to go to movies in a movie theater, and the best ones are not in the mall but the ones you walk into off a city street (very hard to find anymore though). 6. I have never downloaded music.
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06.21.2006, 01:03 PM	#2
Macaulay Culkin little trouble girl Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 67	My room's completely retro. Old TV with wood paneling. Old alarm clock w/ a tape player in it - wood paneling. Record player. 1993 Chevy Cavalier - ghetto. My boyfriend makes me mixed tapes. Vintage is always the best. They always are just for the sheer fact that if it's still around, you know it won't fail you now. Props to that cell phone, I've always wanted to find a block - just because I want cancer that bad. Ha. __________________ noiseJUNKIEnoise junkieNOISEjunkie
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fishmonkey invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 2,670	i'm not at all, i'm a real tech-head. __________________ "Pescescimmia ha grandi bulbi oculari blu, ognuno attaccato su un lato della sua testa, in modo tale da risucire a guardare indietro senza girare la sua testa pesciosa"
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Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,286	I have posted enough pix of my living room to adequately answer this question.
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porkmarras invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London - UK Posts: 14,313	I'm not retro at all.Too busy living in the future to care about the past. __________________
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Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,286	Porkmarras is a cyborg. Gay cyborgs are the future.
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next step the destroyed room Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Italy Posts: 583	I like old stuff but I have my feet in both sides. __________________ http://www.sonicurbs.com
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06.21.2006, 02:38 PM	#8
kingcoffee expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,510	I'm kinda retro, I suppose. But I still embrace some of the modern technological advances. I use computers for the internet, I like dvd's (but I'm not all up in the air about it, it's just a cool pregression in film technology), I have a cd player, but I fucking hate Ipod's just because they are so trendy. I think it's pretty interesting to be able to fit hundreds of song on a little plastic thing the size of your palm, but I'm also a huge proponent of albums and records. I wear old, ripped clothes and I have long, ratty hair. I don't,like whole lot of modern technology and I hate the modern music trends. Theymake me sick to my stomach. __________________ "No way, man! Cuz dyin' would be a stone groove! Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix?" "Yes. Pick up your puppy."
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06.21.2006, 02:47 PM	#9
luxinterior invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Missouri, land of the free and home of the brave Posts: 2,351	I've been out of the technological loop my entire life. I'm always years behind on things, like DVDs, which took a while for me to acknowledge the existence of. That's not "retro" by any stretch of the imagination. It's much closer to laziness/apathy. My room doesn't really have the look of any particular time period. It's just very, very cluttered. __________________ "I sweat like a fucking nun on Sunday...I don't even know what that means." - Sebastian Bach
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trance feeeedback children of satan Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sun Ra's place on Saturn Posts: 359	I listen to CD over mp3. Whats a CD you ask? Go ask your parents, you Ipod fucker. __________________ "If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me."-Masami Akita "sound is god"-Ravi Shankar. FREE TIBET!
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Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,286	I have never owned a cell phone.
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whorefrost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Arrived in Smoke, Arrived in Gold Posts: 2,568	have never bought a mobile.. have been donated a couple of older cast off mobiles by friends and or parents but never used them much and am cuurently sans mobile phone buy vinyl over cd drive a car that has a cassette player so make mix tape cassetes thru necessity the first post mentions not going to mall cinemas as being retro but i don't think that counts, at least not where i live...
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06.21.2006, 05:55 PM	#15
Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,286	More like "hermit."
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HaydenAsche invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,755	Possibly. It is hard to be a hermit and live in Minneapolis. You should move to like Sunberg or Bird Island. __________________ rip
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06.21.2006, 06:08 PM	#20
Daycare Nation expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,904	I'm SUPER old school. 1. I drive a horse-drawn carriage, not a car. 2. I wear a tophat and coattails. 3. I carry a pocket watch that I wind up daily. 4. I have one of those looking glass things on a handle, that you hold up to one eye when you can't see very well. 5. My name is Jedediah. 6. I frequently wander around at night with a lantern. 7. I use an abacus, not a calculator. 8. I only drink milk that taken fresh from cows by farmhands. 9. I named my children by opening a Holy Bible and randomly pointing at words. 10. I believe the earth is flat, and that it is the center of the universe. __________________ That dragon ain't the love sweet love.
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