Chicago AOL Nostalgia

Thinking about the good ol' days when my parents first bought me a Compac laptop also brought back memories of a particular Polish girl who called Chicago home. Our instant messaging exchange began when I was 16 or 17 and AOL was the HUGE thing. I would sing in under my CubedTuna52 screenname and enter chatrooms to talk smack and whatnot. Most of the time I would go into a Britney Spears chatroom and unleash a barrage of death metal lyrics in their awesome grotesqueness.

Anyway, I met this girl in one of the rock themed chatrooms and we developed a pretty cool exchange over a period of months. She was pretty cool and played a key role in my exploration and development of punk rock music. I had just started listening to Bad Religion, The Living End, Anti-Flag (who she suggested) and a slew of other bands. It was a good time.

So, why am I bringing all this up?

I was walking to work this morning and listening to Biohazard's Urban Discipline and it just brought back some cool memories the one about this Polish punk rock girl from Chicago in particular. The madness behind all this is that I've been listening to older music more and more in the past few weeks. New or fairly new music just doesn't have any "umph" that would make me engage or embrace it the way I latched onto Bad Religion's The Process of Belief or No Control or even The Living End's Roll On. Hell, I even had a fondness for Anti-Flag's New Kind of Army and I reflect on this particular band I wonder why I enjoyed them or possess five of their albums. Five!

Heck, I blame the superliberal students of New Paltz and Anti-Flag for my reluctance to admit I am a democrat or have liberal thinking thoughts. Thinking about all this makes me want to run and hang out with Sarah Palin but then I remember who Sarah Palin is and frankly one of her most memorable accomplishments is being the muse for porno's that depict her as a sex crazed sex fiend.

Oh, nostalgia, look at what you have done.

Do it again, please.