Party like it's 1995

[icepixie]

Awesome open source app that allows QuickTime to read basically any video format: Perian for Mac OS X. It essentially turns QT into VLC, then allows you to save whatever you need in QT format. Very useful for situations when, say, you have a bunch of AVIs and your video editing program only reads QT files. Not that I would know anything about this. *cough*

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I watched You've Got Mail a couple days ago--what can I say, sometimes nostalgia strikes hard, and I do own the DVD--and you know, it's really amazing how much has changed in the twelve years since it came out. The main plot is about a big chain bookstore pushing a little indie shop out of business, and now the big chains are closing stores right and left while they struggle to keep their heads above water thanks to Amazon et al. Not to mention the technological advances; modems are certainly a throwback, as are AOL chatrooms. (What do people even use to chat with now? Is it still IM, or has Skype and the video equivalent thereof taken over? Or do people who used to chat just write on each others' Facebook pages instead? Cell phones? Hi, I'm a dinosaur.)

Speaking of the nineties, I was shopping for a pair of khaki pants last week, and for a brief moment, among the short, floral-pattern skirts and plaid shirts, I wondered if I'd time-traveled back to 1995. Apparently we're having a nineties revival. A little disturbing is that--seeing as we're still in the throes of eighties leggings and off-the-shoulder shirts--this will be the second revival I will have lived through where I have first-hand experience with the original. Thankfully, though, I have seen no sign of mom jeans returning. (I don't even care what they look like, I just remember them being very uncomfortable.)

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I watched last week's Fringe, but found myself with nothing much to say on it. It was good! In a non-specific sort of way. Okay, I do have one thing: Not that William Bell's ghost, or whatever, taking over Olivia isn't super cool, but...it feels like we just got her back, and now she's gone again. *pout* I do think the development is awesome, but I had to get that out there.

Also, YAY PETER for being honest!

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

A little disturbing is that--seeing as we're still in the throes of eighties leggings and off-the-shoulder shirts

It's very weird how they do these things now. The "rule" used to be that things would reappear about 20 years after they originally showed up. Now, though, it's a bit of this, a bit of that...I mean, we should be done with the 80s and firmly into the 90s by old standards, but I still see things I swear my mother made me wear in the 70s! And we wonder why I find fashion baffling!

[icepixie]

I mean, we should be done with the 80s and firmly into the 90s by old standards

Maybe in an area of the country that isn't perpetually three years behind the times, anyway... ;)

I guess by the twenty-year rule this isn't completely outrageous. I'm just surprised that nothing new has cropped up. Are we going to go right back to the sixties once we run out of nineties stuff to cannibalize? The last decade didn't really seem to have much of a style of its own...

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Maybe in an area of the country that isn't perpetually three years behind the times, anyway... ;)

I...live an hour from New York City?

I think the rule is toast and we just take random pieces from random eras now.

[icepixie]

I meant my area of the country, where I distinctly recall the eighties lasting until 1993. *g*

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I figured you meant your area of the country, but I live an hour from New York and am seeing the same things you are...

[pezprez.livejournal.com]

Personally I don't really see much difference between the current skinny jeans trend and mom jeans. I guess skinny jeans are tighter and are hip huggers, but in terms of appeal, they're on the same level IMO.

I should add, I've never been a big fan of flares either, but for a while that was all you could buy. And at least they tend to be hip huggers... my butt is big enough without needing a high-waistband to emphasize it.

[icepixie]

I don't think skinny jeans are quite the same. The defining features of mom jeans (having worn them for all of middle and high school, since they were all you could get in my price range, I know them quite well) are, to me, a high waist that cuts right at the most uncomfortable part of the torso, tapered ankles, and loose fabric everywhere else. Pretty much the worst possible combination of features no one can pull off.

That said, skinny jeans look even more uncomfortable. I'd never be caught in a pair. I'm reasonably certain I could not get into a pair in the first place.