/lit/ - Literature

>>21631651
unironically Infinite Jest

>Not the 90's in the sense of zoomer vaporwave mischaracterization.
>90's in the sense of [continues to name the biggest zoomer vaporwave acrhetypes]
based retard

>>21631667
Ok. I have to actually read it. My wife read my copy before I could, and has been prodding me to finish it it ever since.

that one novel about working at microsoft
ah yes this one

>>21631679
what kind of 'woman' reads infinite jest?

>>21631669
I'm just describing the 90's the way I remember it. My parents were yuppies. We lived in one of those cities. We had an Apple Macintosh LC 575. Mainly for playing multimedia CD-ROMs and using America Online.
I remember in the city there was a lot of hipster clothing stores. Things felt a lot more like picrel than the neon vaporwave stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE

>>21631680
Looks neat, thanks anon.

>>21631683
Women born before 1993, the only people who hate IJ are twitter arthoes, crypto arthoe incels, and Harold bloom

>>21631729
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

best book about the 1990s would have to be Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Many Lives of Timothy McVeigh by Wendy Painting

EEZER GOODE
EEZER GOODE
HE'S EBENEEZER GOODE

>>21631760
A great philosopher once wrote
NAUGHTY NAUGHTY, VERY NAUGHTY

TEXTFILES has some good stuff from the 90s, but a lot of 80s, too

>>21631651
Just watch Office Space

>>21631683
I made my mom start it and she got halfway through.

>>21631651
American Psycho is just the 90's distilled in a book.

>>21631651
I was a generation x teenager living in a 90% plus youth (under 25) unemployment city. We had suicide, disguised suicide, depression, a local music scene, and post-Soviet nightmares. Those of us raised to the labour movement, as many of us were in that city, felt as abandoned as the blast furnace was. Life was demonstrably meaningless and the systems of meaning which had been generated as collective acts of will had been abandoned by boomers much as “the good life” “economic justice” and we had been. Aesthetically the bourgeoisie dominated literature and film as a transnational class, but music due to production cheapening was able to be dominated. Unlike the light industrial city to the south that candy raved its way through disinhabited manufacturing plant, our steel making coughed its last slurry of spit into the gutter and hissed its finger tip durry into the slime. We played in abandoned working mens and respectable working mens clubs, in pubs where wharfies and steel workers and merchant shippers no longer drank; and had only a programme of automated mechanisation as revolution. We knew the planet was dying but Rich cunts in dreadlocks talking about STD infected koalas don’t motivate you when the only thing keeping the city breathing is the artificial heart and lungs of coal train after coal train and bulk loader after bulk loader.

The genuine aesthetic was 8bit sampler and cassette off television sampled into your very precious home computer. No magenta only grain. No cyan only bit shallow. No yellow only dynamic compression. Four channels and sampled dub rap and breakbeats from dead black nationalist movements back before the Soviets fell and hope was shot in the back of the head into the back of its fucking head into a drainage ditch

If you want an image imagine a clapped out Datsun fastback catching on fire doing a run to pick up a slab of VB: VICTORIA BITTER longnecks.

>>21632479
>communist city boomer whines and wants to kill himself over some russian failed state

>>21632479
nicely written post, my condolences man... damn...

>>21632508
I’m so sorry for you. We wanted to kill ourselves because we weren’t sacrificed to the plant. Nobody liked the Soviet Union but it played the role of that abusive stepdad who promised to take you to Disney land and digitally raped you before never coming back. You keep hoping that Derrick will rescue you from mothers methamphetamine habit and take you to Disneyland and compartmentalise being finger fucked

>>21632537
lol what is this projection? Typical mental illness of the 90s teen I guess.

>>21632545
you have to be over 18 to post on 4chin.

>>21632551
A communist pretending that someone that thinks he's a faggot is a child. Try not to cum!

>>21632587
One of the chief aesthetic differences was although meaning was generative and fictive it was generated by acts of concrete will. The sample based reuse of meanings was not a negation of meaning in general but a transcendence of the burden of the will generating the meanings of A Current Affair: Petrol Pump Exposé. Ironisation was active with an actively voiced ironiser whose will guaranteed that a meaning was earnestly sought even if impossible and the importance of this earnest being allowed people to interpretively navigate metaphoric images like loving your abuser in the form of the failed Tankie movement.

Consider for a moment the deep and human kindness in [s4s] compared to the useless bot generated shit cunts replying here. [s4s] may advocate child abuse material but it earnestly believes that beneath layer after layer of top kek there is intact an earnest kek to be had.

You sir are a worse than a turkish dwarf: you do not know that meaning ought to exist.

I walk to the flowershop while listening to the Bartman on my Walkman; it's one of three shops in town including the grocery store. I leave with Turtles the videogame for Nintendo. The shop had two other games available but I like the Turtles so I bet this game will be fun. Back at home I play the game until I hear dad open the front door, he has some guy with him, a sailor from Russia. Dad is showing him our kitchen for some reason. The sailor seemingly can't grasp the concept of a dishwasher and decent plumbing.
I hear a loud rumble, our large windows facing the hill explode and the living room fills with snow. I wake up in a black cold place and can't move. Hours later I hear a rustle and light appears, the rescue workers dig me out and as the helicopter lifts me away I can see the entire town was leveled by an avalanche, hundreds died. I sit in the helicopter and contemplate the events of the day, on the whole Turtles was a pretty good game.

>>21632654
sounds like tranny shit

>>21631651
Most of Neil Gaiman's best stuff.

Stephen Laws wrote horror in the 90s and he describes parts of the north England as desolate concrete hellscapes crawling with gangs... So pretty much like today.

>>21632936
Get a dog up you cuntface.

>>21632964
>neil gayman
no
>non-usa
fuck no

you are missing the whole point: it was a GOOD time

>>21633600

>>21633250
t. Pedophile transexual

>>21633632
Tu quoque
>kysmr

>>21633615
fuck you and your misery
go drown in your own filth

>>21633715
You don’t sound very happy.

>>21633703
Mad af old ass tranny

>>21631667
not even close, the eighties maybe

>>21631709
does beau brummel on amsterdam still exist

>>21633747
it's because humanoids like you exist
get the fuck off my internet

>>21633800
>my internet
You don’t own shit.

>>21633816
see >>21633715

>>21633880
see >>21633747

>>21633888
see
>>21633800

>>21631651
What’s eating Gilbert Grape was written in 91 but it does a very good job of characterizing the abject hopelessness of being a teenager in flyover america at the time being held back by your family

>>21632473
>a book set in the 80’s that came out in the very early 90’s accurately portrays anything about the decade
You’re kind of an idiot

>>21631669
top post

>>21633919
I got trips of truth. What you say is irrelevant lol I won.

>>21631760
E's are good

>>21631667
Maybe in an alternative universe

>>21632479
This was beautifully written, my friend.

>>21632473
i fucking hate zoomers so much

>>21631743
Anna and Dasha are fat.

>>21633991
The late 80's and early 90's were very similar.

>>21633615
It was objectively a good time for Americans, though. Strong economy, no wars, the end of the crime wave that started in the 1970's, libertarian pop culture, the birth of the internet..

>>21631651
Who Moved My Cheese? Peak corporate vaporwave reading. Rent a beat-up copy from a local library to complete the aesthetic. It's inane and comprised of a few common-sense maxims written into a drawn-out parable, but the advice isn't far below the advice le benzo man has to offer

The internet was so fucking slow.