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I was a psychobilly through teens until about 21 when the hair was allowed to grow long, only chopped off last year (age 36). hung around at the dragon/punters/tap/rock city, still drink with some of the old gang, only one with the hair is Nev with his green mohican, which he grew back for his 40th birthday. We've probably spilt drink over each other then, yet never met... I used to look just like Nick Cave, now I look more like John Travolta.  In fact a drunk skin in Leeds once thought I was Nick Cave and wouldn't leave me alone. |
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Jan 31, 2007 22:25:00 GMT
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wow brilliant stuff AK, its like through the keyhole, even car references, loving the trinkets. if only our place had owt stylish like that! you and mrsAK have done well fusing new and old there! cool  I like this clock mirror thing.   Loads more stuff in boxes. Loads more stuff I gave/threw away or sold. You want the clock mirror thing? LMK, your if you can use it. No good sitting in my attic. Meatballturbo, I know how you feel. I have 28" waist skinnys still in the attic because I **will** lose enough weight to get them back on...     I nearly cried when I had to buy a suit with a 36" waist. I also have a sneaking suspicion I am subconciously trying to recreate my grandparent's house.... |
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Jan 31, 2007 23:03:40 GMT
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Yeah it looks like i'll be hiring a van to come to your place AK at this rate!  Coolio!  BTW always wanted porcupine tyres in white, and remember milk lever free with MBUK! Street you can get halo/gusset tyres in crazy colours now inc pink, not seen white though.   not the best tyres specially for emergency stops or off road  but look cool, if a little ghey!  |
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Jan 31, 2007 23:04:25 GMT
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Yeah, but Onza Porcies would leave a white line down the road they were that soft. Do you remember the Milkstix? White plastic tyre levers made from recycled plastic milk cartons. I think I still have mine somewhere. Oh yeah! I remember those, think I got some free with MBUK back in the day! |
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Jan 31, 2007 23:19:56 GMT
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wow quite impressed with the amount of ghetto blaster love on here. i used to collect ghetto's, stopped when i got my 'grail' - conion c-100f, try find one of them at a bootfair!  and this is my most retro bike i have  and just a fraction of my retro shoes, these are obviously reebok pumps.  got loads of other retro tat i wont put up; skate boards, clothes, guitars, gadgets etc |
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Jan 31, 2007 23:26:03 GMT
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That Conion is a BEAST! I don't collect them but it's something I intend to do one day. Very smart.
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Jan 31, 2007 23:27:29 GMT
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I now want a Ghettoblaster.
Ideal for banging out some b-boys or Cypress in the garage ;D
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I used to have (and wish I'd never sold) a Sharp ghetto blaster with a built in turntable. No really. It was a vertical, linear tracking thing. It was the coolest thing evAh but I sold it to buy a Technics turntable in the mid 80s.
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someone at my work commented that my clothes were retro! i didn't really think so though, think they were just being weird! I like retro consoles and computer games, have an Amiga, SNES, Mega Drive, N64, Pong type machine and some tape thing no-one's ever heard of. some of which i've only acquired since they became retro (ie cheap off ebay  ) Some retro TV and films, especially ones featuring cars (gone in 60 seconds ('74 version), vanishing point, cannonball, proefessionals etc). Other than that not especially, i quite like technology so like newer stuff. |
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While I do find people who try to live in a retro age mentals I do still respect what they are doing. I'm a big fan of atmosphere and theme and would love to live some different lives in different times. I actually do have the odd bit of old tat myself, not akku-tat style by any means though. For instance when my granddad passed away last year my dad took me to his old house to take what I might need. I came out with armfuls of ancient tins, boxes and general paraphernalia I just loved too much to leave. It's all stored in a breen gun ammo box I found there.
Like filmiget I'm very very grey, Ikea furniture, plain clothes, just zero style. I'm a bit of an anti-clutter freak too.
I think what I find annoying about some people who try to live these lives is trying to make out their better off for it or it was better times etc... Quite often, on here sometimes, people will say things like modern rubbish, soulless new cars etc and put down people who live ordinary lives. I just think that's when individualism goes a step too far.
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I don't think I could live in a new house (unless it was a self design build grand design type place). They all seem so small. My parents only bought one new house. But it was tiny, poor quality and didn't last. So they sold it and moved back to renovating old ones.
Would love to turn an old church into a palacial open plan living space, but they rarely go for the right money and have restrictions and changes and use. And that is the goth in me, just a love of religious architecture which is always pretty startling and grand.
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MWF - Its just a case of what you don't understand you don't get. I can't understand some of the people I have worked with who live in modern cardboard houses on cloned estates, sorry, executive developments, have a bland Mondeo/Vectra/Focus on finance/personal lease, have no hobbies, and houses are like show homes inside. Wheres all their stuff, the curse word people buy you for birthdays, the tat you pick up on holiday, even the photos of family, pets, whatever (and that "fake oil painting" styled framed 242 x24" photo of you and the wife and kids looking like the Stepford Family hanging over the fake fireplace doesn't count!!!!)
Come into work on a monday - what did you do at the weekend then? oh, nothing, went to Asda for the weekly shop, rented a DVD...
I just don't get how thats living. Its like being in a consumer trance. We seem to have bred a generation of people who are perpetual autopilot. Perfectly nice people I'm sure but I can't see how anyone can have no hobbies, no outside interests and not care about anything. ("Yeah, its not in our contract but lets not rock the boat about that", or "Oh, I don't do politics" or "So what if they are tearing down a listed building in the city centre, they are going to build a big new designer outlet store there" etc.)
Even if someone is passionate about bell ringing or mad on cross stitch, at least its their "thing" and I can relate to why they do it. Its people who do nothing I can't follow.
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Last Edit: Feb 1, 2007 10:53:17 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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I absolutely get what MWF is saying and AK, Having lived around and in junk too long (all my life), and as a slave to doing things the hardest most unconventional ways. a part of me really does crave a nice blank canvas, finished house, a daily i can jump in and go anytime anywhere without nursing it and a hobby/interest i can be organised and tinker with on a saturday afternoon! Not me though i still love tat, worthless or not, i still have too many interests and still spend too long on here oggling other peoples 'old stuff'! So thats how i end up where i am now, half tidy, covered in tat and retro chaos! We need tidy people in this world and crazy people doing their thing. extremers are a bit too much as mwf pointed out. I think manufacturing and development was more interesting in the past and future is kinda grey!  no wonder people look back and live in the past. maybe i'm wrong.  |
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MWF - Its just a case of what you don't understand you don't get. I can't understand some of the people I have worked with who live in modern cardboard houses on cloned estates, sorry, executive developments, have a bland Mondeo/Vectra/Focus on finance/personal lease, have no hobbies, and houses are like show homes inside. Wheres all their stuff, the curse word people buy you for birthdays, the tat you pick up on holiday, even the photos of family, pets, whatever (and that "fake oil painting" styled framed 242 x24" photo of you and the wife and kids looking like the Stepford Family hanging over the fake fireplace doesn't count!!!!) LOL you've just described me to a t! I genuinely do live in a little (and it is little) modern house on a legoland housing estate where everything looks the same, everyone has a nice neat ornamental garden (as per the deeds). Inside there is no clutter because for some reason clutter freaks me out. Everything pretty modern/clean and Ikea like. Probably your idea of hell Alistair! At weekends I cook, pay bills, go food shopping, maybe a little food shopping. Maybe I'm becoming socially conditioned! Oddly enough though, this lifestyle was all brought about from trying to save money due to foolish hobby/individualism spending in the past. I was on the phone to an old school mate of mine the other day and I said "Dude I go to work, come home, eat and that's it, it's like I'm living in a coma!" and he replied "Me too!". Worrying. Maybe I should become a mental. Buy the Plymouth Duster I've always wanted, move into a shack in the Shropshire country side and drive around dirt tracks all day wearing a cowboy hat. |
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Gentleman, may I present my life of sheer normality. My house, 2 bedroom semi. Previous owner drove a focus, I have an Astra.  The lounge, the other day I moved a candle glass as the shadow wasn't symmetrical with the one next to it.  The kitchen always kept like this, I get upset if it isn't.  The bedroom. I would describe this pic as showing it in a bit of a state really. Previous owner was messy.  |
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to address in my small way the three posts above... 1) without modern blandamoninimity retro wouldnt be different or cool 2) i also, as probably most of us, crave a reliable daily. a reliable estelle is the win 3) al is right in that some people have no hobbies, unless going out and fighting/shooting up/gettin wasted count, and thats both sad and incomprehensible. 4) if people are happy in their consumer-branded lives, let them be 5) never give up sticking up for what you think/believe. listed buildings should be preserved 6) old architecture was both better crafted, and more interesting. there are more people now to cram into smaler spaces. how many 'executive developments' have been crafted and designed by a mason nowadays?! |
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The fact you're here proves you are not a lost cause LOL
You like Sierras, thats wierdo behaviour by the standards of 98.76% of the population.
Come to the dark side. I know where theres a nice but ever so slightly shabby '73 Dart for £4500 - or a mate has a Duster for sale for £5K, in plain wrapper white but runs 12s.
I got to the stage where tat took over my life. Now I am married no risk of that happening again... Its not a good place to be. ANother mate is just coming out of a similar adiction. Now has a rule of no more than 2 of the same object to be owned at any one time.
I just don't know what I would do with myself if it wasn't for crappy old cars and tat. Always looking for more tat, disposing of tat, fixing tat, talking to tat-adicted mates, planning what tat I want to get, planning tat gaining missions to obscure villages in the countryside and odd old mining towns etc.
They know me at the charity shop (bringing or taking today love?)
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Just seen your pics, MWF, I think you have OCD!!!!!
I'd feel agrophobic somewhere that tidy.
Whats funny is I have a mate whos like me but his wife is like you. See how well that works out LOL.
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4) if people are happy in their consumer-branded lives, let them be Ah, but this is what is destroying the enviornment... I feel moved to object. Therer is no reason modern products and architecture cannot be as stylish and as well crafted as older architecture and products. Its just that stuff ain't designed to last so what does quality mean any more? Example of good modern design, my Motorola V3i - lovely phone, ace design. I have foudn my perfect phone and now nolonger need to upgrade, no matter how many free offers I get. Until it breaks of course... |
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Last Edit: Feb 1, 2007 12:04:22 GMT by akku
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I think manufacturing and development was more interesting in the past and future is kinda grey! no wonder people look back and live in the past. maybe i'm wrong. It's hard to say, it's seems to be all relative to me. The past seems more simple times and thus you think you'd do better off. I think it's like watching a film where you imagine yourself so different if you lived in the scenario you're watching. I like to think if I lived in the American south in the 1970's I'd be driving around in a transam running from the law and fooling around with curious female hippies. But I think I'd live like Audry sang about in Little Shop Of Horrors... somewhere that's green... |
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In fact a drunk skin in Leeds once thought I was Nick Cave and wouldn't leave me alone.
I nearly cried when I had to buy a suit with a 36" waist.
but look cool, if a little ghey!
) Some retro TV and films, especially ones featuring cars (gone in 60 seconds ('74 version), vanishing point, cannonball, proefessionals etc). Other than that not especially, i quite like technology so like newer stuff.
no wonder people look back and live in the past.
