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1990: Love Takes Time – Mariah Carey    Hmmm… I was far too punk rock cool to have anything to do with Miss Glitter, so I don’t recall this song. I’m sure it was played heavily in shopping malls across the country, and I was probably subjected to it. I just don’t recognize the title.

1991: Cream – Prince & the New Power Generation    Hello? Does anyone remember this song? I don’t remember this song at all, which is weird, because I love Prince. I guess I wasn’t loving him much in 1991.

1992: End of the Road – Boyz II Men   Wow. I was out of touch with mainstream music in the early nineties. I remember the band, and the hoardes of teenage girls who loved them. But I wasn’t one of them.

1993:  I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) – Meat Loaf   Aha! I remember this one. Being a big Rocky Horror fan, I was on board with the man, plus, it was a great sing-along song at the bars.

1994: I’ll Make Love To You – Boyz II Men   Really? Them again? I can vaguely recall this one, probably because it was #1 from August 27 to December 3.

1995:  Fantasy – Mariah Carey    Was there a butterfly or short-shorts in this video? What? That was all her videos? Ok, I’m at a loss again.

1996: No Diggity – Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre    Yup. I remember this one. But I was working at the mall, managing an Express store, so I was becoming more mainstream. I’ve always been a Dr. Dre fan though.

1997: Candle In The Wind 1997 – Elton John    Good thing I kind of liked this song, because there was no getting away from it at the end of 1997.

1998: One Week – Barenaked Ladies   The boys from Canada. I love BNL, and in November of 1998 I was a newlywed.  My new husband and I would sing along with this whenever it came on the radio, trying to get all the words right. And we still do that today when we hear it.  Altogether now:  Awwwwwww…..

1999: Smooth – Santana featuring Rob Thomas  I still have this CD in my car. Of course, it is now a Honda minivan, and not my cute Honda coupe. Time goes by, but this is still a great song.

 Let’s say I’m really green, and wanted to save the trees… Yeah. Let’s say that.

Anyway, the story takes place in the 90s. I wrote it a few years ago while I was pregnant with my third. I was experiencing crazy writer’s block on a different project, and just wanted to try something new. I started with a personal experience (the first day of college), created a character similar to myself (though not the same), and set her free to make different decisions than I made when starting out myself.  It was pretty interesting to mix fact and fiction so tightly, and my character, Greer Bennett, ends up taking a wildly different journey than I ever did.

To read a sample or download the entire novel, please visit:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/5592

1. Flatliners  (Death, medical students, and Julia and Keifer in their younger, fresher years. Can’t go wrong!)

2. Misery (Had to get one in for my fellow Mainer, Stephen King)

3. Edward Scissorhands  (Johnny Depp can even make scissors sexy.)

4. Avalon (One of the ones I missed back in the day. Putting in my Netflix queue today)

5. Mermaids (A lot of people missed this one, but it is a good story. And a young Christina Ricci is impressive as the younger sister.)

6. Mo Better Blues (A Spike Lee Joint.)

7. The Grifters (Remember Annette Bening?)

8. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Who says you can’t woo the girl of your dreams by tying her up?)

9. Pump Up the Volume  (A personal favorite from 1990. Haven’t seen it in along time, so I don’t know how it holds up. Put that in the Netflix queue and I’ll get back to you.)

10. Cinema Paradiso (Good story-telling is always worth another viewing.)

No Doubt : Now Playing : No Doubt Acoustic! – Bridge School Benefit Video.

 

In honor of the end of daylight savings and the darkness at 4pm, I post this as my 90s Moment of the Day