I also write an advice column called Ask Barf. I’ve been writing professionally since 2001, starting with Vice magazine and most recently at Girls, a TV show which will be premiering on HBO this fall. These Are The Quotes From Our Favorite 80s Movies: Bouncing Souls Knew Song: Silent Majority (local hardcore band)Ģ7. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It: R.E.MĢ0. Lesley Arfin presents: Dear Diary Soundtrackġ5. But click on the Kindle thing anyway because I want it to be available for the Kindle, okay? Cool. Unless you don’t have a Kindle, in which case, you can just buy it regular style. If you super double extra like it, you can click on the Dear Diary link and order it for your Kindle. If you like it, look into the bands because they have more songs and whole albums really rule too. I’m gonna make you guys a mix tape that I think goes well with the book.
All these girls are mentioned in it at least once. So I wrote this book Dear Diary a few years ago, it’s about being a teenager and it’s about growing up. I drove around with Allison, Leslie, Marlene, Cynthia, Ally, Julie, Michelle, Tina, and Jolene. When girls are in the car, I think they just wanna sing really loud. We just drove and sang along and that was enough.
We curated mixes depending on who was riding with us. We drove from the diner, to 7-11, to the parking lot of another diner, to the train station, to Corey Court to smoke a bowl, to the Woodbury Commons to watch skaters, or sometimes just drove to drive and got nowhere at all. Sometimes it would give us the courage to walk into an intimidating punk show. Sometimes songs would give us insight into what boys really thought about. I remember too many nights driving around with my best friends aimlessly through the suburbs just playing the same song over and over and over and over and then, one more time after that. Even when it was totally stupid it was smart, because it knew how to be my best friend, boyfriend, role model, therapist–whatever, and it didn’t have to do a goddamn thing other than play itself. I mean, if I’m driving on the LIE, I at least want to know at least one other person on this road likes Jawbreaker, right? We were stupid. And on that car, you had to put bumper stickers of your favorite bands because how else were we gonna know you were alternative? Bumper stickers actually played a huge role in my teenage life too, because, growing up in Long Island, you needed to have a car or at least know a cool friend with a car. The word “alternative” is important because it’s very “of that time.” Alternative meant we weren’t gonna conform to the norm, and other bumper stickers that said stuff like that. I was an alternative teenager in the 90s.
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