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Clam Bistro: Being An Australian Teenager In The 1990s

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I’ve been listening to Crowded House’s greatest hits and fondly remembering how many earnest teenage tears I shed to Not The Girl You Think You Are, which in turn made me remember hosing myself down with Australis Waterberry body-spray at Mallacoota on New Year’s Eve.

Continuing in that…

Well, pretty much everything Clem said (I totally dyed my hair black for BDO), plus:

• Playing hacky-sack with the cool, older punk kids at Freezer gigs
• Waiting in line to see Bodyjar, 28 Days or Mach Pelican play at The Corner pretty much every weekend
• “Skanking” at said gigs
• Bananas In Pyjamas teeshirts
• Brown velvet pants
• Corduroy EVERYTHING
• Satchels suddenly being SOFUCKINGCOOL
• Wearing those colourful ball necklaces like a Cali-punk
• Dicky belts
• Watching my friends on Recovery WHO GOT AN EVERCLEAR PLECTRUM
• Rainbow striped socks with cargo shorts…???
• Getting punched in the face in the mosh pit and feeling like a hard cunt
• Wanting to be Daniel Johns
• Being mistaken for Daniel Johns all day, err day.

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   + getting copies of the...Face magazine, cutting...and...

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   some of this but most of it, yes, yes yes!! and if i didn’t do it my big sister did. also i found an old impulse body...

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   What is any of this

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11. imathers said: Weirdly(?) enough, that Crowded House greatest hits seems pretty relevant to Being A Canadian Teenager In The 1990s, too.
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    Oh, waterberry!even though I wasn’t a teenager in the 90s I did a lot of growing up then. Anybody remember Vidiot?

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    - Esky Magazine - Spice Girls...Spray - Spice Girls collectible photos - Etnies - Yodgees...

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20. bebopalulu said: Those ‘two part’ dresses that every girl wore to their formal. A strapless boob tube top and an ankle-length skirt. In a matching luminescent shimmery satin fabric.
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    Jack’s? King George Square at...place to be. Recovery Reruns of Monkey You own

25. cassiocalculates said: Dangerfield calico bags!!! Putting those twists in your hair and then securing them with glittery bobby pins “spice girls” glasses with yellow lenses.
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    WEST COAST COOLERS AND PASSION POPS Tie-dying my own clothes...wearing them with Docs.

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    Most of this list especially the bolded...and Anita. Corduroy flares Cross colors The R&B...

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37. heyfatchick said: WATERBERRY. Holy shit, I doused myself with that throughout Year 8.
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    Vidiot. Wearing white t-shirts with black singlets over the top of them. Never brushing your hair. Blur, Oasis, Suede,...

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    Well, pretty much everything Clem said (I totally dyed my hair black for BDO), plus: Playing hacky-sack with the cool,...

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