Since we're on the subject of high school

[gordonzola]

I'm really enjoying the photo memes going on out there. Among my firends it started with girlswirlzine (and actually the others are locked entries).

For mine, I want you to post a picture in my comment section of you being a high school poseur. I know this might be easier for you goths than you others, but give it a try. Explain the context if necessary please. Give a date if you are willing. (btw, this photo-hosting site is great though it hides the code you need in the "all sizes" section after you upload the pics) (thanks gwenzilla for the tip.)

Here's mine: envisioning a bright future for the dictatorship of the proletariat. Taken sometime in 1985.

Comments

[systemerror.livejournal.com]

the guitar dork in me likes those cheap Gibsons from the 70's.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yes, the guitar was great BUT WHERE'S YOUR PICTURE? ;)

[sarahshevett.livejournal.com]

Ringoes, N. J. circa 1973
I got these chaps and stirrup leathers for Christmas and I was posin'

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

wow, that's a great picture. and from the film format of the day right? that's like that 126 cannister film right? or is it actual profesional photography-format?

[gismonda.livejournal.com]

OK, I didn't actually go to the concert advertised on the T-shirt. My parents wouldn't let me roadtrip up to Omaha for it. However, nearly everyone else in my class went (there were only 12 of us). They brought me a T-shirt out of pity!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

wow. was there any weirdness associated with the pity shirt? did you wear it all the time or was it embarrassing because you actually didn't go? How old were you there?

prom 1993 let's see if this works

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

3y3l!n3r 0f FURY

oh yeah ...

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

for those who don't know ... i'm the dame

[goodbadgirl.livejournal.com]

You're adorable. I'll try to post my pic this weekend.

[gwenzilla.livejournal.com]

you are *so* my new punkrock boyfriend!

[i unlocked my entry]

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yeah, but you were a Durannie! Actually we would have come together over Two-Tone and the Uptones. BTW, do you have the capacity to burn a CD or MP3 off of a tape? I'd love to give you a copy of that demo tape which is much better than the album versions. But it's old and fragile. like me.

[ladycakes.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if I even have a pic from high school and if I do...am I brave enough to post it?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

aw c'mon! do it!

[jessicaem.livejournal.com]

This is, I believe, 1994. I'm 14 and in 9th grade. I did not know how to roller blade. I was, however, a huge fan of figure skating on television, so I'd requested a pair of roller blades for Christmas (there was no ice skating--I lived in Florida). I had just spent the afternoon pushing myself up and down the street in front my house using a broom stick like a cane. That's about as advanced as I ever got. I'm wearing my Micky Mouse shirt from the Disney Store, and I think that's a Loony Tunes hat turned backwards on my head. I'm wearing braces, and they are likely covered in bands in colors that reflected the season.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh no, you're a big white X!

I think my foto says it all

[jennizane.livejournal.com]

Listen, I had better ones of me, where I'm looking much cooler, but this photo is just damn amusing.....

raising hell at the seventh veil

[jennizane.livejournal.com]

btw, this was 1991 I think, I was 17, and yeah, that's me on the far right!

[rockgeisha.livejournal.com]

I am so sad that I can't find the "wonderful" picture of me hopped up on amphetamines and on my way to my cotillion.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

awwww, that one sounds mighty special.

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

I couldn't even if I wanted to. I studiously avoided having my picture taken between my Bar Mitzvah and the age of sixteen, at which latter point I was prematurely in college. In the interim, I had allowed my hair to grow out all stringy in a very grunge rock wannabe fashion, and then had it cut short again to look very stylishly faggy. Yet since there's no photographic evidence, no one who knows me can believe I ever had long hair.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

damn, i'd love to see Trot grunge!

[amarama.livejournal.com]

Funny, in all my poser HS pictures I look blonde, skinny, and pretty. I look incredibly mainstream. Not even in a kitschy, dated way. I don't have a scanner, so I can't post 'em.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

you must have scanners at work...

[afellowwaitress.livejournal.com]

I had my rock-n-roll license revoked for this one.

Hair by: Sun-In and AquaNet
Tan by: All-day Lay-out (Future Cancer Victims Coalition)
Pose by: The New Girl, Huntington High School, Texas 1992

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yeah, that photo doesn't rock at all. ;)

[qthebrave.livejournal.com]

the artist formerly known as teabee, my cousin (the one who now lives in palo alto) and me, the brave. this was a road trip tea and i took from georgia to south carolina to visit my cousin. it might have been for her high school graduation, which would have meant it was after our first year of college, 1993. or it could have been the summer before. columbia, sc.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeee! that's great. does Teabee know you posted this? No offense, but you all look much hotter now. even your cousin who I've never seen but who I bet doesn't wear matching tight-short/short combos anymore. Or is that a dress?

[ayodele.livejournal.com]

rawk on!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

awww, where's yours?

[surlygrrrl.livejournal.com]

as if i was ever a poseur! duh.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

hahahaha!

[asthecrowflies.livejournal.com]

i would have totally had a crush on you in highschool. unfortunately, i was busy trying to cultivate this look:

[asthecrowflies.livejournal.com]

oh - 1988.

[crazyrants.livejournal.com]

wanna make out in the back of my dad's car?

hahahahha :P

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

ha. totally. but post a pic first!

What was that about goths?

[defenestr8r.livejournal.com]

ooooh! i can't decide between über goth...




or the john hughes movie reject/new wave hell...



these are both very late 80s, i was probably fifteen in the really goth one since that seems to be around the time i left high school (hm, wonder why i didn't fit in...)


i think i might have to borrow this post for my journal. it's great!

Re: What was that about goths?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

stunning!

[ex-motel666812.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahha!!! You're so cute!!!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxooxox

I'd have fought you for him!

[defenestr8r.livejournal.com]

Commie boys in bands are hawt!

(Seriously, G. I would have had a secret crush on you. Not so different from now, I suppose!)

[ericaceous.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a scanner so I could scan in one of the few photos of me over the age of 12. It's my 1988, 13 year old passport photo, and I look just like our scary neighbor down the street. She (and I) had wild, over done hair, sullen expressions, way too much dark blue eyeliner, an air of being hungover, and a sneer. Frankly, I look younger now at 29, even with the bumper crop of white hair I'm sporting.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I'm going to do this as a weekly thing. I was thinking passport photos next week!

[fluxions.livejournal.com]

You look so cute!

All my high school pictures are at parent's house in New York. I don't think I have any regular pictures of me in high school anyway. I mean, probably the only pictures ever taken in high school were at my graduation -- 1995, which doesn't seem that interesting compared to all these people from the 80s anyway.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yes, this is an old-people-on-lj safe space.

[dcart.livejournal.com]

The two best pictures of me disappeared. One is from Disney on grad night. Unlike everyone else who had their picture taken at the beginning, we decided to wait until 5:00am. By that point, I'd been tripping for about 21 hours (a hit or two every 8 hours for 3 days) and had spent 6 hours running around Disney world in dress clothes. The other is of me passed out, wrapped in a fetal position around my whippet delivery device with about 50 used cartridges on the floor nearby.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

omg, I would love to see both of those. but especially the whippet one I think.

[kest]

I've never been a poseur. I do have pictures of me being a great big dork though. I can maybe scan one tomorrow.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yay! scan scan scan!

[loolica.livejournal.com]

i'm sure i have better/more representative/more embarrassing photos, somewhere, but this is the one that was scanned.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

what is that drawing above and to the left of the mirror? Is it Tom of Finland?