So I am totally going to steal an idea from Jaime over at Shezcrafti today because I am terribly jealous of the fact that she has a snapshot of her room from when she was a kid. My parents never had the presence of mind to immortalize any of my childhood room set-ups, and the only picture that I have that even remotely counts is this one below of me sleeping when I was three or four. Did they get my Castle Greyskull or At-At in the picture? Nope. Just me hanging off the bed like a goon (this was how they found me pretty much each morning, by the by, apparently I’m a restless sleeper…) At least I can scope my Amazing Spider-man comforter and my Disney sheets. Oh, and footie pjs FTW.
I do however have a couple of pictures that I took of my room during high school, circa 1995 that I can take a look at. Granted, it’s not the 80s, but it’s basically been 20 years, so it’s still nostalgic and junk. Looking back I guess I was going through my “dark” phase where I wore a ton of black, made my own goofy Punisher T-shirts, and took selfie photos with my dad’s Pentax 1000 manual camera that I stole so that I could take photojournalism as an elective in school. I wonder how long I f-ed with my hair until I was happy with this picture at the time (sigh, what a retard I was.) Also, note the X-Men keychain I turned into a necklace pendant (hanging near the Punisher skull nose area), as that’s a clue to an upcoming post, the second part of this Atari post from a couple weeks ago…
Anyway, now that you’ve had a look at my dumb ass, here’s what my room looked like…
This was is just a smidgen of the cacophony of posters, clippings and miscellaneous crap that I had plastered on almost every square inch of area in that room. By the time I was done I had the entire ceiling, all four walls, the doors, door frames, bookshelves and dresser covered in stuff. Wish I had some more shots other than the two in this post. That being said, lets take a look at some of the junk in that photo above. First off there’s an awesome Aliens poster that I totally forgot I had. The two mobiles hanging down from the ceiling are the dissection worksheets of an earthworm and a crayfish that I swiped from biology the year before. I was full swing into horror movies and I thought they were cool. Lets see, there’s also at least three Vampire the Masquerade promo posters up (including the two on the top right, and one of a vampire chick coming through a doorway off to the left), as well as a Werewolf the Apocalypse calendar (just to the right of the hanging lamp at the top left of the photo), and a Wraith the Ascension poster all the way to the left. I was pretty big into the White Wolf role playing games even though I had a tough time finding people to play with (my friends played Werewolf, but Vampire was too weird for them.) In that same vein (ha, punny) I put up a Red Cross Give Blood sign I nabbed from a local grocery store to go with the Vampire theme. There’s an image from James O’Barr’s The Crow up at the top. That was cut from one of the free swag bags at Dragon Con that year. Speaking of Dragon Con, there’s a flyer for my first show up underneath the one Masquerade poster. There’s also a chunk of one of Casper’s brothers from the Casper the Ghost movie that came out that year. I’m pretty sure that came from a cardboard standee that I got from my local Home Video rental store. On the ceiling you can see the corner of a Star Wars Trilogy poster, as well as a comic book page I drew for my Senior Independent Study class (I was so proud of that class as I was the only student having convinced the school to let me have it as an additional elective.) Last, but not least there’s a fireman’s helmet, a gift from my uncle Dale who worked for a time as an EMT, and my high school diploma…
In this final photo (taken with a roll of black and white film left over from my photojournalism class) there’s a bit more of the wall to the right of the original photo. In addition to some Atari ads I cut out of comics (Kool-Aid and Mario Bros.) there are a couple of my favorite Saturday Morning cartoon ads (this one featuring Pryor’s Place and this one with It’s Punky Brewster, Kidd Video and the Smurfs.) There’s also a Highlander the Final Dimension cardboard standee poster and some snapshots of friends from our graduation.
I never realized just who emo and faux-goth I must have seemed at the time. Le sigh…