{"id":1805,"date":"2011-10-10T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2011-10-10T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T03:04:19","slug":"twenty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/twenty-years\/","title":{"rendered":"twenty years"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fall is a big anniversary of many events. We’ve been in NYC for 20 years now, which means we were here on 9\/11. I don’t really know what to feel about the 10th anniversary. I’ve been thinking that I should have something to write about it, but even the things that I start writing in my head don’t get anywhere. Then I feel guilty that I don’t have more to say. But we were here and we were lucky and I am still grateful for that: I was 6 months pregnant, everyone we know was safe + sound (if scared). I was proud to be a resident of NYC* and to experience how well the city pulled together.<\/p>\n

* I still am: thank you, Occupy Wall Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On a much much much lighter note, this fall is also the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album. I know it’s reductive to pin all of the changes in music since then to one record, but it’s always seemed like that to me. Before that record it was “college rock” — played on college radio, mostly on independent labels, small venues + shows. And after, after it was “alternative” — on all of the radio stations, big shows, etc.<\/p>\n

For us it coincided with leaving college and coming to grad school (version 1.0), which I’m sure is at least part of the reason it feels like lots of big changes. I had a show on my college radio station with a pal; when we got to grad school, the station was much more professional and didn’t have time for us. I know it’s trite to complain about bands getting big — “I liked their first record,” said in self-mocking tones, was something we said often. But there’s a practical side to a smallish music scene, too. Big shows are more expensive for tickets + drinks. Big shows are harder for shorties like me to navigate; I’ve spent innumerable shows jumping up and down, not because I love to pogo but because otherwise I couldn’t *see* anything.<\/p>\n

Of course music is completely different now in our internet world, some things better, and some things worse. It seems almost quaint to think back to a time when radio mattered that much, and when the freaky kids suddenly got popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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