I spent an hour this morning looking at an old videotape I have. It’s a compilation of a bunch of home movies from 1992-1995. It was fun to see some of the trips I took with my friends back then. There’s stuff from a trip to Montreal in the summer of 1992, and then of a trip to Chicago in the summer of 1993. The number of Seinfeld references we make is astounding, and the soundtrack is also interesting: Stereo MC’s, Tragically Hip, Indigo Girls, Matthew Sweet.
Then there’s stuff from my trip to Ireland in 1995 with Brent. We took the camera into some pubs and just put it on the floor so we could tape the traditional music. So even though there are just long stretches of black screen, the music is phenomenal.
The funniest thing on the tape, though, is our New Year’s 1992 celebration. There’s a bit of Brent, surreptitiously filmed singing along to “McDonald’s Girl” by the Barenaked Ladies. Priceless. Now I just have to get the stuff off tape and onto a more permanent medium.