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I'm sitting here pretty high, going through the US network television schedules from 1989-1993 and I feel this incredible pining. I was born shortly before that period and just barely old enough to actually remember things from that time. I remember wearing Toronto Blue Jays caps and watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

But this pining isn't to be a child in that time, it's to be an adult. I feel this longing to be me now in another time. I imagine watching Dinosaurs and waiting for new episodes of Seinfeld and watching The Simpsons bloom. And I wonder about how my goals would be different. Would I have just stuck to playing drums in a rock band or would I have developed the same interest in electronic music? Instead of spending money on MIDI controllers and listening to Death Grips and Youth Code, would I be buying a PortaStudio and Yamaha PSR-36 or DX-7 and listening to Techno Animal and Nine Inch Nails? Would I have had the means to discover the Memphis rap and Japanese noise music that I now know because of the internet?

I also think about buying records and CDs and keeping up to date not with websites but with subscriptions to alternative music magazines and college radio stations.

I think about the things I would have done without the internet; would I have ended up playing Dungeons & Dragons? Pretty sure I would have been all over Aeon Flux.

>tldr I'm stoned and having pining fantasies to be 27 in 1992
>waiting for the new weekly episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation after seeing TOS in syndication as a child.