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News Of 1992

George H.W. Bush is defeated by Bill Clinton for President, but even worse, he vomits into the lap of Japan’s Prime Minister at an official state dinner (At least it wasn’t recorded. Oh wait…it was. But at least there wasn’t social media around yet. Just good old fashioned newspapers and news programs).

The first African-American female Senator, Carol Moseley Braun, is elected (to Illinois; again…this is 1992. That makes me a sophomore in high school. I’d love to say I was out volunteering for her team. But it wasn’t on my radar. I do remember being an early fan of Ruth Baden Ginsburg though. Spoiler alert: she gets confirmed to the Supreme Court next year).

Essential Films & Movies of 1992

Favorites

Aladdin
Army of Darkness
Chaplin
The Last of the Mohicans
Scent of a Woman

Honorable mention

A Few Good Men
Alien 3
The Bodyguard
The Crying Game
Diggstown
Glengarry Glen Ross
Lethal Weapon 3
My Cousin Vinny
The Player
Sneakers
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Unforgiven

All ages

Aladdin

Guilty pleasures

Basic Instinct
Fortress
Raising Cain
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Holiday

Home Alone 2

Want to see

A Midnight Clear
Dead Alive
Deep Cover
Jennifer 8
Knight Moves
One False Move
Split Second (Rutger Hauer!)
Strictly Ballroom
Toys
Trespass
White Sands

Overrated / didn’t like near as much as it feels I should

Reservoir Dogs
(Everyone should see once, and also I don’t feel like having to defend why it wouldn’t be on here. probably my least fave Tarantino, with the exception of The Hateful Eight)

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Essential music of 1992

Albums

1. Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists

2. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

3. Sonic Youth - Dirty

4. Tom Waits - Bone Machine

Honorable mention

coming soon

The 44 songs from 1992 you gotta hear

1. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover - Sophie B. Hawkins

2. Here - Pavement

3. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

4. Jump Around - House of Pain

5. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door - Guns N’ Roses

6. Little Baby Nothing - Manic Street Preachers featuring Traci Lords

7. Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers

8. Orange Rolls, Angel’s Spit - Sonic Youth

9. Rhythm is a Dancer - Snap!

10. Something Good - Utah Saints

11. Theresa’s Sound-world - Sonic Youth

12. Youth Against Fascism - Sonic Youth

    PLAYLISTS BY MONTH

    January

    1. Motorcyle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers

    February

    1. Little Baby Nothing - Manic Street Preachers f. Traci Lords

    2. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover - Sophie B. Hawkins

    March

    1. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door - Guns N’ Roses

    April

    1. Theresa’s Sound-world - Sonic Youth

    May

    1. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

    2. Rhythm is a Dancer - Snap!

    3. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus

    4. Jump Around - House of Pain

    5. Three Little Pigs - Green Jelly

    June

    1. Swimsuit Issue - Sonic Youth

    July

    1. Youth Against Fascism - Sonic Youth

    2. Orange Rolls, Angel’s Spit - Sonic Youth

    August

    1. You Love Us - Manic Street Preachers

    2. Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth

    September

    1. Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH) - Manic Street Preachers (non-album single)

    2. Here - Pavement

    October

    1. Something Good - Utah Saints

    November

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    December

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Selected Poetry of 1992

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

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