Antediluvian Confidential

I turned 13 in 1990. A lot of shit went down that decade. This 5x5 explains a lot about the old man today.

Five 90s Female TV characters that helped shape my burgeoning sexuality:

1) goth Darlene Conner of Roseanne
2) Clarissa Darling of Clarissa Explains It All
3) Six LeMeure of Blossom
4) Jadzia Dax of Deep Space Nine
5) Lisa Miller of Newsradio

Five 90s TV Shows Eternally Bound Up with my First Relationship:

1) Friends
2) Beavis and Butthead
3) Puzzle Place
4) Liquid Television
5) 120 Minutes

Five musical acts I Discovered in the 1990s that I still listen to today:

1) They Might Be Giants
2) Tori Amos
3) XTC
4) Nine Inch Nails
5) Dead Milkmen

Five important, to me, historical events:

1) Gulf War One
2) The Death of Kurt Cobain
3) Bill Clinton going on MTV to get votes from young people
4) Mars Pathfinder mission
5) OJ Simpson Trial

Five things that were new and strange in 1990 that kids today can't imagine a world without:

1) Cell Phones
2) The Simpsons
3) The World Wide Web
4) AIDS
5) Endless American Misadventures in Central Asia