Word: tape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend, and he showed me his CD player. It was a gray, futuristic affair that inspired awe (I still grin when I look at similar setups). But I just wanted the CD player because I'd seen and used one, and I thought it was cooler than a tape player. I mean, really, any given CD looked more artistic than a cassette. It had paint already on it. The cover was art, sure, but when you opened the case, you found another work of beauty, either swirling and complex or elegantly simple, a new aesthetic by which to judge...
Watching the tape of me simultaneously trying to impress MTV producers and score with a shorn woman was the second most embarrassing moment of my life. The first, according to my application, was getting drunk in high school and badmouthing the sexual talents of my already graduated girlfriend, a claim that was posted on the school message board the next day. Her most embarrassing moment, of course, is happening right...
...even as I watched tape after tape of my awkward, pimply self trying to justify my life, my apparently indestructible ego was still wondering how MTV could have not picked me. So I called Jonathan Murray, one of the show's producers. "We weren't sure what was going on with your dating life. It seemed pretty dormant," he said. When I sounded confused, he clarified. "You definitely weren't going to be the hunk in the show." I said that depended on what point viewers were in their menstrual cycle. He didn't know what I was talking about...
...Neil Armstrong left a tape with one of your songs on the moon. Did he just not want it anymore...
...long as it's a live feed with no tape...they said it was fine," she added...