Megan Nolan: I bought CDs, rented videos and lost my virginity to a boy I met on MySpace

I can’t help feeling we lost something when we stopped consuming art through physical objects. But maybe we would have lost it anywayJustice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine in I Saw the TV Glow. Among other things, it is a nostalgic paean to the era of analogue cultureThis week I watched a new film by Jane Schoenbrun called I Saw the TV Glow. It’s an artful, esoteric analogy for trans and queer self-discovery and repression, as well as a nostalgic paean to the era of analogue culture.

What struck me most was its rendition of what it was to be a fan back then, to be a fan whose feelings were summoned through physical objects and set, definite materialities; a fan who had to be sitting in front of a particular machine at a particular time in a particular place to experience what they desired to experience.

Did the internet intersect with my adolescence? Certainly – what else could someone who met the boy she lost her virginity to on MySpace say? Nevertheless, my obsession with certain films, bands and TV shows was resolutely analogue and physical. I bought the NME every week and then the CDs they recommended, I rented films on VHS and requested that the local shop order me posters of the ones I loved best, I consulted the RTÉ Guide to find screenings of sweary, sexy late-night TV shows.

At 15, my first real boyfriend made me a mixtape, shortly after I had gained some moderate favour as an acceptably attractive person in the world for the first time, features having sharpened, shape having taken form.

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