It's a bit pedestrian, but I've always found myself running through quite a bit of classical in December. I find it to be a more dignified and tolerable choice than endless Christmas albums.
And my kids have come to expect it and take note of the pieces they like, so that's a bonus. They aren't getting exposed to…

I don't know… 'Clerks' on double vinyl with an etched side 4 sounds pretty sweet…

Fun "Remember When" fact: Entertainment Tonight premiered the teaser and the trailer for Episode 1, so many of us watched it and recorded it.

I really enjoyed Robert Redford's nearly silent one-man performance in 'All Is Lost', until the very last scene which felt like a complete test-audience pleaser.

There's nothing I love more than Christians complaining about the commercialization of Christmas without any appreciation of the irony.

I mentioned The Spice Girls earlier. I ran a record store for most of the 1990s, so I managed to get a bunch of interesting scribbles from music and movie folk.

The Spice Girls.

It's really interesting rock and roll history, if you like reading about that sort of thing. People seem to forget just how quickly music was changing at that time, especially now that we're suffering through a very long stretch of extremely homogeneous pop music that has its origins in 1998(!) when manufactured pop…

You're cousins with Marilyn Wilson? Mother of Carnie and Wendy Wilson?

I'm a HUGE fan. This was well-done and hits pretty much every major point in their career.

For as much as I love this game, New Vegas made me want to punch a wall for how much I hated it.

iPod sales (approximate numbers)

Grease! Ha, I saw it at 6 in the theater as well. I recently showed it to my kids and I was floored by how ridiculously smutty it was. Fun, but nowadays it seems more appropriate for older teenagers. Maybe I'm just getting prudish as I age…

My parents took myself and my Sister (9 and 11 at the time) to a drive-in to see Porky's, because it was cheaper than getting a babysitter.
They assumed that we would get bored and fall asleep. Their assumptions were wrong.

My parents were what I would call "progressive" (or just irresponsible).

Judging by the awesome pile of similar stories in the comment thread, I'd respectfully like to see a Q&A with the reverse question:

I grew up in the late 70s and early 80s, so I didn't have the consumer power that you kids of the 90s had. My experience was that of being subjected to whatever my parents wanted to experience (and was cheaper than getting a babysitter).
In that regard, as a child I was taken to showings of Grease, Coal Miner's…

Please… As someone who really enjoyed the best parts of the 90s when they happened, can we just please end the Simpsons now…? Please…?

I'd be curious to know how many people sought out this film because of its exposure on Siskel & Ebert? I used that show to pick out my cinema excursions all throughout the 1990s.

First-run in the theater, folks. I was lucky enough to have a great arthouse cinema in my town growing up and I got to see the original 4 PJ films when they came out.