Saturday, January 17, 2009

Who Else Loved the Poster Sale?

There are many things I miss about college.  Only 15 hours worth of obligations a week, late nights, the ability to watch daytime TV (oh wait, I still do that).  But one of the things I miss most was the once-a-semester poster sale.

They would set up at the beginning of every semester in Brady Commons and I bought at least one poster there every semester.  

Thinking back, the posters are kind of hilarious.  There are many categories of poster and I had at least one from almost all of them.

First was the romantic black and white prints.  I had this one of a couple kissing in Paris:

Next was the "they're funny because they're in black and white" posters.  This dumb and dumber one was one of my favorites:

Of course there were the normal movie posters.  Most people went Boondock Saints or Fight Club, but I went with my personal favorite movie Good Will Hunting:

Let us not forget the famous works of art in poster form.  I went with El Greco's View of Toledo because I visited Toledo when I was in Spain and it made me sound cool to tell people that.  On a side note, I saw this painting in the Met a couple months ago and it really is kind of breathtaking:
Let us not forget the arty hip hop posters.  I, of course, had Tupac.  This isn't the exact poster I had.  Mine had the words "Only God Can Judge Me" on it which made it infinitely more awesome.
And lastly, the cool old movie stars posters.  I went Audrey Hepburn.  I always thought she was way cooler than Marilyn Monroe.
There were also like Anne Geddes prints and motivational posters, but I never stooped that low.  

Yeah, I had the coolest dorm room out there.  You can be jealous all you want.

Song of the Day: That's What You Get by Paramore

1 comment:

Paige said...

Let's just remember who bought you the poster that said "only God can judge me." I also lightened 203 with a Sex and the City poster and one with soccer players with their hands over their special area that said, "COURAGE." My personal favorite, in fact I believe it hung over our mantel.