Do you have old-school tastes (in music, film, etc.)...

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I prefer the music from the 60s, 70s and 80s and I prefer TV shows from those decades as well. I don't feel like an outcast, because I find a way to fit in, no matter how different I am. I also like the vintage unisex clothes from the 60s and I emulate those fashions the best that I can. Try to imagine Austin Powers without the glasses and libido.

Not to the degree you describe. My tastes are pretty variable. I can enjoy classical music at times, but feel most at home with synth/industrial from the 90s on (80s Depeche Mode is great, though) and both old-school and new-school metal so long as it's the melodic kind and the vocalist sings rather than only shouts exclamations.

Almost everything 80s has a certain appeal, but that's the regular "what I grew up with" bit, I guess. It was on the whole a happier time than any other in my life thus far.

Movies, all over the place. There are few from before the 60s or so that I really like (some of the big much older classics do qualify). I lack the patience for the very artiest of films, but generally like some intellectual quality. Plain old upbeat Hollywood can be nice to unwind with all the same.

Science fiction is a weakness of mine generally. Moderately but not cripplingly hard (al dente? ). Adore Iain M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds; movie wise, lots of stuff. Prometheus became a months-long obsession for me despite its flaws, and I started seeing the Alien series in a new light somehow. I wish I could un-see Alien: Resurrection, though.

So yeah, all over the place, but it does tend toward the esoteric enough that I often feel alienated from both the mainstream and a lot of geeks.

Yes, even among my peers, much older than you. I've always loved those romantic comedies from the 1950s and 60s. I got interested in 60s pop culture once the 70s and 80s rolled around. As a kid I always liked things the other kids didn't - usually things older than what they were into.

There was a time as a teenager when I wondered if I was born 50 to 100 years later than I should have been.

If there's anything age has taught me, it's to enjoy what I enjoy without worrying how many other people in my age group also enjoy it.

Life is not about being in on the latest fad or part of the herd. It's about finding a depth and richness in what you truly love and loving the life you choose for yourself.

You get to choose!

My music taste is dominated by various types of rock, mostly from the 60s and 21st century, with the 70s and 90s also contributing. I also listen to the best stuff from hip hop (Jay-Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean), and soul (Marvin Gaye).

I mostly like sci-fi films, particularly ones with clever tricks, with a slight preference for modern films.

the vocals for a majority of my music are in dead languages, or are in the languages and traditional style of greater Persia. there's some Opera and some modern stuff but generally speaking no one I interact with has heard of 95% of what I listen to unless I've introduced them to it. I don't find this particularly alienating, I just somewhat pity people whose taste in art and the philosophy underlaying it are dictated by fashion. I've learned a fair amount of Latin, Urdu, Middle English, 16th century and Modern French, Catalan, Mozarabic, Hebrew, Ge'ez, Liturgical Yoruba, several middle Italian dialects, some ecclesiastical Greek and Church Slavonic, Portuguese, and so on from the music I listen to. what most people think passes for variety just strikes me as somewhat pathetic.

Most of the movies I have seen have been 1960s onwards to present day. I've seen very few movies in black and white. I don't have a strong preference between older and newer cinema (I mean good newer cinema, obviously most of what Hollywood churns out now is crap). My musical tastes are very varied but I do like a lot of music from the 60s right the way through to the present day so I suppose my answer is yes. I love Bach - it seems very likely that is by far the most old-school music I listen to :p

Yes, I love classic movies and music from the 60s.

I've started to like Perry Mason (the classic 1957-66 CBS legal series starring Raymond Burr) because, for one thing, of the teamwork evident within Perry and his cohorts as they worked together to clear the innocent and to solve murders in the courtroom. I'm liking how Mason would expose the real culprit by means of hard-hitting cross-examination, so that the person on the stand would either confess, or a related person in the gallery would also confess.

The other reason, of course, is Fred Steiner's classic title track.

Yep.

I'm a huge film buff (special interest, anyone?), but the older I get the more I dislike newer stuff and lean towards older films. I love pre-1930s silent films, and classic Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s. The closer I get to my birth year (1960) the less I like the films. Then there's a period of really good stuff in the late 1960s and 1970s. I'll occasionally enjoy a film that newer than that, but mostlly no. They all seem to be either just remakes of older, better films or insulting or obviously made for the money without any concern for the audience. I also adore foreign-language films of the same eras, particularly films from Scandinavia, Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia and Japan. Low budget films from the 1950s and 1960s are a hoot too.

As for music...yeah, I guess you could say that. I rarely listen to current music. I'm more interested in classical music (particularly that which emphasizes string intruments), swing from the 40s, doowop from the 50s and surf guitar music and soul/R&B from the 60s. I also enjoy old bluegrass, traditional Celtic music and classic heavy metal bands.

And YES -- I do feel isolated and alienated. Nobody seems interested in the older stuff, and I can't even seem to pique their interest, to turn them on to something they haven't experienced before. Most people's attitudes are "Always move forward, disregard the cost." The reason I spend so much time online is to find others I can discuss these things with. I sure haven't found anyone in the woods of East Texas.

Yes, I like many oldschool things - especially when it comes to games. The majority of my collection consists of DOS games

I also like classic sci-fi movies, classic rock songs and old cartoons (anyone here watched Swat Kats or Captain Planet?).

My old school tastes are for 19070s-1990s Technically Old School and Mid School BMX bikes, and also Skateboards

I'm 33 and absolutely love me some Pink Floyd! Also Rush! There's very little in the way of music that impresses me these days. Mastodon might be the most recent I've come to love, and I've been listening to them since Lifesblood.

Though my true obsession would have to be Primus/Les Claypool. Been listening to them since middle school.

Old school for me going right back to the 30s with music and films