If you could point me to a place where I could buy granite countertops for $800, I’d run over my mother to get to them.
You could show me a list of the latest blonde bimbos who make the covers of all the rags, and I think the only one I can pick out is Paris Hilton, and that’s only because she has some distinctive facial features. All the rest look alike.
Music - heh. I might be able to identify a name as being a singer or a band, but I don’t know if I could name an associated song. Heck, I couldn’t name a Def Leppard song (did I spell that right?) and I think they were popular when I was less ancient.
I also don’t watch reality TV, or much other TV for that matter.
Now get off my lawn, you uppity young 'uns!!
I never saw a complete episode of Friends, Survivor, ER, or Seinfeld.
I stopped watching SNL shortly after Billy Crystal left it.
I still consider U 2 to be “that new rock band”.
I’m really out of it.
U 2? Isn’t that a video watching site?
I’ll be twenty in four weeks. I stopped watching American Idol two years ago, though I still watch House. The only modern music I listen to is college a capella and Weird Al Yankovic. The only game I play nowadays is web-based, and it’s over five years old now (which for the Internet is pretty damn old).
I don’t really care if people get on my lawn, though.
I think it happened to me in my early 20s. I moved in with a bunch of guys who had a grunge band (this was 1990/1991). I thought it was just horrible noise. They used to have 2JJJ (the alternative music/youth station) on the radio all the time. After loving that station in my teens, I realised I no longer knew or liked any of the music on it.
I don’t know the vast majority of the movies, TV shows, etc discussed in Cafe Society. And I don’t care. I listen only to talk (not shock jocks) on the radio, and my music collection is very diverse, but has little in it post 1990. And I’m quite happy about this.
Actually, it was 90s music. Ok, some of it was from a little before high school (class of 2001, represent!) but these are the kinds of songs I know all the words to.
These:
and
I do love me some loud Pat Benatar and Bon Jovi in the car, though. I blame it on my aunts.
shame
Between this and my silly farting thread, I think I’ve now bared my soul on the internet.
Yeah seriously. What I’m never going to watch a movie again or listen to music?
As for reality shows or celeb magazines, I don’t think I ever cared about that crap. And as an adult, I certainly don’t see myself embracing pop trends. I’m not going to get all psyched up over some new band.
It does make me feel a bit old though seeing the cutting edge music of my college years packaged in compilation CDs.
Was it the fall of the Berlin Wall? 
Or hearing it as Muzak in the elevator. 
I started getting out of touch in my mid-20’s. Now, at 32, I really can’t be bothered with most pop culture. I’ve never watched a single episode of Survivor, and I don’t feel like I’ve missed anything. I’m hooked on Lost, and I watch Dancing With The Stars with my fiancee, but aside from that I don’t care much about television.
As for music, occasionally I’ll hear an interesting song on the radio, which prompts me to look for it on Napster, but for the most part modern pop music strikes me as being monotonous, bland, and boring.
Any day now, I’ll find myself telling the local kids to get off my lawn.
Or hearing the songs you loved as a kid covered by a new generation of artists. Granted, Disturbed did a pretty good version of “Land Of Confusion,” and some other guy sang an excellent cover of “Simple Man,” but still, it definitely makes you feel old.
I’m 56, and I’m very into pop culture. Pop culture from about 1965 to 1980, that is. And now getting into pop culture from about 1750 - 1825.
My kids, I am happy to say, haven’t ever been into it either.