Let’s put it this way- if you grew up as a rock fan in the Seventies, as I did, guys like Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey seemed like ancient history. I mean, “Chatanooga Choo Choo” was 38 years old when I was a senior in high school.
Well, guess what- 1968 was 38 years ago. Which means that, for a current high school senior, Led Zeppelin is the equivalent of Glenn Miller (and equally cool and relevant).
A huge difference between the young Baby Boomers/old Generation Xers and our parents, I think, is that we realize this. I don’t think that any of our pre-Baby Boomer parents, when listening to Glen Miller or Bing Crosby in the 1970s, thought “You know, this music is as relevant to the kids of today as ragtime was to us.” They seemed to accept the fact that they were turning old, while we try to keep up with youth pop culture into our 40s and 50s.
I’ve heard it said that Generation Xers were supposed to be the first generation to bring youth culture into middle age. That’s true for the most part, but I feel so depressed when I meet a woman a few years my junior, and she’s got mom hair – a layered pear-shaped mound of hair piled above her ears – along with a minivan and a stack of smooth jazz CDs on the center console. I went to high school with women like this?
On the erasable-ballpen thing, I saw 'em on the shelves of my local supermarket only on Saturday. Also a four-colour pen, one of which I bought. (But I remember when they were made out of metal!)
I am not kidding. The problem is that the two files with the video are large (588MB and 673MB). I’m going to try to upload one of them to a file sharing service; few handle files over 500 megs.
Okay … I’m uploading one of the files – about an hour and a half of video – to an old Web hosting account I no longer use. (It’s got about four hours left to go over DSL.) If someone has unlimited hosting, and can take it off my hands, please send me an email, and I’ll give you the URL.
I first started feeling old when I had my first conversation with an adult who was born after Star Wars came out.
More recently: In the morning, I took a dump. In the afternoon, I got a blowjob. In the evening, I found myself thinking, “man, that was a great dump.”
