Me:
NPR/PRI–especially Car Talk and Wait, Wait–Don’t Tell Me.
English “cozy” mysteries.
Birdwatching
Museum memberships
Big Band music
30’s Jazz and Swing
The smell of Clubman aftershave and/or hair tonic
Oversized furniture from the 20’s/30’s (not Deco, per se, but I also adore Deco)
40’s and 50’s art glass
My grandmothers sewing machine, circa 1917
Recipies from local churches dating back to 1924
Clawfoot bathtubs
Deco perfume bottles
Fedoras and trench coats
(I really was born in the wrong era)
Ealing comedies.
Slide rules and spats.
Bocce!
Not really giving a geriatric shit about a lot of the truly insignificant issues that used to plague us in our younger years.
Why is birdwatching considered a geezer thing?
Vinyl records and Humphrey Bogart.
I like old slang. I wish a good-looking dame with gams that don’t quit would look me in the eyes and say, “I fell for ya like a ton o’ bricks, ya big lug.”
Radio 4
Grieg piano concertos
Local history
Bitter
To name but a few.
I find pulling my pants way up over my stomach very comfortable. It’s like a gentle hug.
I really dig old slang too, hepcat. Check these out:
http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm
(Jazz Age slang)
http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html
(“Hard-boiled” slang)
I also love old-fashioned suits, trench coats, two-tone spectator shoes, fedoras, knit “cabbie-style” caps, bowling shirts, Hawaiian shirts, and other retro clothing. (This is how I try to dress, and I’m 25.)
Jazz, swing, big band, early rhythm-and-blues, rockabilly, and “lounge” music. (I’m also a sax player.)
Anything Art Deco or “antique futuristic.”
I like the old slang too and so I like old radio detective shows. I will also do mending while listening to them which is a double grammy-whammy. I also like crossword puzzles, lap blankets, tea and ginger cookies, cardigans, baking and I enjoy polishing chrome appliances which might be a stretch but makes me feel like an old lady. I’m also quite charmed by lace doilies. I have an absurd idea that they pull a room together and give it a woman’s touch. But at the same time, they give me a bit of a creepy feeling that there’s a war on and terrible things are happening in Europe so I don’t put them all over the house the way I’d like to.
Big Bad Voodoo Lou, tell the truth. Did you move to Miami to be closer to the old people?
Charlie Parker.
Etta James.
The Thin Man movies (hell, movies with PLOTLINES, for that matter)
suicide doors on cars
hand written notes from friends
Railroad-car diners.
Hats. (Real hats, not baseball caps.)
Black-and-white TV, films, and photography.
Haha, actually I was born here and grew up here, and I only recently moved back after going to school in a small northern Florida college town for 6 1/2 years. I feel like a stranger at home, to be honest, and it is way too hot and humid to wear my trench coat, even when “winter” hits.
Well, everyone here knows that I love old clothes, old music, history and all that.
As for things that aren’t really old and historic, but for old PEOPLE, well, one thing:
Blue hair. I want to have blue hair someday.