February 28, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I am not old enough for this to be happening to me. Age is just a number. Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart.
Kill me. Or, at least stab me in the neck with a fork.
1987 mean anything to you? Anyone? Iran-Contra? “Tear down that wall”? Chunnel? Jim Bakker? The FDA approval of AZT? I still haven’t found what I’m looking for? Swimming to Cambodia? Raising Arizona? The Princess Bride? (also Ishtar, but just ignore that). Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me? The Simpsons?
2007. 1987. 2007. 1987. Get it yet? See the connection? No? Anyway…
I’m actually not a big My Chemical Romance fan, but I respect any band willing to mock themselves and their audience so early in their career. Right on. And I completely understand that their new album speaks to some kids in much the same way Nirvana spoke to those before them (and I didn’t get it) and The Smiths spoke to me (which I TOTALLY got). Time marches on, and perky glum rock marches right alongside it. But music magazines are making this record out to be some sort of musical second coming–albeit a snarky musical second coming in glammy Sgt. Pepper-wear– but, still! They’re comparing My Chemical Romance to Queen! Seriously!
If My Chemical Romance is the new Queen then…well…I don’t know. Maybe I should record an album with Rob Cavallo and I’ll be hailed as the greatest new voice in Rock.
Or Rick Rubin! How about Rick Rubin! All the cool kids are doing it…
February 28, 2007
@ 3:36 pm
Dude! Me too! And I’m turning 40(wtf?) this year.
February 28, 2007
@ 8:53 pm
I think that I’ve been in a state of feeling like I was about 30 since I was about 16. I’m just now starting to feel like I own 30, so maybe next year I’ll feel younger than I am instead of always feeling older. And after a comment like this I just feel like I need more sleep…
March 1, 2007
@ 3:53 am
Sigh. My DAUGHTER went to her 20th high school reunion a few years back. You wanna feel old????
March 1, 2007
@ 4:28 am
Its dude … dude
March 1, 2007
@ 7:30 pm
WTF? At waht age did you finish High School? At ten???
March 2, 2007
@ 8:57 am
Beat you by a year, 2006 was my 20th….graduated when I was 17 thank you very much please….anyway….yeah, 38….I don’t feel 38, well sometimes I feel like a 108 but that’s another story…..I’m 38 and I am still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up…..I think that’s the problem, I don’t want to grow up because being a grown up sucks……
Party On and Rock the Casbah, cause It don’t mean nothing but a good time and when The Heat is On nothing feels better than a Summer Breeze…
March 2, 2007
@ 8:03 pm
Dude…
March 3, 2007
@ 12:45 am
um…. I’m coming up to my 10th.
March 4, 2007
@ 2:26 am
Hi Miss B,
I think at least 8 out of 10 people think you’re nice person and mature too. You really can’t complain because you have a decent job being a nurse. On top of that you own your own home. I’m still renting. PS I saw Queen in Atlanta at the Omni around 1982. I was 12.
March 5, 2007
@ 9:12 pm
Dude … it’s like … totally … I mean 20 years? … no way!
You’re as young as you feel!
March 5, 2007
@ 9:45 pm
Wait till your 40th, if you really want to feel bad:(
March 6, 2007
@ 2:28 pm
I’m older than you? Yikes! Anyway, my 20th HS reunion was last Thanksgiving and I missed the bloody thing, which I do indeed regret, so I advise you not to make the same mistake. I would have loved the chance to hold hands in a big circle singing “We Are The World.” Ah yes.
As for feeling young, people always are surprised when I tell them my age (i.e. they expect lower, not higher, pttttht). What’s disappointing is that my real age seems to be catching up with me. Sometimes was a 10-year gap (woo-hoo!) but now is down to around 5 or 6 years. Sigh. I need to feel young and silly again, so it will once again express itself on my face.
As for zits, oy vey…. I’ve accepted that those buggers won’t end until I’m using a Zimmer frame.
March 8, 2007
@ 4:38 am
Wow!
that last line was great…
I would have never guessed, 20th high school reunion coming up…congrats, and wow again…
March 8, 2007
@ 8:10 am
It’s the language, thing, dear. Sigh. I am sure when you go to your 20th, it will be as mine was. Fun to see of the ol’ friends, but wondering where in the hell the ones you wanted to see were. However, you will one of the one’s they say “hasn’t changed a bit:)” and they’ll mean that as a compliment.
Cute video!
March 8, 2007
@ 9:50 pm
whoah.
my 20th is this summer. I still say dude. I still get zits.
I’m not old…
I’m…
… I’m YOU!!!!!!!!!!! :-O
March 10, 2007
@ 2:45 pm
dude, my 22nd is this summer (and i’ve never attended a single one, i’m happy to say), and i too am still zitful!
i work with youth, and none of them believe me when i tell them i’m 39. they all think i’m 24-26 even with all the grey hair. must be my young face.
March 11, 2007
@ 7:12 pm
Dude, I ***LOVE*** this video.
It honestly put a smile on my face.
I remember when I went to my 10 year reunion ( … and that was years ago …) I thought, “Has it REALLY been 10 years???”
Time flies.
March 13, 2007
@ 1:05 pm
It’s still 1987…the past 20 years have been a bad dream.
Wake up!
March 22, 2007
@ 1:03 pm
Hey we are exactly the same age. Class of 1987… yeah, I agree. I haven’t had kids. I’m not married or partnered. I don’t even own a real sofa. Shit — wasn’t I supposed to have done more before I was this old??
Yeah…. naw. I have done a lot. LLOT. Just not any of the things you’re “supposed to”. I think we are a big important in between generation, and that makes it confusing. Our parents were pretty traditional in what they did when / how they “became adults”. The kids coming up today (those hipsters) think of course you can do whatever whenever who cares. It was our generation who really lived through so many of the shifts. It was us who first said, yeah, I know I am a woman, but I’m going to really have a carreer, and do that other thing whenever I get around to it. It’s us who on mass made different choices… the X generation. So 2oth high school reunion still sounds so old, and turning 40 seems impossible. We are not doing this like our parents!