June 27, 2006
Feeling Old, Again
Our 17 year old niece is staying with us for the rest of the summer, to baby sit our daughter for us. So, it's forced me to watch some T.V. channels that I normally wouldn't. Anyway, we're watching VH-1 yesterday, and there's some commercial about a show they're going to do on Pearl Jam. So I ask her, "Does anybody listen to Pearl Jam anymore, or is it just old people like me?"
"Who's Pearl Jam?"
Posted by Fatboy at June 27, 2006 12:18 PMI'm unsure how to answer this without looking like either a pervert or an asshole, especially should my relatives ever read this site.
Posted by: Fatboy at June 27, 2006 03:19 PMAt first I was like, "it's just unacceptable to not know Pearl Jam," even though I don't like them all that much. But you gotta think, that first album came out in 1991. She was two. And they have appealed to the youth of America less and less with each subsequent album. And any effect they had - bringing back rock from New Wave, Seattle, disregard for fashion, whatever - has been eclipsed by today's pop music, which is either all watered-down R&B or watered-down punk derivatives (today is the new disco). So, unless she's a kid like I was who cared about music and nothing but music for most of my teenage years, I can totally see her not knowing Pearl Jam. So feel better.
Now make us feel better. Is she hot?
Posted by: Chris at June 27, 2006 04:16 PMOh, my comment is undeniably creepy. I just wanted to be the first person to make it.
Posted by: John at June 27, 2006 05:46 PMGood lord, she was two? Crazy talk. But I guess that's true - as big as they were, they really fell off after their second album in terms of mass appeal.
It's always fun to read 'Mindset Lists' that Beloit college puts out. You learn crap like your cousin wasn't alive for the Challenger explosion, and Pixar has always been making movies.
She better be really f'ing hot...
Posted by: Rick at June 27, 2006 09:04 PMI got kinda drunk last night and felt like shit most of the day...that never really happened before (I was only kinda drunk). That makes me feel old. Since nobody listens to my music anyway, I guess that's my best reference point. Maybe the Popeye's chicken I ate at 10 had something to do with it too. Drink.
Posted by: Chris at June 29, 2006 12:38 AMYeah - the drinking gets to me a lot more now, too. Last time I got good and drunk, I did absolutely nothing the next day, and still had a hangover the morning after that. Then again, maybe it's just that I actually have responsibilities, now, so when I spend a day doing nothing it seems more out of place.
Posted by: Fatboy at June 29, 2006 10:42 AMI drank two bottles of red wine, and had some beer and cigars last night. I won't say I felt good waking up, but I didn't have a headache. Suck it!
Posted by: Rick at June 29, 2006 01:53 PM
That photo needs more goldfish.
Posted by: Chris at June 29, 2006 02:16 PM