Things that make me feel old(er)...
There's lots of things that can serve the purpose of alerting you to the passage of time.
The actual passage of time, the old man staring back at you in the mirror where you were used to seeing some hunky guy, when there are more wrinkles on your hands than your ballsack.
Granted i'm not quite at that level quite yet, there are indeed things that make me feel old(er) (i add the (er) in there for the benefit of some of my friends who would scoff at my saying that)
Even though there are lots of different categories with which i could elaborate, i'll keep this post relatively focused on the media.
TV
When you watch the second showing of SNL at night, and you've actually seen the show when it origially aired. It used to be, for me anyway, that i would hate it when the second showing came on (usually around 2 a.m.), because there would be nothing else to watch, and i'd have to watch a show from the 70s or 80s that i thought were funny, but were still too old for me to really relate to. That is until recently, when they started showing episodes from the early 90s. Recently, there was an episode with host Bob Saget and musical Guest TLC.
The episode was that featuring the cast that i thought (and still do think), was the best cast of SNL including Adam Sandler, Phil Hartman, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Farley et al.
Kids nowadays that don't remember that cast, only know SNL as the launching pad for Will Ferrell, and well, really no one else.
Speaking of kids these days (i sound like an old-timer "when i was a young lad..."), there is a terrible thing happening in the realm of television: a lack of quality animated tv shows.
When i was a kid, i watched great shows like DuckTales, with interesting plot lines, and most importantly, decent animation. Back then, it seemed that people who were involved in the production of animated tv series (read: cartoons) actually gave a crap about how it looked.
Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers was another cartoon that i really enjoyed. I mean, it took quite a bit of imagination for the animators of this show because they needed to make things that looked believeable (the aircraft made of household consumables).
It wasn't quite the level of imagination used these days in animated "greats" such as a talking sponge who consequently wears square pants, and lives in a pineapple that was dropped into the ocean by a drunken Hawaiian fisherman.
Radio
One of the things that helped fuel my thought process that i was getting old(er), was when i was flipping through radio stations, and came across music that i liked, only to later discover that i was listening to an oldies station. OLDIES!
You know what band i was listening to at the time? You guessed it, Metallica
Metallica? on an oldies station? OK, granted metallica's first studio release was Kill 'em All released in 1983, still, when i was growing up, they were who you listened to when you wanted to send your parents into the "why did we ever have children?" thought process.
Even more unbelievable? Nirvana!
Now, Nirvana's first studio release, Bleach was released in 1989, which is now 16 years ago. To put things in further perspective, Kurt Cobain died on April 8, 1994, 11 years ago. 11 years... a lot has happened in the last 11 years, such as the invention of the internet by Al Gore (although scholars would say that it's been around longer than that, but who really had more than hourly internet access in '94?), the terrible riots and armageddon that was the direct result of the Y2K bug, the name changes of P Diddy, Snoop Dogg, and J-Lo (along with 24 or so marriages/divorces).
What is the lesson to be learned here (because this is an educational blog)? That we need to record good tv shows while they're on (although it's too late now), and keep requesting "old" music on the "hip and modern" radio stations, and most importantly, to not marry J-Lo.
On to the Mitch Hedberg QotD:
Buy Mitch's CD's
The actual passage of time, the old man staring back at you in the mirror where you were used to seeing some hunky guy, when there are more wrinkles on your hands than your ballsack.
Granted i'm not quite at that level quite yet, there are indeed things that make me feel old(er) (i add the (er) in there for the benefit of some of my friends who would scoff at my saying that)
Even though there are lots of different categories with which i could elaborate, i'll keep this post relatively focused on the media.
TV
When you watch the second showing of SNL at night, and you've actually seen the show when it origially aired. It used to be, for me anyway, that i would hate it when the second showing came on (usually around 2 a.m.), because there would be nothing else to watch, and i'd have to watch a show from the 70s or 80s that i thought were funny, but were still too old for me to really relate to. That is until recently, when they started showing episodes from the early 90s. Recently, there was an episode with host Bob Saget and musical Guest TLC.
The episode was that featuring the cast that i thought (and still do think), was the best cast of SNL including Adam Sandler, Phil Hartman, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Farley et al.Kids nowadays that don't remember that cast, only know SNL as the launching pad for Will Ferrell, and well, really no one else.
Speaking of kids these days (i sound like an old-timer "when i was a young lad..."), there is a terrible thing happening in the realm of television: a lack of quality animated tv shows.
When i was a kid, i watched great shows like DuckTales, with interesting plot lines, and most importantly, decent animation. Back then, it seemed that people who were involved in the production of animated tv series (read: cartoons) actually gave a crap about how it looked.
Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers was another cartoon that i really enjoyed. I mean, it took quite a bit of imagination for the animators of this show because they needed to make things that looked believeable (the aircraft made of household consumables).It wasn't quite the level of imagination used these days in animated "greats" such as a talking sponge who consequently wears square pants, and lives in a pineapple that was dropped into the ocean by a drunken Hawaiian fisherman.
Radio
One of the things that helped fuel my thought process that i was getting old(er), was when i was flipping through radio stations, and came across music that i liked, only to later discover that i was listening to an oldies station. OLDIES!
You know what band i was listening to at the time? You guessed it, Metallica
Metallica? on an oldies station? OK, granted metallica's first studio release was Kill 'em All released in 1983, still, when i was growing up, they were who you listened to when you wanted to send your parents into the "why did we ever have children?" thought process.Even more unbelievable? Nirvana!
Now, Nirvana's first studio release, Bleach was released in 1989, which is now 16 years ago. To put things in further perspective, Kurt Cobain died on April 8, 1994, 11 years ago. 11 years... a lot has happened in the last 11 years, such as the invention of the internet by Al Gore (although scholars would say that it's been around longer than that, but who really had more than hourly internet access in '94?), the terrible riots and armageddon that was the direct result of the Y2K bug, the name changes of P Diddy, Snoop Dogg, and J-Lo (along with 24 or so marriages/divorces).What is the lesson to be learned here (because this is an educational blog)? That we need to record good tv shows while they're on (although it's too late now), and keep requesting "old" music on the "hip and modern" radio stations, and most importantly, to not marry J-Lo.
On to the Mitch Hedberg QotD:
When Gatorade has a commercial, they always have like a guy playing sports. I don't think you have to be playing sports and be sweaty to enjoy a Gatorade. I just think you can be, a thirsty dude. Gatorade forgets about this demographic. 'I'm thirsty for absolutely no reason, other than the fact that liquid has not touched my lips for some time. Can I have a Gatorade too? Or does that lightning bolt mean no?'
Buy Mitch's CD's
posted by jon at
Monday, July 25, 2005
1 Comments:
You know, you've got about 10 blog topics all in this one post. I could go on for hours about how SNL sucks and the lack of good animated cartoons. I pity the kids today, they have no idea what kind of quality programming used to exist.
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