MOTHERFUCKERS MAKING ME FEEL OLD, UNWANTED, OUT OF STEP, CULTURALLY DEAD AND DID I MENTION OLD? OLD. A LIST THREAD

o demographic distinctions u bitch

lol

wait, no

HA

pwld

Young at heart!

It's only a matter of time before we're all forced into acting in Geritol commercials.

haha yeah I am dreading 35 way harder than 30

30 I barely registered as an event. I was pregnant at the time and I was focused on getting food down and keeping it down.

35... I didn't mind that much either, except for the OMG NOW I'M NOT IN THE YOUNG, IMPORTANT DEMOGRAPHIC ANYMORE thing.

36 I can't complain about.

Here's what worries me: my next big birthday is FORTY

I am dreading 35 way harder than 30

^^^ this

A few minutes ago I told my husband that the weather must really be going to change, because "my bad elbow aches."

This is a list thread; I guess that should have been numbered "2"

3. this thread

4. I find more silver strands of hair on my head than I'd like, which might be okay, except that they are a totally different texture than the rest of my hair.

i never actually feel any older, everything seems pretty much the same now as it did last year and five years ago and ten, only better, and i don't care much about other people's ages either, my friends' go all the way up to 87, and my husband is 9 years older than me and i hardly ever remember that he is. though i remember that when i was 18 i had a friend who was 23 and i thought she was as old as the hills.

when you're eighteen, five years is nearly a third of your life

i know, it's forever. she had very beautiful legs for a geriatric, and green eyes, and a fascinating scar on her lip, and she was cynical, having seen some trouble. i hadn't, but i soon did.

5. I am younger than my wife but I have a few grey hairs and she doesn't.

http://web.tiscali.it/fabioracco2/images/Whois16.gif

really I would like to be an honorary "old" person.

i never actually feel any older, everything seems pretty much the same now as it did last year and five years ago and ten, only better, and i don't care much about other people's ages either

This, pretty much.

when i was not quite 24, i dated a girl who was not quite 18

she turned 30 last summer

And oddly enough, you are now just 24.

a friend of mine just called asking for a photograph i took of her 6 years ago - while i was looking for it i saw some pictures of myself and i look a fucking lot older

6. The fact that I actually started taking calcium + Vit. D supplements, paired with irritation with my younger self for not taking calcium + Vit. D supplements.

7. "To purchase cigarettes, you must have been born on this date or before, 1990."

dude, that even makes ME feel old.

Good freaking lord.

4. I find more silver strands of hair on my head than I'd like, which might be okay, except that they are a totally different texture than the rest of my hair.

-- Sara R-C, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:02 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Link

oh yes this is annoying. they are kind of wiry and tend to stick straight out of my head.

EXACTLY.

So when I'm 90, am I going to have gray hair that also looks like I've been electrocuted? Why don't people warn you about these things?!

when it's all white though, you can use that blue shampoo and be a crazy blue haired lady. i am really looking forward to that part. i might start using the blue stuff anyways when i have streaks, and hopefully they will come out some sort of lavender shade.

a crazy blue haired lady

That's half of the young anime characters, so why wait?

i have dark hair, so it would be too high-maintenance. i want to let nature take it's course a bit.

Ned, you may have a point. Although I had been considering just dying my hair gray and getting it over with, I now realize that I will look crazier and possibly more elderly if I go with "old lady blue."

I think A. thinks I should dye my hair electric blue or bright red or something, but that clearly screams "I am trying to be younger than I am." Maybe I can start a trend in the other direction and also sneak into the AARP early.

^^^also free small iced tea at wendy's

all the women in my family dye their hair on a weekly basis so I have no idea if/when I'll go gray.

Maybe you're already grey and don't know it because they secretly dye your hair every week while you're asleep.

WEEKLY?!

Okay maybe I'm too lazy for this plan.

xpost If Ned is right, can I be part of your family?

Sara, rockin' the roots look.

I am so right. I am right about everything (with all the exceptions when I am wrong).

Sara, rockin' the roots look.

http://publicmediagroup.com/flyers/questlove/questlove1.jpg

I would be tempted to just go gray but I'm sure it would age me at least 15 years.

dye my hair electric blue or bright red or something, but that clearly screams "I am trying to be younger than I am."

Yes definitely.

Forty is coming fast upon me, now. I don't mind the aging - aching joints, pop culture passing me by, etc - as much as the realization that so much of my life has already slipped away. That can be paralyzing or serve as a good kick in the ass in equal turns.

If nothing else, getting older has given me an excuse for being constantly grumpy.

I have my color "touched up" every 6 weeks or so. If it were weekly I would probably give up. Surely those are rinses and not permanent dyes? If the latter there must be some killer drugs in your water Jessie.

xpost You know I can't tan AND I don't know how to tie a tie!!!

Otherwise that is me in 50 years.

You have time to develop both skills.

as the realization that so much of my life has already slipped away.

This is always disturbing, not because I haven't enjoyed it, but because I feel like I have accomplished nothing!

It's probably part of what made me go back to school, though.

hahaha Bonita, I am NOT going to try to get a tan. The tie thing I can learn, but 36 years have proved to me that I'm only going to get ugly freckles and ugly peeling skin. I guess the upside is that I won't look leathery...?

this reminds me of how my ex-boss (boy does that feel good to say) used to talk about how soon we'll understand what it feels like to be getting older, blah blah, joints don't do as good as they used to! shut up you are three years older than me. you guys have every right to this thread, though.

I was being slightly hyperbolic with the every week thing, although I honestly don't know what my mother's natural hair color is.

I think I'll enjoy it when I stop getting carded for R-rated movies.

lol, jessie. I got carded about 6 weeks after J was born. I had turned 30 6 months before this. It TOTALLY made my day, even though I know that they basically card everyone these days for buying booze.

i don't think i've ever been carded for an R rated movie in my life. hmmm!

my mom and i were both carded this weekend at an applebee's-esque restaurant, and she was definitely excited.

I was under the impression for a long time that my newest coworker was much closer to me in age because he does not by any means look like he is fast approaching the crest of the hill and he has two very young children. I appreciate him, because he provides me with an alternative baseline, sort of like Huey Lewis being 32 years old and having been in music for 15 years when they finally came out with Picture This.

Who was that 100 year old lady in Japan or wherever who made a record and it went gold? + whenever some sexagenarian celebrity has another kid. It can all happen. I just have to make sure my next girlfriend isn't allowed to drink yet.

I don't care how much money you have, having a baby when you're in your 60s is blatantly insane behavior.

However, I take your point.

when you're eighteen, five years is nearly a third of your life

I am 20 and have been on ILX for nearly 6 years :/

none of you are old though. (tho sometimes I forget that Tombot isn't way older than he actually is)

8. Curt1s's last post argh

lolcrutis

I envision the children of ILX (ie, Curtis and all who follow) as much like the children of the corn.

That makes them sound both terrifying AND delicious.

we are

Not going to ask how you know this, because now you're reminding me of a *different* Stephen King story...

..."Fluffy Bunny's Human Giblet Recipe"

(From The Dark Tower Volume Eight: The Crawling Canola)

9. i realized today that one of my classmates is 16 years old aka born in 1992!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

didn't mean to type that 1 on the end there

sorry

I go to a gig, the next-youngest audience member there is probably 1/2my age. The good-looking blonde woman I noticed, her dad could conceiveably be younger than me. This sux0r ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; fuck growing old.

Also, several of the (shockingly young) band members are better at playing their instruments than I ever have been or probably ever will be. Bastards.

Oh well Norman you know that's what you get for going to see bands that make playing their instruments the main thing.

Playing gigs are the WORST on those nights when the other bands on the bill are either 10 years older than you and sound like all of the awful aspects of Huey Lewis and the News or 10 years younger than you and sound like all of the awful aspects of Mogwai/Slipknot.

Hey, can you kids keep it down in here?! I'm trying to get my nap.

I love that Old Codger bit from Henry Rollins at the end of the Punk: Attitude documentary.

"You kids don't know anything, back in my day we used to really know how to blow shit up..."
"Oh put a sock in it, Granddad."
"Okay..."

house + advanced age may stifle my urge to make GET OFF MY LAWN! jokes for a while

instead, they will be serious forceful entreaties

....10 years younger than you and sound like all of the awful aspects of Mogwai/Slipknot.

-- HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:17 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

The shower I saw last night were more like 20 years younger than me (!argh) and 2 of them kind of embodied only the non-sucky bits of the mars volta and muse (OK, OK, this may be a stretch to imagine for some, I won't deny it - nobody played 4.33 har har har)

i'll leave the shower joke for HI DERE, i wouldn't want to ruin his morning

I'm still thinking about Mogknot.

10. Knowing all too well who Huey Lewis and the News are (were?), but having no point of reference for Mogwai/Slipknot.

o_O

I need a primer called Remedial Pop Culture and Subcultural Material of the 1990s and early 2000s.

lingbert i have forever young on my traktor so next time we do a drunken home dj set i will drop that 4 u

All you really need to know about both bands to be conversationally capable A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SARA

Mogwai: slow. instrumental. loongsongs are long. respected by some. from some fantasy land where all the words are made of consonants.
Slipknot: 7 people. masks. iowa. daddy didn't love them enough. progenitors of the distilled "chugga chugga whee" genre.

Well. That was... informative.

("chugga chugga chugga whee" genre?!)

no, no, chugga chugga whee. you'd know it if you heard it.

not to be confused with the similar, but lighter in tone and gravitas "chugga chugga whee, chugga whee, chugga DUNT DUNT DUNT" popularized by Papa Roach

Confusing Sara still makes me feel young ^_^

It's one of your lifelong hobbies. ("Since 1988!") (You're spanning two millenia here...)

you'd know it if you heard it.

I'd like to believe this, but all I can think of is "Wheels on the Bus" and that song about Cookie Monster getting his train full of chocolate goo through the snow.

...and now the Cookie Monster song is embedded in my brain. "Choo choo choo, he got that train through..."

Cookie Monster is an appropriate touchpoint re: vocals.

I'll have you know that I have an entire Cookie Monster album on my iPod.

You do know that if I was at all competent with my computer, you'd have a copy of The Ballad of Casey McPhee in your email, Dan.