My friends have got Satellite Radio in their car, and it is like magic, because we can tune into the all-80s station and pretend that it is nineteen-eighty-something all over again. When I was a kid the "oldies" station used to play 50s music. Now it plays golden classics from the 70s (Bee Gees and ABBA all the time!).
Soon I'll be in my
Depends, drooling over the music-bot as it trundles around me playing Cindi Lauper while cleaning up the mess I made on the carpet (again). Heed me well, Youth of Today: one day, and sooner than you think, you'll be relegated to the trash heap of cool, and your music will be spun by some smarmy condescending youngster who studied "your" time period in university (and has such a deep understanding and appreciation for your quaint phrases and terminology) -
Yeaaahhhaa!
My friends have got Satellite Radio in their car, and it is like magic, because we can tune into the all-80s station and pretend that it is nineteen-eighty-something all over again. When I was a kid the "oldies" station used to play 50s music. Now it plays golden classics from the 70s (Bee Gees and ABBA all the time!).
Soon I'll be in my Depends, drooling over the music-bot as it trundles around me playing Cindi Lauper while cleaning up the mess I made on the carpet (again). Heed me well, Youth of Today: one day, and sooner than you think, you'll be relegated to the trash heap of cool, and your music will be spun by some smarmy condescending youngster who studied "your" time period in university (and has such a deep understanding and appreciation for your quaint phrases and terminology) - Yeaaahhhaa!
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Bender hates Robot 1X, but I like him.
My God, how we age. It all came home to me when I was dating a girl 8 years my junior back in the 90s; I soon discovered our cultural references were completely out of whack.
Then I came to Japan and realised most of the songs that have resonance for me have absolutely no meaning for pretty much anyone here. It's a lonely feeling. Music, art, literature, and inane TV programmes are things that should be shared.
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