Even something like Saturday Night Fever seemed like an artifact from a time long long ago. It wasn't even 10 years old when I 1st saw (parts of) it. A lot of that is due to the disconnect of not having directly experienced the time, but idk I can't imagine something from like 2009 hitting kids today the same way.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
sorry Tuomas if you like those movies you're gen x
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
Tuomas I will grant you honorary GenXhood if you can name the two co-leads of Lost Boys
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
if you have no memory of 9/11 you're a Zoomer.
lol isn't that a Connor Roy line from Successions
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Tuomas you're only 1 yr younger than I am, and I saw both those movies in the theater.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
i saw them in the theater and didn't care about themwhat do i win
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, October 18, 2019 2:12 PM (eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
idk I've never watched it, I invented it several years ago so ™™™
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
LL you can take any prize from the dentist's treasure box
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
Born December 1971. My dad (born 1946 in rural California) was more into Fifties culture (vintage cars, doo-wop, etc. - his favorite song of all time was "The Ten Commandments Of Love") than anything Sixties, though he did own a bunch of Richard Brautigan books. My mom, born 1949 in New Jersey, was not a total hippie (she got an engineering degree before having me) but told me she went to some gatherings of Timothy Leary's League of Spiritual Discovery.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
whoa
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
My dad is older than your dad and mom older than your mom, despite me being 7 yrs younger than you. Dad's fav musician to this day is Benny Goodman lol (he once met him at Disneyland, as Benny was walking to the bandshell to help set stuff up for a show); Mom got into the Beatles but as a teen fangirl. Ditched them when they went all hippie.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
My parents are the same ages as unperson's parents. Granny, my mother was a Beatles fan who also dropped them, although she did so around 'Revolver', not even when they went full tilt hippie.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Aunt #1 did Summer of Love in 1967 San Francisco Aunt #2 joined some commune when she was 16 that practiced war games for the overthrow of the capitalist pig government Mom was a schoolteacher in an East Baltimore middle school then quit to move to Georgia when my dad got drafted and had to go to basic. I think mom worked as a diner waitress
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
My parents were ushers at Monterey Pop. Despite their interesting experiences in the 60s, all of them— parents and aunts— were super boring in the 80s
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
my mom had a copy of inna-gadda-da-vida on vinyl and a pink cassette of goats head soup for the stereo that stopped working when i was a child, that's as as cool as they ever got, unless you could the negative credit for my dad's moustache
― j., Friday, 18 October 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
"Tomorrow Never Knows" came on when my mom was in the car with me a lil while ago. She was saying how otherworldly it sounded when she 1st heard it*. But could def tell it was not her jam. I've never heard her mention or playing any post-Revolver Beatles. *in a different way then the Beatles early stuff I guess, which she has also said left her completely gobsmacked when she 1st heard it at a friend's house. wtf is THIS???!!?? My opera-loving/singing grandparents hated it obv.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
was aunt #2 in San Francisco too?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
My mom kept up with music through my teenage years. We both liked Talking Heads and New Order, and she thought Iggy Pop had a pleasing baritone. A boyfriend (my parents divorced when I was 11 or 12) introduced her to reggae via WFMU. She and one of my aunts went with me to see Neil Young & Crazy Horse on the tour where Sonic Youth and Social Distortion opened. These days she mostly listens to classical or audiobooks, I think.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
it's ok to say aunt #2 was part of the Manson family, we won't judge
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
Iggy Pop had a pleasing baritone
this is such a mom thing to say lol
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
lol my mom also had inna-gadda-da-vida, and same
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
Aunt #2 was not a manson girl lol. She might have been a trump voter tho
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
Aunt #1 was a Bernie supporter and now is either for Bernie or Warren My parents are in the moderate “anyone but Trump” camp
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
My parents fave song was “Chances Are” by Johnny Mathis
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
The most “out there” they got was when my dad was in college at Davis he was in the concert band and they played a Stockhausen piece. “It was weird”
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
The first time I grew my hair out my mom was giving me shit for it, until my dad reminded her that when they met (ca. 1971) his hair was halfway down his back. My family was never much for sharing but from what I could gather he'd been some combo of hippie/greaser/jock (raced cars at Laguna Seca, long haired history major, but played college football too) in San Francisco and San Jose growing up.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
dang it now these boomers got us remembering their past again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it never stops!
― j., Friday, 18 October 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
Parents age probably a better generational definition than anything else, though. If your parents were (literal postwar) baby boomers, you get lumped into Gen X even if you were born in the late 80s.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
My mom was born in 1945 and my dad in 1946. Our first “family car” was a ford pinto
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
We had two different Pintos - a brown station wagon that my dad crashed with me in the passenger seat (he was a diabetic and passed out behind the wheel a few blocks from our house), replaced by a baby blue hatchback. When I was very little, we had a big Jaguar Mark IX that had no rear seat belts and wooden tray-tables (like on a plane) in the back of the front seats. Yeah, I slammed my head into the wood at least once and maybe more.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
We had the brown wagon with the wood paneling! The previous car was an MG they had bought in the UK and shipped back to the states. They also watched American Graffiti every time it came on tv. My dad knew all the songs and my mom reminisced about the cars
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
My dad had a green MG and a Morgan three-wheel car (two up front, one in the back) before I was born. He also once told me that he'd owned a Jaguar E-type in the mid-60s and driven so fast between Los Angeles and Las Vegas that it took a state trooper ten miles to catch up to him.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, October 18, 2019 3:01 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
nah my parents were born in 50/51 and I was 89, nobody'd call me a gen Xer
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
My parents would end up arguing about what car my dad’s parents let him drive when they were in high school. This is what adulthood was for me — you get married, have a kid, and have boring arguments with your partner about petty details of your youth. Was it a Buick or an Oldsmobile, who gives a fuck, adulthood was stupid and everything was just gonna get even dumber and duller
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Repo Man was a great Gen X movie
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
TV Party — if you grew up watching those shows —> Gen X
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
I watched Repo Man so much in high school that I still have half the dialogue memorized.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
Ha yeah! Put it on a plate, you’ll like it more!!
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
lattices of coincidence
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
They don’t make Chevy Malibus like that anymore
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
a couple years back, I got to meet and hang with one of the people that started/wrote/edited Processed World magazine
― sarahell,
M3d-0?
― Book Doula (sleeve), Saturday, 19 October 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
Chr1s C
― sarahell, Saturday, 19 October 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
i wrote a paper on that in lol college
― j., Saturday, 19 October 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link
My mom (born in '41) used to make fun of stuff like Johnny Mathis when I was a kid - that was her parents' music, and she hated it. I liked the grandparents' music, though. My parents were rock and rollers starting in the fifties, and one thing I remember from my inner suburb childhood was that not all parents their age had done the "rock and roll" thing. That confused me, because all my parents talked about was music. Then I'd go to my friends' houses, and their parents were the same age, but all of their records were easy listening / orchestral stuff and show tunes. I guess it used to be a thing with my mom's generation - the ones who had been "rock and rollers" bonded with each other and hung out together, but that bypassed a lot of other people their age. You wouldn't know that from just looking at articles and books.
― I Guess Old Notre Dame Won't Win After All (I M Losted), Saturday, 19 October 2019 05:22 (four years ago) link
Relevant:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/19/once-young-radical-now-auntie-disgusting
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 October 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
she was like "you can wear the clothes and enjoy the music, but don't wish yourself back there; it sucked for us"
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, October 18, 2019 4:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
A few years ago, my mom and I were watching an episode of Man Men when a character made an anti-Semitic "joke." My mom said, "OK, see, that's why no one my age watches this show. We already went through all that shit; we don't need to see it again."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
tarfumes' mom otm
that guardian article is hilarious -- it highlights one thing i def notice about people my age: that they think their opinion matters? and they are compelled to share it loudly and proudly even if it is very pointless (like, for example, what is and is not a sandwich) Who the f cares what you think about nut allergies? No one! When did anyone give a shit what you thought about nuts or nut allergies? Never! But we grew up without the opportunity to sound off about everything. Having "strong opinions" was a form of social currency that...definitely seems to have lost its value (imo).
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Man Men!
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 19 October 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
I only do that on imago's poll bc <3.xp
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 October 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Didn't make it more than a couple paragraphs into that Guardian article though.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 October 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link