so, yesterday i went to radio soulwax-mas. the music was alright (erol alkan and boys noize were particularly exciting, and zombie nation made interesting layered collages of grooves, drones and noises), but the venue was way too big and looked like a decrepit soviet nuclear command centre, and… there were loads of 16 yos.
all they did was drink tons of beer and look youthful with those shiny faces of theirs. i think i’ve come to the point where i have to accept that i’m young, but not for all that long anymore. i felt like slapping them and yelling ‘DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR YOUTH, DO SOMETHING BEFORE YOU’RE A FAT FUCKING LOSER BEING HUMILIATED BY SOME FAT LOSER HUSBAND ON REALITY TV, FOR THE GAWPING AMUSEMENT OF OTHER FAT LOSERS JUST LIKE YOU.’
then i realised i never did anything notable with my own youth either, so i just let it slip by and watched scores of perfect-looking, radiant teenagers puke. they looked at us like we were mammoths, new arrivals from the siberian permafrost. i hadn’t seen that many teenagers huddled together since i was a teenager myself, so it was really quite a shock. children are different, though. they’re clean slates and possibilities waiting to happen. teenagers are more… fully-formed.
apart from that, it was quite fun.
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dunja // 25 December 2007 at 20:40
simon, it’s not cause they are young – why being so ageistic? :) – it’s cause they are conservative, cause they belong to a stupid recycling culture which just can’t kick their asses, but makes them lame and boring (both their asses and their brains). they’ll be just the same when they are 20 or 30, just, with 22 they’ll start complaining “how old they’ve got”, with 26 they’ll be happy they finally “have to” wear a suit, and with 30 they’ll be creepy cralling inhabitants. and then they’ll repeat, with a sweetness almost equivalent to the one of oversweetened coffee, how good it was to be young and wild… ahhhh, those times…