Will all the real grups please stand up? please stand up? please stand up?

[Sachin]

http://nymag.com/news/features/16529/index.html

[Ringo]

excellent link. and i seem to fit most of those. can't wait to finish reading it, but I can't right now. I'm at home. I'll finish reading it a work when I can get paid to read it. sweet.
;)

[oman]

Pshaw!

[Twenty26Six]

http://nymag.com/news/features/16529/index.html

Yea, this is scary. Slowly everyone's identity is being replaced with the same anti-identity.

Every u10 soccer practice I look around at the parents and kids, and I see these people. And the kids... some of the boys have longer hair than the girls.

Edit: “If really hard-pressed, I would admit that I actually own a Clash T-shirt that I got from that last Clash tour,” the musician told me. “But I don’t wear it! And I’m certainly not going to wear it under an Armani black blazer. I even remember meeting this guy who was around my age, who was wearing an expensive blazer, and on the lapel was a London Calling button. Who the ******** wears that? That’s what I wore when I was 18 in art school! And you’re the same age as me? And you’re wearing it again?” He pauses, then adds, “And you know what? Giving your kid a mohawk is ********ed up, too.”

[royalstilton]

Yea, this is scary. Slowly everyone's identity is being replaced with the same anti-identity.

Every u10 soccer practice I look around at the parents and kids, and I see these people. And the kids... some of the boys have longer hair than the girls.

Edit:
i substitute teach at a very yuppie high school sometimes. it's northwest Orange County, where the median home price is about 400K. not exactly Newport Beach, but sufficiently upscale that i see BMWs in student parking.

i am the same age as the grandparents of some of these kids, so i'm completely out of it, except that i never have grown up. i don't listen to Death Cab for Cutie, but i do own The Postal Service's CD. go figure.

anyway, i cannot believe some of the kids' attire. whiny yuppie white boys with their jeans so low that four inches of plaid boxers are exposed. girls with enough skin exposed to give a movie a PG-13 rating. and many of them prefer rap to rock. i guess the parents believe that their children must "engage the culture".

[Twenty26Six]

Being 26, every experience you mentioned I bascially lived through.

It speaks a lot to what sells in the media. People gravitate to sex, minority counter cultures, poverty. It's not esxclusively the kids either, it is also the parents.

Everyone is so bored with their lives [over abundance of leisure time] that they are basically "performing".

[bungadiri]

Sometimes I wear my sambas to work. Does that make me one of those guys? Because I really don't want to be one of those guys.

[Cascarino's Pizzeria]

Some of the article is true. If I stacked my ipod up against my college-aged nephew's, the music probably wouldn't be all that different. And he's actually scared of some of the music I used to listen to like the DKs and Laibach.

When I was listening to post-punk music in the 80s, my brother who was weaned on Led Zeppelin, The Stones & The Eagles in the 70s thought I was a retard. There's not as big a generation gap for sure today.

Btw - if you spend $400 on distressed jeans that disintegrate in a month, you should be beaten with sticks.

[royalstilton]

Sometimes I wear my sambas to work. Does that make me one of those guys? Because I really don't want to be one of those guys.
sambas are 50 bucks, 26 quid, 37.6783847326* euros. that's chicken feed. and you drink proper coffee, not that stupid Starbucks swill. you are so safe.

*based on the purchase of 100K euros.

[Twenty26Six]

Sometimes I wear my sambas to work. Does that make me one of those guys? Because I really don't want to be one of those guys.

Are they colored sambas? Or just plain black?

...and are they the normal nubuck suede? or the fancy Samba Gazelles? ;)

[royalstilton]

Being 26, every experience you mentioned I bascially lived through.

It speaks a lot to what sells in the media. People gravitate to sex, minority counter cultures, poverty. It's not esxclusively the kids either, it is also the parents.

Everyone is so bored with their lives [over abundance of leisure time] that they are basically "performing".
a good substitute teacher is a part-time performance artist. a really good full time teacher is a full time performance artist. :)

[royalstilton]

Are they colored sambas? Or just plain black?

...and are they the normal nubuck suede? or the fancy Samba Gazelles?
;)
those are strong accusations, pardner! ;)

[bungadiri]

Black sambas only? Check.
No trendo-chic-cutie-pie coffee? Check.
Is more distressed than his jeans? Check.
Brother thinks he's retard? Check.

Sounds like I'm safe.

[Ringo]

Btw - if you spend $400 on distressed jeans that disintegrate in a month, you should be beaten with sticks.



agree with that. I have two pairs of distressed jeans. but they were $20 old navy jeans I bought about 8 years ago. they've become distressed the old-fashioned way. I earned those holes.

[royalstilton]

agree with that. I have two pairs of distressed jeans. but they were $20 old navy jeans I bought about 8 years ago. they've become distressed the old-fashioned way. I earned those holes.
in 1996 i bought a pair of jeans from Eddie Bauer that went with me to Finland. i wore them to help paint a shed on an island in the Finnish archipelago. they have three small drops of redwood paint on them. the bottoms are frayed to perfection. the pockets are worn so thin, i cannot keep coin in them -- fortunately they, like all proper denims, have a coin pocket.

i'll sell them for 25£ or 37€. shipping is extra. they are size 35" waist and 34" length, shrunk down a bit. they are faded to an almost uniform E5ECFF.