Pardon me while I re-enact the eye gouging scene from Oedipus....not because I shagged my mother (in this state, this is the exception, not the rule...can you guess where I live?), I have just witnessed one of those "where are they now?" televisual events.
A few of questions first up? why?why? why?
It seems that persons my age and ilk are in charge of programming at the major stations and are feeling all nostalgic and smug, whilst rubbing themselves and remembering the "good old days"! It was bad enough the first time round25 -30 years ago, when you lived through it, flared jeans, bad perms, hair parted down the middle, henna, KB beer,Paul Hogan, prawn cocktails, coleslaw,safari suits,plus the idea of a good night out was a big feeeeeeed down the local chinese restaurant, then come home to watch the this shit they're serving up again 30 years later.
I don't want to know where these people are, who had bad hair and probably bad breath, that were given terrible scripts and even worse hair styles are, as long as they are nowhere near a television camera!
I HAVE MOVED ON!
I am living in the now, June 24 2007...not reliving some mediocre occurence that most of us would like to forget, it would be like examining a bowel movement all over again, filmed for posterity, and the funny little anecdotes that are associated with it..."oh, yes I remember the underpants you were wearing, weren't they ghaaaaastly!!"
I'm annoyed, I was sucked in like the siren's song to this cornucopia of crap all because of nostalgia......
So back to the eye gouging.....
2 comments:
Take your point about the nostalgia crap, and it WAS crap, then & now, but I find those programs interesting just to prove to myself how much better life is now, and how it is so great that we've moved on so much from those daggy days of flares, and affro's etc.
BTW - I was told by someone well in the know last week that the affro is coming back! Hairdressing apprentices in Hobart are carrently being taught the subleties of achieving the 'fro!
I can't believe young girls would find that a desirable hairstyle to have, but then again, look them parading round in all my shit clothes I threw out 20yrs ago.
you said it bro'
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