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Friday, October 27, 2006
fibrous
i keep track of time using events and markers rather than eight digit dates. there are basically two eras: mtv and pre-mtv (usually referred to as the cereal era). before nineteen hundred and ninety-one, when i was given my first compact disc player and first allowed to watch mind-rotting mtv, i mentally kept track of things by what cereal i had a crush on at the time the event occurred. i’m not sure if this is telling in some ways but my personality lends itself to diving in deep when something piques my interest. thus, when i found a cereal i liked, i tended to eat no other until it’s course had run, be it two weeks or three years. and during that era it wouldn’t be surprising to hear me mutter, “yeah, i was just starting on corn flakes” in answer to a question about when i’d first solved the legend of zelda. i was reminded recently of the rice krispies ii period. those were the good times when i started eating bananas with my puffed rice. and no mention of a j-lo video was needed to specify the date.
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although your reasoning has always been specious, i'd like to point out that mtv started in the early 80s. i remember because huey lewis and the news were crooning "hip to be square" when i lost my first tooth.
ReplyDeletedon't lecture me about huey lewis. "hip" came out in the mid eighties anyway. i was only permitted to watch music television starting in ninety-one, and only then because ace of base was supposed to teach me about about swedish pop supremacy. i still hold out hope that one day pop music will be pure again.
ReplyDelete'91 was also a good year, the year nirvana hit the scene with "smells like teen spirit." i doubt you'd remember that, with your heavy involvement in the youth republicans caucus and their anti-cool campaigns. of course what do i know, i was still listening to "i heard it on the grapevine" by the california raisins.
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