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small petty rant
Going off on a tangent from stuff discussed in the 101 Tasks comments:
I've never quite got the point of people telling me things - clubs, scenes, subcultures, conventions, festivals - aren't as good as they used to be. This seems to have been a running theme in my life. I always seem to catch on to things late. Then someone pops up and says "It was so much better when people could bring their own drink." Or "All they care about these days is packing in the punters." "It was so much better when people got off with each other at parties." "Goth is dead." "SF is dead." "It's got so *shudder* commercial." "Here's a whole bloody filksong about how much better it used to be when we were young and set the world on fire."
I realise you wish to help and enlighten, but honestly, what difference is it supposed to make to me? Am I supposed to nod and say "well, okay, I won't go then. Thanks for saving me the trouble"? But experience has taught me otherwise. I always do the thing anyway and, guess what, since I wasn't around for the wonderful days of amazingness and don't know what I'm missing, I usually end up having a great time.
But don't mind me, I'm in a vile mood. Everything sucks*. I may have to break out the Diana Wynne Jones.
* edit - things that don't suck: my house, my friends, Battlestar Galactica
I've never quite got the point of people telling me things - clubs, scenes, subcultures, conventions, festivals - aren't as good as they used to be. This seems to have been a running theme in my life. I always seem to catch on to things late. Then someone pops up and says "It was so much better when people could bring their own drink." Or "All they care about these days is packing in the punters." "It was so much better when people got off with each other at parties." "Goth is dead." "SF is dead." "It's got so *shudder* commercial." "Here's a whole bloody filksong about how much better it used to be when we were young and set the world on fire."
I realise you wish to help and enlighten, but honestly, what difference is it supposed to make to me? Am I supposed to nod and say "well, okay, I won't go then. Thanks for saving me the trouble"? But experience has taught me otherwise. I always do the thing anyway and, guess what, since I wasn't around for the wonderful days of amazingness and don't know what I'm missing, I usually end up having a great time.
But don't mind me, I'm in a vile mood. Everything sucks*. I may have to break out the Diana Wynne Jones.
* edit - things that don't suck: my house, my friends, Battlestar Galactica
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Though they may have a point about the Manics. Just recently I had occasion to hear This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours all the way through for the first time in ages and I found it very tedious.
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I know what you mean about This Is My Truth..., though I think there are a couple of cracking songs on it. I would rather listen to Everything Must Go than the Holy Bible though, I'm afraid...
Mind you, we all have a desire to prove we have a secret pleasure that others don't know about - hence my endless proselytising about both Laura Nyro and Jeffrey Bernard (not a combination you hear in the same sentence too often). But then, since they're both dead, the "not as good as they used to be" doesn't really work...