small petty rant

[devi]

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

Comments

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Heh! You are one of the prime proponents of the idea that goth has been shit ever since people stopped being miserable... :)

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Excuse me? It doesn't do that much for me these days, but when was the last time I (a) claimed to have anything to do with goth or (b) told anyone else what attitude they should take towards goth?

Or indeed (c) even mentioned goth?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Okay, that should be "were", and I admit I haven't talked to you about it for maybe, hmm, four years. Scratch that, then.