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danschank

ten good things: special dan-is-old edition

Aug 27, 2006 02:46

as i type this, i am 8 days away from exiting my twenties. here's the good news...

ten things i like about turning thirty

10. the fading categorical differences between old school and just plain old might seem alienating at first, but they have their merits as well. i like to think i've done a decent job of avoiding the infinite popularity ( Read more... )

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bklyndispatch August 27 2006, 13:27:50 UTC

this list really speaks to me. except the jabs at joy division and can. that I cannot abide. but sunno)))? booooring.

danschank August 27 2006, 19:50:03 UTC

they're not really jabs, honestly. just stuff that by all means is good, but i don't like. for joy division it can be chalked up to me not being an eighties guy. i don't like much new wave in general.

SUNNO))) on the other hand is boring ambient music for people too chicken to admit they like boring ambient music. i'm surprised as many people have swallowed their little schtick, honestly...

myglock_yrface August 27 2006, 15:15:40 UTC

I just turned 21 but I feel approximately forty. Hopefully this will slow down by th time I am thirty!

hooveraardvark August 27 2006, 16:11:30 UTC

you too? me too.

i was born a forty year old woman. only lately have i been regressing back to age 24.

danschank August 27 2006, 19:54:15 UTC

your journal doesn't seem very forty-ish!

danschank August 27 2006, 19:51:27 UTC

happy birthday!

as for feeling forty, i suggest dancing in public as a remedy. or karaoke.

itsolivia August 27 2006, 16:13:15 UTC

you're going to love the 30s.

danschank August 27 2006, 19:54:59 UTC

eh, i'm sure i'll be as ambivalent about them as my twenties. i'm excited to have the big leap over and done with, etc.

anonymous August 27 2006, 17:39:20 UTC

* "i am a thirty year old man and if someone gives me directions with the words north, south, east or west in them, i will stare at that person blankly, thank them for all of their help, curse myself silently, and get myself totally lost."

I know this to be true. Except I'm not sure I got a thank you?

Great post - though you are wrong about Joy Division!

Laura x

danschank August 27 2006, 19:55:51 UTC

it happens all the time, luckily i don't drive anymore.

anonymous August 28 2006, 03:43:41 UTC

lucky for you...not for the driver of the 7-hour journey to NH!

lx

ex_bearbait August 27 2006, 17:57:23 UTC

Somehow I didn't think you'd even pause to reflect upon your 30th...not that you sound like you're freaking or anything.

And if I didn't know better I'd say you seem to be catering to Darrin's tastes with some of these recent posts (DIO before the cut line...interesting). ;)

#5. Fuck...relatives reading your blog is utterly traumatizing. My brother has been given a crash course in homosexuality, or at least my version of it, through LJ. Last month he started quoting passages from certain entries...like, OLD entries...and I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. How the hell did he find me? He was living with my parents at the time and I'm sure they were reading over his shoulder at some point. I'm just glad most of the really sensitive stuff is filtered. Of course, it doesn't help that I could post a grocery list and instigate a cascade of flirtation...

#4. "i am a thirty year old man and i am sincerely disappointed in the lack of vampire slaying on television these days."Amen...it's making me wanna cry. Where's the spin-off ( ... )

danschank August 27 2006, 20:00:14 UTC

yeah, i'm totally baiting darrin (???)... haha.

i miss buffy/angel a lot right now because i finished the second season of deadwood (and if you aren't watching it, i ask: WHY WHY WHY WHY NOT?, it's amazing) and tried to give that rome show a shot, but it was lame. there is a d00d on it that you'd love though... kinda looks like if clive owen went into professional wrestling. but the story was kinda lame. gabe introduced me to this battlestar gallactica series everyone's talking about. i only watched the mini series, not the actual show, but it was good. a little too outer space for my tastes, but i'm sure i'd adapt. a strange variety of people i know are into that show, actually.

ex_bearbait August 27 2006, 21:40:08 UTC

Yeah, I've heard good things about Deadwood, but right now I am a thirty-one year old man and I am completely disinterested in hip, foul-mouthed HBO television series. I have too many cruddy horror movies to watch. crusherrrr just lent me The Gingerdead Man. I'll let you know how that works out...

BTW, are you into Stereo Total, ESG or that Soft Pink Truth punk covers album? If not, I'd be happy to send you them...

danschank August 27 2006, 23:04:59 UTC

i think you'd really like deadwood, though the only person you'd be likely to lust after is a minor character who shows up second season (unless you threw me for a loop and fell for timothy olyphant-- he was the drug dealer in gocharacter-wise, it's probably the best written show i've ever seen. it's more consistent than buffy and angel, though maybe a little less screaming-like-a-little-girl good, at its finest. but it's still a close call ( ... )

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