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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 11:52 am: | |
Has anyone else noticed this?
Because of dvd and the concept of 'retro' nothing grows old any more. I remember watching videos of old tv shows once upon a time and there'd be this shock of seeing all these changes that had happened. Now, with people wearing old looking clothes and old looking decor (don't forget those book covers made to look damaged) it's like these old shows now just look like the present day. The same goes for music and books and furniture. It's like some massive attempt at physical time travel. I expect to bump into my mum and dad any day now, or my childhood self. I have to admit I revel in the sight of these old things and this sense of travelling back there. But is it healthy? does it bring disdain at the new? Has it led to mass depression and longing? Someone said recently that nobody writes books set in the modern day anymore, that they all feel sort of nostalgic. Is this right? Do we really hate the modern world so much? Will it feel rejected if we go on any longer?
That's how my day has begun. |
Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 12:13 pm: | |
If you did run into a future/past version of yourself and you snuck off home and had passionate sex, would that be homosexuality or masturbation? |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 12:27 pm: | |
Sounds like it'd be a bit of everything if you chuck in the age gap as well... What a horrible thought (and another idea for a bloody story (the secret plot of Death in Venice?)). |
Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 09:18 pm: | |
I'm probably the other way to you Tony - to me, *everything* feels old!
I've always loved old things - old books, old films, old buildings, old furniture, old music, classic Doctor Who, historic monuments, museums, etc, etc. So I see this modern stuff around me - ebooks, mp3s, Facebook, digital this, that and the other - and want to go back to the past. Time was, I'd have tried to keep up with things, but nowadays I'll just wallow in the past and do my own thing.
Funny, the first record I ever bought was Jethro Tull's single "Living in the Past". Without realising it at the time, it's become the story of my life.
"Oh no, we won't give in. Let's go living in the past" ...
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