whip smart.

i've been on an early/mid 90's nostalgia kick recently - perhaps because my ten year high school reunion is this month, perhaps because i'm slowly trying to put my entire cd collection on my iPod - whatevs. i'm all about the classic "alternative" rock of my youth. heh, remember when they had the alternative cd section at record stores? remember when there were record stores? oh, le sigh, those were the days.

anyway, i stumbled upon this classic nugget of my teenage years on youtube today:



holy shit it's liz phair! back when she was kick ass and grrrl power and didn't write lame mid-tempo radio and film singles. sorry liz, i love you, but you know it's true.

what a fine specimen of the glory days of 120 minutes - it's lo-budg! it makes no sense! ahhh, wind machine! there are random rowers in it (which i'm sure is a big reason why we all liked it)! man, i miss 120 minutes. that show was so rad! now the kids watch TRL or whatever bullshit show is on that i don't know about because i'm OLD.

and now i'm going to go listen to spin doctors blues traveler uh, PAVEMENT. yeah, pavement, kids. a little brighten the corners perhaps. what? you don't think i really listen to those crappy bands still, do you? heh heh.

mouth agape.

ummmmm - what is going on here? last night i was catching up on my weekly dose of the hills (shut up, you like it too. and don't even get me started on heidi & spencer!), and you know how they play little snippets of videos while they're showing the credits - like "discover & download" or something or other? yeah, well usually it's some stupid emo band or evanescence or whatnot. but this time it was SILVERSUN PICKUPS. seriously. our precious little SSPU. on mtv. huh?

this is good because maybe the kids will start listening to good stuff and stop going to let's say, panic! at the disco shows...but then that also means that the kids are going to be at SSPU shows. with me. and i'm getting old and can't handle 19 year olds wearing eyeliner and band tshirts from before they were born. errrr, wait, i guess i've done that before...

crap - maybe i'm really a 19 year old emo hipster kid trapped in a 27.66 year old body?