Another Bizzaro Me

[infanttyrone]

So tonight's overheard bar conversation was lifted from the group who dominated the place all night. Between playing the standard 80's retro butt-rock and taking lots and lots of photos of each other dancing and lip-synching to said BR, two women and two men had a gossipy conversation about an absent friend, at a really unnecessary volume, about

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[fuzzilla]

>this conversation was about %35 "that poor guy, we all miss him" and %65 "what a hilarious loser who invites our ridicule!"<

I can certainly relate to that (that is, being the focal point of "pin the tail on the hilarious loser!").

[infanttyrone]

I tend to discourage those conversations when invited, because I've been on both sides. Talking shit about a "friend" who isn't present with a group who also claims "friendship" makes me feel kind of slimy.

[fuzzilla]

It's especially bad with my family, 'cuz I feel like it's just my role to be seen that way, that their observations aren't exactly in line with reality. I feel like I'll be seen as a "hilarious loser" even if I write a best seller and bring peace to the Middle East.

Yeah, I've been on both sides, too. When I catch myself feeling judgmental, I try to keep my yap shut and process "so what's going on with me that I feel the need to judge?" like a good little therapy trouper.

[lux_et_amor]

what is "standard 80's retro butt-rock"?

[infanttyrone]

The same jive shit every group of twenty-somethings with no actual musical taste of their own plays on our jukebox, the same two dozen songs we hear every night, played under the aegis of "irony" but more realistically headed under "guilty pleasures": your Van Halens, your Queens and your Journeys, with the same Springsteen songs and Tom Petty songs sprinkled alongside.
I know, I know, people really legitimately like that music, and God bless 'em. But the kids come in and play the same tunes over and over, ignoring the hundreds of other songs in the juke, and they think it's all great fun, like they've just invented retro-irony.

[ltmurnau]

As always was, youth is wasted on the young - they spend their juicy years re-inventing sex, irony and coffee.

[the Online Etymology Dictionary places the origin of the word "jukebox" in 1937, from "jook joint", a word invented in 1935. It is Black English slang, from juke, joog "wicked, disorderly," in Gullah (the creolized English of the coastlands of S.C., Ga., and northern Fla.), from Wolof and Bambara dzug "unsavory."]

[infanttyrone]

Oh how I hate the young people. I hated the young people even when I was a teenager.
What's the etymology of "butt-rock"? I'm half-familiar with the origins of "hesch" (to be hesch, to be a hescher, or heschian-- for the floor of your primer-coated muscle car to be ankle-deep in crumpled Marb packs and empty Mountain Dew bottles).

[bluebellrock]

Breaking your back does seem like a small price to pay.

[infanttyrone]

You know, if I made a list of big lifetime regrets, the busted back wouldn't be on there,