Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Everyone remembers the extremely unsuccessful and embarrassing thread I started about what the kids/yoof listen to these days. The subtext to that thread, the repressed unconscious element, is now brought to light, like a cockroach caught in a torch-beam, by this thread, about getting too old for this shit.
The other thread having established that, for the most part, we're a bunch of old gits with boiled sweets in our pockets, it's now time to ask what effect that has on us.
My primary concern is that clubbing is over for me now. I am rather depressed about that cos clubs were at one point a place where I'd occasionally have a life-affirming, near religious, experience. I use the word 'religious' advisedly, because there was something worshipful about me in those halcyon days of yore. Now when I go to clubs I tend to stand near the back, nodding or shaking my head, unable to recapture that first fine careless rapture. Maybe I need to pick clubs better, I think, or maybe the DJs need to be better - or maybe the club is bad... But is it that? Or am I just clapped out? Is it time to retire to the armchair, to read first the newspaper, and then the philosophers, and contemplate death?
The other thread having established that, for the most part, we're a bunch of old gits with boiled sweets in our pockets, it's now time to ask what effect that has on us.
My primary concern is that clubbing is over for me now. I am rather depressed about that cos clubs were at one point a place where I'd occasionally have a life-affirming, near religious, experience. I use the word 'religious' advisedly, because there was something worshipful about me in those halcyon days of yore. Now when I go to clubs I tend to stand near the back, nodding or shaking my head, unable to recapture that first fine careless rapture. Maybe I need to pick clubs better, I think, or maybe the DJs need to be better - or maybe the club is bad... But is it that? Or am I just clapped out? Is it time to retire to the armchair, to read first the newspaper, and then the philosophers, and contemplate death?