{"id":232,"date":"2006-01-04T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T14:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/01\/04\/it-just-hit-me\/"},"modified":"2006-01-04T10:05:45","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T14:05:45","slug":"it-just-hit-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/01\/04\/it-just-hit-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It Just Hit Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…I’m old.<\/P>
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yep….I’m officially old and uncool. Despite the fact that, somehow, the managing editor of Instinct Magazine came upon my blog yesterday and even commented on it (in triplicate, no less), I’m officially old.<\/P>
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You see, I was walking along Mass Ave this morning on my way to work when my iPod shuffled to a song by the 60’s girl group, The Toys (A Lover’s Concerto). It flashed me back to the early\/mid 1980’s when my family was vacationing at my cousin’s cabin near Sebago Lake in Maine. My cousin, who was a teenager in the 1960’s, constantly played cassettes of 60’s music and I remember thinking at the time that I liked the music – despite the fact that it was a whopping 20 years old. <\/P>
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So today I was walking down Mass Ave when that song came on and it hit me: that song is now 40 years old. And the songs that are now 20 years old are the ones I was listening to as a teen. So, back then I thought of my cousin as old. Now it means I’M the old one.<\/P>
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How can it be? I mean, 60’s music sounds so old-school and different. It did even in the 80’s (compared to the synthesized 80’s music). But the music of the 80’s still feels too recent to be, gasp, old. I mean, Gary Numan’s “Cars”? Flock of Seagulls’ “I Ran”? Duran Duran? Howard Jones? Suzie Q? R.E.M.? T’Pau? “Til Tuesday? And all of those soundtracks for a generation: Valley Girl? Pretty in Pink? Breakfast Club?<\/P>
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When did this happen? How did this happen?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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