Is This It?
I was looking at this Ford Mustang 2.0 in the parking lot this morning and at first I thought that it looked like kind of a cool car, and then I thought fuck that. Fuck this car. Because you know the guy who owns it is an asshole, a, and b, it’s just another shiny piece of nostalgic bullshit.
As of today I am officially coming out publicly against nostalgia. That means I do not accept Volkswagon Bugs or the Strokes. I am in firm opposition to anything that purports to be a modern rehashing of a bygone era. I don’t think polyester is funny. Fuck the new Poseidon Adventure. Fuck Wolf Mother.
It would be disingenuous of me to say that I was going to throw away all my old photographs and memory beads or whatever, but I am going to put them in a lock box and bury them in the ocean. They will exist, but only for future generations to remember me by.
Of course, the problem is that I’m also against the Cult of the New. I don’t think there is any value in modernizing for the sake of modernization. I don’t think there is any cultural import to blazing aesthetically awful trails just because they’re aesthetically different.
So I’m basically against everything. Again.
July 19th, 2006 at 10:47 am
This post made me take half a Klonopin®.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Very Andy Rooney.
July 19th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
What compliments!
July 19th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
What about cheap gas?
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