I am, Tragically, unhip.

[ScreamingMeemie]

Yes, it's true...but I don't care. MrG bought me XM stereo mainly so I could toggle back and forth between the 80's station and Hank's place. Because, well because, I really have no idea what's gone on in the world musically since about 1995...I like it that way. I listen to some of the stuff my daughter plays because she listens to the stuff I play. We compare notes. She says the song "1985" was written just for me. I believe her.


If you see me in the grocery store, odds are I'm bopping out in my head to a song like "I'm gonna be 1000 miles" or "Pretty in Pink"...or maybe even "Grandma's Feather Bed". It annoys my kids, so it'll probably annoy you. But no more than those ridiculous cars with their woofers and tweeters tuned up so out of whack that the inhabitants won't be able to hear an air raid siren in about 10 years time.

My favorite CD is a little CD called Americana..it's got all kinds of great music on it, from the likes of Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash ( I listened to this pre hurt...pre Johnny is a national hero), Waylon, Willie, Tammy, well you get the idea. Neil Diamond is one of my heroes.

Sometimes my blouses have shoulder pads in them. my favorite sweater is a shaker sweater I bought in 1986...I wore it for my senior pictures...I am wearing it today.

I am, I said...tragically unhip. But I am also the type that won't slam on you for what you listen to ( I do own a few Eminem CD's) unless you blast it out of your stupid car. What you wear is your business. You wanna pierce 50 spots on your face and "other" body parts...I support you in that.

Have a nice f*cking day! :hi:

[Atmashine]

1. That's awesome.

My parents won't listen to anything past 1977. It wasn't until I moved out that I discovered what I was missing.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. hahaha...I'll listen to Nicole's stuff, and I do like Eminem, but old

habits die hard. ;) :hi:

[progmom]

2. and i think hip is liking what you like and not being influenced

...by anyone else's idea of what is supposed to be cool. marching to the beat of your own drummer. so in my eyes, mrs g, you have hipness down pat.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Why thank you so much...

I AM hip enough to be eating sushi from Trader Joe's today...if sushi is still considered hip. It's the raw stuff even. :9

[progmom]

9. i've never gotten sushi from there

i'll have to try that.

[tigereye]

29. what she said!

:hi:

hip is doing your own thing, as they used to say in the 60s and 70s!

[ForrestGump]

3. I'll be the judge of that. Show me your hips.

:D

Let me put it in terms of the dude I know most about (more than I do of myself, almost): Elvis epitomizes 'cool' to me, and perhaps the coolest thing about him -- this also just happens to be the quality that, as far as I'm concerned, freed him to break all the barriers that he busted through in the '50s and even later -- is that, in some important respects, he didn't give a f*** what people thought of him. Ditto people like Johnny Cash, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee. In this way, you are as cool as all get-out, Mrs G.

I love Neil Diamond, too. I don't care who knows it...he's done some great stuff.

'Hip' is stupid. 'Hip' is transitory. 'Hip' is pegged to a particular time and place. The most heinous clothes of past decades were once 'hip' -- the most heinous of this decade still are. 'Hip' is doomed to sudden reversal. Cool is forever.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. MrG is hip like that. He was comfy in his own skin and cowboy boots...

way back in the 80's when no one was wearing them...He drove a beat up old pick up before pick ups were "cool". I wanna be like him and you when I grow up! ;) :hug:


Elvis is the epitome of coolness btw.

[mikeytherat]

4. "1985" was about you? Were you the "neighbor lady" in BFS's video? ;)

mikey_the_rat

[Richardo]

8. Here's my level of unhipness: I thought she meant *McCartney's* 1985

:eyes:

Which is a kickin' song anyway.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. .

:rofl: Yeah...that and Stacey's Mom too! ;) :hi:

[wildhorses]

5. anyone who hangs out on DU

is hip by default




sorry




but you're hip

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Until I start posting the lyrics to "Honey"...

;) :hi:

[wildhorses]

26. well...hell's bells

I love me some honey




especially form tupelo



:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

10. The music ... okay, I'm mostly with ya ...

I've been listening to "A Million Miles Away" by the Plimsouls and "Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again" by Joy Divison, etc.

But shoulder pads? NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!!!!!! Oh, the humanity!!!!!! :o

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. ***okay, so I don't really "do" shoulder pads anymore...but I still

own a couple of blazers with them in them. ;)

[tigereye]

30. I still like shoulder pads

I mean if Sean Young looks cool in them in the future... so do we! ;)



granted she is smoking, but...

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. tigereye!

How are you? Smoking may be healthy...in the future. Who knows? ;)

[tigereye]

34. oh family stuff

kid was sick for almost 2 weeks, finally got him back to school. Had to get an inhaler for him for the am ride to school since he had a coughing fit every time we tried to go. Fingers crossed. :)

[EstimatedProphet]

11. Beats being tragically hip

You're not a poseur.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Yes, except for when I express interest in something I have always

liked and it's just now something that everyone likes...That happened to MrG with his jeans. I used to buy him Levi red tags. They were, unwashed, unhemmed and really stiff. All of a sudden, young boys started wearing them (to be "cool"), they raised the price $40 (you used to be able to get them for 12.95) and called them Levi's "Hard"...MrG was pissed. ;) :hi:

[CAcyclist]

33. Oh, I don't know

the Tragically Hip were a great, if short-lived, band

[billyskank]

15. I am so unhip it's a wonder my arse hasn't fallen off

:ih:

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. ....

:rofl: :spray:...I wasn't ready for that. :hug:

[RandomKoolzip]

16. Good!

TRYING too hard to be hip is much worse than being unhip. I'd much rather hang with normal people than with fashion victims trying to dress like Fall Out Boy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. You'd get a mega dose of normal here...

...we're so normal, we bore the dog. ;)

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. Who needs to be hip when you're cool?

:7

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Hey!

That was really nice. :hug: Thanks!

[RevolutionaryActs]

23. I only speak the truth.

:hug:

[khashka]

24. Too hip to live, too cool to die

Although I admit as age sets in it's hard to keep up with what all the cool kids are watching/listening to/wearing. And I often find it laughable. But this is the natural order of things. We must step away for the new generation to take over.

Khash.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. ...and they appear to be doing a damned fine job of it.

:hi:

[MadHound]

27. Hip, schmip, be who you are, and do it with pride

I've never been one to run with the herd, A, because I can't keep up, and B, they're usually going over some cliff or another. Besides, I've found out that is just easier to be myself. If people like me, they'll go past the shallow surface stuff to find out what I'm like, and if they don't, they're probably not worth knowing anyway.

As far as music goes, while I've kept up with what's going on in modern music, I've found most of what passes for popular music these days to be utterly without merit, rehashed tripe that's boring as hell. Occaissionally I'm suprised by something, but not often. Rather, I've found that I'm getting more into off the radar music, small label stuff that may or may not go big time. I've found that the music is better, and when the artist does go big, you wind up looking real hip.

And clothing fashions, please woman. Shoulder pads come and shoulder pads go, and come back, and go away etc. etc. Hang them in your closet for about five years, then bring them out and wear them. People with think you're so hip, looking so retro and cool. I've seen it happen all too often.

And I agree with you about big loud cars, and I'm an old DJ, with a fondness for loud music. But my God, those kind of volumes in such an enclosed space:eyes: But hey, a dream come true for the hearing aid industry. What's really interesting is that there have been a couple of studies done that shows such intense vibrations do indeed cause harm to the car, loosening bolts, weakening connections, etc. I'm just waiting for one to fall apart next to me at the stop light.

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. I cranked the stereo for Dexy's Midnight on the way home from the

store even, but those cars are too much. I'm waiting for them all to be forty and deaf..and wondering why.

Except for pegged jeans...I hope pegged jeans NEVER come back. ;)

[MiniMandaRuth]

32. I have no sense of fashion, other than being punk rock.... so, eh....

Welcome to the crowd!