The Breakfast Club How I know I'm Officially OLD!

a reply to: incoserv

If I can hold down my bills and responsibilities, then I am doing what I ought in life. If my child is similarly learning how to do the same and behave like a good member of society, then I am doing what I ought in life.

How I conduct my business outside of that is my own choice, and I am under no obligation to take the rest of it any more seriously than I must for my own sanity.

Let's look outside, shall we? We have people who think Christmas lights are a horrid marker of racial, economic and systemic oppression and choose to lecture their neighbors on it. We are being forced to wear flimsy pieces of cloth on our faces and told that will keep a virus that most of us don't even know we have from infecting us, and we're told to be very, very afraid of that. I'm told that because of the mere color of my skin, no matter what I do ... I am going to be a horrid instrument of racist oppression. I just can't help it!

When faced with that level of insanity in society, I choose to take it no more seriously than I have to, and neither should you if you're wise.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
Recently re-watched the classic cult movie The Breakfast Club.

For the first time ever.... I sided with the Teacher and the Janitor!!
WTH...

What a bunch of whiney punk kids they were!
Don't even get me started on Ferris Bueller...

In addition to that I found myself hanging washed clothes on a rack inside to improve the
dry winter air. I'm turning into my mom....

Dear God, what is happening to me?

I have never got the Ferris Bueller love, right over my head!

originally posted by: valiant

originally posted by: JAGStorm
Recently re-watched the classic cult movie The Breakfast Club.

For the first time ever.... I sided with the Teacher and the Janitor!!
WTH...

What a bunch of whiney punk kids they were!
Don't even get me started on Ferris Bueller...

In addition to that I found myself hanging washed clothes on a rack inside to improve the
dry winter air. I'm turning into my mom....

Dear God, what is happening to me?

I have never got the Ferris Bueller love, right over my head!

Did you never, ever daydream about all the over-the-top things you wanted to pull off against the adult world as a kid?

a reply to: ketsuko

I did, and I did, it just never looked like Ferris Bueller. I should say, it's the love for movie that went over my head, not the basic idea of it.

originally posted by: valiant
a reply to: ketsuko

I did, and I did, it just never looked like Ferris Bueller. I should say, it's the love for movie that went over my head, not the basic idea of it.

I spent a ton of time daydreaming and some of mine did go wildly over-the-top like Ferris Bueller, so I got it.

In reality, sure what he did was all kinds of destructive, but since it's a movie, no one gets hurt and for once you get to see it all win. It's like our son whose solution to everything for a good long time was just to nuke it.

a reply to: Hefficide

It seems any tunes of Simple Minds are copy protected...
very likely because they're so timeless and nifty. But way
back when I was past retiring from musicale as an avoc..
I used to make the kids waiting for the school buses explode,
and the squirrels 200M away in the trees catatonic with "Don't
Forget about Me" cranked to all 24Kw of output goodness.

I bought out the PA as a modest addition to my bass rig. God save
your hearing, I sure as Blue Perdition refuse to. It's like *WAT*
"Airplane" with Mantovani; only my living room is the elevator.
And stay hydrolized, JAG You don't want to know where my wet
socks cure .. but they at least don't stick dry to the wall per 80's.

originally posted by: Hefficide
a reply to: JAGStorm

It's not you. It's all those damned kids who refuse to stay off your lawn blaring that noise they call music.

LOL, I resembled that remark when I was a young buck and still do on occasion.

originally posted by: ketsuko

originally posted by: valiant
a reply to: ketsuko

I did, and I did, it just never looked like Ferris Bueller. I should say, it's the love for movie that went over my head, not the basic idea of it.

I spent a ton of time daydreaming and some of mine did go wildly over-the-top like Ferris Bueller, so I got it.

In reality, sure what he did was all kinds of destructive, but since it's a movie, no one gets hurt and for once you get to see it all win. It's like our son whose solution to everything for a good long time was just to nuke it.

Oh I definitely lived in my head a lot too, still daydreaming as an adult.

I did enjoy the ending, and his sibling relationship. Jeanie reminded me of my sisters, always too scared to do anything while I just did it. I'd have enjoyed more of that in the movie, but I guess it wasn't the point. I think I just dislike Ferris to be honest, but again I get that he was supposed to be that overly cocky, smart ass, so just not to my taste I guess.

You are only as old as your spine.