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post #51 of 76
3/15/10 at 8:46pm
...Realizing I've known my best friend for over twenty years and vividly remembering fads when we met, like pogs.
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post #52 of 76
3/15/10 at 8:50pm
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Wow, that's amazing. I've never heard of anyone forgetting their age before (early alzheimers?)

For me, the scary number is 25. Not only will my 20s be more than half over, but I think I see that moment as the date where I'll have officially wasted my life.. By age 20, Alexander III of Macedon was king of Greece, and by age 25, he was King of Babylon and had overthrown the most powerful empire the world had ever known.

I feel that unless by 25 I have a comparably impressive accomplishment to my name, I'll have failed at living

We only get a few years on this earth. A blink of the eye, really, is all the time we're afforded to leave our imprint on history..... and I'm worried when I'm gone no one will remember me (like they do with Alexander, anyway)

I was watching Kundun again last night, and the mesmerizing Phillip Glass music was playing, but all I could think was "If someone were to one day film a biopic of my life, would they require music such as this in order to do my story justice?" And as of right now, the answer would be no, I'd have to say. And by 25, I think I'll feel certain that music best suited to The Tale of Kate will be the REQUIEM FOR A DREAM score


EDIT: I totally forgot where I was going with that.

Anyway, 40 is your scary number, mine is 25, and once I get there I fully intend to lie about my age. I plan on going with '24' in any and all situations (other than legal things like forms or contracts) until someone calls me on it.
Aside from all your Alexander crap(Though do try and take over a country. It'll be fun to see on the news!), my magic number is 30, I'll be very sad if I don't have a novel published by then. Off to good start though, with my short story getting published next year.
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post #53 of 76
3/15/10 at 8:54pm
I've had glasses since jr high and have gotten completely used to them as a part of my identity. When I visualize myself, it's with glasses on. In addition to the fact that the world would be blurry without them, I feel naked without them on.
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post #54 of 76
3/15/10 at 9:00pm
I wore glasses up until 8th grade, I was always getting them broken and so one day I said, 'fuck this' and stopped wearing them. And my vision has been fine ever since.
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post #55 of 76
3/15/10 at 9:30pm
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So, you guys that went under the laser: How awake are you during this thing? I would love to get my eyes fixed, whether they go back to being shitty over time or not, but I have a pathological fear of eye trauma and the idea of being awake and aware while someone probes my eyeballs is pretty much my idea of Cenobitian Hell on Earth.
Wide-awake for me as well. The only drug I got was a numbing drop for my eyes. They covered the eye not being worked on with some gauze, then put a vacuum-type of device on the other eye. Felt some "pressure" on that eye, then it all went dark. They cut the membrane on the outside of my eye, I heard the crackling of the laser, and about 20 seconds later they switched eyes. All in all, the whole process took about 10 minutes.

Also, they film it and put the video up on a TV that anyone outside the room can watch.

The recovery was the worst, as I had to wear protective goggles for 24 hours to make sure I didn't scratch my eyes. Your eyes get mega-itchy after the numbing drops wear off, and your first instincts are to rub away with your hands. That was tough and so annoying.
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post #56 of 76
3/15/10 at 9:55pm
I've worn spectacles since age six, and probably would have worn them sooner if I had known that I wasn't seeing things correctly.

I felt old when an 18 year old asked me what Devo was. That was ten years ago. It's been raining for a week where I live, and every bone injury I've ever had has come back to visit. I need, in the words of Dave, a backiotomy.

I wouldn't turn the clock back for love or money, though. Every day is an education.
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post #57 of 76
3/15/10 at 10:50pm
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...Realizing I've known my best friend for over twenty years and vividly remembering fads when we met, like pogs.
Oh god yes, for me and my closest mate it's been 25 years. We spent most of our twenties apart while he became one of the most wanted barmen in the UK and now he's back home in Melbourne we've picked up again and are as close as we were since we were 6 and 7.

Because he works in hospitality tho, most of his friends beside me are decidedly younger than he is, so whenever I get introduced to his other friends it's a bit of a trip as we state we've been mates for 25 years and we often get a reply along the lines of "well I haven't even been alive that long".

Head. Fuck.

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my magic number is 30, I'll be very sad if I don't have a novel published by then. Off to good start though, with my short story getting published next year.
Seriously Cameron, that's great fucking news. I'm 33 and I'm nowhere near there yet. Congratulations mate.
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post #58 of 76
3/15/10 at 11:04pm
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Oh god yes, for me and my closest mate it's been 25 years. We spent most of our twenties apart while he became one of the most wanted barmen in the UK and now he's back home in Melbourne we've picked up again and are as close as we were since we were 6 and 7.

Because he works in hospitality tho, most of his friends beside me are decidedly younger than he is, so whenever I get introduced to his other friends it's a bit of a trip as we state we've been mates for 25 years and we often get a reply along the lines of "well I haven't even been alive that long".

Head. Fuck.
Seriously, aside from the solving murders and fake psychic stuff, he and I are basically Shawn and Gus(With me as a white Gus) from Psych.
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post #59 of 76
3/15/10 at 11:14pm
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...Realizing I've known my best friend for over twenty years and vividly remembering fads when we met, like pogs.
For me it was realizing I've know friends I met post college for almost 15 years. We met doing community organizing and part of our jobs were to recruit people to do door-to-door fundraising. You had to be at least 16 to work for us. We used to joke that once we could hire people born in 1987 (we were huge G-N-R fans) we'd officially feel old. That year came and went. It was the same year that I left that job and went back to school to get my doctoral degree.

Shoot to several years later and I'm doing survey research at a high school for a research project. My job was to recruit 9th graders to participate in our survey. I'm going over the surveys later in the day and look at the birth dates. 1994. People who were born in 1994 were in high school! That and hearing Nirvana being played on classic rock stations officially cemented my status in oldsville.
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post #60 of 76
3/15/10 at 11:16pm
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I've worn spectacles since age six, and probably would have worn them sooner if I had known that I wasn't seeing things correctly.

I felt old when an 18 year old asked me what Devo was. That was ten years ago. It's been raining for a week where I live, and every bone injury I've ever had has come back to visit. I need, in the words of Dave, a backiotomy.

I wouldn't turn the clock back for love or money, though. Every day is an education.
My first concert was Devo. 1981, I had just started college...
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post #61 of 76
3/15/10 at 11:25pm
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People who were born in 1994 were in high school! That and hearing Nirvana being played on classic rock stations officially cemented my status in oldsville.
Oh god yeah Div. My partner is a teacher and she's teaching some kids in their final year at school who were born as Nirvana were releasing Nevermind for chrissake. She often relates to me how some of her cooler students discover Kurt and the boys because she knows what a massive fan I used to be and the idea of kids today discovering Nirvana like I discovered Hendrix or Bowie seriously does my head in.
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post #62 of 76
3/15/10 at 11:29pm
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Oh god yeah Div. My partner is a teacher and she's teaching some kids in their final year at school who were born as Nirvana were releasing Nevermind for chrissake. She often relates to me how some of her cooler students discover Kurt and the boys because she knows what a massive fan I used to be and the idea of kids today discovering Nirvana like I discovered Hendrix or Bowie seriously does my head in.
Told a teenager about Vanilla Ice and if you were my age at that time, he was the coolest thing ever.
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post #63 of 76
3/15/10 at 11:53pm
Vanilla Ice? I think I had one of those at Starbucks.
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post #64 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:17am
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Told a teenager about Vanilla Ice and if you were my age at that time, he was the coolest thing ever.
That sounds like my auntie trying to explain Abba to me many moons ago.
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post #65 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:31am
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Told a teenager about Vanilla Ice and if you were my age at that time, he was the coolest thing ever.
I hated Vanilla Ice so much, even though everyone else thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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post #66 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:33am
When you tell someone there was an original "The Crazies" and they had no idea.
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post #67 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:34am
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When you tell someone there was an original "The Crazies" and they had no idea.
Really? I'd argue most people our age would have the same response personally.
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post #68 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:40am
I wasn't around/of age when it was in theater, for sure. But anyone that frequented a video store would have possibly rented it.
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post #69 of 76
3/16/10 at 12:52pm
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Aside from all your Alexander crap(Though do try and take over a country. It'll be fun to see on the news!), my magic number is 30, I'll be very sad if I don't have a novel published by then. Off to good start though, with my short story getting published next year.
Look, I don't expect everyone to share my fascination/admiration for Alexander III of Macedon. I just mentioned it because yes, he is a big factor when it comes to my reasons for choosing 25 as my magic number

And obviously I'm not going to take over a country Being a explorer/conquerer like he was is no longer really an employment option these days (especially in this economy)
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post #70 of 76
3/16/10 at 1:21pm
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I hated Vanilla Ice so much, even though everyone else thought he was the coolest thing ever.
Word to your mother!

I unironically love Ice. He is hot, and his songs were so cool. :P I even watched him on all those reality shows (e.g., Surreal Life) he appeared on to fix his public image, only to make it worse.
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post #71 of 76
3/16/10 at 1:34pm
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Word to your mother!

I unironically love Ice. He is hot, and his songs were so cool. :P I even watched him on all those reality shows (e.g., Surreal Life) he appeared on to fix his public image, only to make it worse.
I saw Vanilla Ice in concert in early 1991. I was a huge fan, I admit it. Saw him again around 1998, after he'd changed his image and became "hard".

However, without a doubt, my biggest concert-going regret was missing Milli Vanilli opening for MC Hammer. Damn you other plans, whatever they were!!
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post #72 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:17pm
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Hm, for me it's that, by 25, Orson Welles was already directing Citizen Kane. But I've abandoned my delusions of grandeur. Maybe I'll have a tiny, low-budget feature completed before I'm 30. That would be nice. All I need is about 15 grand to shoot this script. Anyone?

Nobody will remember you, though, and I'll include myself in this category as well. Likely everyone else on this message board will be forgotten as well. In the larger scheme of things.

I'm not particularly fond of my teenage years. Glad they're gone, actually. I've worn glasses for over ten years, but they are well-suited to me. In fact, I look better overall than when I was a teenager. Perhaps I can understand the anxiety of the OP, but PERHAPS AS WELL you should find nice glasses.

Eh, I don't know, I know it's totally crazy but there is still a part of me that is holding out hope that I'll be able to accomplish something that will have me remembered. I like to think that 2330 years from now*, people will still know who I was

... Unfortunately I think when I hit 25 I'm going to have to disavow myself of that notion

*aprox how long it's been since Alexander died, on 6/23/323BC
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post #73 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:26pm
When someone tells you to act your age and you die.

OOOHHHHHHH SNAP.
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post #74 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:30pm
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When someone tells you to act your age and you die.

OOOHHHHHHH SNAP.
O_________O

mind = blown
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post #75 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:43pm
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I saw Vanilla Ice in concert in early 1991. I was a huge fan, I admit it. Saw him again around 1998, after he'd changed his image and became "hard".

However, without a doubt, my biggest concert-going regret was missing Milli Vanilli opening for MC Hammer. Damn you other plans, whatever they were!!
Ha! I laughed so hard the first time I heard the heavy metal version of "Ice Ice Baby".

Girl you know it's true. Ooh ooh ooh, I love you! A MV/Hammer show? What else could've been that important?!
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post #76 of 76
3/16/10 at 2:46pm
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Word to your mother!

I unironically love Ice. He is hot, and his songs were so cool. :P I even watched him on all those reality shows (e.g., Surreal Life) he appeared on to fix his public image, only to make it worse.
I was never a pop person, even when I was a kid I dug the Metal. So, I'm somewhat biased.
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