I'm old.
 

Just thought I'd mention it. With another birthday soon, I'll officially be even older.

You're not getting any younger, by the way.

Are you ok?

I'm ok. Are you okay?

I'm just old is all. I thought I'd beat everyone to the punch since the fact of my oldness is brought up on occasion.

I also have a vastly receding hairline. Recently, however, I've let my hair grow out from a buzz cut to a combable length, and I have to say, it doesn't look all that bad. The trick though is to keep it trimmed enough so that it doesn't look like a comb over.

When I met my wife, my hair was thick and long. People used to kid me that I looked like Jim Morrison.

These days I'm more on the order of Charlie Watts (present day).

Don't worry, baby, I will protect you from the hooded claw and keep the vampires from your door.

Old or not old, currently you look waaaay better than how Jim does.
h ah a.

My boss told me the same about when you're after 30.

I don't care, though. He's a prick.

50 is the new 30. That's what I've heard.

Yeah, there is that! Poor Jim...

Women are in their prime in their 30s, or so I'm told. Men reach their peak at like 18 or so. It's a cruel cosmic trick.

Depends. All the men of my age that I know are even more spirited than when they were in their 20's. I prefer myself more now that I'm 33, rather than in my 20's. I dunno, I never really think about my age that much, so I never have the time to get depressed about it. Try botox.

A Very merry UnBirthday to you
gmku.
If you sing that in time with the song in Alice in Wonderland it works, in a way.
Dont worry, im in my early 20s and your hair is probably in better order than mine.

Yeah, but think about it:

Yes. His name starts with letter S and finishes with the letter V.

do you guys "feel older" when you're alone or when you're out with friends and stuff?

When I'm out with friends and stuff. Because I generally have to conform to their ideas of "age appropriate" activities and tastes. My peers have much tamer ideas about what's appropriate to listen to, watch, read, talk about. They're boring and old. Fortunately, though, we have one or two younger friends that we do things with, and I feel that my wife and I both have much more in common with them than we do with people our age. It's mostly attitude--our younger friends are more open-minded and interested in a wider range of things and ideas.

Only in relation to some of my mates who are, say, 9/10 years younger than myself. But even then it would have to be about something that seems like a big deal to them and not worth losing any sleep for me. It's not the sort of feeling that stays for long, though. To be honest a lot of people in their 30's seem to find it difficult to mature without turning into old mongrels.

That's true. It's like a lot of 30-somethings struggle with the reality of getting old, and the only way they can deal with it is by becoming more closed minded. I remember a lot of my 30-something friends sort of digging in, trying to hang on to the things of their youth, and in the process, they lost touch with "current" things. Music is the obvious example, but I think it applies to other things.

im stoned

And the best way you can think of spending your time stoned is here? Oh, man...

its 10:56 pm on a wednesday night, what should i do gmku

Go out for a swim, perhaps?

nah i dont feel like swimming
im so fucking stoned, its nuts
i only had 1 cone too

Listen to music!

...

this didn't come out as i intended. no sir no.

i like listening to the noises in the air

last night i fed this 2 mice i seen in the house
i choopped up some carrot for them and in the morning there was only a small amount left
they were very cute critters

Great poster! Do you have that?

oh shit i forgot you spoke german. phew!

no i just googled that.

I don't really speak it. I can read a little of it. When I lived in Germany, I knew a smattering, enough to get me by in restaurants and shopping malls. "Noch ein bier, bitte," for example, is essential.

Funny how "pussycat" gets translated as "pussy." Ha! Those wild and crazy Germans.

yeah that was my concern.

anyway, i dont know ANY german. a scary language.

whenever i hear it, i want to flee poland.

It works in two ways, at least for people in their 30's. Either they try too hard to appear cool, young and in tune, with the only disastrous result that they start acting in ridiculous ways, or they turn into ''mortgage and a dog'' sort of bores.

I think this will give you a glimpse as to why I despise writers like Nick Hornby and their ilk so much. There is also another thing that I notice a lot in many a thirtysomething who is into music: that irritating habit of wanting to attach every listen that they give to a certain record to their everyday lives, hobbies and activities, even though the underlying feeling is that they see music as another lifestyle accessory instead of an enjoyable thing. Now, that happens with people who are younger than that, sure, but it's a phenomenon that I excuse more in a younger person rather than someone who, by then, should have well and truly understood that a healthy dose of cynicism will never kill anyone.

Ha, yeah. I was in this huge record shop once in Cologne, had a few records in my arms, this German punk looking kid starts jabbering away in German and looking at the records I'm holding. He was like jeering at me in this menacing way, and all I could make out was something like "the American rock is not so good" but it sounded much scarier.

That's so true. It's not like that when you are out you remind people about their age at all, unless it's some sort of formal dinner-party thing that turns into chit-chat about such things. I am glad that my circle of mates include people in their 20's, 30's and even 40's, so you put the growing older thing into perspective.

OH HOW RUDE.

PS: yr all old.

I act ridiculous and have a mortgage and a dog.

me too. :(

I'm hoping to change out of this meat body soon though.

Last time I checked you were still a musician. We all know that musicians are particularly sensitive creatures.

whoever told you that lied.

I'm not a musician.

:(

Me too.