i never want to get old
 

fuck.

yea aging sucks i'm 25 now. ha.

I feel old cause I like bob dylan.

35. The time in life where cool new bands are exactly half your age, and your instinct is to give police officers who stop you a clip round the ear for being cheeky young scamps.

It's cool though.

Actually, I still want to give police a clip round the ear for representing The Man.
Young or not, it takes a certain kind of person to want to be a police officer.

by old i mean like 50-60
i turned 19 today and it got me thinkin'

Keiji Haino is in his 50s and he can still totally bring the pain in massive doses for hours on end.
The definition of "old" is getting older and older all the time.

I used to feel a little similar. But now I'm 35, and I still feel pretty much the same as when I was 19, so I've come to accept that I can still be the person I want to be when I'm 60, or whatever. We have at least one 50+ member on this board, I think. And need I say the magic words 'John' and 'Peel', or mention a certain band?

A message of hope there.

I have lived in an arrested state of late teens/early 20-dom for a long time now, and it shows no signs of letting up.
It's actually better now, because my furniture is way cooler, my record collection is way better and my own music gear completely wipes the floor with what I had 15 years ago.

I know plenty of people in their 50s or 60s that are by no means 'old'. The people in the band in whose forum we post are an example.

Exactly. Life is grand, is it not?

No, it isn't. It's a deries of crushing disappointments interspersed with largely soul-sucking and meaningless hours spent doing crap we don't care about in order to survive in an increasingly aggravating and devolving society.

But at least I have really cool furniture and a totally boss collection of LPs.

that's really all i can say for myself. except i'm not as old as my dad.

i look forward to getting old, i don't understand why people are so horrified by aging.

....and I'm willing to bet money I can probably play guitar better than Cantankerous due to the many gruelling years of practice and building up a salty, embittered attitude toward the musical climate of the day, giving me the needed energy to channel into honing my chops for that final journey to the Mystical Cosmos.

it occasionaly bothers me, but i am young enough to still enjoy my 20's and feel better now than when i was younger.

Sorry to hear you feel that way. You've stumped me a bit I'm afraid, because I just have never felt that way. I don't know what to say, other than lots of love to you.

I was only being half-serious.
In all seriousness, I am much happier now than I was in my 20s; I just have some deep-seated problems with the Human Condition, that's all.

i'm with the clone on that one, especially now that we seem to be starting an early autumn, now there are 9 months to face all the while wishing i'd been born as a hibernating speices of animal rather than human.

It's all relative, I suppose. To be fair, I had a cosy sheltered upbringing and (so far at least, and apart from ill-health) a perfectly nice adult life. For those who are made the victim of crime or heartbreak or whatever, I realise life can be made truly awful; I work in a community centre, and I can't begin to imagine how I would deal with some of the things that people have gone through. It was working where I do now that made me realise just how cosy a life I've had. Not desperately wealthy or anything, just cosy and pleasant.

But to return to the older age thing, I have a good few friends in their 50's and 60's who are exactly the kind of people that stop you from being scared of aging.

Ah, now, you see, it's actually the heat that bothers me, so I have 9 or 10 months a year where I'm at one with the climate, perfectly happy. I love winter.

Really the only thing that I want to put off for as long as possible would be getting to the point where I'd have to get sent to a nursing home.

My grandma is almost 70 and could kick my ass at most things.

The idea of not being able to control my own bodily functions is pretty horrible to me, but I think people's quality of life (in first-world economies, at least) will be extended exponentially further in coming years. Now if only there weren't so goddamn many of us.

well the upside to being an incontinent old man is that you can get a pretty young nurse to change your nappy.

The depths of your perversion are truly unfathomable.

one of the things i kind of look forward to about being old is that everyone treats you like you're stupid and harmless but if you wanted to you could probably get away with murder (not literal murder, mind you)

Same.

Let's grow dignified and old. - Jonathon Richman

And no, not like Mick Jagger. Maybe like Keef, but then again, anybody who falls out of coconut tree... ??

I don't look or act like a kid, and I'm glad. Although I think I think like one, and I definitely like much different music than most other people my age--no boxsets by the Eagles or Bad Company for me, thank you very much.

You definitely become more invisible, I can tell you that.

please note that i was joking when i said that.

i am totally willing to bet money on that.

The only thing I want to put off for as long as possible is my death.

i love old people.

I wasn't really happy until I reached 30. You grow more comfortable with who you are, what you look like, listen to etc. There's a lot less peer pressure. Actually that's not necessarily true, it's just easier to ignore.

I know. I just find Jagger's long decline into his twilight years rather amusing.

Jagger now seems to me to be much older than I am than he did to me when I was 20. (I've rewritten that sentence three times now, trying to make it make sense.) In actuality, he's like halfway between my age and my dad's. That seems weird, suddenly.

thanks for basically letting me know that i will be even more evil and conceited in my old age, pookie.

If you really were evil and conceited, you wouldn't know it, you sweetie.

there's a quote from almost famous, hold on let me find it...


If you think that Mick Jagger will still be doing the whole rock star thing at age fifty, well, then, you are sorely, sorely mistaken.

so did you think i was kidding all those times when i declared how fabulous i am? and when i told savage clone he needed to do those sit ups?

Isn't Mick Jagger already past 60?

yes. the movie is set in the 70s.

read: irony

64, I think. I'm 51. My dad's 77.

Jagger seems sooo old, and I seem sooo young.