lol.

no, you dumb child. you've been brainwashed by snl or something. i can very clearly point to what i'd be listening to if i was a teenager today - a batch of hardcore bands that developed a little after '05 that mostly play to younger audiences (and the odd immature wretch like myself). you've never heard of those bands? well, if you talked to some kids into more interesting music...it's not my fault you're boring, nor is my age a contributing factor to you being lame...

in the end, it's just kids being closed-minded. kids do that. there's an age limit that i think sometimes gets crossed (that kind of generational argument is acceptable from a teenager, but is approaching closer and closer to devastatingly pathetic once the milestone of 20 is reached), but kids will be kids. it's more just frustrating to realize that these are the same types of kids that were brutally mean so many years ago, and they're still making fun of me. it seems as though it doesn't matter how old one gets, a certain class of teenagers will continue to mock into perpetuity. it's inescapable. if you have kids, guess what they'll grow into?

the reality is that i could easily school these kids on the rock music of their own era, and they'd probably benefit from it - at least in the sense of it opening their mind. it's not "your shitty generational corporate rock trend sucks because i'm old, but i'd love it if i were younger", it's "your shitty generational corporate rock trend sucks as badly as the shitty generational corporate rock trends that were around when i was your age" and even "i have some alternative suggestions if you'd like to listen.".

nah. kids are too stupid to listen.

there's going to come a time when nobody's going to care about today's fads (in ten years, nobody is going to care about the animal collective) and they're not going to have a clue what was actually happening. unfortunately, at that point, they'll be the realization of the false perceptions they have of me.

to an extent, i realize some of it is compensation - mostly from the older people. i mean, if you're in your 20s and you haven't yet realized that generational marketing is just exactly that then it's probably time to give up and just admit you're a moron. but, that doesn't stop the hate from coming in. the thing is that these people don't realize they're *already* out of touch. they think it's still 2005. so, they're attacking the 90s like the good little monkeys that they are, entirely oblivious that we're several years into a 90s revival. that is, they were programmed quite well, but not deprogrammed properly, and now they're floating around having lost the plot and missed the memo. being entirely out of touch, and having no realization of it, they lash out. i mean, i could inform them of some more current stuff to check out, but they'd have to get out of the 00s first and acknowledge the 90s are not uncool anymore but actually trending - irony intended, because i'm not 14.

again, it's not like i care, in the end. i'm more bitching because it's fucking annoying to get those kind of notifications show up on youtube what seems like every other day almost. ugh...freakin' kids...