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As I was getting dressed and ready to go to work today, I received an email.
Needless to say, I was quite excited by this development and I emailed Amy to let her know that we should plan to attend (and hence, spend ridiculous percentages of our income for the right of entrance to this event.)
Well, as I had emailed back and forth with her, another email arrived in my email box, this one from Ben Folds. Ben (or likely his representative of some sort) had kindly written me to let me know that he would be playing Blossom Music Center in nearby Cuyahoga Falls on July 1. Being that Ben Folds is my favorite singer-songwriter (and that he's playing with John Mayer, which Amy was obsessed with at one point).
Well, this proved a dilemma. Being that we're on a limited budget, do we go to a couple of favorites, or to the farewell tour of some neo-bluegrass giants?
I ended up buying tickets for Ben Folds either way. Of course, two $30 lawn seats ended up totalling $90, thanks to the shady math of Ticketmaster, whom I am convinced is Satan incarnate. It certainly reminds me why I quit going to big concerts back in 1999...
And I'm still intending to make Nickel Creek happen. I'm not sure how, but it will, damn it.
In other news, Amy and I have been enabled by the Ion television network (yes, it's as shady as it sounds) to begin an obsession of "The Wonder Years." When I was a kid, this show was required television for all kids. It's kinda weird because it may well have been the first of the 1960s-70s retro concepts put on television for mass consumption, all the way back in 1988. It was, at least in its first three or four seasons, a cute coming-of-age show. Everyone could relate to Kevin Arnold, the everyman protagonist.
What I didn't realize at the time, though (and I'm not sure any of us kids did) was that Kevin was the same age as my dad, but portrayed in the past.
Now, of course, "The Wonder Years" faces an interesting temporal situation. Sure, it's still retro for our parents, who lived that life. But now, it's retro for us too, because "The Wonder Years" was must-see television when we were around the same age as Kevin Arnold's portrayal. Has anything really been doubly retro like that before in such a short order (though, I guess "The Wonder Years" started on TV nearly 20 years ago now... WOW...
And oddly, the time between the broadcasting of "The Wonder Years" and the story (20 years) is nearly equaled by the time between the first broadcasts we watched and now (19 years). That's crazy. Then again, I sometimes find myself amazed that we're only eight years from 2015, the 30-year "future" portrayed in Back to the Future Part II.
And I think I speak for all generations, whichever way that "The Wonder Years" or the Back to the Future trilogy may represent "retro" for them now, in asking this vital question:
Where the fuck are these flying cars we've been promised for so long?
Posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood DJ on May 18, 2007 09:15 AM | Permalink
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