Something that was painfully brought to my attention today: Flood by They Might Be Giants is nearly 20 years old. And perhaps more disturbing, it isn’t as ubiquitously beloved by following generations. These two thoughts combined were more than I could rationally process.
I guess the track Minimum Wage is a little telling in itself. I associate it with $4.25/hour, and now it’s… uh… $7 something? I don’t know, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me now, because I don’t make minimum wage and therefore can not relate. And here’s that circle again, showing that I’m just old and out of touch, and I can’t possibly understand what kids today are going through. (Although I’m told it has something to do with those fuckwits Heidi and Spencer who are on some MTV show that’s staged, but not staged, but totally staged.)
Christopher Walken and Grace Jones. Seriously. I dare you to deny the awesomeness of this movie now.
So right now, I’m watching A View to a Kill, which is the only James Bond movie I’ve ever liked. And again, this has everything to do with me becoming a senior citizen sometime over the past year.
For my money, Roger Moore is the only legitimate James Bond, because I’m too young to feel strongly about Sean Connery having played the role before. And while I realize that makes me “too young” for something, he’s like 90 years old now, so there’s not a whole lot of comfort in that.
I think it may be a combination of the soundtrack by Duran Duran, or the fact that this is an extravaganza of innuendo and foreign lady nipple to a 10 year-old. Regardless, it makes me kind of sad that there hasn’t been anything similar to hit my radar. And one thing’s for damn sure… they don’t make movies like this anymore.
Just a side note here… I actually own the soundtrack, which tries to convince you that it’s basically a Duran Duran album. In reality, there’s the theme song “A View to a Kill”, which is by Duran Duran. Followed by things like “Romance Theme from A View to a Kill”, “A View to a Kill – Reprise”, “The Blimp Incident (A View to a Kill)”, which are not. When you’re 9 or 10 and have been saving up allowance to buy this album, this fucking sucks.
God damn kids today can just download it for free…
