Showing posts with label Millennials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Millennials. Show all posts

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Better not kill the groove.

Still sick. Still determined to run a little every day. Last night we watched Saltburn. Hot tracks. Millennials who are still hurting from the "This Is Not Your Mother's Mean Girls" campaign have to contend with a film set in the mid-aughts as some kind of period piece. 

Distance: 2 miles
Duration: 20:22
Pace: 10:10

Songs from "Saltburn"
Murder on the Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis-Bextor  
Perfect (Exceeder) - Mason ft. Princess Superstar 
Hang Me Up To Dry - Cold War Kids
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
Loneliness - Tomcraft
You're Gorgeous - Babybird

Route: Burlington Loop
Temperature: 37°
Climate: overcast & damp
Mood: all right

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Before we kick the bucket.


2013: The year Millennials discovered the word "Millennial" a term coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in 1992 in the groundbreaking work Generations: The History of America's Future.

Nineteen Ninety-Two. You were labeled before you were born. Im'a take your grampa's etymology.

God, you people can't do anything original, can you?

In brief: Twenty years ago these sociologists predicted that the children of the Baby Boom generation would 1) over-praise their children but 2) leave them without a single job.

As Douglas Coupland described Baby Boomer cultural behavior in his novel Generation X (1991) "grabbing the best piece of cake first and then putting a barbed wire fence around the rest."

We know this. We are the generation inbetween the most self-absorbed generation in American history and the second-most self-absorbed generation in American history.

Watching it all unfold after having read the book on it only makes it that much more amusing.

Here's the thing. Before the Baby Boomers called you hipsters, they called us slackers. And they called us lazy and useless and we did that without social media. They also called us stupid. So, you know. Stop complaining about your gold-plated education.

But hey, they're not my parents.

This video might be funny.
But I can't hear it over all the whining.

2013 Playlist
The Fox - Ylvis
Royals (170 bpm) - Lorde
Walk Us Downtown - Elvis Costello & The Roots
Bezerk - Eminem
Clarity - Zedd
Mirrors (155 bpm) - Justin Timerlake
Blow Me (One Last Kiss)  - Pink
I Love It - Icona Pop
Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke

Temperature: 72°
Climate: bright and sunny
Distance: 4 miles
Weight: 174 lbs.

DANGER: Feels like a tiny piece of glass in my big left toe. Could be:
  1. Tiny piece of glass.
  2. That other thing I really don't want to think about.