The other day I wanted some music to easy the boredom of housework – so for the first time in want felt like 3 weeks, but was in actual fact 7 years I put MTV on TV, things I discovered:
1) MTV doesn’t actually show Music Videos anymore, it shows endless episodes of terrible stylised reality programmes. In fact it’s become so distant from ‘Music’ that it’s not listed with the other Music channels, and they’ve started a channel called MTV Music, or Music Television Music – which is odd.
2) Not all modern music is terrible, most of it is much, much worse, but some of it is actually quite good – Bring Me the Horizon, The Weeknd, James Bay, Disclosure, but most of it is absolutely dire – Selina Gomez for example is so bad at singing that 14 Karats becomes Farting Carrots once Autotune has made her sing the right notes.
Films are one of the worst thing in the world for making me feel old though:
Spiderman – the Tobey Maguire one – 13 years old, it’s so old they’ve rebooted it and made a sequel to the Reboot.
Independence Day – when it comes on TV I still think of it as a pretty new film, some of the computers they use give it away though – it’s 19 years old and came out the year Palmer started Mountain Biking.
Pulp Fiction, feels 10 years old to me, is 21 years old.
Awful Star Wars Prequels, 16 years old.
Lock Stock… 17 years old.
Casino Royale – the ‘New’ Bond – 10 years old.
The Incredibles, The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Harry Potter Films. Saw, Shaun of the Dead, Kill Bill I & II, I Robot, Anchorman, Alien v Predator – none of these films had their trailers premier on YouTube – because IT DIDN’T EXIST!
I since the whole 60 plate thing happened on cars, I can’t really work out how old they are – partly because cars don’t seem to age like they used to, 10 year old cars when I was a teenager were pretty much bangers, they still get scraped of course, but they don’t look old anymore – they don’t rust like they used, plus they don’t change the look very much!