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The trouble with lacking a college education is you never get the training that involves writing to a maximum word count, which is bad for the blogger who tries to reply to comments.

Because the damn things grow on ya, like leeches or moss, until they’re too huge and unweildy for a comment, and justify turning into a post.

Anyway, first up melissas says:

Um…I like Queen, and I’m 17 years old. I have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about when you say “it’s the certainty that eventually Clinton will be elected, that the reagan years will end and that none of the current badness will have happened yet” in relation to liking Queen’s music. I wasn’t alive for any of Reagan’s presidency and during Clinton’s election I was still in preschool. Where’s my nostalgia?

I think every 17 year old likes Queen, gay guys with moustaches singing about stuff, yummy. I think it’s one of those universal constants (The Fuzzy Lipped Q Constant) that neccisitates 17 year olds liking Queen, the sheer normality of liking queen as a 17 year old was practically overcompensation for my also being an anorexic self harming, marx/neitszche reading, nut case with anger management problems who was trying (and failing) to get a chemical addiction to something (the brief experiment that was “chasing the camel”, which involved a pack of smokes and a liquidizer, eventually put a stop to it), but when you reach 18/19 you will grow out of it. If you don’t already, listen to Sleater Kinney and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in preperation for your eventual metamorphosis into an adult with good musical taste. They’re good music, really.

If you still listen to queen regularly after the age of 19 you will be listening to it because you are aware of the history, I personally was born during the whole reagan thing (I’m barely old enough to talk down to you. Yes that is a signal to show I’m kinda joking here so don’t take any of it personally) but as the concept that people are listening to tracks for the reminiscence value rather than musical value holds true for the beatles listeners who were born after Anno Lennoni, it must hold true for queen also (which is possibly a logical fallacy, discuss). Continue reading ‘In which I compare The Beatles to a jet aircraft, then roadkill’