old and lonely

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Current mood: contemplative
I was discussing dental care with a co-worker today (as I am now vehemently militant about the subject) and my age came up. He was very shocked. I guess he thought I was much younger. I said thanks, because I wasn’t really sure how to react, and I figured hitting him in the face was not the best course of action. I realize girls love this shit (Jaime remarks on it every single time she is carded for booze) but as a guy, I’m really not sure it’s very flattering. Was he saying I acted immature? Do I look like a little kid? I’d say that little kids don’t normally have gigantic goatees, but I’ve had it since I was 15, so that doesn’t really hold. Either way, it saddened me to find that someone thought I was so young, for whatever reason. I’m proud of my adult status.

As a strange coincidence, I finally was able to download Social D’s "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" today. It has to be one of my all-time favorite albums. Of course I haven’t heard it in years and years, and listening to the lyrics I realize most of the songs are depressing as fuck. (Yes, children, fuck is depressing when you get old.) So here I am, being old, listening to songs about being "born to lose" and how lonely it is being locked up after stabbing your girlfriend with your knife. (I find it very odd how songwriters sometimes refer to their weaponry as "my" instead of "a". Do they really think they can fool us into thinking they carry knives? And that they are so close to said weapon that they talk about it with loving ownership? Please.) Plus it doesn’t really help that this album is 16 years old.

So I wallowed for a bit and then had some cake.

Currently listening:Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
By Social Distortion
Release date: 11 February, 1992