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Boy am I old...
« on: April 02, 2011, 06:02 PM »
So I was just browsing through videos on YouTube, hoping to find some more cool material for media player 128... then I came accross this video by Guns n' Roses "Don't Cry".
 
Well, I don't know about anybody else, but for me, Guns n Roses is like the Beatles of the 'Commodore Genreration'... it seems like they came on the scene in the mid 80s and reached a climax in the early 90s...
 
So I guess they would be a few years behind the C128... but ANYWAY, at the end of the video, I noticed the text '(C) 1991 Geffin Recrods'...
 
1991?
 
So it is like 20 years old!  I happen to own a copy of Use Your Illusion volumes 1 and 2, but neither appears to be 20 years old... but I guess they are...
 
Which can only mean I am old... really old...
 
How did this happen?!
 
And more importantly, where are the flying cars?
 
Edit
Another video I came across, "Civil War" (from the same album) seems eerily contemporary... considering things in the middle east....
 
Watching the video makes me think of the movie "Saving Private Ryan", but listening to the lyrics makes me think of our soldiers fighting in Afganistan... it's like a song from the past predicting the future... or simply reinforces the concept that we never learn from the past...

Edit 2
Umm, the forum software kind of messed up my quote by sticking the large playback window into the middle of my sentence... but I guess the main concept remains intact...
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Re: Boy am I old...
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2011, 05:27 AM »
The longer you live, the more things you see come around again.

The day I was born was the sixth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. We were fighting in Korea then.
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Re: Boy am I old...
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2011, 09:07 AM »
Quote from: Hydrophilic on April 02, 2011, 06:02 PM
And more importantly, where are the flying cars?
They are taking everyone to their paperless offices.
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Re: Boy am I old...
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2011, 09:08 AM »
Quote from: airship on April 04, 2011, 05:27 AM
The longer you live, the more things you see come around again.

The day I was born was the sixth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. We were fighting in Korea then.
I was in first grade when you were...er...hatched.  Isn't everyone hatched?  I was.
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Re: Boy am I old...
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2011, 01:21 PM »
I wasn't even around......... and I dispute that anything existed prior to 1965 - after all, I have no observable proof :)
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Re: Boy am I old...
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2011, 12:49 AM »
Quote from: Blacklord on April 04, 2011, 01:21 PM
I wasn't even around......... and I dispute that anything existed prior to 1965 - after all, I have no observable proof
Ah! The Scientific Method! :)
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