[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Here's a news flash for you, Jonah: you ARE old. Not really old, but old in terms of pop culture. It happened a long time before you realized it. You should have noticed long ago that beer commercials no longer speak to you, but Buick commercials do. "Contemporary" music sounds like crap, compared to what was current when you were in your teens and twenties. Clothes worn by teens are ridiculous and ugly, and their language childish, crude, and nonsensical. Don't worry, though. Pop culture is, by its very nature, ephemeral. It won't be more than a few years until "meat sack" is going through the same things. Maybe he'll realize, hopefully sooner than you have, that, although Ashlee Simpson will have three kids and stretch marks by then, he is still young in terms of his actual life's work, young in terms of what he will accomplish that will define his life. It's a sign of emotional maturity to accept, even to embrace, your passage into adulthood. Hope to welcome you here soon.

[Thoro]

"I used to be with it! But then they changed what IT was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!" - Grandpa Simpson

[weegee]

"Contemporary" music sounds like crap, compared to what was current when you were in your teens and twenties.

Teen and twenty year olds think that "contemporary music" sucks too.

I didn't care for Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, or Michael Jackson, Poison, or Paula Abdul when I was growning up in the 1980s. "Rock" doesn't exist as a radio genre anymore. There is "oldies", "hip hop", "dance", "adult contemporary", and "alternative" (alternative to WHAT?). MTV mimics this. There are far more bands than get press.

Just because I didn't like the bands on the radio in the 1980s didn't mean that I wasn't listening to bands like The Cult, The Cramps, Suicidal Tendencies, The Ramones, The Cure, Chris Isaak (he had 3 albums out before "Wicked Game" hit a year after its release because a DJ heard it in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart", Mr. Lynch had earlier used some Chris Isaak songs in "Blue Velvet" with no such attention).