I am too old for this...the 40 plus thread.

Man, the number of times I've called clubs to ask specifically when the headliner goes on ...

That said this Wednesday I am doing just that (though hopefully with better openers) with the James Chance show

I think about 90% of the members of the opening bands for that show are friends of mine so ....

Then I will happily take that as a sign!

This afternoon I lunched with my closest friend and his kid while his wife was doing her thing. I had just gotten out of a morning showing of Get Out. I spent the rest of the afternoon writing and reading. L-I-V-I-N, man.

it's amazing how many npr-ish white people i know went to see/can't wait to see Get Out and i know for a fact they would never go see a horror movie otherwise in a million years. it's the white liberal feel good movie of the season! i mean my father-in-law's wife really wants to see it and she hates horror movies with a passion. she hates most popular things. she's nice though. she once asked me why people watch horror movies.

Lock her in the cellar with the shining and a good sound system and she'll be pounding on the door to get out

i'm talking people who don't even own television sets. deep western mass hempfolk. they are all about this movie like i haven't seen in a long time.

it's amazing how many npr-ish white people i know went to see/can't wait to see Get Out and i know for a fact they would never go see a horror movie otherwise in a million years. it's the white liberal feel good movie of the season! i mean my father-in-law's wife really wants to see it and she hates horror movies with a passion. she hates most popular things. she's nice though. she once asked me why people watch horror movies.

bet they'd be approaching Peele, holding glasses of wine, asking him how he did it

"So, Jordan, how long were you working on this...this thang?"

Lol

Get Out (Of The Shareholders' Reception

I didnt know there were this many bits of me that could ache all at once urrrgh :(

now every slightly new semi-inexplicable health thing makes me think, "Is it perimenopause?"

Yeah same. Ugh the sweatttinnnngg.

I don't know if it's normal sweating or _that_ sweating

is it a side-effect of standard circulation issues from being a regular smoker for 20+ years, that I think I'm cold so I dress warmer for bed and use more blankets and then sweat at night because I'm actually too warm or is it .... the change?

my spouse asked me for a glass of 7-up. i poured it for her and was about to start drinking it when she snatched it away from me. (we've been married long enough that she could tell i was about to drink it by the way i was looking at it.) she says i'm too young to be as forgetful as i am. i disagree.

in the meantime my shins have been aching all day. i don't know why. i've been packing and have taken much trouble not to throw out my back, and instead my shins start acting up. this isn't just aging, i'm genuinely in horrible physical condition, but part of being 40+ is having these pains and just not having any idea why.

I had a broken ankle in my 30's and the piece of metal holding it together gives me some awful pain these days, and I do a shitload of walking. I'm also paranoid about all the asbestos I've been exposed to, whenever i get short of breath i think "here it fucking comes". But apart from some troubling elements like these I much prefer being an old tosser. I was in some terrible places in my younger days, kinda perversely happier now than I've ever been. I just need to start another sentence with I.

i haven't had a cigarette since new years eve. longest i've ever gone in 30 years. i do the nicotine lozenges though. now i am down to lozenges/caffeine/sugar. no booze. no drugs. no smokes. i kinda dig it though. going outside to smoke 20+ times a day took a lot of time out of my day! i feel more productive.

I'm down to under a pack a day!

scott well fucking done!!!

sarah ime smoking less was even harder - way harder - than not smoking at all. ymmv obv

is it a side-effect of standard circulation issues from being a regular smoker for 20+ years, that I think I'm cold so I dress warmer for bed and use more blankets and then sweat at night because I'm actually too warm or is it .... the change?

Tbh I wake up sweaty a lot and I think I've figured out that it's the fact that I probably have had to pee for a long time but I'm deeply asleep and every muscle in my body is tense with holding back. After I get up and pee at like 5am I'm fine.

^ same here, like clockwork almost every morning

I know I sweat a lot more when Ive been overdoing the booze. But generally yeah I'm guessing its crone time, ha.

i had never heard of jenny slate and thought chris evans was the guy from parks and recreation

/morbs

another sign you're old is when you hear about Jenny Slate and Chris Evans and instead of being like RATS, WHY NOT ME you're like oh that is really cute, I hope they make it last, their scions would probably be adorable and mostly well-adjusted.

I have zero idea who those people are.

i don't think they're goths, so

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and Captain America, respectively.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and Captain America, respectively.

I mostly know her from Married, where she played Paul Reiser's hard-partying, too-young-for-him wife.

She's the actress who said "Fuck" on SNL, right?

I know who Jenny Slate is and have greatly enjoyed her work on screens large and small and on audio, but did not know why mookie was mentioning her and now gather from Tombot's posts that she has dumped her husband for a guy that plays Captain America in something

Jenny Slate broke up with Chris Evans (Captain America) though?

I liked her in Married...

She got divorced, then dated Chris Evans for a while, and is now single again. Details here.

"plays Captain America in something"

lol ok Tuomas

I know him from the time he shouted "NAME IT, BITCH!" at Leonard Maltin on Doug Benson's podcast

it seemed so unlike you to admit to not knowing a thing, i was confused

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

What what in the whattywhat? :/

Also mookie: oi!

okay i had to google the shell thing and i really wish i still didn't know what it was. so annoying.

watching her do that voice on conan is really embarrassing too.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and Captain America, respectively.

― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Tuesday, March 21, 2017 5:03 PM (six hours ago)

I still have no idea who these people are

Jenny Slate was on SNL for one season and said "fuck" on live television, which contributed to her one season. She also did the character Tina Tina Chaneuse who sold custom doorbells and car horns that were her voice saying dumb things, which for some reason consistently cracked me up. She also played Jon Ralphio's sister on Parks and Recreation.

Chris Evans plays Captain America in the Avengers movies. He also played Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies with Jessica Alba and Michael Chiklis and was one of the ex-boyfriends in Scott Pilgrim vs The World. He also was the lead in Snowpiercer. His uncle is my representative in the House.

Jenny Slate was funny on Kroll Show.

His uncle is my representative in the House.

Wait hold on

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and Captain America, respectively.

― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Tuesday, March 21, 2017 5:03 PM (six hours ago)

I still have no idea who these people are

― sarahell, Wednesday, March 22, 2017 2:49 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me neither

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Capuano

he rules

this discussion makes me feel young and spritely

none of these people seem at all cool -- I feel legitimately cooler having been ignorant of their existence

I still have no idea who these people are

^^^ also I don't really even care.