or, to continue, if i do(or have)met you, why do i end up meeting people who are less interesting than you?
this makes me wonder.
i blame the man.
moby

you know when you look at photos from the early 20th century and everything seems sort of dusty and antiquated? but at the same time you realize that what you’re seeing wasn’t dusty and antiquated for the people who were alive in the early 20th century?
or how you can look at photos from the 70’s and be amazed at how involved people were in an aesthetic that seems so anachronistic now? i wonder what aesthetic judgements our kids and grandchildren will pass on the things that fill our lives. will they look at our airplanes with the same quaint dismay that we feel when we look at airplanes from the 1930’s?
will they say ‘boy, when my parents were young it took five hours to get from new york to l.a, and only astronauts went into space!’
i’m sure that there are some things that we take for granted that are definitely going to look absurd as time passes. suv’s, giant basketball shoes, oversize hip-hop jeans, all sports jerseys, etc.

i’m not saying that these things are absurd, but our children will look at them with the same dusty and patronizing nostalgia with which we look at, say, photos of the andrews sisters or the ohio players.
who knows, our kids might think it’s cool and ironic to wear old-skool big basketball sneakers. maybe the height of ironic fashion in 30 years will be to have a laptop, drink starbucks, and wear a 2002 ‘mighty ducks’ sports jersey.
just imagine, a hip kid in austin texas in 2040 playing in an indie band and working in a bookshop and ironically wearing a creed shirt with airjordans. or maybe we’ll all be so enlightened and live in such a perfect society in 38 years that irony will be unnecessary.
yes. and dick cheney will join greenpeace and the dalai lama will be on the cover of ‘soldier of fortune’.
moby

stupid questions i sometimes ask myself:

did chinese checkers originate in china?
did french fries originate in france?
did baked alaska originate in alaska?
what is baked alaska?
did california rolls originate in california?
hamburgers in hamburg?
frankfurters in frankfurt?
is the original rays around the corner from me the real original rays?
why are eggplants called eggplants?
pineapples called pineapples?
what is the etymology of ‘apple’?
what happened to the neanderthals?
where did the moon come from?
is the asteroid belt the product of a planet that blew up?
is there terra firma on jupiter?
why is munchen called munich?
was worcestershire sauce invented in worcestershire?
why is it pronounced ‘woostershire’?
what exactly do they put in hot dogs?
what happened to ‘family guy’?
who first thought of domesticating cats?
did bolognese sauce come from bologna?
what about bologna?
why are finnish and hungarian similar?
why are there monkeys in gibraltar?

don’t you wonder about these things?
i do.
moby