I am officially uncool.
This moment of revelation came while I visiting an old teenage haunt, The Dungeon. I spent almost every weekend at the basement all-ages club from the age of 15 to the end of high school. Some of my fondest memories happened there, though I would never repeat most of them to my parents even now.
I found myself there again to hear a friend’s band play. Walking in those doors again was surreal because the place had literally not changed from the time I was there, but my group and I did not fit in. We were the oldest people in the room, save for the band we were there to see and the parents of some of the other bands (who we later found ourselves hanging out with in the 19+ section). Our clothes were not skin tight, our hair was not cut asymmetrically, and some of us were even wearing colours.
This wasn’t the moment of revelation though – that came when the band started and the youngsters started “dancing”. At first I thought medical attention was needed due to what looked to be a group seizure, but I was informed by somebody cooler than myself that what these kids were doing was actually a new trend called throwdown.
Noun
Throwdown
(slang, hardcore punk music) A type of hardcore dance in which a person violently clears a space for himself and appears to be ready to fight those around him, while making violent and erratic movements with his body.
- Wikipedia
I grew up during the nu metal period when weird looking people were the norm and I could safely navigate my way through a mosh pit, but I had a sense that night of what my parents must have thought as I was running off to concerts as a teen. That is when it dawned on me, for as much as I thought I was cool back then, I am just completely uncool now.
I've learned a lot from the posts during this course. The vlog Brothers, Scot's bible references, Beavertails. But my favourite is "How to Get Emo Hair." Now, I know that the internet has everything!
ReplyDeleteAnd that I have to read written instructions on how to get a fashionable haircut certainly puts me in the uncool group. Isn't there something that says once you're so uncool, that you can THEN become cool?
Apparently it can happen - at least to celebrities: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,307006,00.html