{"id":2139,"date":"2011-04-20T12:58:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T12:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2011-04-20T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T12:58:59","slug":"i_didnt_need_to_be_thinking_about_this_today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/20\/i_didnt_need_to_be_thinking_about_this_today\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn’t Need to Be Thinking About This Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaquandor, who I believe is actually a bit younger than myself, said <\/a>the following in passing earlier today: <\/p>\n

Scary thought: E.T.<\/i> is older now than Casablanca<\/i> was when I was born.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thinking to myself, “nah, that can’t be right,” I did a little googling followed by a little calculating, and indeed, it is so. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial<\/i> was released in 1982, 29 years ago this summer, whereas in the year I was born, 1969, the Bogart-Bergman classic — released in 1942 — was a mere 27 years old. <\/p>\n

I’ve had a lot of similar thoughts lately, comparing the now-current ages of my own life’s pop-cultural landmarks to things that I thought of as “old” when I was a kid. Star Wars<\/i> is now as old — 34 years — as Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman<\/i> was in the year Star Wars<\/i> came out. Miami Vice<\/i> is now as old — more or less — as Dragnet <\/i>(the TV version; the radio serial was even older) was when Vice <\/i>premiered. Christopher Reeve’s Superman: The Movie<\/i> is currently seven years older than George Reeves’ Adventures of Superman <\/i>TV series was when “modern” special effects first made me believe a man could fly. Most sobering of all is that movies that screened during my career as a multiplex usher and later projectionist — which really does feel like yesterday to me — are now as ancient (and probably as dated in appearance and subject matter) as Easy Rider<\/i> was when I started at Movies 7. <\/p>\n

Of course, the peculiar thing about me is that I always liked <\/i>old movies and TV. It’s never made much difference to me if something was in black-and-white or if its cast had strange haircuts and clothes. I wonder if there are any kids of the current generation who feel the same? Probably not… they’re all too spoiled by photorealistic CGI and the spastic-rabbit style of editing to tolerate older films.<\/p>\n

I don’t really have a point here, I guess, except to note how strange it feels when I realize that things I still like, that still matter to me, that still feel relatively recent to me, are, well, old<\/i>. Not just out of fashion or no longer current but downright old<\/i>. Strange… and depressing. And it’s happening more and more often, too…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jaquandor, who I believe is actually a bit younger than myself, said the following in passing earlier today: Scary thought: E.T. is older now than Casablanca was when I was born. Thinking to myself, “nah, that can’t be right,” I did a little googling followed by a little calculating, and indeed, it is so. E.T. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}