of german techno, terms of endearment, and madison
ok. i don't want to promote gender profiling here on banal fixation, but i have to ask - what heterosexual 28 year old computer programmer dude blares german techno music - I am guessing specifically invented during the height of the cold war to probably gay up east berlin and expedite that wall coming down - all the time??
you know what sucks about techno? besides everything. it's that right as the music starts to fade and things slow down and it is just a touch quieter and your headache just begins to recede THAT is the exact moment the music gets its loudest and bass-iest and this-song-makes-me-want-to-suck-on-1000-pacifiers-at-once and further deplete what must be an already limited supply of seratonin in me to begin with. Look, Upstairs Neighbor - I get it. You like the techno. I get it, hombre. Been there. Fine, am busted - I was into the whole lifestyle myself for a hot minute myself back in 1999. Sure I've never taken ecstasy or X or 'tasy or what have you, but I have been to a rave. In a real warehouse. And sure, my friends dorm at University of Wisconsin - Madison was in fact sponsoring buses to the rave, but I get it. I have danced with the glowsticks. And squatted in bathrooms while my heart was beating out of my chest out of boredom to music with no discernible lyrics and wishing I was back at my friends dorm with some breadsticks from Gumby's and "Bye Bye Bye" on someone's CD player. I get it.But please, you've got to throw me a bone. Headphones. We're all in this together. How would you feel if I blasted "Terms of Endearment, "Sex and the City," and "Mad Men" reruns 24/7? Also - since we're talking about "Bye Bye Bye" I remember it came out in 2000, and that fall I started college and whenever that song would come on it would be like the signature move of hilarity for every dude at every party I ever went to my freshman year to start doing the dance moves from the video, which for some reason they had all memorized. I fell in love each time. I am always wrong at predicting trends. I was sure that Backstreet Boys would stand the test of time and 'N Sync was but a blip on the radar. This was back in the days of Jheri-curl J. Timberlake and matching head-to-toe denim outfits with Britney Spears.



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