What was expected, unexpected or otherwise happens anyway. Now after 38 years I feel that some wisdom has begun to creep into the cerebral mechanism, in the inevitable way that the genentic code starts to waken. Baldness not yet an issue is on the horizon, I don’t have to comb in any weird direction but in a certain light it is looking light. Long hair once an option is now looking ridiculous, look at Status Quo, AC/DC, Scorpions any host of 80’s metal bands, their lead singers are wearing hats or caps or just cutting the hair short, the genetic time bomb you just have to like it or lump it, it doesn’t care. Apart from the obvious lack of hair on the head, hair from earholes and nostrils is on the march not to mention the back and other areas, transfer of hormonal activity or whatever it is hair is now growing where once it was fallow. The head will have to do without.
Years go by and years seem short, the amount of time required to acomplish tasks has become exponential in relation to the past. Friends fade away into the fading smoke of the Irish pubs gone, forgotten and thats it, it’s a mystery and I can’t explain as the Who said. Once there were multitudes now there are few and many are new, I guess we all suddenly had other people to see, be with and have families with. Changing countries can hinder things but e-mail, internet, SKYPE, MSN, is this the stone age or the silicon age?
Other reflections, Sweden is now my country of domicile, not in a million years was Sweden on the horizon at age 18, Abba and Bjorn Borg were very nice and exotic but that was it. A million years can be reduced to 20. Volvo ownership though not compulsory is a reality. I have even been a Saab owner, most unthinkable as a young anarchist in Wexford, not that I knew much about anarchy, the irritation factor of adults was enough. Now I have two anarchists of my own and I find itteratitions of ilk ” For the love of Jesus”, ” How many times have I told you”, If you do that one more time”, “for Christ sake” and ” You are testing my patience sorely” departing from my lips more regularly that Ryanair flights from Stanstead.
Owning a house, is a dream many have. I dream about that day also, the bank owns the house and the car, maybe we shold let out advertising space for better rates?
Apart from encroaching baldness, interest rates and the degredation of the global ecosystem the youth of today has a lot of growing up to do, musically at least. They have to realise that Yusuf Islam and Cat Stevens are the same dude, and Father and Son is an old song not something Ronan Keating came up with. There should be a contemporary course in music appreciation a bit like Hi-Fidelity with John Cusack and Jack Black, everybody shold know about the Smiths, SLF, Rory Gallagher, the Fall, Jeff beck, Jeff Buckley, Donal Lunny, Horslips, iron horse I better stop, I’ll run out of internet. The BBC and everybody else should make sure that John Peel’s legacy should be spread out to the Universe. Music can’t cure all ills but it is a good anesthetic.
2 years to go and I’m 40. Time to get serious. Shite.
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