If you remember this... Stop
I fucking hate those nostalgic lists and posts. I'm well a-fucking-ware of all the shit that is bygone, but I'm thankful that I live today, and can revisit all that shit on the internet. If you have ever posted the "If you remember this..." Meme, die today, not like it will make a difference, youâre probably dead on the inside anyway.
Cartoons and Toys: Kids today have better shit! Flat the fuck out! I would trade Nintendo for the phone I have today! Stop posting about your stupid ass cartoon you miss, and go look it up on the internet, and stop wasting my fucking eyesight on that piece of shit! I would rather see your reaction post after binge watching 6 episodes of your fave Saturday morning cartoon, when your memories are crushed by how horrible they were!!! They were all ads, 22 minute ads with 8 minutes of direct ads, stories were cheap, repetetive plots, and they reused frames! Cartoons today, FUCKING KICK ASS. Crushing example: Take an episode from Transformers vs Rick and Morty.
Bars and Clubs: As far as the bars and clubs, it sucks that some spots are gone, gentrification, and high rent have driven them out. Eat a dick, nothing new, I'm sick of this discussion. Besides, the only people really sad about most of that can't stay relevant, so they miss the years before they got busy being uncool. PS clubs and raves were BARE in comparison to how nice they look now. Prime examples: 6th Element vs EDCNY (I loved 6th Element, and will never attend EDC, but I cannot deny that it is a better production, and that rave looks a lot sexier, today), Meatpacking in 1996 vs Meatpacking in 2016 (don't even play, you could get stabbed for your high heels on the cobbles),
Music: Music is bad, because you have shitty taste. (Ask me about how I think NWA is responsible for the ruin of hip-hop and that Dr Dre is constantly on a search for new talent to redeem him from his original sin) I listen to a lot of Italo-Disco, whoa contradiction! Am I nostalgic, nope, I love new shit too! I'm just covering my bases by exploring past music that isn't played the fuck out (New Italo also exists). Double contradiction, I wish more DJs WOULD play it out, but that would require them digging deep into the web, and varying setlists; too much work for DJ Rakkaribbz and Sadaf Rise; because in the current state of NYC party music, IT IS fucking fresh! "New music isn't as good as...", shut the fuck up right there. The only reason you can't find enough good new music, is because you got lazy or don't care enough anymore to find shit past your college iTunes playlist. I'm lazy too, and I need to find more shit, I need to listen to more music blogs, and Soundcloud/ Mixcloud/ whatever fucking cloud DJ mixes (don't argue this shit, you probably listen to crap any way, or take producing drum and bass too seriously in your eager anticipation for the major return of Jungle (sidenote: stop calling the soundtrack from your vacation to a place with non-potable water bullshit Jungle-Music, you're not well-versed enough to know that there was a much better genre by that name). Concomitantly, stop using Pandora and Spotify and search for new music asshole, YouTube works MUCH better! Then and Now: If you are playing Jazz when a guest comes over, and they say it's ok; they are probably trying to bang you (even if that wasn't the intention). If you are playing Trap, they are probably trying to put money in your clothing (you want this money).
Music Scene: This section is tough love and I want to see more from NYC. The only thing I miss (in NYC) is a variety of music, it is currently dominated by: Top 40, Minimal Techno  (which is only one record), Trap (which has over-stayed its welcome), and Modern Deep House aka Derp House, aka I'm Just Here To Go to 5th Base, aka The Sweatpants of Music (we arenât talking about the 90s, so help me if you bring up oldschool shit). When a party wants to look cool and underground, when EDM kids grow up and wanna pretend they know music, when hedgefunders wanna bang sugar-babies; bookers get "Deep House" DJs. These are the douchebags that "ruined NYC". They moved here 10 years ago, read about what rave USED to be like, eschewed the ways of bottle service clubs, but also decided to run it like a Walmart. **Sidenote: There are a few pockets of resistance here and there, and I am hard-pressed to find them, so if you have suggestions, please let me know.
Communication and Meeting Up: It was treacherous, imagine trying to meet up with someone, and the battery on your phone dies, everyone else has an iPhone 4 charger, and you have hot coffee spilling on you constantly in your back pocket. That's what it was like, ALWAYS.
Fashion: NOPE!
Wishing you could live in another time: The world sucked, and it sucks today, but I feel mankind is coming along. The world is racist, mysogynistic, homophobic, islamophobic, discriminatory, terroristic, dangerous, polluted, and ignorant; but its not 1960s racist, mysogynistic, homophobic, islamophobic, discriminatory; it's not 1970s NYC dangerous; and it's not as polluted, or over-populated like 2025; and it's not pre-internet ignorant (yeah there are stupid mother-fuckers now, but imagine when NO ONE had access to all the world's libaries at their fingertips).
What I'm saying is, be glad you live right now, and stop it with the fucking stupid ass memes, and dumbass articles and lists from Gothamist or whatever bullshit internet rag that reminds me how old and irrelevant you are. Stay young, stay relevant, you have it easier now, more than ever, this is the greatest time in history, be thankful you have a frame of comparison because you lived throught the cusp of technology.
BONUS: Know why I post shit like this? Because I always aspire to be on some next shit. Yes, it's hard to keep up, especially when you have work, kids, pets, etc; but I won't judge you for it, I post rants to remind you that you're behind, and I've already seen whatever you're posting about a thousand times today.
















