Comments on: sunday styles discovers blipster in seattle

By: dw

dw — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:17:17 +0000

Heh. I saw Singles the weekend it opened.

By: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:05:37 +0000

Or he came by a copy of “Singles” on DVD.

By: josh

josh — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:37:45 +0000

yeah. he said that saw the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” when he was a teenager (~1997 to 2003). Probably on an MTV retrospective or a VH1 I love the 90s episode.

By: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:21:08 +0000

Hold on now. Let’s do the math. If he is 23 in 2007 that means he was six years old in 1989 when Bleach came one. Most kids his age were into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 8bit Nintendo back then.

By: josh

josh — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:59:23 +0000

I agree that it’s a potentially interesting topic, but the handling of it was laughable at best.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:07:16 +0000

This is an old, old debate… and one pretty much always conducted by those too old and/or unhip to actually be a part of the subcultures in question. Or does everyone forget the definitive example set by the Seattle Weekly, who managed to complete overlook grunge while it was happening and then — when they finally clued in and published a cover story — decided to ask “Is Grunge Too White?”