I've kind of been thinking about how everybody's so nostalgic about the 90s lately, and it's finally donned on me why that is: it's part of the cycle of nostalgia. Every decade is always nostalgic for the decade before the last. Think about it: in the 70s people were nostalgic for the 50s; in the 80s people were nostalgic for the 60s; in the 90s people were nostalgic for the 70s; and in the 2000s people were nostalgic for the 80s . . . so here we are in the New Tens, and we're nostalgic for the 90s. So, just wait: ten years from now, we'll all be nostalgic for the 2000s.
I remember once during the big 70's comeback of the 90's saying that the 80's would come back in the 00's and they didn't believe me. Frankly, I'm NO 70's fan, mainly because I never lived it and could find the nostalgic angle as I never had one. There's plenty of great things from that decade I do enjoy, but it seems that when these things did come back it was the
worst of the music related to a certain overrated movie about said music that actually popularized said music. I say that 80's cheese is much more fun than 70's cheese anyway. But at least then I have a handle on it nostalgically. Though, Funk is always pretty dang cool.
Anyway, if there's one thing I try
not to think of it's the obvious passage of time between when something was in and when it became in again. I have Happy Meal toys from when these shows came out older than most of the kids buying these shirts. It's horrifying. Now you know me. I'm never nostalgic about these old cartoons because
I never stopped watching them. Every time I draw something I saw recently on DA, I get the "Oh, I remember this" thing that
ticks me the heck off. Especially when it's something like, say, Arthur that
is still on the air. Having kids like that make you feel old is
one thing, but having the tastes of a 9 year old way into you're adulthood
does get depressing after a while.
And seriously. Seeds of 00's nostalgia are starting to sprout. I LOOOOOOVE Jackie Chan Adventures like crazy and all, but seeing it come back in a cult type way (you know...like those 20 dollar fan made barely copyright infringing shirts they sell at conventions that I almost bought), gives an added blow of personal feelings of patheticness.