{"id":1254,"date":"2017-07-09T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2022-01-29T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:50:44","slug":"weekly-mix-27-july-9-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/weekly-mix-27-july-9-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Mix 27: July 9, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night my girlfriend watched I\u00a0T2 Trainspotting<\/em>. I haven\u2019t seen\u00a0Trainspotting<\/em>\u00a0since it was released back in 1996 and I thought it\u2019d be fun to revisit those lovable junkies and hooligans from the first movie. And it\u00a0was<\/em>\u00a0fun. The dialogue was whip-smart and the cinematography was was breathtaking and the actors were fantastic. But it was fun in a\u00a0Trainspotting<\/em>\u00a0sort of way because it you remember the first movie it was about a bunch of Gen X kids who use heroin because they\u2019re lives have been hallowed out by Thatcherism, consumerism and boredom. In\u00a0T2 Trainspotting<\/em>\u00a0we get to revisit those characters except this time they\u2019re older, a little thicker in the middle and they\u2019re nostalgic while at the same time they\u2019re considering they\u2019re mortality.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a Gen X kid. I\u2019m older. I\u2019m a little thicker in the middle. I think about my mortality. But I\u2019m not nostalgic. The 90s were just another decade for me and then I moved on. Each decade had it\u2019s peaks and valleys and some friends dropped out of my life but they were replaced by new friends. But the 90s were special, special to me, anyway, because I was a young man with a bright future ahead of me and my life was so vivid because I was experiencing\u00a0everything<\/em>\u00a0for the first time. I got to fall in love as an adult for the first time. I also got to experience my first heartbreak as an adult. I got to meet friends for the first time that I\u2019ll probably know until the day I die. Or until they die. Hopefully they go first.<\/p>\n

And I was always listening to music and the first five songs you\u2019ll hear on today\u2019s show were part of the soundtrack to my life at that time. The stuff is\u00a0heavy<\/em>. As usual, I listened to a lot of different kinds of music back in the 90s, everything from hip hop to avant-garde jazz, but hardcore and industrial was the music that I really responded to. Can you blame me? America was fighting in the first Gulf War and it was clear that it was going to come back and bite us in the ass further down the road. The Republican and Democratic parties were just starting to become recalcitrant and hyper-consumerism was becoming a cultural value.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll see you again next week. I promise it won\u2019t be as heavy as today\u2019s show. See you then!<\/p>\n