34 years and not quite a blog, almost a microblog.

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so im 34, dont have the youthful optimism or naked intelligence of 33:P let alone being a barely 21 genY*. alot of us have the scars from last time, almost as a mark of honour, but it can definitely have the downside in that it lowers your risk/reward profile too much, but can definitely help keep u alive. need to always remember ur only as old as the apps u use.

but as with teenage years, i definitely dont want em back.. not into wandering the streets of Fitzroy approaching 50 wondering how i can get my youth back. live fast and young in your 20's n all that, but i've got no problem with a nicely paced 30's knowing what i know. its what u say no to, and the mistakes u dont make (again) which can define u as much as the opportunities u jump at and into.

fred's talkn optimal entrepreneur age demographics : "When do the advantages of youth and inexperience give way to the advantages of maturity and experience? And what are the tell tale signs that the young founders are maxing out on what they can give the company? And what does it take to get them to willingly hand over the keys to the car to someone else? Does it happen without VC investors forcing the issue?" - rather than delve into age without properly ingesting the sufficient level of caffeine, i think the balnarring butcher specials board pictured, says it all.

* while we're on east coast, geny, and the tumblr set which nymag nicely nails:D - the nick douglas thing over on the not quite a blog, almost a microblog is living up to its name and age**

Melissa.Tumblr : "There’s girls to IM, and OKCupid messages to send, and Twitter direct message flirts to initiate, and Bang Bus to wank to. And also a pitch to send back to his editor at the Tech Review, right — rent to pay. “I love you. See you.”"

PocketNovel.Tumblr : "I mention in a private Plurk that I’m going to visit him. My friends lose it. They know his reputation and they’re not afraid to share. He’s scum, one says. He’s a manipulative SOB, says another. My ex tells me he’s disgusted that they’ll be one degree apart. Three of my friends (as in actual people I have met in real life) drop me in the ensuing row. Then there’s more drama, this time with him. He freaks out on me when I jokingly mention on Tumblr that he’s only following me to get in my pants. I don’t follow everyone I’m trying to sleep with, he tells me, only the ones that are interesting."

** Tumblr has some features which other blog platforms dont concentrate on, such as reblogging, which is a great one click feature, but it also has created a whole mutant parody thing - where rebloggers will take nonsociety juliaallison/maryrambin posts and reblog the "best" parts. Alot of tumblrs also have comments turned off which is interesting. And it looks good. (Valleywag calls it the first good looking east coast startup) Anyway thru reading the ND 5" 5-6' bitchmeme, I came across my favourite new blog discovered yday - ThisRecording.Wordpress.com - This is the type of blog which blogs.com should be uncovering, their examination of Wes Anderson is spot on, and their mumblecore post makes me laugh. I mumble with the best of em, whatever the age.

This Recording on Wes Anderson (which i totally agree with I thought after Royal Tenenbaums that Wes Anderson was gonna be awesome, even Life Aquatic I really like) but since then not so much, wasnt into that Train movie) : "Truffaut said that to be in the Nouvelle Vague you had to make a movie of personal importance before the age of 30. All those New Wave dudes made films that were in some way autobiographical. Anderson’s films have become more aspirational, a bigger model train set (so to speak) each time, but the same shallow emotions and characters. I know Owen Wilson doesn’t like people picking apart the scripts for evidence of his input. Their collaborations, like Lennon and McCartney’s, are insoluble."

Also their post on MumbleCore (following the NYT piece on it) : "Mumblecore is like Cassavetes if instead of drunkenly emoting and fighting, the characters just suppressed and repressed and only revealed their true feelings at tiny, often barely perceptible fissures. It’s pretty much the emo-est thing ever. Its musical equivalent is laptop-pop. Mumblecore also makes sense as a response to postmodernists like Miranda July, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Sophia Coppola, Wes Anderson, and David O. Russell, who have dominated for the past decade or so. Their movies tended to be non-naturalistic and often strenuously weird, analogous to the concurrent rise of McSweeney’s."

I happily caught the latest Mad Men ep - Colin Hanks son as the Priest steals this episode, well supported by Martin Sheens daughter from West Wing as the bastard child out of wedlock copyrighter, who assists the priest with his Sunday sermon, before her sister does the dirty on her via Catholic Confession. Anyway I digress got work to do pre a few days in Melbourne.

This Recording on this weeks MadMen (Series 2, Episode 4) : "Men, she writes, “find themselves in an unfamiliar world where male worth is measured by participation in a celebrity-driven consumer culture and awarded by lady luck,” where “useful” work matters less than glamor, where they can only “enact a crude semblance of masculinity” before the media’s looking glass. The modern man, Faludi argues, doesn’t really get to be a man. The best he can hope for is to play one on TV. Now that the emasculated male is rising to the cream of the Mad Men circle jerk, everyone has excuses. We’re supposed to forgive Don his out-of-wedlock indiscretions because he doesn’t want to beat his little boy. That’s a bit self-congratulatory, don’t you think? Whatever kids need, Don thinks, it’s not a swift kick in the ass. That’s saved for his wife."

Steve Zissou: That's it. I'm retired.