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Yesterday I was a great big damn adult and did my FBAR and my taxes and compiled shit for the next Lewisham Homes battle (this one's shared at least, leaseholders refusing to pay for the beyond-shoddy Major Works without repairs). So when we chilled out with a beer and a few Rifftrax Shorts, I was super tired, but even so boy one of them Messed With My Head:
Life in the Suburbs (Bridget Nelson and Mary Jo Pehl)
It's (as far as I can tell) an inforeel for a Silent Generation audience of business and ad-men describing this Strange New Generation in terms of how to understand and market to them. Which is itself a deeply strange perspective to experience, as I grew up in the Boomer universe in which Things Have Always Been This Way And Always Will Shut Up...and here they are basically These Damn Kids Who We Nonetheless Must Pander To And Make Money Off Of.
Even so, it is so damn bizarre to repeatedly hear "Young Adults!" in the context of "...are buying houses!" and "...having so many babies!" and "...spending lots of money on their houses and babies, with the only concern of budgeting to afford it all!"
Like...they're in their early-mid 20s. And have multiple children. And houses. Nice houses. The examples of which we will never, ever, EVER be able to afford, now, even on two incomes. Sheesh, another short we watched, A Word To The Wives, had a "before" kitchen we were supposed to laugh at, and we absolutely still aspire to 1930s-era space and fixtures!
Okay, and I know the worldview presented was bullshit even then. But I am still...full of all the feelings. And had a tangled-up dream which involved having a surprise third baby, and this being no big deal as we totally had enough space and income to manage it, and woke up mad at...whatever. The lie. The present. The future. Reagan. I don't know. But I'm mad at it.
Pretty funny shorts all the same. I like Bridget and Mary Jo.
Life in the Suburbs (Bridget Nelson and Mary Jo Pehl)
It's (as far as I can tell) an inforeel for a Silent Generation audience of business and ad-men describing this Strange New Generation in terms of how to understand and market to them. Which is itself a deeply strange perspective to experience, as I grew up in the Boomer universe in which Things Have Always Been This Way And Always Will Shut Up...and here they are basically These Damn Kids Who We Nonetheless Must Pander To And Make Money Off Of.
Even so, it is so damn bizarre to repeatedly hear "Young Adults!" in the context of "...are buying houses!" and "...having so many babies!" and "...spending lots of money on their houses and babies, with the only concern of budgeting to afford it all!"
Like...they're in their early-mid 20s. And have multiple children. And houses. Nice houses. The examples of which we will never, ever, EVER be able to afford, now, even on two incomes. Sheesh, another short we watched, A Word To The Wives, had a "before" kitchen we were supposed to laugh at, and we absolutely still aspire to 1930s-era space and fixtures!
Okay, and I know the worldview presented was bullshit even then. But I am still...full of all the feelings. And had a tangled-up dream which involved having a surprise third baby, and this being no big deal as we totally had enough space and income to manage it, and woke up mad at...whatever. The lie. The present. The future. Reagan. I don't know. But I'm mad at it.
Pretty funny shorts all the same. I like Bridget and Mary Jo.
