While attending an 8yr old's birthday party with my daughter tonight, a "Gin Blossoms" track was playing in the background at the venue. I like the song, and listened to it tonight while googling the band for the heck of it. The song, "'till I Hear It From You" was on the "Empire Records" soundtrack, which was a coming-of-age movie released well after I'd already done so myself. I recall the film, and thinking at the time that it was the current generation's "reference film" for their culture, much like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" was for mine.
And it just struck me that 17 years has passed since "Empire Records" was release. It's characters, today, would likely be full time employees in mainstream jobs with families, responsibilities, depts and the like. AND that children born the year this was released will graduate from High School this coming June. This stream of conscious thought concluded with the chilling and unescapable realiztion that I am slowing watching not only the decade I call my own but a few that followed.... become "nostalgia".
It's haunting to consider that somebody today might watch a film I identify with and have the same sense of cultural detachment as I do when I watch "America Graffiti".
