{"id":23815,"date":"2014-08-25T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=23815"},"modified":"2014-08-25T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:00:51","slug":"about-the-vmas-and-being-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2014\/08\/about-the-vmas-and-being-old\/","title":{"rendered":"About the VMAs and being &#8220;old&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back over Sunday night Twitter feed, one of the themes that emerged was &#8220;we&#8217;re old!&#8221; That&#8217;s because the MTV Video Music Awards was on. But not <em>getting<\/em> the 2014 VMAs is a feature, not a bug, right?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, after a bike ride on Sunday morning, I turned on the car and I heard this song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hTWKbfoikeg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until the song was over that I realized it was on BIG 100.3, the classic rock station.<\/p>\n<p>Welp.<\/p>\n<p>It may have been amusing to get Kurt Cobain&#8217;s take on that, but he&#8217;s been gone for 20 years. I wonder what greatest Arlandrian alive, Dave Grohl thinks. Of course, Foo Fighters was CLASSIC from the moment the album dropped on July 4, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the bandage has been ripped off, I&#8217;m sure we can look forward to hearing &#8220;The Sweater Song,&#8221; &#8220;Corduroy&#8221; and dread hearing anything by Bush or Live. 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