Hip with the kids
We were listening to Flight of the Conchords over dinner the other night, and Crunchy husband looks up from his sprouts and says to me, “do you think your parents would like this?”
I thought for a moment, and said, “I’m not sure. It might be too random for them. And they may not get all the references.” The song was Mutha’Uckers and, perfectly timed to make my point, shouts of “on AP, yeah you know me” came from the kitchen speakers. “Like ‘O.P.P.’ They wouldn’t get it.”
Blank stare.
Disbelieving stare back, “you down with O.P.P.? Yeah, you know me!”
Nothing.
I love moments like this. It’s one of the many benefits of marrying a slightly (ahem) older man, who grew up across the world from me. I believe we enrich each other’s lives, give each other glimpses of a completely different worlds. Even if my contributions happen to be tales of Hot 97.7 on the bus to school, middle school dances in the early ’90s and a really, uh suggestive (I can guarantee you when I was 13, I did not get all the references to various meanings of that second P!) Naughty by Nature rap.
Wednesday, 4th February 2009 at 15:20
yep…..the early 90’s were consumed with Morrissey and the Cocteau Twins, A Certain Ratio and 808 State……and wondering why all the kids were dancing around their boom boxes in front of ‘The Ship’ in Arbury …something to do with ‘Can’t Touch This’…..I guess I didn’t…..little did I know that it would all make sense ten years later driving down 880 : )
Wednesday, 4th February 2009 at 18:21
crunchy Mom doesn’t understand a word of this, except for Flight of the Conchords. [ are they the tv show?] And sprouts . I’ve got that . Am I older than I think??
Thursday, 5th February 2009 at 1:27
Who down wit O.P.P.? Eeeverybody!