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Aging Hip Replacement: I (Don’t) Want My MTV (Anymore)

by Dave on Aug 3, 2011 • 1 Comment

So, MTV is 30. I don’t know any other channel that has had the ability to make one feel both old and completely out of touch with modern, pop society as MTV. The station has been in existence for the better part of my life. At this point we’re a lot like a divorced couple without kids still living in the same town—I know it’s still out there, I know it’s dating but couldn’t tell you word one about what […]

Aging Hip Replacement–Nostalgia Acts?

by Dave on Jul 27, 2011 • 4 Comments

Aging Hip Replacement / music / Pop Music / Uncategorized

Is U2 nostalgia rock? Good question right? I’m going to see the band tonight (along with what seems like everyone I went to college with) so it begs the question, is U2 nostalgia rock? Are they The Rolling Stones? I think I can wonder this in my own column, it suits the parameters of what I write about. In my mind there are several types of nostalgia rock acts. There’s The Stones and Aerosmith. You know, bands that continue to […]

Aging Hip Replacment Week 5: Party Animal

by Dave on Jul 20, 2011 • 1 Comment

Aging Hip Replacement

A typical night used to go something like this—work until 5:30 and then meet up with my friends, we’d hit a club that had dollar drinks from 10 until midnight (that was definitely the club that did the most damage). After drinking a mixed drink called Red Death (this was the drink that definitely did the most damage) we’d hit the dance floor and mosh to a mix of really bad urban/pop music and slightly less awful alternative/metal music. Eventually […]

Aging Hip Replacement 3: Body Betrayal

by Dave on Jul 7, 2011 • 5 Comments

Aging Hip Replacement

If you’ve read these last two columns then you know that I’m writing about what the aging process and how it affects us, I say us but really I mean me. I thought that my columns would all be about the heady psychological issues that are related to growing up and aging in the world but this week I’ve decided to write about something a little different—how are body betrays us as we start to get old. When I was […]