Tuesday, January 27, 2009

the age continues to sum up the spirit of... the age

I am not like this big Age bagger or anything, after all, I'm a subscriber and read it every day (despite what I am sometimes told). However, the article on Abi Tucker in today's is... well, fine, apart from the risible:

But she really made her name in the hit youth drama The Secret Life of Us. The series instantly struck a chord with the target audience of twentysomething generation Xers.

Suddenly, everyone was hauling old couches to the roofs of their apartment buildings, sharing spliffs and discussing their latest one-night stand.


I admit: I was no longer a twentysomething by the time TSLOU came out, but I do find it hard to imagine it as the creator of the widespread use of (shared) marijuana or discussion of individual sexploits. Of course, we did drag a couch up onto the roof, it rolled and fell into the back garden killing 11 flatmates.

5 comments:

Ann ODyne said...

risible - tick.
(beautiful word)

If Abi is Australian, he should have his AJA card revoked.

I did not see TSLOU, not even once for a second. Now I know why.

Apparently the chemical component of sativa sensimilia has changed since I was a hippie in 1969, as I have witnessed
Many, consuming Much,
and post-spliff activity was food related, and sex was probably not even physically possible.

One-Night-Stand: a very dangerous activity. Sex with many different people is a cause of cervical cancer, which is a sexually transmitted condition, brought to the woman by the man ( who has had many previous partners)
This is well-documented medically, and ignored by the usually prurient Press.
Don't let your daughter near Mick Jagger.

lucy tartan said...

I didn't see tlsou or whatever either, but they did film the rooftop bits on the top of the block of flats next door to where we lived at the time - a block of flats inhabited by the most buttoned-up, bland, harbinger of gentrification yuppie wanabees you've ever seen.

Anonymous said...

I am reminded of the Cannanes clip filmed atop of Alpha House in Newtown Certainly there was some smoking (alas) was there a couch? I think so. So ahead of the times.

David Nichols said...

True in essence Tom but not literally. That clip was made on top of a former office building on the corner of MIssenden and Parramatta roads.

Anonymous said...

Yes I stand corrected, twice, thank you David. I was corrected earlier by a man in the Toxeth Hotel Glebe who carried a Cannanes documentary on his i-phone. He claimed the building in question was a multi-story car park.

Very hard to fake Cannanes-cred in these days of the "superficial information highway", to quote another well-qualified Cannaniac.

the early 70s was all juxtaposition

October 1970, everyone had their arms out in the air, from Barbra to, um, whoever that is on the left, to Thumbelina. This is from the Sprin...