mjmooney Posted October 15, 2012 Author VT Supporter Share Posted October 15, 2012 I think that happens a lot with people in their early twenties. It's not that you are old, it's just an inability (on some level at least) to cope with not being a child any more. I see it quite a lot when people who suddenly get responsibilities for things other than themselves for the first time in their lives and go at great lengths to point out that they are "only" 20-21-22-23 (etc) and it never fails to make me smile. I was probably the same at that age too. In a concert at The Paris Theatre in London on October 29, 1970, Joni Mitchell, who was already friends with Neil Young by the time he wrote this song, opened her song "Circle Game" with this speech: Mitchell: "In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock'n'roll band (...) he had just newly turned 19, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favorite hangout, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 18 you couldn't get in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it's one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn't play in this club anymore. But he was over the hill. So he wrote this song that was called "Oh to live on sugar mountain" which was a lament for his lost youth.He wrote it on his 19th birthday (...) And I thought, God, you know, if we get to 19 and there's nothing after that, that's a pretty bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and for myself just to give me some hope. It's called The Circle Game." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baselayers Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I feel about 50 when i get up on a morning nowadays. Truly broken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I feel about 50 when i get up on a morning nowadays. Truly broken! Must ......re....s...i...s.....t..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baselayers Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 What!? How can you find something sexual in that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Baselayers Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Giggity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Men can find the sexual side of most things, just like all women can multitask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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