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Mar. 25th, 2001 01:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedfleaMy Dad's so square. We were at a baseball game last night, and they were playing "Johnny B. Goode" over the PA between innings. So Dad's there clapping on 2 and 4, and he says something like, "This is rock and roll, right? Like early rock?" I said yeah. Then he said something about his tastes having broadened so much in the past 30 years or whatever. Then he said something about "The Great Pretender," then wanted to know what I was snickering about. I said, "Is that an example of your liberal tastes?" He kinda smiled and said yes. I said, "Yup, that's pretty avant-garde." Ten years ago, he would have gotten all huffy about that, but he's mellowed a good bit, so he just said something about not being ready for the Smashing Pumpkins and laughed it off.
It's actually pretty cool how our relationship has improved over the past five years or so. I guess we've come to a mutual understanding in which we both know that we can't change one another. I know that's what it is in my case; somewhere along the line I decided I was going to try to accept him and not get so infuriated at his often freakish behavior. In his case, I don't think it was a conscious decision, but he started respecting me and my decisions. (This probably roughly coincided with the time in my life when I started exhibiting somewhat respectable behavior.) Anyway, we're still a couple of strange motherfuckers, but at least we get along better now.
While I'm on the subject of parental coolness, I'll relate a little anecdote. When I was at my Mom's place over break, I was glancing at this little note pad on which she had written some stuff she needed to do at work. Schedule tutors, call the dean, check on this or that, all that kind of stuff. But at the top she'd written, "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US." I thought that was pretty cool.
It's actually pretty cool how our relationship has improved over the past five years or so. I guess we've come to a mutual understanding in which we both know that we can't change one another. I know that's what it is in my case; somewhere along the line I decided I was going to try to accept him and not get so infuriated at his often freakish behavior. In his case, I don't think it was a conscious decision, but he started respecting me and my decisions. (This probably roughly coincided with the time in my life when I started exhibiting somewhat respectable behavior.) Anyway, we're still a couple of strange motherfuckers, but at least we get along better now.
While I'm on the subject of parental coolness, I'll relate a little anecdote. When I was at my Mom's place over break, I was glancing at this little note pad on which she had written some stuff she needed to do at work. Schedule tutors, call the dean, check on this or that, all that kind of stuff. But at the top she'd written, "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US." I thought that was pretty cool.
