Seth Cohen Would Be Proud

A Liking of Emo Helps Stave Off the Inevitable

ONCE IN A GREAT while, you get some small confirmation that the clueless thirtysomething fogey you are most of the time can be transported to an earlier time of occasional cool. I've never sent a text message in my life, I'll be playing Quizzo next week for the first time, and my AIM traffic is barren compared to the constantly scrolling windows of my younger coworkers. Yet yesterday, while on a university campus outside of Pittsburgh, I scored some validation. I sat in the student center drinking a cup of lousy coffee and exulting that I knew not one but two of the songs clanging out of the ceiling speakers. In fact, not only do I know and like Rilo Kiley's "It's a Hit" and Death Cab for Cutie's "Soul Meets Body," I actually own the CDs from which those sings come. It was a small victory over inevitable unhipness, for sure, but one I gladly accepted.

Comments

[Tom G]

What establishment were you in? I did some grad school there, and The Missus is a Pitt Panther.

[Jeff Martin]

Is this the part where we're supposed to be all "Aww, Tom, you're plenty cool." Because if it is...

(crickets chirp)

Did you just call Death Cab 'emo?'

[meredith]

Did you just call Death Cab 'emo?'

[Tom Durso]

TG: Robert Morris University, in Moon Township.
Jeff: Shut your damn piehole.
Meredith: Death Cab is totally emo. No?

[Chris Durso]

I love Quizzo. Their toasted subs are awesome.

[Tom Durso]

I know -- that crunchy roll totally rocks.

[krist90]

you moron, death cab is NOT e-fucking-mo.