it's a little bit funny...

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i was on my way to work today when i heard that DJ a.m. died today from, likely an overdose.  i don't know a lot about him, or anything like that, for that matter...but in the back of my head, i thought that he had been in that plane wreck with travis barker from Blink 182 last year.  the horrible radio d.j. confirmed this and i thought, how tragic and irreversibly stupid can you be, to have cheated death like that, and to have caused it regardless?

anyway, this thought brought me to another.  the fact that i would LOVE to go see Blink 182.  They are playing at red rocks amphitheater this weekend.  I had contemplated buying tickets, however, i just couldn't get into the thought of sitting around rowdy teenagers, smoking pot, and being crushed en masse, between them.  call me crazy.  i just realized at that moment, however, that you can call me old.  no matter how beautiful Red Rocks can be...it's just not so beautiful with a whole bunch of tweaked out teenagers making out in front of you. 

instead of buying tickets to concerts, i only have two that i will spend money on now.  instead of buying tickets to concerts, i now buy tickets to Anthony Bourdain...because hearing some chef's story of how his life went and his smart dialogue on the irony of people is WAY more interesting to me than any of that other stuff. 

going to bed at 9pm is WAY more interesting to me as well, so that i don't feel that my eyes are being inverted and scraped off with a vegetable peeler this week, when i get up to get to work by 6a.m. 

the fact that this time around, in grad school, my extra hours that i had the first time around, are being consumed with well...LIFE, instead of going out every night, i go to work every day.  would i choose the other?  no, not right now. 

all this to say, i'm old.  officially.  and that's fine.