I had a somewhat odd experience tonight. I went to see the seminal 1990's band, Stone Temple Pilots. They were performing at the convention center at my grad school.

But here was the weird thing. When I came in, I managed feeling very young, because a lot of the people there were in in their mid-30's, maybe even early 40's. Which makes sense, because the peak of the band was in the early/mid 1990's, which is about 15-20 years ago now. I saw some young kids there, but they were mostly outnumbered by the oldsters around their mid/late 30's. I definitely had this moment of going, "Wow, I'm still young compared to most of these people!"

But then as the night wore on, I also felt old as dirt. Because...I kinda came to the realization that STP is basically turning into a nostalgic band before my very eyes. The '90s are now twenty years ago now. Their biggest target audience- the kids who went to college in the 1990's are now middle-aged, or rapidly approaching it. There were so few people there, and it made sense- STP is a 90's band, and they're no longer revelant to current college kids. As all the current college kids were born in the '90s for the most part. And it was startling to realize that Stone Temple Pilots, which was so huge to high school and college kids not that long ago, has become the band your parents like.

Time sucks. Time makes you old. And it made me feel young and old at the same time. It just depresses the hell out of me to think that the mid-90's were 15 years ago, and none of these college freshman I meet can remember that era. It was such a huge era to me, and to these current 18-year olds, 1996 is just history to them. Which makes sense, since they were four years old in 1996, but you know what I mean. It's amazing the way time just flies, and won't stop flying, until one day you look in the mirror and you see a 40-year old staring back.

STP wasn't quite the band I grew up with- I was more of a fan of Blink 182 or Linkin Park, but that experience made think about the fact that not that long from now, Blink 182 concerts will be full of 35-year olds wanting to capture the nostaligia of their youth circa 2000. And I'll be right there with them, 35 years old and singing about damnable things like I'm fourteen with them.

I felt like I was basically seeing my future- ands it was really unsettling. I did have a lot of fun at the show, but it just underscored to me, "Oh hey, the 1990's were 20 years ago."

And thus I felt very young and very old at the same time. Odd, odd feeling.