Last weekend, I turned on the TV to find Kenan Thompson impersonating Charles Barkley on Saturday Night Live. Eh.
Flipping through channels, I soon settled on my perfect alternative: Nickelodeon's The 90s Are All That programming, which resurrects some of the decade's best shows. I spent the night watching 22-year-old Thompson as a rambunctious grocery-store clerk on Kenan & Kel.
The throwbacks kept coming: at a club, the DJ mashed 'N Sync's "Tearin' Up My Heart" with the Spice Girls' "Wannabe," and the place went bonkers. I recently ran into R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps saga; I now consider his autograph my most prized possession. I just booked tickets to Beauty and the Beast in 3D.
If my life is any indication, my generation's fixation on the (recent) past is ever-present. Despite our youth -- most Millennials are somewhere between 17 and 29 -- we take our nostalgia as we take our information and gratification: instant.
Flipping through channels, I soon settled on my perfect alternative: Nickelodeon's The 90s Are All That programming, which resurrects some of the decade's best shows. I spent the night watching 22-year-old Thompson as a rambunctious grocery-store clerk on Kenan & Kel.
The throwbacks kept coming: at a club, the DJ mashed 'N Sync's "Tearin' Up My Heart" with the Spice Girls' "Wannabe," and the place went bonkers. I recently ran into R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps saga; I now consider his autograph my most prized possession. I just booked tickets to Beauty and the Beast in 3D.
If my life is any indication, my generation's fixation on the (recent) past is ever-present. Despite our youth -- most Millennials are somewhere between 17 and 29 -- we take our nostalgia as we take our information and gratification: instant.
- 1/16/2012
- by Ben Kassoy
- Aol TV.
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