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The Adventures of Pete & Pete was like the ultimate cult show for a generation slightly younger than mine and that’s all I knew about it. I’d never heard the theme song before, but it is a good song and it’s nice to read these reminiscences about what it meant to people of that slightly younger generation.

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matthewgallaway:

Sometimes I think that in 100 years, this — i.e., the miraculous and oddly sweet combination of a completely unambitious and lo-fi song and show — will go down as pretty much the greatest achievement of my (now completely lost) generation. I have mixed emotions about that, but on the whole, I guess there could be worse things to be associated with. (viddie via Carles)

It’s funny; I had never heard this song until Matthew put it up today, but it is instantly familiar. Obviously, I’m too old to have known about the show, but the song… beyond the fact that it wears its influences and precedents fairly obviously on its sleeve, what WORKS about it is that amazing sense of in-betweenness, that feeling you had when you were 17 or 18 and you became aware that, holy fuck, things were going to change very shortly and you were going to be what you thought “an adult” was, and although you had been waiting for that for so long, now that the deal was done and there was no turning back, you suddenly realized how much sweetness and, ironically, freedom there was in just being a stupid kid who was allowed to get away with a number of things that would soon enough no longer be acceptable or smiled upon or excused by youth. It’s a feeling I haven’t thought about in YEARS, because I am old, etc., but I can still vividly remember the smell of the summer before it was time to go away and “become” (and the joke of that growth experience is a whole other story) an “adult,” and I remember how closely we all clung to what we had just suddenly realized we were going to miss so much once it was taken away. Or maybe I’m just projecting. Either way, it’s a very nice song.