I believe he said he was born in the late 70s.Soulrender95 said:I can't find his actual Date of birth,TripleDaddy said:I was thinking nearly the same thing. MovieBob was what, twelve when Clerks came out?
I believe he said he was born in the late 70s.Soulrender95 said:I can't find his actual Date of birth,TripleDaddy said:I was thinking nearly the same thing. MovieBob was what, twelve when Clerks came out?
In Nashville, they regularly play "Head Like a Hole", "Hurt", and heavily edited versions of "I Wanna F&*k You Like an Animal" on the classic rock station (aka oldies for people who don't like pop music), along with AC/DC, Aerosmith when they were good, Zeppelin, and Metallica.WarHamster40K said:I was preparing for college when that came out. When my teenaged nephew saw me listening to this, he said he'd never seen the movie. I was about to fix that blasphemous oversight when I realized he was only 13. It's going on the To Do list when he graduates. It also reminded me I was getting old. I'm not old! *shakes cane at modem* Get off my non-existent lawn! I'm not old until they have Nine Inch Nails on the Oldies station.
I admit, I giggled at that screen shot of those '90's hipsters. Bob set aside all of March 2013 for his issues with that decade. Maybe he'll clear up more of it next week, since that was the decade Smith and Tarantino were on top of their game.Zachary Amaranth said:You do understand that hipster was actually a word at the time and his use of the term is appropriate to the culture he was describing, right? It's sort of like you heard the word "hipster" and tuned out.grumpymooselion said:Hipster? Really? The language alone tells me how out of touch with the generation you're talking about here, and the roots from which Smith himself came. It's painted all over this. You have these ideas of things so colored by the now, that if you ever had sight on that period in time, or that generation, you've lost it. Wholly. Completely.
Harvard defines Generation X as people born between 1965 and 1984, so the youngest he could've been when it came out is 10.Soulrender95 said:I can't find his actual Date of birth, I'm sure someone can but well clerks came out in 1994, being a Gen X'er, the youngest bob could have been at the time is 20 (Gen X being 1960 to early 1980's) if he was 12 he'd be a Gen Y or Millennial.TripleDaddy said:I was thinking nearly the same thing. MovieBob was what, twelve when Clerks came out?
I was also kinda unspeakingly taking into account that he has said grew up as a nes player in the 80's, if it was 84 then he'd not have grown up on the nes but rather the Snes, so 1980/82 is around the last point that he could have been born that would give him time to have been an active nes player in the 80's.PhiMed said:Harvard defines Generation X as people born between 1965 and 1984, so the youngest he could've been when it came out is 10.Soulrender95 said:I can't find his actual Date of birth, I'm sure someone can but well clerks came out in 1994, being a Gen X'er, the youngest bob could have been at the time is 20 (Gen X being 1960 to early 1980's) if he was 12 he'd be a Gen Y or Millennial.TripleDaddy said:I was thinking nearly the same thing. MovieBob was what, twelve when Clerks came out?
Very misleading episode summary there, Bob. You didn't get around to explaining your feelings at all. A better summary would be "Kevin Smith is a filmmaker who made Clerks."MovieBob said:The Fall of Kevin Smith
Bob explains his feelings on director Kevin Smith.
Indeed. The definition of "Gen X" has really been stretched. Originally the cut-off was around 1975. But for some reason that got extended to 1980... and now people are including the early 80s in Gen X??youji itami said:Movie Bob was born in the early 80's he's 30 something, so very late Gen X.Soulrender95 said:I can't find his actual Date of birth, I'm sure someone can but well clerks came out in 1994, being a Gen X'er, the youngest bob could have been at the time is 20 (Gen X being 1960 to early 1980's) if he was 12 he'd be a Gen Y or Millennial.TripleDaddy said:I was thinking nearly the same thing. MovieBob was what, twelve when Clerks came out?
On the oldies station near my house they not only have Nine Inch Nails on the oldies, they even have the Smashing Pumpkins. I never felt so old as I did when the song changed from Comfortably numb to 1979.WarHamster40K said:I was preparing for college when that came out. When my teenaged nephew saw me listening to this, he said he'd never seen the movie. I was about to fix that blasphemous oversight when I realized he was only 13. It's going on the To Do list when he graduates. It also reminded me I was getting old. I'm not old! *shakes cane at modem* Get off my non-existent lawn! I'm not old until they have Nine Inch Nails on the Oldies station.
Yeah, well the Harvard Center is out of line in that one - very few other researchers use that definition. And the Harvard Center chose those dates to artificially force the "generations" into equal 20-year spans. So, BS, basically. The majority of researchers appear to use 1981 as a cut-off.PhiMed said:Harvard defines Generation X as people born between 1965 and 1984, so the youngest he could've been when it came out is 10.
Not trying to be snarky, because I'm curious about this since I was born in 84'.Aardvaarkman said:Yeah, well the Harvard Center is out of line in that one - very few other researchers use that definition. And the Harvard Center chose those dates to artificially force the "generations" into equal 20-year spans. So, BS, basically. The majority of researchers appear to use 1981 as a cut-off.PhiMed said:Harvard defines Generation X as people born between 1965 and 1984, so the youngest he could've been when it came out is 10.