Annnnnnd ultimately the nice thing about Bluesky is that literally nobody will read this, unlike Twitter, where 500K bots will read it along with maybe 3 human beings who will all think: "well that was a waste of thirty seconds" lmao.

Nobody needs to suffer for my writing here.

Ultimately I guess this kind of "fake" or "indirect" nostalgia means the music reminded me indirectly of how I felt, or who I wanted to be, etc at some given arbitrary point in the past

Lately I've been listening to Steve Reich and Terry Riley and I feel nostalgia-adjacent for being like... a smart person? In the 1980s? who understood cool intellectual things?

Actual me in the 1980s was like, a kid who picked his nose while playing Atari and was really bad at sports

The eternal question I always have for these types is... I never can tell how much of their own BS they actually believe. That's part of their game though...