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I'm thinking of trying to relaunch myself as a " Cool Dad " figure on the underground club scene.

Alex's Grandma

15:18 / 23.03.04

Ok, here's the plan: In a few years time, when all my friends have got married, had kids and moved out of the city, I'll still be making the scene as a kind of psychedelic version of Peter Stringfellow. So there must be someone on this board who fits that description... Erm, any advice ?

Kit-Cat Club

15:21 / 23.03.04

Someone who takes lots of drugs and hallucinates that he's slept with hundreds of women?

Or Peter Stringfellow in a fluorescent paisley suit?

I'm struggling to see either of these as a good thing...

Matthew Fluxington

15:21 / 23.03.04

SEGA!

Sax

17:17 / 23.03.04

Well, at 34, married with a small baby, I find there's no better way to spend a Thursday night than head to the nearest student disco and attempt clumsy drunken frottage with girls wearing stripy tights before trying to pull a barmaid and then getting a taxi back to the familial home, weeping with self-loathing as soon as the key goes into the Yale lock, then masturbating quietly into a handful of tissues as my wife sleeps besides me.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

17:46 / 23.03.04

I tried that back when I finally had time to go out into the club scene. I ended up being the guy underaged girls asked to buy them drinks because they "forgot" their ID while they hit on guys their own age.

Kind of like before I was a dad, to be honest.

So I just go to clubs when there is a band I want to see, bitch about how things aren't the same, and get my ass grabbed when I'm not paying enough attention.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:11 / 23.03.04

Okay... Well, casting my cobweb-strewn brain back to the days when I was a young 'un, the older people who seemed the coolest to me were the ones who didn't come across as fake, the ones who were just being themselves. Not trying to be young, not trying to be cool, just out to have fun. Maybe looking for a role model is the wrong approach? Maybe you need to search for the psychedelic Peter Stringfellow within.

Olulabelle

19:23 / 23.03.04

You say that like there is one lurking in all of us. I feel invaded.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:43 / 23.03.04

You mean like getting in touch with your inner psychedelic Peter Stringfellow? Fuck.

Smoothly

23:13 / 23.03.04

Fuck

Would be a good start.

Murray Hamhandler

23:24 / 23.03.04

GOT MILK?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:28 / 23.03.04

Does that mean we all have an inner mullet?

NO!

There's one in melbourne. He's called grandpa acid! More than a cool dad he's a tripped out grand dad in psychedelic threads...

Lilly Nowhere Late

05:42 / 24.03.04

Stoatie you KNOW you've got a mullet inside, just waiting to be set free!

It is kind of awful being old and still enjoying things which are usually attended by people half one's age. But as there is nothing to be done about ageing, I think it's important to go on out and see bands/dance/observe culture etc. when one feels like it. If it gets you down too much, stay home and try relating more to the wife, less to the tissue, I reckon.

Youth is wasted on the young. ~Allegedly

Alex's Grandma

18:26 / 24.03.04

Grandpa acid sounds about right, but will the kids still respect it ? I'm thinking Father ketamine, Father crystal meth, or whatever the young people are into by then, Father Anti-Depressants ( I guess that does have a ring to it, ) except with leather strides, loafers and powder blue suits ( " hey, I don't go to the Far East for the drugs any more, I go for the tailoring ! " ) as opposed to hitting the clubs in tie-dye and sandals.

But yeah, that's the general idea.

" It's a long shot... But it... might... just... work... "

the Fool

22:59 / 24.03.04

Acid is on its way back, slowly slowly... but its good example to set in any event. Get all the kids off G I say and back onto drugs that are actually fun...

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