God dammit. I hate when I see something that reinforces just how uncool I am. Sure I am just an old fucker now, who points his finger at the kids downtown who make me feel uncomfortable because they are still young, drunk and making the mistakes that they will have to pay off for the next 20 years. And sure I have gracefully entered a new and exciting stage of my life, but I am not talking about that kind of cool. I am talking about an unobtainable cool that in my teens and 20s I would have mocked to feel some how superior, but deep down I knew I would never be as cool or exciting as. I fucking hate it, but at least now I understand it and I can appreciate it from a distance with the kind of longing one feels when they revisit their stomping grounds as an adult. It's amazing what foreign lands and broads that are shot in black and white will do for you.

The Underground Youth is that fucking unobtainable cool. I know I should hate them for it but I just can't. I love it.