The Last Days of Pompeii

I was sorting through all this used landfill fodder, primarily artists who were hits in the 1990's, and just thinking how funny it is going to be when all of this becomes "hot" again in about five to ten years from now.

It seems that every generation becomes nostalgic for the one that happened twenty years before. There was a 50's revival in the 1970's, with movies like American Graffiti and TV shows like Happy Days. In the 1980's it was all about the 60's, with movies like The Big Chill and dozens of Vietnam flicks, TV shows like The Wonder Years, and a full-on Beatles resurgence. In the 1990's we were bombarded with disco, bell bottoms, Boogie Nights, and That 70's Show. And now in the "aughties", who here hasn't been inundated with all things 80's? And while the 80's has been proclaimed this decade's "best decade ever", everything pertaining to the 90's has been flooding back into my store by people with popped collars and checkerboard Vans who never want to hear "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ever again.

So when are we expecting to see all these these same adults pouring back into the store wearing Timberlands and flannel and demanding their Natalie Imbruglia and Coolio CDs back because they want to "revisit the best years of their lives" back when they were kids and "Kate Pierson was a member of R.E.M.". Well let me tell you right now, I doubt this store will still be standing when that time comes.

More on that later.