how old are you?

[feebee42]

I think I'm older or nearly as old as EVERYONES Mum on here!!!
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Heh, my daughter is 17 now, and all her school pals think that she has a really 'cool' mum, 'cos I took her to a Cure concert for her birthday this year. 
I'm nearly 50 now, and some days I feel positively ancient, especially as I have a few health issues. I certainly don't feel 'cool' most days! But, luckily, I look young for my age, and can pass for late 30's...
One thing that worries me - When The Cure played Oslo in February, the last thing Robert said on leaving the stage was, "Thank you, see you in another 16 years," making reference to the fact that they last played Oslo in 1992.
Now, if they don't play in Norway again until 2024, I shall be 65 years old by then, and probably too deaf and doddery to enjoy them properly. Mind you, Robert will be 65, too. Oh boy, what a thought!    Hahahahah

[abcandreas]

I'm 35, and started to really listen to The Cure in 1990, i.e. the year after Disintegration, so i missed out on these great shows. I missed it when it came out, but I started to really getting into the cure with Disintegration and standing on a beach. When Wish came I was totally sold. 1992 was also my first concert in Stockholm. It was amazing.

As to favourite songs I would have to say The Figurehead and The drowning man on cd, and Faith and a forest live.

[melly]

I was just flicking thru the calendar on here, and came across my own birthdate.. took me a while to submit it to be honest, then thought "what the hell, may as well"... if anyone else flicks through,  and sees me there, they'll probably wonder why there's such a fossil joining in. Let me make it clear.. I am NOT some creepy old woman hanging around with younger ones!! I am quite sane and not to be frightened of ok??!!
You don't have to tell your parents I'm here, I am harmless.. just a friendly "mature" aged woman... ( only my age is mature!)
Just thought I had better clear that up!!   

[billee]

Looks like we be the two old chooks Melly.
But hey aint nothing like dancing around to The Cure when your kids are watching you behave like a teenager. The pain on their faces. The sweet bliss of it all.

[japanesebaby]

Now, if they don't play in Norway again until 2024, I shall be 65 years old by then, and probably too deaf and doddery to enjoy them properly. Mind you, Robert will be 65, too. Oh boy, what a thought!    Hahahahah

i'm imagining this future show now...
oh yes, they will come back to oslo in april 2024 and play a really compact acoustic set like this:

main set:

i want to be old

encore 1 (pop encore):
in between days (a new "anti-extended version", consisting only of the first two lines from the first verse: 'yesterday i got so old i felt like i could die, yesterday i got so old it made me want to cry' = the end of the song. )

encore 2:

i want to be old (surprise-reprise! )

(they were supposed to play something else as encore 2 but they felt demented and couldn't remember what it was. they had set lists written down but everyone forgot their glasses in the tour bus so they couldn't see what was written on it either. so instead they decided to play "that other song we know!" once more. )
after encore 2 they will leave the stage because they feel totally exhausted, like they just gave everything they had! so does the audience btw.
and then everybody goes to bingo and will have some tea & bisquits. everyone's safely back at (the old people's) home and fast asleep by 9:30 pm.


(ok sorry everyone i'm not laughing at anyone's age here, just tried to make a (really stupid) joke... because something i once learned from someone, he said: "it's not right when people say that you shouldn't ever joke about serious things - on the contrary, those are EXACTLY the ones that you should joke about. otherwise they might beat you.")

[billee]

 
japanesebaby it's ok by me if you're laughing about other peoples ages. I'm in hysterics after reading your post. I work in an aged care facility so dementia is rife and having to deal with it 5 days a week I can see the funny side of it. I have to.
I just hope that at this Cure concert in 2024 they don't play A Forest. My God the " Agains" could go on for weeks.
But I'll be the one wandering aimlessly outside the venue with my frame so any of you young people who see me  . I wouldn't want to miss it for the world even if I can't remeber who I'm there to see.

[japanesebaby]

I just hope that at this Cure concert in 2024 they don't play A Forest. My God the " Agains" could go on for weeks.

you're right, that might turn out a sudden and completely unforeseen fiasco
another one to avoid would be 'the promise', for the very same reasons: and i waited... and i waited... and i waited... and I'm still waiting...

...help!

btw, 'wrong number' might also suit them: hello? hello??? "sorry, a wrong number!!"
("oh bugger, who the heck was it that i was supposed to call?? damn this memory...")



and yes, i know what you mean, that you have to be able to see the funny side of it in things like dementia if you have to face it on a daily basis. there's no other way to cope with it.
my grandmother had severe dementia during the last 5-6 years of her life, she passed away when i was only about 15 years old. i have very depressive memories of that time and now later on i only regret that i wasn't mature enough to realize how to cope with it. i think all the adults around me were somehow incapable of dealing with it too, too scraed and confused. and so nobody made me see that certain kind of grim humour would have been needed there, to be able to cope with that situation. i guess i was simply too young/too confused to realize it by myself. i really regret that because it made the memory of those last years of my grandmother really depressing. i still feel very bad when i think about it. :(

[feebee42]

"Snorts" with laughter 
Hahahhahahahah!
You two are soooo funny - I loved this!

[frog_s]

It's funny this topic,

I thought about it allot since I've been fan of The Cure. You see when I first got to know them I had no idea whatsoever about their fanbase or even themselves, and after liking all the albums I heared of them, I suddenly realised they were 'old men' (caus I was about 13 when I got to know them bettre). So then I met some people to chat with about the Cure via internet, and they were all pretty young girls like myself but of cours, all living on another continent in the world. So then I started looking for fans that were more or less closer to my hometown etc, caus I was actually curious how a 'real curefan' looked like and if I fitted in (I was still only 15 so...Forgive me for this ahaha). So then I found a coupla good fans, and guess what, they were 40 year old men  so I was really doubting wether they'd like me and all and how I was to cope with them, but when I eventually met them, it was like the contrary. It might be a stupid thing to say but actually I think it are one of my best friends and even though we have a such an age difference, we get along so well. 

So then I leraned that....Age doesn't matter, like, REALLY! It explains a big deal about why I don't seem to get along with people of my own age and also why I always DID find my way into nice convers with friends of my parents hahaha.

But yesterday I became 18 years old, so finally I'm thrown into the big world and I hope I won't have anyone making jokes anymore when I go visit the 'cure veterans' 

[melly]

I was going to post something...

damn...forgotton what it was....   

HEY JB... that was very funny, had a good laff at your comments re the Cure concert in 2024...
It wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Smith was STILL going strong then though...

65 isn't that old...well, not to me... I will still be shakin' my booty at the Cure shows..
oops sorry... didn't mean to make you puke...

[japanesebaby]

It wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Smith was STILL going strong then though...

65 isn't that old...

you're absolutely right - so let's postpone that oslo date to... 2054? that would make it sound a bit more believable. 

the oslo gig will be part of the warm-up tourthey'll be doing in scandinavia, after which they'll will embark on a full-scale (and fully acoustic!) 14-month world tour with their absolute killer (and fully demented) 2-song set!

[feebee42]

Actually, 2024 doesn't seem so very far away, does it?
Hopefully, I will be there, shaking my booty, too. 
Time flies... Ooooh, scary! LOL

[frog_s]

HAHAH that's funny, though today on telly I saw this jazzy sax player who was f*cking 81 already, and he nailed it looking no older than 60, and he was just as fat as Robert! (I dunno wether that will have anything to do with how long they will go on playing! hahaha)

[melly]

It wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Smith was STILL going strong then though...

65 isn't that old...

you're absolutely right - so let's postpone that oslo date to... 2054? that would make it sound a bit more believable. 

the oslo gig will be part of the warm-up tourthey'll be doing in scandinavia, after which they'll will embark on a full-scale (and fully acoustic!) 14-month world tour with their absolute killer (and fully demented) 2-song set!

2054??? Good lord...I'll be...ummm....97..... I'll be there!!!  My ambition when I get REALLY old is to be a damned nuisance... elbowing my way through a crowd of Cure fans,screaming at them to "get out the way sonny"... running over peoples toes in my motorised wheelchair sounds just about right!
Might even make my way to the "standing room only" section, swinging my walking cane at anyone who comes near. Turning my hearing aids up to full, groovin' in my wheelchair...as long as it finishes by 7.30pm and they sell milky coffee which I can dunk biscuits in to make em soft enough to eat... YEP! Bring it on!! 

[feebee42]

Ooooh-er, and I'll be 95! Still just spring chickens, eh?
Tell you what, we should all make a pact to meet at the 2054 Oslo concert. Front row.
Hearing aids, false teeth, thick-lens glasses, wigs, walking sticks, wheel chairs an' all.
What fun! We can be as embarassing as we like at that age.  Tee hee!