{"id":1294,"date":"2006-12-22T23:39:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T23:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-12-22T23:45:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T23:45:29","slug":"im_an_adult_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m An Adult Now’"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWell, I don’t hate my parents
\nI don’t get drunk just to spite them
\nI’ve got my own reasons to drink now
\nThink I’ll call my dad up and invite him
\nI can sleep in ’til noon anytime I want
\nThough there’s not many days that I do
\nGotta get up and take on that world
\nWhen you’re an adult it’s no cliche, it’s the truth<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

‘Cause I’m an adult now
\nI’m an adult now
\nI’ve got the problems of an adult
\nOn my head and on my shoulders
\nI’m an adult now<\/p>\n

\nI can’t even look at young girls anymore
\nPeople will think I’m some kind of pervert
\nAdult sex is either boring or dirty
\nYoung people they can get away with murder
\nI don’t write songs about girls anymore
\nI have to write songs about women
\nNo more boy meets girl boy loses girl
\nMore like man tries to figure out what the hell went wrong<\/p>\n

\n‘Cause I’m an adult now
\nI’m an adult now
\nI’ve got the problems of an adult
\nOn my head and on my shoulders
\nI’m an adult now<\/p>\n

\nI can’t take any more illicit drugs
\nI can’t afford any artificial joy
\nI’d sure look like a fool lying dead in a ditch somewhere
\nWith a mind full of chemicals like some cheese-eating high school boy<\/p>\n

\n‘Cause I’m an adult now
\nI’m an adult now
\nI’ve got the problems of an adult
\nOn my head and on my shoulders
\nI’m an adult now<\/p>\n

\nSometimes my head hurts and sometimes my stomach hurts
\nAnd I guess that it won’t be long
\n‘Til I’m sitting in a room with a bunch of people whose necks and backs are aching
\nWhose sight and hearing’s failing who just can’t seem to get it up
\nSpeaking of hearing, I can’t take too much loud music
\nI mean I like to play it, but I sure don’t like the racket
\nNoise, but I can’t hear anything
\nJust guitars screaming, screaming, screaming
\nSome guy screaming in a leather jacket
\nWooah!<\/p>\n

\n‘Cause I’m an adult now
\nI’m an adult now
\nI’ve got the problems of an adult
\nOn my head and on my shoulders
\nI’m an adult now <\/p>\n

– ‘I’m An Adult Now,’ by The Pursuit Of Happiness<\/a> – a band I miss.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This musical interlude is relevant because yesterday, the Governator made the following announcement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the appointment of Mary E. Arand to a judgeship in the Santa Clara County Superior Court.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mary and I were roomates in college. There’s some kind of rite of passage that you get to go through when your friends – especially friends you thought were kinda hot when you first met – are now judges. Sigh.<\/p>\n

She will be an amazing judge; she was born to do this, and I’m incredibly proud of her. <\/p>\n

As for me, it’s just guitars, screaming, screaming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal thinks he’s getting old now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}