JudasMyGuide
The resident reactionary recalcitrant
That also was mentioned in the conversation (though not by me, by someone from another team who overheard and came over to "help") - kid hadn't actually seen that film but had heard of it.
Explaining who she was in terms of who she was related to wasn't difficult but you can never prompt someone to "remember" something they genuinely never knew. There are two sides to why I said it made me feel old:
1) People who were massively prominent and often in the prime of life during my formative and teenage years are now dying off (usually, though not alway, from old age/natural causes), and
2) Sufficient time has since passed for the younger generation to have never heard of these people.
A sobering reminder that, however old we may think we are, non of us are getting any younger ...
Well, it's very different for me. My nature forces me to spend a lot of time in the past, mentally, in order to stay somewhat sane (you know how the title of that Blur album from '93 goes, right?). But this tends to somewhat blur the lines between the subjective and the objective, so I tend to somewhat forget from time to time that something is only my personal memory or on the contrary that I can't possibly have any recollection of that whatsoever.
So, for example I definitely do remember Queen Mum, but what I did notice and know back then vs. what I reconstructed later is sometimes very hard to discern. Or: when I was talking to my friends (who are more or less probably more educated than me in general) about The Kinks' She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina, trying to present it as a wonderful half-ironic, half-sentimental ode to escapism and a much more important track than it might seem at first, I was actually surprised to realize that they mostly thought "Princess Marina" and "Anthony Eden" are probably just fictitious characters. Both died before I (or my friends, for that matter) was born, though.
Actually, my wife noticed that this is something that unexpectedly seems very present in music discussion forums. You see, all those band histories, all the "notorious facts" (whether it's the fact that Tony Iommi actually played with Jethro Tull or how the infamous Beatles' trip to India happened and under which circumstances did they leave) as it was not only generally known, but as if there was a personal experience ("you talk like you knew him"), even if you couldn't have been present, heck, you probably wasn't even alive.
Maybe it's this type of general "history bias" - when you dedicate a certain amount of time studying and ... well, living something, you maybe tend to lose the detachment and start to think the thing "yours", so to speak.
Like, for one of the more absurd examples, I still tend to find more natural the old system of British money... even though not only do I not live there, the decimalisation happened long before I was born!
My general point being (probably): don't worry, you might feel old among the young ones, but at least that's still normal, whereas some of us are probably utterly radio.
I suggesting opening bars of Phantom of the Opera. Seriously, though, I used to get anxiety set off by a phone ringing, even if the call wasn't for me. It sucks.