youth

Look, there’s something going on, right now, in the world, yeah! I think that guys are changing. You'll find loads of them here in Sydney, and in fact loads of them all around the world. You know when I look at these guys, the idea just constantly in my mind that they don't want grow up. Cause they're wearing children's clothes. Loads of these guys, they’re in their 30s and 40s, shuffling around, in T-shirts, zippers, or hoods or whatever on them. And they've got these ambiguous length of trousers. They’re not shorts; they’re not trousers neither; they’re just these things as if making a statement that says "I don't want any executive position anytime soon, OK? I’m having a milk shake for the next fucking 10 years. So stay the fuck away from me!”

Friend's kid will come to him and say, "Dad, I want an ice cream.” And he says, "Have you cleaned your room. Look, you have to clean your room. That's how it works, work and reward. Go and clean your room.” And then kid goes, "Yeah, but I just want a small one.” “No! Clean your room first.” “Yeah, but look, just a little tiny one, just one scoop of ice cream. Doesn't need a cone or anything, I'll running around it... Come on Dad~" "No! I'm getting headache, we've spoke about this before." "Would you like a ice cream?" "Well, I would, actually quite like a ice cream right now." "Give me the money, I’ll get it for you." "There you go. Thank you. I’ll clean your room." This is how to explain to a kid how it works.

I don't understand anything and I don't pretend to. I thought I understand human relationship, where I am and what's going on at the time. But look, I'm getting middle-aged, soon to be over-weight and will be confused most of the time. The world is changing too quick for me. Things that I remember and familiar with are no longer exist. I wish everything to go backwards... Not really though, just joking. But I don't know what's coming. For the young people out there, they will decide, they will decide what the future is going to be, it's not up to me. I've already checked. No one has asked me to any those meetings.

I suppose the class system probably quite easy once you get a hang of it. It seems to me it's all about how much time you spend with your parents. Cause the upper higher you go, the less time you are with your folks. You know, cause been at the age of one and half, they come to you and they go "Well done you! Whatever your name is, you're going to boarding school in Argentina." And if you're poor, you just with your family a lot more. You just remember crawling out laundry baskets into these bags of potatoes and you swing off your parents' cigarette while they're having sex, you remember you're there.

I've never be appealed by stimulants or drugs and so on. Young people do weeds that's why they speak the way they do. You know, it's a very inarticulate expression. I can’t stand them, they greeting one another with handshake for three quaters of an hour going "Hey, Yo, Man. What up, kick back on the chill, yeah, how's hanging? What's happening?" Whenever I see that I just want to say, "Fuck off!! Use some words, will you?"

If you're at 20s, your mindset of pleasure is very strange though, because you do sort of measure what a good time you had by how much you've messed yourself up, right? At 20s, you go out, you can do anything, drink battery ACID all night, then wake up and have a fight, your hangover aren't so bad then. They're quite direct, they come and go, kind of like bailiffs. And they just say “You're very very stupid last night," POO!! "Get up! Get into the kitchen!" "Oh~~~ Sorry... What have I done..." Bang [kicking]!! "Shut up! Get into the kitchen!" Bang [kicking]!! "Oh~~~ What am I allowed to do today?" Bang [kicking]!! "Cry, mainly."

The fact is that your youth vanishes on you. It surprises people all the time. That's why people say it seems like yesterday. It doe seems like yesterday to me, as I was out drinking tequila with my friends. I mean tequila! That's not even a drink, it's just a way to get police around without using a phone. Now, I'm on the phone to the same friend and asking them for recipes, going "How do you make breadcrumbs," but back of my head going, "Jesus! What's happening to me? Please don't let me die at a Bunnings Warehouse. Don't turn me into one of those grumpy codgers begins every single fucking conversation with the words "I'm not a racist but..."

When you reach certain age, you'll somehow agree that certainly you deserve respect from younger people. But they don't even aware you're there, let along decide whether they should respect you or not, cause they are too fucking busy with machines, gadgets, internet, and so on.

Young people in gap-year go overseas for no real reason, sometimes, stupid reasons as well. "So where're you going?" “Brazil." "You bastard, why?" "'Well, Cause they have snake there. What it does is they pretend to be sleep, and when the monkeys come over, and they fuck them and eat them." and you think "Well, have a great time in rainforest with malaria."