A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

MIDDLE AGE RIOT: I know we don't usually do gossip here, but it seems relevant to me that Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon are splitting up after 27 years of marriage. That, on top of the fact that I read in Everybody Loves Our Town (an oral history of Seattle's music scene from the late 1980s to the late 1990s or so) that the Novocelics (Chris/Krist and Shelli), the Cornells (Chris and Susan Silver), and the Bucks (Peter and Stephanie Dorgan) also are all divorced, weirds me out a little bit. In the early 90s, those couples all seemed, from the outside, like permanent fixtures, matched pairs lucky enough to have young love, a little maturity, exciting lives, and mutually-reinforcing careers. 20 years later is, well, 20 years later. It just makes me feel old, that's all.