That’s a glitch in how browsers cache (the most recent LJ entry to contain a YouTube vid was pointing to the Olberman vid). Hold down the shift key and click on reload. Or restart your browser.

Either way, you’ll see the correct video.

Yes, that makes me 47 now. I’m as old as the Cryptkeeper. But it’s even weirder to think that *he’s* also 47 now.

Well, he would be if he wasn’t fictional.

His name is Mitch, too.

And my high school certainly was like that, but I’m afraid the character in that movie that I probably most resembled was the one played by Adam Goldberg. I took things way too seriously.

I saw the movie again recently — yes, the Matthew McConaughey character looks different when you’re a middle-aged man watching the movie than it does if you’re a teen-ager. The character looks creepy and a little scary. I can envision *him* seven years in his future: Doughy, fat, desperately trying to comb over his mostly bald scalp. Still hitting on the high school girls, when they don’t see him coming.

Likewise, I saw “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” recently, and felt a certain sympathy with Ed Rooney, a middle-aged lower-middle-class civil servant getting punked by a couple of rich, spoiled kids.

Doesn’t make me enjoy either movie less, by the way, or make me incapable of seeing the more innocent interpretation in addition to the more cynical one.

For what it’s worth, it now shows the correct video on the LJ page.

I think it’s a browser problem of some sort.

I’m 40 years old. Last year I let my mother borrow that movie and told her that it is the closest thing to my life during the highschool years that she’ll ever see in a film.

Despite her being a radical hippie in the 60s and 70s and the person who turned me on to reading science fiction…she said it was the dumbest movie she’d ever seen. Oh well.

I liked their music better when it was more emo…