Monday, January 21, 2008

Graf #3

My 13 Year Old Son's Bedroom Walls
Sitting on his bed and working from left to right...
  • Beatles poster (displaying all their album covers)
  • Mesh basketball hoop - currently holding two stuffed monkeys
  • Def Leppard, Styx and Foreigner concert poster from last August
  • A plastic bag from the same concert
  • A New England Patriots pennant
  • Simpson's poster
  • (2) The Who framed posters detailing concerts from the early 1970s
  • Clock (above the closet)
  • M & M Racing Team Hat
  • Coolidge Dogs poster (dogs playing poker)
  • Tedy Bruschi poster - keychain hanging off tack of us on a roller coaster at Busch Gardens
  • Abbey Road street sign above bedroom door
  • Combination cork board/white board currently home to the following items:
    School letter with 3 Track and Field pins and 1 Cross Country pin
    $10.00 gift certificate to Hoyt’s Movie Theatre
    Christmas card from a friend
    A “Get Well” card
    A Halloween card
    Honors Festival Ribbon
    Don Fendler’s autograph
    Band/Chorus concert program from Spring 2007
    Starbase name tag (Rusty)
    Envelope of pictures taken during the Cross Country season
    Two dollar bill
    2007 Certificate for Cross Country
    5 dry erase markers
    13 Ribbons – (1) Cross Country; (6) Track for discus; and (6) Track for shot put
  • 10 necklaces hanging from a tack
  • Brewer Youth Football certificate
  • Beatles Abbey Road Poster
  • Framed needlepoint that hung in my bedroom when I was growing up, that reads:
    Sleep my child
    And peace
    Attend thee
    All through
    The Night

And on his windowsill sits:

  • An ALF stuffed animal
  • Baseball from the Portland Seadogs autographed by John Baldacci
  • Autographed Foreigner CD
  • Sunglasses
  • Framed picture of the two of us

Wow...this is one weird teenager, where did he come from the sixties. What is up with all the Beatles stuff? And who ever heard of a 13 year old in this day and age idolizing The Who. Aren't kids these days into those other one namers, like Fergie and Usher. A Def Leppard concert - don't kids these days want to go see bands like Nickelback. ALF - how many people even remember that show from the 80s and where did he hear about it (he also has all 4 seasons of this show on DVD in his room). As retro as he is with his music and TV shows, he does seem to have some current interests in football and Nascar and he seems to like sports (and must be good) with all those ribbons hanging. He also seems a little sentimental - keeping old cards hanging on his wall, a picture of him and his mom and an old wall hanging. He sure does sound like quite the teenager!!

1 comment:

johngoldfine said...

You do a nice job of convincing us of the contradictions, the anomalies, the old and new, retro and current. I still find it strange that my son (born in 1974) always loved the Beatles, the way his mumma does. I, naturally, always preferred the Stones, which tells you a lot about opposites attracting.....

The care you give to the details on the walls is impressive as is your strong, short, third- personsummary graf.