Transatlanticism

So basically, me and my mother were watching Rock On! together yesterday, on DVD because we're too cheap-ass and bored to go to a theater, and there is this one line in the film which Purab Kohli, aka K.D., says - "When you're twenty, twenty-two, you think you can rule the world."

Mum: "No, they're little boys who play on their instruments and pretend to have a career."

Me: "But being a rockstar is a real job. Like, with money, fame, and you know... stuff."

Mum: *puppy-dog eyes* "You're just seventeen, you wouldn't know."

Me: *obviously miffed with the age-related comment* "Mmpf."

Mum: "When you're 30, you'll know."

Me: *has thought of wonderfully witty comment* "Aww, you still remember what 30 feels like, Mum?

Mum: *is sending out wave upon wave of death threats and curses.. silently*

Me: *sidles away* "HAVE YOU NOTICED THIS BAND DOESN'T HAVE A BASS GUITARIST?"

Mum: *squints at television* "But they HAVE two guitars, na?"

Me: "Yes, but Joe is lead, and Aditya is a vocalist, and he's not bass, because he's not playing continuously."

Mum: "Which one is Joe?"

Me: "The one with the long hair."

Mum: *squints again* "They ALL have long hair."

Me: "The one who's playing a guitar, and has long hair."

Mum: "Oh. His hair is awfully floaty, you think they filmed the movie with a spot boy lugging a blower fan under him whenever Joe was on screen?"

Me: *is dumbfounded* *shudders slightly* "I don't know."