Fuck yeah! Fuck Star Wars and fuck Schoolhouse Rock and fuck Three's
Company and fuck the Atari 2600 all that genx childhood nostalgia.
Almost all that stuff is bad compared to stuff now.
Sure, there were one or two good things created during my childhood,
some of which most people would see as cheap nostalgia but I see as
genius (EX: "I feel love" by Donna Summer). But for the most part
nostalgia for one's youth is an excuse for not really liking yourself
right now and not having any interests which really mean anything to
you. I personally think that there's enough interesting stuff going on
in the world right now, especially in music, that it's a crime to bother
reminiscing about the old crap.
I don't blame Bart one bit, although really it's the 40-year olds
running the media companies who are deciding to ram recycled shit down
our throats.
To those of my generation here (mid-20's): remember how stupid Happy
Days was to us when we were kids, how stupid that 50's nostalgia was?
Well, 70's nostalgia is just as stupid now.
-Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Downey [SMTP:threnody@bu.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 1997 10:50 PM
To: idm list
Subject: Re: (idm) I.D.<--BlechNY
On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, James Newton wrote:
quoted 5 lines TWO WORDS: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK!!!!!!!!!!>
> TWO WORDS: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Doesn't anybody remember this tune from Saturday morning cartoons when
> they were a kid? There was a whole series of these little cartoon
There's been a bunch of crappy rock cover versions of all these songs in
the last couple of years.
I think the best review of them came from Bart Simpson, while he and
Lisa
were seeing the covers on emptyVee.
Bart: "What the hell is this?"
Lisa: "It's generation x making a pitiful attempt to relive their
youth."
Bart: "Methinks we need a Vietnam war to thin their ranks out."
Phil Downey (gen-X'er who freely disses his youth.)