On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 11:26:46 -0500 Chris Fahey <chris@wanderlust.com>
writes:
quoted 24 lines Fuck yeah! Fuck Star Wars and fuck Schoolhouse Rock and fuck Three's>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
>
um, is this a serious statement or an attempt at humor?
curiously yours,
tom w
np: namlook III