well, i dont think its nostalgia...i think its a matter of recognizing
and appreciating our roots and our history...without star wars i dont
think youd have "all that interesting stuff" like id4, xfiles,
etc...without the atari, i doubt youd have that instrument you send
these messages with...without all the 70s music(s), and boy, was there a
shitload of it, i doubt youd be listening to whatever it is you're
listening to now...things happen by evolution, not spontaneous
combustion....to dismiss it as shit, is pretty friggin ignorant...do u
dismiss all history that way? and i do "like myself right now" and guess
what, i do think back to the 70s...(and the 60s for that matter)
tom w
np: dark side of the moog V (guess when that instrument's usage took
off?).
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:40:59 -0500 Chris Fahey <chris@wanderlust.com>
writes:
quoted 60 lines No, I'm serious. I hate that nostalgia shit.>No, I'm serious. I hate that nostalgia shit.
>
>For future reference, I usually *do* make some kind of attempt at
>humor
>whwn making bold, grandiose statements like this. Not this time tho.
>
>np: whitesnake - here I go again on my own
>(that's an attempt at humor - really it's *tomita-live at linz 1984* -
>no joke)
>
>-Chris Fahey
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: tweibrecht@juno.com [SMTP:tweibrecht@juno.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 4:57 PM
>>To: Chris Fahey
>>Cc: idm@hyperreal.com
>>Subject: (idm) Re: Schoolhouse Rock
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 11:26:46 -0500 Chris Fahey <chris@wanderlust.com>
>>writes:
>>>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
>