ok...at least you're toning it down a tad...but it still doesn't explain
your statement that "Almost all that stuff is bad compared to stuff
now." or, " that it's a crime to bother reminiscing about the old crap."
maybe when you get older you'll appreciate what you're experiencing now,
and realize how it influenced where youll be...and, what do you care if
people sit around watching retro-tv? maybe they're not into whats going
on now? maybe whats cool for you aint cool for them? and whether or not
they have "taste" is really none of my business...why should i care what
they like or dont? why should you? finally, the only reason i mentioned
id4 was to give an example of how one 70s "old crap" artifact affected
something in these "cool" 90s....
tom w
np: pharoah sanders - message from home ("old crap" indeed)
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:34:39 -0500 Chris Fahey <chris@wanderlust.com>
writes:
quoted 115 lines I never said there was anything wrong with appreciating stuff that's
>I never said there was anything wrong with appreciating stuff that's
>old. i just think nostalgia's a waste of time. I think that all the
>kids
>who waste their time watching Charlie's Angels reruns on TV because
>the
>70's are retro cool are wasting their time and missing out on cool
>stuff
>that's going on right now. I ONLY listen to old stuff if I actually
>like
>it. I'll bet most people don't actually listen to things they like. Do
>you really think that people really, in general, have good taste? I
>don't.
>
>And do you seriously think that id4 is cool? I'll bet even George
>Lucas
>thought it was crap.
>
>-CF
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: tweibrecht@juno.com [SMTP:tweibrecht@juno.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 10:06 PM
>>To: Chris Fahey
>>Cc: idm@hyperreal.com
>>Subject: Re: Schoolhouse Rock
>>
>>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:
>>>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
>>>
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