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| From | "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: McCartney is God Get over it |
| Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:23:00 -0400 |
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I was born in 1956, so technically, I am a baby boomer. Granted, I am not
generally sentimental or nostalgic, but I find it rather sad (and a bit
boring) that some members of my generation become fixated on a certain
period of time or music (1960's or the Beatles). I am more than satisfied
with the quality of new music being released. Nothing gets me more jazzed
up than discovering new and exciting music.
And sorry if I digress, but does anyone else think that those Dennis Hopper
boomer retirement commercials are annoying and misleading? First of all, I
am willing to bet that with debt levels being at historic levels and many
boomers being forced to rely on underfunded 401K retirement accounts (as
opposed to the Legacy pension plans of their parents), most boomers will
still be working *long* after they thought they would. That is going to be
the true "re-definition" of retirement.
My 2 cents anyway.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: McCartney is God Get over it
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net>
>
>> Sorry, man. I'm going to call you an "aging whiner."
>> This may just peg me a snotty-assed GenXer, but I really can't stand it
>> when Boomers start disappearing up their own backsides like this.
>
> Two things: Bowie, not McCartney, wrote "Absolute Beginners" (a crap movie
> made from an absolutely terrific book, incidentally), and Chris Penn is
> Michael's dead brother.
>
> Other than that, I tend to side more with Micek's side on this, but my
> problem isn't with baby boomers who prefer the music of their youth to
> that which came after -- that's a natural reaction -- but with baby
> boomers who adopt an attitude of smarmy superiority over anyone who had
> the temerity to be born after them. I'm not going to name names or
> anything, but I've had people on this very list basically tell me "Oh man,
> you weren't there, you're never gonna understand why our music was so much
> better than yours." Which...I'm sorry, but that's such a load of crap.
> That is the exact same blinkered thinking that led to the baby boomers'
> parents saying "How can you listen to that Beatle nonsense? The Glenn
> Miller Orchestra, now *that* was a band!"
>
> S
>
>
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