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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: McCartney is God Get over it |
| Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:43:29 -0400 |
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Stew's right.
I meant the even more awful "Give My Regards to Broad Street."
And I can never keep my Penns separate.
But thanks for the shout-out nonetheless.
jlm
----- 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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