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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 05/12/2008 : 07:55:06 AM
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Sadly, Ken is right.
Kids think everything is new, because THEY are their own context. Just like when we were their age.
Marvin the Paranoid Android to Buzz Lightyear "Too infinity and beyond-i've been there, its rubbish!"
"Hoody Hoo, i waste 'em with my cross bow!" Bob Herzog- KODT
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 11:20:06 AM
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There is a difference between "new" and "contemporary" -- Even thought everything, even old movies, can be a new experience for Those Darn Kids, what so many of them want is something contemporary, and not something that is "old".
I've got a friend who'd criticized me for not listening to much "new" (contemporary)music, I apparently am not "adventurous" enough to check out new things; I'd pointed out that even though an album I might pic up is from 1967, most of the music (or even all of it) would be something I'd not heard before, so it would be new to me.
I'm reminded of a scene from a Banacek episode (not seen it in years, so not sure exactly how it goes): A lady friend asks Banacek why he has so many old (antique) things in his house, Banacek answers that there are on a few years of new things, but centuries worth "old" things (or something like that).
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/12/2008 : 12:56:21 PM
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Bobbie G, I think part of what is going on here is that the mass media generally has the perspective of a perpetual 14 year old where everything that is older than, say, 2 years is considered "old" and where a decade represents a vast eon of time. Everyone ultimately has their own relationship to the art and artifacts they treasure and whether those objects are determined to be "old" or "new" by MTV or Entertainment Magazine becomes irrelevant.
"I reserve the right to look as well as be boring." - Robert Fripp |
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