Re: [microsound] analog|digital or digilog?

[TCK <guitardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Andrei wrote:
>
>    On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ian Guthrie Yeager wrote:
>
>    > On another note, I've been thinking recently about how the 90s and
>    > 00s (aka the naughties) are so wierdly schizoid, in that it seems like
>    > there's a huge explosion in experimental form/techniques/musics
>    > accompanied by a wierd sentimentality that takes the form of an obsession
>    > with various things "retro." I mean, I notice this tendency in myself too.
>    > I'm 24 right now, and it seems like people in their 20s and 30s (probably
>    > a big chunk of us on this list) comprise the most sentimental generation
>    > in a long time.
>

If you think that it is bad now, just wait until you get older.  (I made the
mistake of seeing Shrek recently - I really am so sick of my own generation
sometimes.  God help the Big Chill people.   Self referential myops).

I think those who own/run ViaCom have a lot to do with this?  I tell students I
lived in L.A. at this time and it was not cool despite the mythologizing of the
era in Rolling Stone, music television, and Hollywood (now they are selling
rich people's houses on MTV).

Kids get it.  They just hate boy bands and the endless similarity of the
mainstream.  They perceive hair metal as counter culture.   I am reminded of a
great book by Theodore Roszak, "The Making of a Counter Culture" from the
70's.  (http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6642.html)

Commercial endeavor tends to spoil everything it touches (OK maybe not
literally EVERYthing).  Well, I knew I would overstate something.

peace
tim

>
> Yeah, it's weird, I'm 28 and I've noticed that people who are only like 3
> or 4 years younger seem to be into this 80's trash pop culture thing while
> the friends I have in the same age group as me tend to be much less into
> that stuff. Personally, I like to think of the 80's and 80's related
> things as little as possible. I mean I find hair metal as interesting as
> the next guy, but I won't start wearing Dokken T-shirts to show just how
> sarcastic I can be.
>
> Andrei