Be nice!
I had an odd experience at the "other" grocery store...
http://i-for-an-i.blogspot.com/2...09/
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Our parents had their Glen Miller, we have our Nugent and Stones.
So here's the question: how much greater is the distance from Glen Miller to Ted Nugent than from (fill in early 1900's popular music artist) to Glen Miller? I would submit that it is at least an order of magnitude (10X)--not just red vs. blue vs. green and everyone has their different taste and content is neutral. Or how far did things move from Ted Nugent to (say) Blink 182? A bit, but not nearly as far. The boomers instigated an earthquake (not that that's earth-shatteringly fresh news). It's an unprecedented vacation from any societal conventions whatsoever.
ahhh, I can hear it now... [sigh]... strains of Fergie and Eminem at the retirement center in, say, fifty years? Assuming music isn't outlawed by whatever Kennedy is serving as Massachusetts' "senior" Senator at the time... there'll probably be a Clinton in the White House then as well... maybe a Bush. Who knows Dearbornistan just may be replace Washington as the center of American government.
Sorry to be so depressing.
Ohh!!! Speaking of music trends! Did you catch the last year's film "Children of Men"? Wherein Michael Caine, for kicks, played something I can only describe as throat-searing scream-metal?
What kind of calculations can you ascribe to THAT!? Whatever happened to Love, Love Me Do? or Puff the Magic Dragon?
When does "Music" cease to be music? When does artistry cease to be "Art"?
Good questions all!
Well, someone somewhere blamed it all on Elvis, saying if it weren't for him we would all be listening to the mellow sounds of Frank Sinatra to this day.
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I love Whole Foods. It makes grocery shopping fun, and I enjoy the Friday night wine tastings. I'm too plebeian to attend them (tastings) elsewhere, but the Friday nights along with grocery shopping is downright pleasant. These are what made shopping there palatable for my husband... the price tags gave him indigestion previously, but he has found somethings he likes now.
eat better, eat less... could solve a couple of problems
LOL! Good points, all, Kobi!
But...I honestly thought that you may have run into the Motor-City Madman in person or something!
I am savoring the irony of Ted Nugent being played in a Whole Foods store in Austin... yum!
LOL -- I confess a measure of amusement at the comments herein. You do realize that Mr Nugent is, rather that Teddie boy is more of an icon of the right than of the left? His pro-gun, libertarian stances have more in common with conservatives than with the liberal twits he takes great pleasure in publicly telling off. You may not agree with everything he says or does, but you probably have more intellectual kinship with him than you do with most Bostonians...
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