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I so fucking love u kelly u rock in so many ways and ur a fucking role model 2 me!

i'm so happy that i am not "growing up" right now. was there a cultural wasteland as big as the one going on right now in the mid 80s to mid 90s? maybe i'm just biased having been in high school and college during that timeframe, but it seems to me that there was nowhere near the level of publicized garbage that there is currently. maybe i'm wrong though. the 80s was marred by a lot of one-hit wonders and bad metal. none of this is to say that there are not a lot of great bands out now, but precious few of them receive much media coverage. it's all pop tarts and all money all the time.

Originally posted by jdr:
i'm so happy that i am not "growing up" right now. was there a cultural wasteland as big as the one going on right now in the mid 80s to mid 90s? maybe i'm just biased having been in high school and college during that timeframe, but it seems to me that there was nowhere near the level of publicized garbage that there is currently. maybe i'm wrong though. the 80s was marred by a lot of one-hit wonders and bad metal. none of this is to say that there are not a lot of great bands out now, but precious few of them receive much media coverage. it's all pop tarts and all money all the time.

Heh… every generation is characterized by an overwhelming pop-cultural wasteland, but also by ways to escape it for something better for the truly resourceful. We tend to look at the past as better because only the better stuff filters through time, while the crap remains buried.

very true.

was there a cultural wasteland as big as the one going on right now in the mid 80s to mid 90s?

yes

Originally posted by jdr:
i'm so happy that i am not "growing up" right now. was there a cultural wasteland as big as the one going on right now in the mid 80s to mid 90s? maybe i'm just biased having been in high school and college during that timeframe, but it seems to me that there was nowhere near the level of publicized garbage that there is currently. maybe i'm wrong though. the 80s was marred by a lot of one-hit wonders and bad metal. none of this is to say that there are not a lot of great bands out now, but precious few of them receive much media coverage. it's all pop tarts and all money all the time.

the commercialization of the internet in the late 1990s has only helped to strengthen the group-mentality that this current teenage generation is a part of. it's far worse than before. sure, we can buy our 930 club tickets from our home now, but at what cost to society!?

Originally posted by distance:
the commercialization of the internet in the late 1990s has only helped to strengthen the group-mentality that this current teenage generation is a part of. it's far worse than before. sure, we can buy our 930 club tickets from our home now, but at what cost to society!?

I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. Teenagers have been acting like herd following Nazi apparatchniks since the beginning of history. It has nothing to do with the Internet.

Go see "The Breakfast Club" immediately! And then go see "Lord of the Flies."

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
And then go see "Lord of the Flies."

Actually, you should read this one. It's a much better book then movie.

Originally posted by vansmack:
Actually, you should read this one. It's a much better book then movie.

True… the book was amazing.

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. Teenagers have been acting like herd following Nazi apparatchniks since the beginning of history. It has nothing to do with the Internet.

Go see "The Breakfast Club" immediately! And then go see "Lord of the Flies."

my post wasn't 100% serious.
and i fucking loathe the breakfast club.
and i've read lord of the flies.

Originally posted by distance:
my post wasn't 100% serious.
and i fucking loathe the breakfast club.

Some things are not laughing matters.

And you WILL watch the Breakfast Club.

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Not true. What with piercings and tattoos, and mohawks, teenagers now have a myriad of new ways to express themselves individually and cut loose from the herd mentality.

Originally posted by distance:

Originally posted by jdr:
i'm so happy that i am not "growing up" right now. was there a cultural wasteland as big as the one going on right now in the mid 80s to mid 90s? maybe i'm just biased having been in high school and college during that timeframe, but it seems to me that there was nowhere near the level of publicized garbage that there is currently. maybe i'm wrong though. the 80s was marred by a lot of one-hit wonders and bad metal. none of this is to say that there are not a lot of great bands out now, but precious few of them receive much media coverage. it's all pop tarts and all money all the time.

the commercialization of the internet in the late 1990s has only helped to strengthen the group-mentality that this current teenage generation is a part of. it's far worse than before. sure, we can buy our 930 club tickets from our home now, but at what cost to society!?

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
Not true. What with piercings and tattoos, and mohawks, teenagers now have a myriad of new ways to express themselves individually and cut loose from the herd mentality.

when everyone is doing those things to cut loose from one herd, doesn't that just create an alternate herd?

Don't axe me. I would not know. My life has always been dedicated to being part of the herd.

Originally posted by distance:

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
Not true. What with piercings and tattoos, and mohawks, teenagers now have a myriad of new ways to express themselves individually and cut loose from the herd mentality.

when everyone is doing those things to cut loose from one herd, doesn't that just create an alternate herd?

alternate herd..?

sounds like a good band name

Originally posted by distance:

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
Not true. What with piercings and tattoos, and mohawks, teenagers now have a myriad of new ways to express themselves individually and cut loose from the herd mentality.

when everyone is doing those things to cut loose from one herd, doesn't that just create an alternate herd?

you're right! i mean, it is such a paradox…you take a look at Hot Topic, for example. a store that is trying to help people be individual and stand out in a crowd, yet. they market their clothes in every mall and every mass-media outlet of america. kids are now conforming by nonconforming.

and Jefferee Starr? he/she/it/questionable makes me puke a little in my mouth. i thought he was cool and interesting at first, that the makeup and photography were really just a neat and expressive art form. but, christ, have you listened to the music that boy is producing? and even worse, he thinks it is "hot shit." it sounds like week-old feces!