I'm often amused
when someone a half
or a quarter of my age
assumes I've learned
absolutely nothing
@ceorl I'm a septuagenarian. I spoke to a twenty something who was listening to techno. She said, "you like this music?!?!?". I laughed and explained it wasn't new: Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, The Flying Lizards, the Chemical brothers...
I responded, "Well, it's not new, if that's what you think. "
She had to look to her friend, who nodded at what I said: he was 24. Children
First recording to use an electronically produced sound was Del Shannon's Runaway. The middle eight.
@Violetvelvet I don't mean it in a mean way,
sincerely just amused,
and ready to help.
I remember being a young idiot myself once too.
@ceorl I'm 72 with AML Leukemia. I don't know what you're referring to...
I just meant that I remember being young and knowing so little but thinking I knew it all.
Not understanding that older people might just have learned a few things along the way.
As a result I did and said many foolish things, and had very limited tastes in music and art as well.
I like Brian Eno too now, as well as a wide range of other artists and styles.
Sorry if I was unclear and you took that any other way.
@ceorl MOMA, Guggenheim. Broadway. I feel so grateful to have experienced everything I have, including 2 master's degrees. Lived in 3 states.
Couldn't go to Woodstock cuz I was preggers. They would take me... I was 18.
I'm Italian so dad taught me opera and classics and Sinatra. Have a great day!
@Violetvelvet
Oh! I was just a bit too young for Woodstock, I remember poring over the LIFE magazine article with friends, but I did go to the attempt at reprise at Watkins Glen later ;)
I was a Boston museum rat myself when younger, memberships and classes at the Museum of Science and Museum of Fine Arts. My faves were some of the smaller ones, niche museums at Harvard and the Gardner Museum.
I hope we are both still discovering and expanding though, that is what keeps me energized!