The Kids aren't Alright
Okay I have been locked away in a dormatory with a bunch of teenage girls at a basketball camp in the mountains of Virginia, and I have emerged a more sullen and bitter man.
We often had times at the camp to talk with the girls about their favorite Musical Artist, Movies, TV shows, etc. And this got me thinking, all kids should die. We had a girl at the camp named Rachel Leak, but she looked like a Kelly, so I called her Kelly Leak (referring to the great movie The Bad News Bears) of course she did not get it. I then asked if she had ever heard of the movie, and she said no, then asked if she knew who Walter Mathau was and she said no. What is wrong with this people, are they only allowed to see Vin Diesel movies? And don't give me that crap that all this shit happened before she was born, I have seen North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant, Some Like it Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe, On the Waterfront (1954) & Streetcar Named Desire (1951)with Marlon Brando, and Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) with William Holden.
Now we get to music which sickens me even more. We got engaged in a discussion on our favortie musical artist an/or Group. Now of course most of these kids could not narrow something like that down, because they had not watched MTV for 2-3 days so some 20 something no talent ass clown host had not told them which band they had to like today. So one girl started talking about Dashboard Confessionals, which first of all sounds more like a Album Title, Song Title, or chessy rip off of the HBO orignal series Taxicab Confessionals, but I digress. I agreed to listen to this CD if they listened to music of my choosing. They agreed to listen to one Rap/Hip Hop and one say Rock artist. So the Rap was easy, when people who have not been expose to true Rap/Hip Hop you simply pull out 1991's The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest(the premium blend of Jazz beats and music with heavy lyrics), top to bottom one of the 4 or 5 most complete albums of all time. Then we talked about whatelse I could give them and we agreed on some Bruce Springsteen, now while some of you on here may not like the fella, if you have ever heard his Nebraska album you would have to agree that lyrically it is one of the most powerful albums ever. The pictures he paint are so vivid and the theme of the times (the deprssion laden middle class of the post inflation Jimmy Carter era) is so accurately portrayed. So they listend, and then gaver the CD's back to me and said that the thought Tribe sounded like the Spice Girls, and they didn't understand what Bruce was talking about. Lyrically they were blown away by the music, mainly cause today's music ios all about a look and a video which is sucha damned shame.
Oh and by the way the CD they gave me was 100% trash, just plain awful. I will have more on this camp at a later time.
We often had times at the camp to talk with the girls about their favorite Musical Artist, Movies, TV shows, etc. And this got me thinking, all kids should die. We had a girl at the camp named Rachel Leak, but she looked like a Kelly, so I called her Kelly Leak (referring to the great movie The Bad News Bears) of course she did not get it. I then asked if she had ever heard of the movie, and she said no, then asked if she knew who Walter Mathau was and she said no. What is wrong with this people, are they only allowed to see Vin Diesel movies? And don't give me that crap that all this shit happened before she was born, I have seen North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant, Some Like it Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe, On the Waterfront (1954) & Streetcar Named Desire (1951)with Marlon Brando, and Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) with William Holden.
Now we get to music which sickens me even more. We got engaged in a discussion on our favortie musical artist an/or Group. Now of course most of these kids could not narrow something like that down, because they had not watched MTV for 2-3 days so some 20 something no talent ass clown host had not told them which band they had to like today. So one girl started talking about Dashboard Confessionals, which first of all sounds more like a Album Title, Song Title, or chessy rip off of the HBO orignal series Taxicab Confessionals, but I digress. I agreed to listen to this CD if they listened to music of my choosing. They agreed to listen to one Rap/Hip Hop and one say Rock artist. So the Rap was easy, when people who have not been expose to true Rap/Hip Hop you simply pull out 1991's The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest(the premium blend of Jazz beats and music with heavy lyrics), top to bottom one of the 4 or 5 most complete albums of all time. Then we talked about whatelse I could give them and we agreed on some Bruce Springsteen, now while some of you on here may not like the fella, if you have ever heard his Nebraska album you would have to agree that lyrically it is one of the most powerful albums ever. The pictures he paint are so vivid and the theme of the times (the deprssion laden middle class of the post inflation Jimmy Carter era) is so accurately portrayed. So they listend, and then gaver the CD's back to me and said that the thought Tribe sounded like the Spice Girls, and they didn't understand what Bruce was talking about. Lyrically they were blown away by the music, mainly cause today's music ios all about a look and a video which is sucha damned shame.
Oh and by the way the CD they gave me was 100% trash, just plain awful. I will have more on this camp at a later time.
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