Jazzmoose

Think back to high school. Remember the kid that was really into music, particularly rock, and knew who did what, when they did it, and could recite the complete career information for almost any rock musician the way some kids could for baseball players? I was that kid. Heck, considering the make up of this board, a lot of us were that kid. To give you an idea of when I was this kid (obviously, I'm not now, and haven't been for a long time!), I graduated from high school in 1975. I knew my seventies music, and I knew my sixties music. Anything post-Meet the Beatles was fair game, and I knew it all, at least in comparison to my fellow students. Now, I lived in a podunk, nowhere little town, and I knew the competition was weak. Shit, an obvious trivia question like "who was the Beatles first bass player" blew 95% of them out of the water, so this was no hotbed of rock information. However, something happened recently that has revealed to me that I was pretty much as ignorant of rock music as that dumb redneck jerk who thought that The Carpenter's We've Only Just Begun was the heighth of musical soul. Now, instead of identifying with Jack Black when I watch High Fidelity, I am forced to admit that I'm the clod who didn't own Blonde on Blonde... You see, until three days ago, I thought Something in the Air was a Neil Young song. Yes, anyone just a couple of years older than me with a functioning radio knew better, but I was a clueless moron, thinking I was cool because I listened to Mott the Hoople rather than the Starlight Vocal Band. Shit. I might has well have joined the rest of the fools and bought a Polyester Leisure Suit...

If I could think of any way to comment after that post without sounding ignorant, I would, but...

Glad you've picked a picture that looks like you, Niko. I always find it a bit disconcerting not to know whether or not I'm looking at an image or near-image of the poster. I mean, does Allen Lowe really look like one of Richard Nixon's seedier henchmen? Or does medjuck look like Clarence Williams - or is that a photo of someone else? Heck, I've always assumed Noj looked like Gary Busey...

Heavy stuff! Those who had to study it at my school in the 1950s used to call him "balls ache" The only time I ever wanted to read Balzac was whenever I watched The 400 Blows. I found it easier to just quit watching that movie...

Oh, man; I still have to crank up a Trinity movie once in a while!

Or like that time Godzilla destroyed Tokyo. I've always blamed Buck Dharma for that...

Neal Adams Jim Steranko Jim Aparo

Heck, this could be worse than Y2K, and I'm sure we all remember how terrifying that was!

Are you kidding? I don't need Cat Stevens on my ass...

If you stay there will be trouble...

I remember the movie causing an uproar in some parts, so it wouldn't surprise me.

Damien Hirst William Randolph Hearst Charles Foster Kane

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Judas Priest Ritchie Blackmore OZZIE!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe I should dig out that copy of The World of Null-A I've got and give it a try again. At least I won't have high expectations to contend with this time around...

I think you're right.

I don't agree; silly liberals come out for banning books quite often. But at least we can agree on the silly part...

I don't know how obscure this is, but at fifteen I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen. Of course, I was one messed fifteen year old...

Rupert Holmes Rupert Murdoch Matt Murdoch, the Man without Fear!

We'll see who's laughing if it really does happen! Wait a minute; I guess we won't...

I'm sorry, Chris; we'll have to ask you to leave now...

Now van Vogt is someone I have tried, but just can't get into. Maybe if I'd tried him at a younger age; I can still get around many SF authors' oddities because of that.

Yeah, it's been that way for close to three years now... what's wrong with this? http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/094...ASIN=0940642182 You'd think I'd be used to computers by now.

Yeah, it's been that way for close to three years now...