Re: good-natured knifetwisting

[Michael Clark <mcl451@airmail.net>]

I'm an old hippie too, anyway.

Make loops, not war.

M.

At 11:04 AM 10/3/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>most of the real musicians on this group are old hippies anyway . . . 
>check
>>the archives
>
>
>damn...caught.
>
>ima cutting my hair as soon as i get home.  after i stop by the 
>hippest store in town and gettin me some of dem baggy pants.
>
>actually, i feel kinda caught in the middle.  i got into music as a 
>punk rocker (1980ish), and took shit from the 'old hippies'.  Now as 
>i'm the aging one, the belligerent youngsters are stealing the 
>thunder, whatever 'scene' they're into.  I guess it's cool that they 
>can die their hair green, wear extravagent clothes and tongue 
>piercings and not have to worry about getting the holy crap beat out 
>of them by walking down a street minding their own business.  Some of 
>us old fogies actually went through that.
>
>What this has to do with looping, ya got me.
>
>Saw 'Hi Fidelity' this last weekend.  Enjoyed the two punk rock kids 
>that John Cusack tries to pidgeonhole their music tastes based on 
>their looks, and they totally do a 180 on him.  Seems like a nice 
>side effect of this music/technology/genre splitting/fashion 
>explosion that we're having is that you REALLY can't judge the book 
>by it's cover anymore...
>
>rich
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