The "broke, busted, disgusted" Boomer Thread

[Rumple Foreskin]

Consider this a Fourth of July blow-off thread.

Another member of the Boomer generation and I have wondered how many other Author Hangout Irredeemables fall into that blighted category. To be granted the title of Boomer, most authorities insist someone be born, hatched, or possibly just sprung full-grown from the forehead of Zeus between the end of World War II and the Beatles first album. For purposes of this poll however, there are no criteria. If you want to claim us, well put up with you.

That should take care of the poll. Now for something you can comment on: What were your most life-shaping event/events during the Sixties or Seventies when members of the Boomer generation were, at least chorologically, "coming-of-age?"

Alternative or Additional question: Since this is the AH of Literotica, what book or books had the most influence on you during that era?

Just another fine service of:
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[RavenSpirit2k4]

70s? I was born.

60s? Wasn't born yet.

Have I successfully made you feel old?

 

[minsue]

Are you a Boomer?

No, but I blame ya'll for all that is wrong with the world if that helps.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Born in '77, so No, I'm not a boomer.

...but thanks for asking.

If it helps any, I've got a thing for older women.

~lucky

 

[Guest]

Aw, Rumply, glad to join your company. I was born in 1946 to a war veteran and Mexican Rosita the Riveter. Rock’n’roll jumped me when I was 8; the Rolling Stones played to a near empty stadium in the mid-sixties (Motown was not ready for them, but I preferred them to the Beatles).

Life-shaping events for me:
Vatican II, the British “invasion”, Rudolf Nureyev’s defection, JFK, the atomic bomb (learning to duck under my desk at school in the event of a nuclear blast), the Cuban missile crisis, Krushchev at the UN, the civil rights movement, the pill, Vietnam, LSD and mescaline, La Huelga (e.g., boycotting grapes), seeing a Van Gogh exhibition, first erotica (e.g., Playboy mag. and Candy), discovering Vogue magazine at 15, the Detroit race riot of 1967.

Influential books (during h.s., and first years of college beg. 1964):
the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Dylan Thomas; Beckett’s prose; Joyce’s short stories and his “Portrait”; Shakespeare; the Greek tragedies; biographies of Salvador Dali, Toulouse-Lautrec, Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin; The Brothers Karamazov, Russian poetry, D.H. Lawrence, The Return of the Native, Synge’s “Playboy of the Western World”, Richard Ellmann’s literary studies, the novels of Carlos Fuentes (the discovery of Latin American literature); a book on the stories of opera (found it while babysitting).

Perdita

 

[Raging Whoremoans]

Most life shaping event of the 70's: Being born.

Most influential literature: Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Bell bottoms? Boot cut, maybe, but never bell bottoms.

~R W

 

[snooper]

Those of us who were born before WWII (that is over two years before the USA joined in) find this thread amusing. Play on, children ...

 

[Guest]

Are you a boomer?

No, but both my parents are.

No, but I'm a bummer.

No, but I hold great repsect for those who are.

No, but I'm a brown noser.

No, but I've run out of things to say.

Lou

 

[psychocatblah]

Sorry... GenX here. I barely remember life before Mtv. Sad, isn't it? Although I spend a fair amount of time with people who think that Nirvana is Oldies music. *sighs* They barely even know who Pearl Jam is.

 

[Guest]

Is that like a gross version of a pearl necklace?



Lou

 

[psychocatblah]

Is that like a gross version of a pearl necklace?



Lou

OMG H8!

They were a significant band during the grunge era, which is evidently, rather old skool.

 

[Guest]

OMG H8!

They were a significant band during the grunge era, which is evidently, rather old skool.

Heeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Really? Oh ok, must've been unconscious during that bit.

Lou - child of the 70's.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I was born in 69, not sure if that qualifies me for any particular generation.

The Iranian hostage crisis is probably the most important event in my formative years.

Literature? Wow. RLS Treasure Island. The first book I ever read. I have never stopped reading since and the love of books has filled my life.

-Colly

 

[Guest]

 

[rgraham666]

I'm a Boomer all right. And like Clarence Darrow, I take no pride in it. In fact, I apologise for it.

I've always regarded my generation as mostly consisting of self-centred knobs. Of course, considering how little fun I had growing up with them, it would be difficult for me to have any other opinion.

Influential books and authours? LOTR and Tolkien. Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein. Harlan Ellison's short stories, especially I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and Repent Harlequin, Said The Tick-Tock Man. H. P. Lovecraft. Robert E. Howard.

 

[Guest]

born in the later 60's.. so i dont know if i can claim boomer status.. though i was forced to wear bell bottoms in the 70's just as they were going out of style.

i remember the gas shortage and having even/odd days at the pumps. sitting in the back of the car all confused when mom would have a fit cuz she couldnt remember if it was even/odd day.

my first lit love is Gone With the Wind. ive read it 12 times and never get tired of it. (no, i am not romantic! and if you say i am i will deny it with my very last breath).... the movie depressed me even as great as it was, left out so many small details... that was the first book to movie that made me realize.. it almost never does relay well.

 

[cloudy]

Boomer here, and I inhaled too. A lot.

I remember reading The Chronicles of Narnia over and over when I was little, and then like Lime listed, the Dune series.

Events? The first moonwalk I remember clearly...that's probably the earliest thing.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Post-Boomer, circa 1975.

Can't really think of a serious life shaping event. I still vividly remember the Challanger explosion. Hurricane Gloria which hit New England in...'84(?), we lost power for almost 2 weeks. (No school! Yeah!)

Lit? Hmmm... Lonesome Dove, Dune (a recuring theme here) and The Hichhikers Guide, actually all Douglas Adams. What does that say about me?

 

[Guest]

Re: Post-Boomer, circa 1975.

Can't really think of a serious life shaping event. I still vividly remember the Challanger explosion. Hurricane Gloria which hit New England in...'84(?), we lost power for almost 2 weeks. (No school! Yeah!)

Lit? Hmmm... Lonesome Dove, Dune (a recuring theme here) and The Hichhikers Guide, actually all Douglas Adams. What does that say about me?

gloira '85.. no power here for two weeks either.. makes showering out side not seem as much fun as it does when you have the option.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

my first lit love is Gone With the Wind. ive read it 12 times and never get tired of it. (no, i am not romantic! and if you say i am i will deny it with my very last breath).... the movie depressed me even as great as it was, left out so many small details... that was the first book to movie that made me realize.. it almost never does relay well.

You're right. Of course they also left out one husband and two kids, but who's counting?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Boomer.

Life-shaping event? God, I don't know. Everything was happening at once. How do you separate drugs from the Beatles from the sexual revolution from finding out what was really going on in Viet Nam from the realization that the adult world was full of shit? It was like opening the back door and stepping out into a hurricane.

Books? Likewise I'm stumped. There were so many, from On The Road and The Dharma Bums to V. and The Sirens of Titan.

For me, unrepentent mystic and magician that I am, I would have to say it was Castenada's Don Juan books. The windows of the universe opened and they've never closed right since. Exactly the right books at the right time.

---dr.M.

 

[SeaCat]

Nope, not me.
Born in 1965 way out in the middle of nowhere.

Most influencial books? Hmmmmmm, Castaneda's Don Juan's. Heinlein's Stranger, Starship Troopers, Number of the Beast, as well as all of them dealing with L. Long. Can't forget my fathers copies of the Koran, Talmud, and Bible. Special Forces Survival Manual, (also my fathers.) My side of the mountain, and of course the Kama Sutra.

I remember Pink Floyd, FogHat, AC/DC and Led Zep with great fondness.

Three most influencial moments in my life? Car bomb detonating in Frankfurt Airport, 1984. (I still have a part of it.) Getting shot for the first time, 1984. (Thank god for vests.) Losing my wife, 1984. Berlin Wall coming down, 1989. (I have a part of that too.)

Best parts? (Sorry I had to add this so it wouldn't become too much of a downer.) Meeting my first wife, Jan. 1983. Getting married for the second time, 4 July, 1992. Moving to Florida, four years ago in October.

Cat

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I suppose I am a Second Generation Boomer.

I inherited all my Daddy’s old records, and his books, once I could read them.

Bob Dylan formed a large part of the record collection – all of Dylan's records from the 60's and early 70's. BTW — does anybody remember Phil Ochs?

I recognized Zoot’s reference to “Castenada's Don Juan books” because they were quoted frequently in the “Cosmic Egg” book by Joseph Chilton Pearce. That was one of the books in Daddy’s library that influenced me – I think – or maybe I was cracked to begin with.

Of the fiction, my favorite was “Bug Jack Barron” by Norman Spinrad, published in 1969,, an influential book to me, about the difference between the power of media influence and the influence of real power.

Oh, yes! When I was eight I inhaled real boomer pot, while the real boomer was too wasted to know better.

I probably should have been GenX, but I couldn’t be bothered, so I sort of inherited boomerhood

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My Dad worked for Capitol Records, I grew up with my sister playing every Beatles album.

I was the punk rock/New wave chick.

I remember when I thought watching Happy Days was a good thing.

I remember when the family would watch tv together....Mission Impossible, Hawaii 5-0, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and the Carol Burnett show.

 

[gauchecritic]

Bad-a-boom

Rowan and Martin's Laugh in. Verrry Interethting. But thtupid.

Monty Python. (Fuck was it that long ago?) and its precursors TW3, Frost Report, Do Not Adjust Your Set.

Only ever read Sci-fi so they were mostly 'golden age', 'The Man In The Maze' was incredibly good (aphasia prevents me from recalling the author or publishing date) Never came across Heinlein until I was old enough to laugh at his plots and characters. (which spoiled what were pretty good stories) (To misquote Seinfeld: "We're not gay... although there's nothing wrong with that.)

JFK was the first thing I remember being shocked by (and thanks to the film being shocked by a great many other things).

Stones over Beatles every time. Then T-Rex, glam me up baby, but only being daring enough to wear 6" platforms with appropriate length French flares. Occasional nail polish, but first to have my ears pierced (both)

The only things I can recall really about the 60s were that they were incessantly dull. Now 70s. That's when music started.

Gauche